Well put. Useful 🧵

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

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This is inspired!

Psychiatry / Computational Psychiatry / Nutritional Psychiatry

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Fund #science for its own sake and the applications will follow. The flip side of this coin is that the pursuit of quick "impact" risks allocating scarce resources to unworthy bandwagons. So, fund (and manage, administer, review, nurture, support, study, do) #science for its own sake.

This is a problem.

Please 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...

You see this, post a concert pic that you took.

A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

"renew, restore, rebuild" www.thesun.co.uk/news/3678572...

what fresh hell is this

Yes! www.ft.com/content/3a91...

It is disconcerting that governments and organisations are unthinkingly pushing "growth" strategies centred around AI. Who is meant to grow, and in what way? The AI bandwagon is fuelled by a dangerous lack of understanding that looks like 'magical thinking', as @melaniemitchell.bsky.social explains.

Join the Charlie Waller Trust on their UK Walk for Wellbeing, taking on the South Downs Challenge on the 11th of October. A great way to help them continue their crucial work, empowering young people to achieve and sustain better mental health. charliewaller.org/get-involved...

This is dense but comprehensive and interesting. h/t @wiringthebrain.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/151a...

Superb team effort by Greece to beat Lithuania and make it to the semifinals. Wonderfully mature performance by omnipresent Kostas Antetokounmpo 🏀👋

All model organisms should have a theme tune 🦐

My day is ruined after the BFF reveals he has yet to visit a website to register for the opportunity to receive a text that may unlock a slim chance to maybe buy @radiohead.bsky.social tickets it's been two hours I don't want to have to divorce him he's really nice why does everything happen to me

Write less, review more. 💯 Academic energy is totally misplaced. Writing a paper should be only the end of a long, difficult journey of experimentation, failure, and peer input in all kinds of different formats, including through our own peer review of the work of others.

If you can look past the possibility that Tim is contributing to these conversations in the loo, this is a brilliant analogy for explaining that things like function and cause only exist because they help us make sense of the world, not because they map onto natural kinds.

This one nearly killed me. Spain fought valiantly. My MVP: Tyler Ntorsey 🏀🇬🇷 #eurobasket2025

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

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Nature laughs at your pet construct. "What we may actually be measuring is what the animals are choosing to do at that point in time." What a story, by (who else) @whippletom.bsky.social

The perfect summer evening for @theblackkeys.bsky.social at legendary Alexandra Palace 🎸

With Glastonbury far enough behind us, perhaps we can now muster the feedback of music fans, artists, DJs, festival goers, and everyone who loves live and electronic music. Shape the future of live and electronic music in the UK committees.parliament.uk/work/9161/fa...

#fMRS Symposium II 31 Aug - 2 Sep Bangor, UK Wrap up the summer in gorgeous North Wales, with the nicest scientific community. Submit NOW! Any topic re functional MRS (neuro, physio, methods) pgmm03.uk/functional-m... Followed by: 9th GABA/Advanced Edited MRS Symposium pgmm03.uk/edited-spect...

"You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step." 💯

A light pierces the darkness, as the @leverhulme.ac.uk marks its centenary by reaffirming trust in UK academic research through investment in innovative interdisciplinary inquiry. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/100mill...

The name of my university, Reading*, causes all kinds of confusion with international colleagues. And in our own docs: are we discussing reading week or Reading week? Good to see psychology colleagues leaning into it, with their excellently-named "Reading Emotion" conference. *pronounced "Redding"

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. Focus on health & politics is highly desirable. Info: Deadline 11th July. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Thank you to all you participated in this year's edition of Reading Emotions #ReadEmo25. @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social will be chairing #ReadEmo26 on pain! Watch this space, and see you next year! sites.google.com/site/reading...

Closing remarks by our co-chair @bhisma.bsky.social (with Tan Wingenbach), wrapping up a successful #ReadEmo25! The interdisciplinary mix and extensive opportunities for interaction have been rewarding as ever!

Our last session at #ReadEmo25 is a first for the series, with Leanne Proops talking about facial expressions in non-human animals, presenting her work with horses! 🐎

Next up this afternoon at #ReafEmo25, Shota Uono is discussing emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder.

Starting us off for the afternoon of day 2 at #ReafEmo25, Sebastian Korb is showing us a fascinating interdisciplinary approach across science and art using electrical facial muscle stimulation to manipulate and understand the expression of emotions.

A wonderful set of #ECR talks by Helio Clemente José Cube, Suchitra Srivastava, and Simone Mattavelli, from 2 continents, 3 countries and as many disciplines. What a treat to take us up to lunch on day 2 of #ReadEmo25!

The second day of #ReadEmo25 is underway with Isabel Dziobek discussing the potential utility of social robotics for psychotherapy in autism. sites.google.com/site/reading...

Three accomplished and thought-provoking short talks, by Elena Geangu, Suchitra Srivastava, and Simon Kirsch, complete the morning sessions at #ReadEmo25 sites.google.com/site/reading...

Ursula Hess is our first speaker at #ReadEmo25 on emotional contagion.

Nice Phd position on neuro&biofeedback: collaboration between donders Maastricht univ. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Two more sleeps!!! #ReadEmo25 sites.google.com/site/reading...

📯We, the Poirazi Lab at IMBB-FORTH, are thrilled to announce an open PhD Student position! 🗝️Key Research Areas: AI, Machine Learning, Brain-Inspired Computing, Neuronal Circuits. 📅Application Deadline: July 7, 2025. Find out more about the position on our webpage: dendrites.gr?p=2825

Thanks to CINNergies (research.reading.ac.uk/cinn/people/...) for adding such a wonderful event to the CINN Community calendar this year.

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose... The idea of the lone genius has inspired many but has inflicted untold harm on society. The decline of academic culture itself is associated in no small part to the forced misattribution of the value of scholarly output to single individuals.

Thank you to all the contributors to our Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience workshop, to our wonderful staff and students for organising, and to all our participants from multiple disciplines and career stages.

Abstract submissions are now open for the fMRS symposium in Bangor, Wales, Sept 2025 : shorturl.at/Q1A5p come present your latest functional MR spectroscopy neuroscientific findings, method development or anything else related to fMRS.