Paul Gribble 🇨🇦
@gribblelab.org
Dreaming of the day when I am granted asylum from this admin position that (essentially) requires that I use MS Outlook / MS 365 for email, calendar, etc.
Stark reminder that I went into academia in the first place (in part) to chart my own course not to be tied to the mast of a corporate galleon 🏴☠️
Stark reminder that I went into academia in the first place (in part) to chart my own course not to be tied to the mast of a corporate galleon 🏴☠️
February 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Dreaming of the day when I am granted asylum from this admin position that (essentially) requires that I use MS Outlook / MS 365 for email, calendar, etc.
Stark reminder that I went into academia in the first place (in part) to chart my own course not to be tied to the mast of a corporate galleon 🏴☠️
Stark reminder that I went into academia in the first place (in part) to chart my own course not to be tied to the mast of a corporate galleon 🏴☠️
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Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.
February 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.
vivid and familiar
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Living in Tracy Chapman’s House
Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
vivid and familiar
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart, mission specialists on the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-B, used nitrogen-propelled maneuvering units to perform the first untethered spacewalks #OTD in 1984. 🧪 🔭 🚀
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Images: NASA
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Images: NASA
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart, mission specialists on the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-B, used nitrogen-propelled maneuvering units to perform the first untethered spacewalks #OTD in 1984. 🧪 🔭 🚀
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Images: NASA
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This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-06-list321.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
February 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-02-06-list321.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
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13% success rates at #CIHR, is a really 87% fail rate for>4000 scientists. At a time when 🇨🇦 is investing millions to recruit more scientist into a broken funding environment. 🇨🇦, U need a strong science foundation 2 attract success. #CIHR, fix your science foundation, it is eroding in real time
February 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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The bureaucracy of science has grown so much, the system is collapsing upon itself:
Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science.
Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists.
Administrators are eating the science budget.
Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science.
Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists.
Administrators are eating the science budget.
February 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The bureaucracy of science has grown so much, the system is collapsing upon itself:
Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science.
Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists.
Administrators are eating the science budget.
Scientists have become administrators of grants rather than spending time on science.
Paid administrators are demanding even more administrative work from scientists.
Administrators are eating the science budget.
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We have updated this preprint. I think the deeper dive that @mkashefi.bsky.social has done on the 'shift' condition-independent signal is particularly interesting. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
We have updated this preprint. I think the deeper dive that @mkashefi.bsky.social has done on the 'shift' condition-independent signal is particularly interesting. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New signature added: "All emails 100% human-written."
February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
New signature added: "All emails 100% human-written."
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Kindle version of @jwomack.bsky.social's "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is on sale in case reality isn't grim enough.
www.amazon.com/dp/B008V460XS
www.amazon.com/dp/B008V460XS
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Kindle edition by Womack, Jack. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
www.amazon.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Kindle version of @jwomack.bsky.social's "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" is on sale in case reality isn't grim enough.
www.amazon.com/dp/B008V460XS
www.amazon.com/dp/B008V460XS
#music #nowplaying
great track on a great R.E.M. album, and bonus: Patti Smith show up also!
music.apple.com/ca/album/e-b...
great track on a great R.E.M. album, and bonus: Patti Smith show up also!
music.apple.com/ca/album/e-b...
E-Bow The Letter (Remastered) by R.E.M. on Apple Music
Song · 1996 · Duration 5:24
music.apple.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
#music #nowplaying
great track on a great R.E.M. album, and bonus: Patti Smith show up also!
music.apple.com/ca/album/e-b...
great track on a great R.E.M. album, and bonus: Patti Smith show up also!
music.apple.com/ca/album/e-b...
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New preprint is live! 🎉
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
January 31, 2026 at 11:43 PM
New preprint is live! 🎉
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The first Canadian paper from @sivanjo.bsky.social: when we started this work, I thought the cerebellar articulation areas would just look like the speech area in M1. Not so. Check it out! @coltoncasto.bsky.social
New preprint is live! 🎉
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble.
Feedback very welcome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The first Canadian paper from @sivanjo.bsky.social: when we started this work, I thought the cerebellar articulation areas would just look like the speech area in M1. Not so. Check it out! @coltoncasto.bsky.social
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On the latest Insider show, I was joined by my colleagues to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration goals and his vision for ICE. Are the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti a pivotal moment for American democracy? Watch the full episode now: econ.st/4qUCxke
The ICE test: how the Minneapolis killings will shape American democracy | The Economist Insider
The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti has become a test of how the federal government uses violence on America’s streets. Defenders of ICE and Border Patrol say that they are battling “domestic te...
econ.st
January 31, 2026 at 3:09 PM
On the latest Insider show, I was joined by my colleagues to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration goals and his vision for ICE. Are the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti a pivotal moment for American democracy? Watch the full episode now: econ.st/4qUCxke
“we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:50 AM
“we are beset with the ideology of maximising having while minimising doing. This has long been capitalism’s narrative and is now also technology’s. It is an ideology that steals from us relationships and connections and eventually our selves.“
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org
www.biorxiv.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org
Increasingly student emails asking for lab positions are CLEARLY LLM generated 🤮. Do I politely suggest they not do this, for their own good? Is that overstepping? I'm genuinely torn on this. What do you do?
#academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence
#academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence
January 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Increasingly student emails asking for lab positions are CLEARLY LLM generated 🤮. Do I politely suggest they not do this, for their own good? Is that overstepping? I'm genuinely torn on this. What do you do?
#academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence
#academicsky #psychscisky #neuroskyence
it’s interesting to me that two of the best sources of (traditional, reality-based, say it like it is) journalism about our current (political) times are tech oriented; I’m talking about @theverge.com and @wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:52 PM
it’s interesting to me that two of the best sources of (traditional, reality-based, say it like it is) journalism about our current (political) times are tech oriented; I’m talking about @theverge.com and @wired.com
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A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:47 PM
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.