Olivia Ipwanshek
oliviaipwanshek.bsky.social
Olivia Ipwanshek
@oliviaipwanshek.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscience @culhamari-lab.bsky.social @gribblelab.org | she/her
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Don't forget to tune in to Neuroscience Research Day on February 19th and 20th! 🧠

Explore cutting-edge neuroscience research from Western University students & London researchers. Free event open to all curious minds.

See you there!
songsuwo.ca/nrd2026
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Are you interested in a MSc/PhD in human sensorimotor neuroscience? Learn to design experiments, analyze data, read & write papers, present at conferences, & work with a vibrant group of students & faculty in a world-class research environment.
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/join.html
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years.

Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort.

doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
Diedrichsenlab
diedrichsenlab.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Exciting update: The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) will host its 2026 Meeting at York University,(June 1–3, 2026), followed by the Cognition and Action Satellite Workshop (June 4–5).
@jdcrawford.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social
www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Here’s what you can expect at the Canadian Cancer Society #CIBCRunForTheCure. ✨

On Sunday, October 5, join your community for the CIBC Run for the Cure to raise vital funds for the breast cancer cause because we all have a reason to run. 💗

Register for the run today: bit.ly/3JVDNQu
May 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour
An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Congrats to @evadeligiannis.bsky.social for the publication of her first paper, showing that binocular disparity enhances fMRI activation in depth areas but not face areas. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx.... Presenting 3D stims with accurate real-world geometry was a tech feat by the whole team!
Binocular cues to 3D face structure increase activation in depth-selective visual cortex with negligible effects in face-selective areas | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I am excited to share that I’ll be joining Penn State as an Assistant Professor in August 2026 🎉

My lab will study how the mind simulates concept meaning, bridging perception, action, imagery, and language.

sites.psu.edu/cisclab/

I am recruiting grad students for Fall 2026. Connect if interested!
Concepts, Imagery, and Simulation in Cognition Lab | Exploring how the mind grounds and simulates concept meaning, bridging perception, action, imagery, and language.
sites.psu.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and ‪@striemamit.bsky.social‬ for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS
How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Please send recommendations for great papers that bring cognitive neuroscience closer the real world. It’s for an undergrad seminar course on “Cognitive Neuroscience for the Real World” and a review article. Empirical, theoretical, or review; broad or specific to subfields of cogneuro. Thanks!
May 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Absolutely delighted to see that one of my favorite researchers, longtime colleague, and friend, Jody Culham, @culhamari-lab.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2025 Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society @vssmtg.bsky.social. So well-deserved. 🧪🧠
www.visionsciences.org/2025-davida-...
VSS 2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham2025 Davida Teller Award – Jody Culham – Vision Sciences Society
www.visionsciences.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Sofia Varon's new paper shows that participants are better at intercepting moving targets in VR when the shape of the trajectory is consistent with gravity. The results raise interesting questions about how motion perception incorporates trajectory shape. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Target interception in virtual reality is better for natural versus unnatural trajectory shapes and orientations | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
January 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM