Ross Parry
@jellorumbles.bsky.social
Assistant professor (MCF) in human movement and rehabilitation science.
Université Paris Nanterre #STAPS #APAS
dexterity | locomotion | human-machine interaction
activité physique adaptée | sport-santé | occupational therapy
Université Paris Nanterre #STAPS #APAS
dexterity | locomotion | human-machine interaction
activité physique adaptée | sport-santé | occupational therapy
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Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colage', and I wrote a paper on the evolution of #collectiveintelligence, epistemic #nicheconstruction, and the material traces of #hominin alterations to informational landscapes.
Forthcoming in PTRS B!
Preprint 🔗👇
osf.io/preprints/so...
🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky
Forthcoming in PTRS B!
Preprint 🔗👇
osf.io/preprints/so...
🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colage', and I wrote a paper on the evolution of #collectiveintelligence, epistemic #nicheconstruction, and the material traces of #hominin alterations to informational landscapes.
Forthcoming in PTRS B!
Preprint 🔗👇
osf.io/preprints/so...
🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky
Forthcoming in PTRS B!
Preprint 🔗👇
osf.io/preprints/so...
🧪🏺 #philsky #paleosky #evosky
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Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
religionnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Or perhaps, as Rodney Brooks suggests, we’re seeing in a shift in what a scientific account looks like?
spectrum.ieee.org/computationa...
spectrum.ieee.org/computationa...
October 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Or perhaps, as Rodney Brooks suggests, we’re seeing in a shift in what a scientific account looks like?
spectrum.ieee.org/computationa...
spectrum.ieee.org/computationa...
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How do parietal & premotor areas in the brain adapt to a #BrainComputerInterface? This study shows that frontal & parietal #brain areas co-adapt during BCI-based #MotorLearning, offering insights into visuomotor adaptation & informing future #BCI developments @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VEZidV
October 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
How do parietal & premotor areas in the brain adapt to a #BrainComputerInterface? This study shows that frontal & parietal #brain areas co-adapt during BCI-based #MotorLearning, offering insights into visuomotor adaptation & informing future #BCI developments @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VEZidV
It’s a sad day. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live
The campaigner, a
www.bbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s a sad day. www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
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The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
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 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Britain’s vast array of universities educate more than half of the country’s youth—but mostly in old-fangled ways little altered from the days when only the very wealthy could attend. The mass system needs much more efficiency and innovation
Too many British universities are obsessed with being world-class
They should try being efficient and effective first
econ.st
July 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Britain’s vast array of universities educate more than half of the country’s youth—but mostly in old-fangled ways little altered from the days when only the very wealthy could attend. The mass system needs much more efficiency and innovation
UK universities “more broke than a university student who just spent summer inter-railing around Europe”.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Gown and out: are British universities broke?
Also on the daily podcast: China’s amateur footballers and the politics of Superman
www.economist.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
UK universities “more broke than a university student who just spent summer inter-railing around Europe”.
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Yeah, cool. Let a government agency do peer review. God forbid we'd actually have scientists independently critique the methods and interpretations of important research.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yeah, cool. Let a government agency do peer review. God forbid we'd actually have scientists independently critique the methods and interpretations of important research.
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85 percent of children diagnosed with cancer are alive at least five years later, according to the National Cancer Institute. Survivors can face lifelong complications from their treatments — something oncologists are working to improve.
More kids are beating cancer. Improving the rest of their lives is next.
“There’s an entire population of kids who didn’t exist before. Now we need to figure out how to best support them,” one expert says.
wapo.st
May 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
85 percent of children diagnosed with cancer are alive at least five years later, according to the National Cancer Institute. Survivors can face lifelong complications from their treatments — something oncologists are working to improve.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Great to see you in Rome, @albomp.bsky.social and congratulations on your re-election!
In uncertain times, your renewed mandate brings both continuity and fresh momentum to the EU–Australia strategic partnership.
So let’s deepen ties in trade, defence, and security.
→ europa.eu/!4gmbxN
In uncertain times, your renewed mandate brings both continuity and fresh momentum to the EU–Australia strategic partnership.
So let’s deepen ties in trade, defence, and security.
→ europa.eu/!4gmbxN
May 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Great to see you in Rome, @albomp.bsky.social and congratulations on your re-election!
In uncertain times, your renewed mandate brings both continuity and fresh momentum to the EU–Australia strategic partnership.
So let’s deepen ties in trade, defence, and security.
→ europa.eu/!4gmbxN
In uncertain times, your renewed mandate brings both continuity and fresh momentum to the EU–Australia strategic partnership.
So let’s deepen ties in trade, defence, and security.
→ europa.eu/!4gmbxN
An important message…
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
An important message…
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Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature
Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change?
Paywall: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Paywall: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change?
This Personal View provides a normative and conceptual analysis of the intersection
between the recovery movement and psychiatry. Although recovery emerged as a grassroots
social justice movement emph...
www.thelancet.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change?
Paywall: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Paywall: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Physical affordances beat digital simulations every time
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
www.wired.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Physical affordances beat digital simulations every time
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂
Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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May 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Please repost! Our deadline is fast approaching for a 20-month postdoc position leading an fMRI project on the neurodevelopment of metacognition and curiosity. Join a great lab with fantastic collaborators! 🙂
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A l'@uparisnanterre.bsky.social nous faisons appel à nos étudiantes et étudiants pour des rôles de relais ou de médiation dans différents domaines.
Par exemple pour l'international, l'informatique ou les bibliothèques ⬇️
Par exemple pour l'international, l'informatique ou les bibliothèques ⬇️
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A l'@uparisnanterre.bsky.social nous faisons appel à nos étudiantes et étudiants pour des rôles de relais ou de médiation dans différents domaines.
Par exemple pour l'international, l'informatique ou les bibliothèques ⬇️
Par exemple pour l'international, l'informatique ou les bibliothèques ⬇️
I like penguins. They are the basasses of avian evolution. Wings adapted to swimming like flippers. Torpedo shaped body to limit drag. Metabolism built for surviving extreme cold and counter shaded colouring for underwater camouflage. #penguinbadass
Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation.
Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday
Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday
April 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I like penguins. They are the basasses of avian evolution. Wings adapted to swimming like flippers. Torpedo shaped body to limit drag. Metabolism built for surviving extreme cold and counter shaded colouring for underwater camouflage. #penguinbadass
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It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
April 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
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Where I depart from Bender is to shift the focus from the LLM onto the recipient user.
The real danger for me arises from the behaviour of the ‘recipient’ (the human reader) who ascribes patterns and meaning where there are none - who mistakes 'pseudo-language' for real language.
The real danger for me arises from the behaviour of the ‘recipient’ (the human reader) who ascribes patterns and meaning where there are none - who mistakes 'pseudo-language' for real language.
April 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Where I depart from Bender is to shift the focus from the LLM onto the recipient user.
The real danger for me arises from the behaviour of the ‘recipient’ (the human reader) who ascribes patterns and meaning where there are none - who mistakes 'pseudo-language' for real language.
The real danger for me arises from the behaviour of the ‘recipient’ (the human reader) who ascribes patterns and meaning where there are none - who mistakes 'pseudo-language' for real language.
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Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.
April 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.