Mathew Piasecki
Neuromuscular physiology.
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiToday, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiReduced knee extensor torque steadiness and increased motor unit discharge rate variability in young people with patellofemoral pain: a pilot study - our latest study led by the great @Michalis_Arv is published in @EJAP_official open access below link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🎓 2026 Editorial Board Fellowship🎓 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN 📣 Our #EditorialBoardFellowship is a great opportunity for ECRs to be directly involved in the editorial process under the guidance of a Senior Editor! ⏰ Apply by 15th March 👇 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiMy university is offering scholarships for PhD students to visit Nantes (France) for 3 to 6 months. If you are interested in joining my lab to work on the neural control of the hand during artistic activities and translating these insights into robotic control please do not hesitate to get in touch!
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina
- New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/13
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiReminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.
- Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiIf your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!! Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... @ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🆕 🚩 New preprint on #bioRxiv by F. Dernoncourt . We introduce a conceptually new framework that combines large-scale human motor unit recordings with simulation-based inference to estimate recurrent inhibition during voluntary contractions in humans. 🔗 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Neural control of movement in Parkinson’s (3 years) This fantastic three-year postdoctoral position at Cardiff University and funded by Parkinson's UK, has now re-opened for applications. Full details and application here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
- **Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiI am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiGreat news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiThe Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiI'm particularly proud to have one of my images selected and featured on the cover of the latest issue of @jphysiol.bsky.social In this issue, you can also read about my latest work on gamma motoneurons! Check it out!! physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiHopefully of interest to scientists and exercise practitioners with and interest in muscle mass and functional gains in human volunteers. doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @jphysiol.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiPlease RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- New 3-year PostDoc opportunity in CoMAP, funded by UKRI-BBSRC — developing innovative methods to study motor unit adaptation to ageing and its functional consequences in humans. Please pass on to any who may be interested. @ukri.org jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiNew paper - Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s Disease prevalence in women: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510486122
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🚨Hiring a 2yr postdoc in the lab work on muscle biology, genomics & ALS. Expertise in the above advantageous, but work ethic, desire to learn/develop and being a good scientist/person more important Good collab with @droch.bsky.social so travel to CPH involved as well www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126245-...
- We had a little appearance on Channel4 last night; Michael Mosley: Secrets of the Superagers Michael came to our lab and tried a few of our methods, including needle EMG See 36 mins in for some pretty good spikes 😎 www.channel4.com/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiMathew Piasecki of uniofnottingham.bsky.social discusses motor unit adaptation to disuse: crossing the threshold from firing rate suppression to #neuromuscular junction transmission ⚙️ 🔎 📖 Read the #TopicalReview here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiPenultimate presentation from our group at @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @elisanedelec.bsky.social presenting her work on knee extensior neuromuscular function across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiSecond up from our group from @northumbriauni.bsky.social is @padraig-spillane.bsky.social presenting his work titled Contraction intensity-specific fluctuations in motor unit behaviour across the menstrual cycle at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
- Reposted by Mathew Piaseckifrancoishug.bsky.social et al. investigated non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among #motor units in response to #nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity ⚙️ ✍️ 📜 Read the #Research here: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP288504
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiChronic resistance and endurance training alters the way in which motor unit discharge rates are modulated across contraction intensities, suggesting alterations in net excitatory synaptic input - another fun collaboration with @jskarabot.bsky.social and colleagues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🆕📝 New publication in @jphysiol.bsky.social “Non-homogeneous distribution of inhibitory inputs among motor units in response to nociceptive stimulation at moderate contraction intensity” 🔗 doi.org/10.1113/JP28... @univcotedazur.bsky.social @simonavrillon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiSenior Editors Paul. L. Greenhaff & Harold D. Schultz examine the central role of human and clinical physiology in the era of multi-omics and inter-organ crosstalk ✍️ 🔗 Read the #Editorial here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki‘Load and muscle-dependent changes in triceps surae motor unit firing properties in individuals with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy’ Our latest study has just been published in @jphysiol.bsky.social - open access below
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiThe revival of an old metaphor, first coined by Henri Bergson in the 1880s - the brain is (or has) a switchboard!
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiTomomichi Oya of @westernuwin.bsky.social writes this #Perspective on Dernoncourt et al. (2025), as their experimental results raise several important considerations regarding MU #flexibility 💭 🔗 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiJob Alert (please repost)! We are looking to hire a Research Assistant to join us in an exciting project looking into Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and how brains learn to control them.
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Organised by @pgreenhaff.bsky.social & focusing on: 🚑 Injury and rehabilitation ⛰️ Altitude physiology 🦵 Muscle adaptation 🚴 Exercise training 💉 Pharmacological interventions ⚙️ Body composition 🔗 buff.ly/2sVbnLk
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiMy lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with Matt Apps (Birmingham) & Nathan Lepora (Bristol) Closes May 5th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiClinical and humans physiology to the fore. Think about submitting your work to The Journal of Physiology. doi.org/10.1113/jp28...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiNew pub from Drew in CJ’s lab. We showed prolonged firing of motoneurons makes it hard to control force, estimates of PICs are larger at short muscle lengths, and combining the two exacerbates this prolongation of firing-induced force variability. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiExciting two-year postdoc position available in neuromuscular physiology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML152/r...
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki…been silent for a while, reappeared with a piece in @jphysiol.bsky.social on #MotorControl #Neurophysiology and #AI #history -> behavioral research holds valuable insights that new AI methods can leverage to understand brain function. tinyurl.com/cbc64ff6 #neuroscience #NeuroAI #cognitivescience
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiOur recent case series on the tolerability and safety of acute intermittent hypoxia in people living with chronic stroke is now available online at Stroke. Initial results are positive, with much more work needed to refine protocols and confrim effectiveness www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiA.V. Hill was a hero, a genius, and the most upright person Bernard Katz ever met. He helped bring exercise physiology into being. Here’s our review of that story, published in @jphysiol.bsky.social. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiOur latest preprint, using startling acoustic stimuli in combination with neurostimulation to better understand the neural mechanisms of fatigue 🧠
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🚨ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY🚨 To our 2025 Editorial Board Fellowship scheme! Read about Andrew Holmes' experience as an Editorial Fellow🎓👇 How to apply: 🔗https://buff.ly/2s5K83y
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🆕 🚩 Check out our latest publication in @jphysiol.bsky.social led by F. Dernoncourt 👨🎓👏: "Flexible control of motor units: Is the multidimensionality of motor unit manifolds a sufficient condition?" - 🔗 urlr.me/x3uVGE @univcotedazur.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @simonavrillon.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki🚨 Registration Open! 🚨 Join us in Brescia 🇮🇹 for the INcEPTION Winter School 2025 on HDsEMG! 📅 10th–14th March 2025 📍 In-person only | Limited spots! ✅ No registration fee Don't miss this opportunity! Find further details here: forms.gle/EY4wNMnbYRn9nT…
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiPeriop people - a colleague from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is developing a consensus on the impact of prehabilitation on postoperative cognition among patients >65. Here’s an online thingy… forms.office.com/e/QW7JKaBhfz #AnSky #GeriSky #SurgSky @adamgordon1978.bsky.social @cpoc.bsky.social
- Worth it just for the abstract figure 👌
- The Journal of Physiology The study of plasticity has always been about gradients physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Mathew Piasecki💥 Preprint update 💥 Based on feedback from reviewers, we have updated our work that aims to understand gain control in force output. In addition to human motor unit data, we’ve used in silico models of motoneuron firing patterns in an attempt to understand how we scale force output {1/2}
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiA useful reminder that Twitter is not Britain.
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation as a treatment following fracture in older frail patients is difficult, but feasible. New data from the IMMI study link.springer.com/article/10.1... @adamgordon1978.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiUK all through Christmas
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiOur group’s latest work on sex differences during high-intensity interval exercise 🏃♀️🏃♂️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiOur school is advertising a teaching-focused position of Assistant Professor in Neuroscience. Application deadline: 7-Nov. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
- Motor unit adaptation to disuse: crossing the threshold from firing rate suppression to neuromuscular junction transmission physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Theta-gamma transcranial alternating current stimulation enhances motor skill acquisition in healthy young and older adults www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- The Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance returns to Nottingham this December (19-20). @ThePhySoc A great lineup of speakers and a perfect way to end the year 👌 www.physoc.org/events/the-b...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiThe effect of pre-operative exercise training on post-operative cognitive function: a systematic review | European Geriatric Medicine - first article from our PhD student, Hatice! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Common synaptic inputs and persistent inward currents of vastus lateralis motor units are reduced in older male adults link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- The effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on hospitalised adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
- Reposted by Mathew PiaseckiEver wonder why anesthesia makes you unconscious? We figured out a piece of that puzzle. Anesthesia blocks sensation by cutting off communication within the cortex picower.mit.edu/news/anesthe... #Neuroscience
