Tapas Arakeri
@drtjarakeri.bsky.social
Postdoc in Aaron Batista's lab
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Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience
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October 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
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Amazing new paper - such a pleasure to be involved! With so much and clean neuropixel data - analysis becomes a completely different game…
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...
1/10
Compositional neural dynamics during reaching
The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Amazing new paper - such a pleasure to be involved! With so much and clean neuropixel data - analysis becomes a completely different game…
Reposted by Tapas Arakeri
Go work with Matt! Its a great project and a wonderful spot for studying the neural control of movement.
🚨 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 6:55 PM
Go work with Matt! Its a great project and a wonderful spot for studying the neural control of movement.
Reposted by Tapas Arakeri
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
Reposted by Tapas Arakeri
The advantages of the eLife and other post publication peer review models has never been clearer. Now would be a great time to drop the gatekeeper approach to science.
If only we had a system like @elife.bsky.social where peer review was public and accountable, we wouldn’t have to “rely” on peer review to “validate” papers!
"The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk."
Reflecting on RFK Jr.'s use of scholarly papers in his confirmation hearings.
Reflecting on RFK Jr.'s use of scholarly papers in his confirmation hearings.
February 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The advantages of the eLife and other post publication peer review models has never been clearer. Now would be a great time to drop the gatekeeper approach to science.
Reposted by Tapas Arakeri
Is our brain infinitely flexible or constrained? Oby & colleagues cleverly uses BCIs to test what cortical activity can/can't be generated quickly. Highly recommend!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamical constraints on neural population activity - Nature Neuroscience
Oby, Degenhart, Grigsby and colleagues used a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity. They found the time courses to be highly robust, ...
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January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Is our brain infinitely flexible or constrained? Oby & colleagues cleverly uses BCIs to test what cortical activity can/can't be generated quickly. Highly recommend!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And you can get a tl;dr + my takes on why this is exciting here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Tapas Arakeri
663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Targeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movements
During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whe...
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January 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...