Juan Gallego
@juangallego.bsky.social
Thinking about the brain, spinal cord and how we move (and related neurotechnology). Into books, music, coffee, food, photography+art, animals & some humans. Now group leader at Champalimaud Research
#neuroskyence #Sensorimotor #compneurosky #Science
#neuroskyence #Sensorimotor #compneurosky #Science
Pinned
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
A very nice contribution to the field, adding more evidence on how our expectations and goals shape upcoming motor commands.
Congrats to the wonderful team!
Congrats to the wonderful team!
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A very nice contribution to the field, adding more evidence on how our expectations and goals shape upcoming motor commands.
Congrats to the wonderful team!
Congrats to the wonderful team!
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A chemical extracted from carrot roots helped pave the way for flat-screen TVs, and six other discoveries that unintentionally changed the world.
Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A chemical extracted from carrot roots helped pave the way for flat-screen TVs, and six other discoveries that unintentionally changed the world.
Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Perfect talking points for when you need to defend basic science, whether it’s to your grumpy uncle or your MP.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🚨Job alert🚨
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour
This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
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Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)
Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
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Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...
Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!
🤖🧠🧪
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
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Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
www.cshl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fascinating work. Looking forward to diving into the preprint.
Congratulations Kelsey et al
Congratulations Kelsey et al
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Fascinating work. Looking forward to diving into the preprint.
Congratulations Kelsey et al
Congratulations Kelsey et al
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Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Travel Grants — COSYNE
Apply for COSYNE 2026 Travel Grants to support your participation in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. Grants are available for students, postdocs, and PIs, including programs for Childcare, Presenters, N...
www.cosyne.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Travel awards are available for undergraduate students looking to attend #Cosyne25! The application is short, and the deadline is Nov 12. @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Application: shorturl.at/6NEyk
More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Show time!
🚀 The Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 (#CRSy25) kicked off today in Lisbon under the theme “#NeuroCybernetics at Scale”, exploring #intelligence and the future of brain–AI research!
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Show time!
Starting in a few hours !!! Get your tickets
🌍 Over 300 participants from around the globe are joining us in Lisbon for the #CRSy25. ⚪ Can't join in person? Get your virtual ticket to follow the talks on “Neuro-Cybernetics at Scale” 🔎➰ 🤖 through the Live Streaming of the event.
🎟️ symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1
🎟️ symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Starting in a few hours !!! Get your tickets
A really nice 15 min talk on Scientific understanding by Henk de Regt. Really worth watching for those practicing scientists who like me haven't had the time to read his book yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY1v...
October 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A really nice 15 min talk on Scientific understanding by Henk de Regt. Really worth watching for those practicing scientists who like me haven't had the time to read his book yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY1v...
finalmente!
and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news
and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
finalmente!
and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news
and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news
🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.
I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!
Reposted by Juan Gallego
Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Very cool project.
Congratulations to the superlabers
Congratulations to the superlabers
📣 This is a big one that we've been cooking for a while! We think it adds to the heart of motor control: 'how does motor cortex work'. Congratulations @mkashefi.bsky.social!
Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Very cool project.
Congratulations to the superlabers
Congratulations to the superlabers
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.
August 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.
Reposted by Juan Gallego
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology
actcompthink.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Food for thought for theorists and experimentalists in neuroscience!
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Food for thought for theorists and experimentalists in neuroscience!
I still need to read this piece by Antonio, but I can say that he's currently visting the lab and we're having a wonderful time talking about levels of description, "representations", evolvability and many more ideas. So I'm sure it'll be worth your time ⏳
You know how you once wondered how artificial and biological neurons differ? And what that might mean for AI systems? Luckily, we wrote the definitive paper on this @cp-patterns.bsky.social:
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The cost of unmodeled biological complexity in artificial neural networks
This perspective argues that artificial neural networks (ANNs), while effective as
function approximators, omit biologically relevant structures, such as ion channels,
that introduce intrinsic randomn...
www.cell.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I still need to read this piece by Antonio, but I can say that he's currently visting the lab and we're having a wonderful time talking about levels of description, "representations", evolvability and many more ideas. So I'm sure it'll be worth your time ⏳
Reposted by Juan Gallego
I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)?
Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca
Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca
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media.tenor.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)?
Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca
Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? Gunnar.blohm@queensu.ca
Go work with Matt, I would if I were you!
🚨 I’m excited to say that my CIHR Project Grant was funded! My NHP lab is now full-speed-ahead, and I’m hiring experimentalists (postdoc, PhD student, and/or a tech/manager). We’ll do multi-region ephys during reaching/grasping in macaques, with behavioral and spinal perturbations.
August 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Go work with Matt, I would if I were you!
Great old podcast episode for the times we're living: Anthony Pinn on humanism, theology, race, and lessons that humanists could and should take from religions
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018...
& thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for bringing so many interesting people to my attention!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018...
& thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for bringing so many interesting people to my attention!
Episode 4: Anthony Pinn on Humanism, Theology, and the Black Community – Sean Carroll
www.preposterousuniverse.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Great old podcast episode for the times we're living: Anthony Pinn on humanism, theology, race, and lessons that humanists could and should take from religions
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018...
& thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for bringing so many interesting people to my attention!
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018...
& thank you @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for bringing so many interesting people to my attention!
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📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with competing and multifaceted information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.
🚨 New preprint + thread 🧵
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🚨 New preprint + thread 🧵
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We've gone back to studying motoneuron control principles and their applications & here's paper #1:
A proof-of-concept study showing that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can control up to 2DoF from a single intramuscular implant
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Juan Gallego
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🤖🧠🧪
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@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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