It is not just that 'ideally' criteria for publication should be the same for significant and non-significant results - it is literally in the code of conduct for research integrity. If you do not act in line with this, you are violating the code of conduct for research integrity.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

My battery is empty 😱

"... Doug worked most of the time that he was awake. He did the writing, she did everything else for him, the house care, maintenance, shopping, cooking, bill paying, filing his tax return, holiday plans, dealing with difficult teenagers, and the gardening." another generation....

Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser. Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire" #BMJChristmas www.bmj.com/content/391/...

1+1 is not 2 😱

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

I 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/

Here is another good news: new grant on "Motor Complexity and Aging" from @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social That will be fun 😜

Will there be another good news tomorrow? There is no better word in French or English to describe the current feeling: spannend ! (and the usual translation by "exciting" does not do justice to that word)

I confirm, AI-generated images do not look good in presentations.

Another day, another paper accepted at Geroscience: our work on the (limited) effect of age on proprioception has been accepted preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was pretty disinclined to travel to the US already, but this new proposed social media policy just makes it even less likely. The thought of potentially travelling all that way to then be denied entry because of some flippant remark I made about an American fascist 3 years ago. No thanks.

First paper from our cerebellum project accepted at GeroScience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats to Anouck and Anda for leading the way!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).

The replication crisis wasn’t an accident or an isolated failure. It was the visible symptom of a system that rewards novelty over reliability and significance over approaching truth. Replication exposes the cracks, but the causes lie deeper—in the structure of scientific 🧪 practice itself. #SciComm

Can you really learn anything about the effect of aging on motor control that we don't know yet with N=8 per age group? Sigh... Oh wait... "rigorous and reliable quantitative benchmarks" 🙄

If the field did an order of magnitude fewer studies total, and instead pooled resources to do more of these, knowledge production would dramatically accelerate. We learn more from this one paper than from 50 one-offs examining the predictive validity of implicit measures.

Cool looking study 😎🧪 A model of the cerebellum generates gait adaptations in a reflex-based neuromusculoskeletal model during split-belt walking

Evidence for corollary discharge projections sent out from motor nuclei in primates! A rare find. The pathway targets cerebellar areas, likely for horizontal eye movement control. Great work @bohlen.bsky.social and Paul May and colleagues!

"Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe" That's the title of this popular YouTuber's latest video, which has had more than 250,000 views in 24 hours. What do you think? www.youtube.com/watch?v=--83...

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

For the oculomotor nerds out there… we’re excited to share our paired papers on precerebellar circuitry! These two studies look at how internuclear pathways talk to the cerebellum and what that means for eye movement control. 👀🧠 #neuroskyence #science

Is the blue line not a little bit off? How much should we trust this line? (on which the main result is based...)

Rule #1 of my presentation skill class: no noise on the slides. Nothing to distract the audience from the main message

This, this and this again again and again

Splash of color in the gray matter :) #brainart

Task learning is compositional, so would behavior be! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth,” [the Pope] told the students. “Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.” 💯

Wow! I have to say that this is where the @elife.bsky.social model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!

Problem with cleaning your mailbox is that it creates a positive feedback loop by which you get many new emails...

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. #sciencematters

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Beautiful 15 years xkcd.com/3172/

Speeding up, not slowing down, decreases the metabolic energy needed to stabilize walking in the sagittal plane journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... by @friedldegroote.bsky.social and colleagues

It's 2025 and you can still claim an effect with results like this at JAMA Psychiatry. cc @urisohn.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @heinonmatti.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Researchers from the KU Leuven spent between 1.500 en 3.120k€ on APC for Nature Communications since 2015... This is the price for the Nature brand and the cost of "high" impact factor... Couldn't that money better be invested elsewhere (and this is only one journal and one university...)

Being in a What's App group with mostly genZ people 🤔

Nice thread about why CI won't help to solve the p-value problem

Age-related changes spare the Locus Coeruleus pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27513978/

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

A new paper from the lab featuring an elegant set of experiments to explore whether and how reaction times relate to sequence planning -- stellar work by @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AGAINST THE UNCRITICAL ADOPTION OF ‘AI’ TECHNOLOGIES IN ACADEMIA philarchive.org/archive/GUEATU

This captures much of the frustration of today.

I didn’t expect to show up in a political cartoon this year, but I’m grateful. @chappatte.bsky.social ’s work has always stood out for its wit and courage, and his series “USA: Those Who Resist” captures this moment perfectly. How good is your French?

Just heard that some labs prevent their PhD students to publish more than two papers during their PhD b/c they can't afford the Open Access fee. Crazy...

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Being at the International Cycling Safety Conference and hearing grid cells being mentioned (by a Norwergian researcher)….