Daniel Ferris @Ferris_vball@qoto.org
beach volleyball player, dad, husband, and neuromechanist
Joined Nov 2022
For courses I teach, I allow students to use their score on the comprehensive final exam (that covers all material in the course) to replace midterm exam scores that they did poorly on. If they know the material by the end of the semester (isn’t that our goal as instructors?), shouldn’t their grade reflect that? I seem to be the only instructor that has this policy.
The Dept. of Biological Sciences at NC State has a tenure-track faculty position opening in Paleobiology. Candidates pursuing research in any quantitative area of paleobiology are encouraged to apply. Candidates who study biomechanics/biophysical modeling at macro and micro (histological) scales are encouraged to apply. https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/176184
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I know this sounds old fashioned. But I think I would love to use a recommendation engine (others think it is a bad idea https://brandonrozek.com/blog/finding-cool-people-on-mastodon/) for ordering my mastodon feed. There must be people working on it?
Interesting paper on letting authors recommend reviewers for manuscript submissions to journals. Will have to read before I comment more, but very interested given my role as a journal editor. Acuna DE, Teplitskiy M, Evans JA, Kording K (2022) Author-suggested reviewers rate manuscripts much more favorably: A cross-sectional analysis of the neuroscience section of PLOS ONE. PLoS ONE 17(12): e0273994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273994
Thoughts on Teaching Professor faculty positions: Historically, researxh universities employed tenure track professors focused on both research and teaching, and temporary-contract lecturers focused exclusively on teaching. The latter had less job security, lower salaries, and less in department/college respect. I am seeing a trend towards a greater number of Teaching Prof. positions that have more job security, higher salaries, and greater respect from colleagues. Question: what took so long?
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Now that I'm moved to neuromatch.social, a new #introduction.
I’m a professor at UPenn who studies memory. I work at the nexus of brain research and computation. I’m also writing a book: When it comes to understanding the brain, what are we trying to achieve? What’s our plan to get there? What challenges do we face?
Writing has deepened my appreciation for community-based progress. I'm excited to be here to participate in, and benefit from, collective intelligence.
I'm also committed to restraining myself from the power of 10K characters. But I will Edit - that is the superpower that we all deserve.
#neuroscience #psychology #neuroAI #author @cogneurophys @complexsystems
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Hello all since I moved to neuromatch.social, an #introduction
I'm a Professor at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. I have a joint appointment in the Dept. Psychology and in the Dept. Physiology & Pharmacology.
My research area is the neuroscience of motor control and motor learning. I work mainly with humans, doing experiments and using computational models to understand how the nervous system produces voluntary movement and the computational basis of how we learn new motor skills.
I teach courses in Statistics, and in Scientific Computing, and sometimes Sensorimotor Neuroscience.
I'm an immigrant, we moved to Canada from South Africa when I was 18 months old. I grew up in Vancouver, BC on the west coast of Canada.
Looking forward to being a part of this wonderful community.
“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
― Yogi Berra
Guesses as to what technology is going to take off 20-50 years from now, but not in the next 20 years?
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This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out #superlabreadinglist @andpru @paulgribble https://superlab.ca/readinglist/list187.html
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Why did we name #eeg brain rhythms the way we did? Alpha/beta were detected first, so assigning them the first letters of the alphabet appears sensible. Were gamma and delta detected in this order? Why are there theta/mu but no epsilon, zeta, eta? Does mu stand for M=motor? What does theta stand for then?
Is there maybe a reference that has collected info about the origin of these names?
@eeg @neuroscience
Why is the ability to do good science orthogonal to the ability to give a good presentation? I would think intelligence and creativity would be common attributes to both skills. 30 years of watching science seminars makes me think the two skills are independent of each other.
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We are hiring! Faculty position in Organismal Ecology/Evolution, come join a highly interactive and collaborative group in an awesome city
@eebtoronto
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Organismal-Ecology-andor-Evolution-ON/565418217/
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We are hiring at Queen's Engineering! We have an open tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in a field related to #robotics and/or #mechatronics #engineering, including—but not limited to—#autonomous systems, #machinelearning & #AI for robotics, intelligent systems engineering, #HRI, #marine robotics, robotic #perception & actuation or #VR / #Ar. See our ad at https://www.ece.queensu.ca/about-us/IBENG212201_ECE_MRE_Sept-2022.pdf.
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My favorite part is drop-jumping from 1.3m at #Moon gravity 🚀
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RT @darione581
Ready to collect data in #hypogravity condition to study #MSKdeconditioning and countermeasures to long habitation on #Lunar surface:
☑️Protocol Paper (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278051)
☑️Pilot test at @LaStatale L.O.O.P.
☑️ Grazie to @delsysinc for the mini sensors!
🔳 Recruit people!
https://twitter.com/darione581/status/1595896546096185345
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So I created a #sensorimotor group: @sensorimotor
if you click on it, you can subscribe. When you post, paste the group name at the end of your post and all group followers will see it.
Please spread via RT...
@jjodx @paulgribble @aaronlwong @StriemAmit @opherdonchin @johannarimmele @rrangana1 @haar @Magda_Gippert @thartbm @Ferris_vball @pmedendorp @boisgontier @Bestmannlab
RT @kecostello
I am recruiting 2 Ph.D. students to start in Fall 2023 on projects related to #biomechanics, #wearabletechnology, #machinelearning, and knee #osteoarthritis. Please share and retweet! https://biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch-l-forums/jobs-and-positions/46701-2-phd-student-positions-in-biomechanics-wearable-technology-machine-learning-and-knee-osteoarthritis-%E2%80%93-university-of-florida#post46701
RT @diedrichsenlab
Are you looking for a postdoc studying skill learning? A place to do your PhD and work on the cerebellum? Look no further! The Sensorimotor Superlab (@DiedrichsenJorn, @paulgribble, @andpru) is hiring!
For details see: https://superlab.ca/join
RT @reziliusReza
Are you interested in discovering how the brain controls movements?
Do you want to do rigorous behavioral experiments combined with neurophysiology?
Would you like to work with these beautiful, gentle animals?
Do you have excellent computational skills?
Please email me your CV.
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please RT
Hi #neuroscience sensorimotor people, is anyone aware of a group or unique hashtags for our topic(s)? Would be nice to get stuff onto our timelines more reliably.
@jjodx @paulgribble @aaronlwong @StriemAmit @opherdonchin @johannarimmele @rrangana1 @haar @Magda_Gippert @thartbm @Ferris_vball @pmedendorp @boisgontier @Bestmannlab
RT @DeborahJehu
I’m happy to 📢that I can fund a #PhDstudent starting in Fall ’23. Prospective #PhD students: please send me your CV, transcripts, and research interests @PhDVoice @ThePhDPlace #PhDposition @AUG_University #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academicjobs https://debjehu.wixsite.com/gaitlab/join-the-lab
beach volleyball player, dad, husband, and neuromechanist
Joined Nov 2022
