Curious about how your brain tells you to pick up the phone if you sense a notification at your place, but not at the cinema? Check out our latest preprint studying context-dependent sensorimotor processing! (A short thread🧵)

Retrosplenial cortex enables context-dependent goal-directed sensorimotor transformation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685738v1

It was very exciting to talk to @ardemp.bskyverified.social yesterday and hear his presentation! It was fascinating to see how mechanosensation plays such a diverse role in nature from tactile sensation, to interoception, parturition, plant root guidance and so much more!

Thanks @trackingactions.bsky.social for being a generous host and @trackingskills.bsky.social for pouring wine for the fantastic @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social visit. Days like this remind me how lucky we are as scientists. Loved the student lunch, 1:1s, seminar reception, and dinner!

Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

Super excited to see my PhD thesis featured by EPFL! 🎓
actu.epfl.ch/news/learnin...

P.S.: There's even a French version of the article! It feels so fancy! 😎 👨‍🎨 🇫🇷
actu.epfl.ch/news/apprend...

I have to give a presentation on a paper about machine learning for astrophysics for a PhD course, and all my knowledge on the field comes from Big Bang Theory episodes lol

1/2 Brain and Cognition Master at
@UPFBarcelona

Please, spread the word

Why to enroll here?

Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional)
Gustavo Deco (comp neuro)
Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI)
Salva Soto-Faraco (attention)
Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)

Salmon hats, a 90s throwback? "As anyone who follows fashion knows, certain trends like indie sleaze and cargo pants can come back around after a long and quite deserved break. Orcas, it seems, are not immune." www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa... (Amazing actual photo embedded in this article, too.)

Should neuroscientists keep all raw data or focus on processed datasets? Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social asks experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts on neurophysiology’s data dilemma:

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Check out some opinions in the thread below:

🚨Preprint alert🚨

In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:

**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑‍🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication

New paper from Halassa lab in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello Bluesky world! 🦋 I'm a neuroscience PhD student at EPFL 🇨🇭 I'm currently working on context and sensory processing but also interested in motor control in animals and machines 💪🦾