New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

First up, this paper led by Bronagh McCoy: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... When noise and volatility are independently manipulated people behave differently depending on their anxious traits.

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉 Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6 Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

I'm looking to create an advisory group for a project on Monotropism, an attention-based theory of autism and potentially ADHD. If you or anybody you know is interested, please fill out the form below. Thank you! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Parents of neurodivergent children in West Yorkshire seek support “They gave us a couple of sessions after the diagnosis, then some leaflets, then we were dropped from that service. It makes you feel unwanted." www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

"It’s essential that autistic people, regardless of age, have a way to communicate. Spoken words should not be valued above other methods, & AAC should never be taken away by parents, teachers, or caregivers. For many autistic people, using alternatives to speech is not a choice – it’s a lifeline."

@garymarcus.bsky.social argues for developing different, specialized AI tools for different domains, rather than hoping that one general artificial intelligence will be able to do everything. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... #AI

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ammar I. Marvi, Nancy G. Kanwisher, et al: An efficient multifunction fMRI localizer for high-level visual, auditory, and cognitive regions in humans doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

happy to share this new article on reporting standards in autism intervention science: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41070555/ Autistic people deserve the highest standards of evidence based practice and reporting practices in this field fall woefully short. We offer recommendations to improve that.

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

A #painting from Ireland's south coast. "Ardmore" is an exalted place for me, not because of the Round Tower, but because when I was small I stayed in a caravan and every day you'd jump over the dunes to the beach after first eating a bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #TidesOutTuesday

“It could be because autistic people tend to have big, beautiful eyes, an air of mystique and a fathomless, unknowable heart… Oh. Oh, God. Er, excuse me for a minute.”

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

"CamCAN 15 years on" - a new preprint reviewing all findings about the cognitive neuroscience of ageing from sharing CamCAN data, led by @rhens.bsky.social : osf.io/preprints/ps...

A #painting from the southwest of Ireland "Bandon II" came out of times I spent cycling in West Cork, the town being one I've always enjoyed visiting. And I'm very much overdue another visit. Maybe this is what happens when you get older. I wonder if it's still orange? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

. @olivia.science and I had the honour to speak with Kent Anderson and Joy Moore on @disruptedscience.bsky.social 🧪 💫 🎬 🍿 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0... 🎶👂 Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/082h... 1/🧵

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:

Just one of two big @nature.com papers from @intlbrainlab.bsky.social out today. This companion article illustrates the value of large-scale brain-wide recordings from mice performing a standardized task, giving new insights at cellular resolution into neural representations of prior information. 🧠🧪

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

I just finished reading this excellent paper, highly recommended.

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

NEW #AUTISM RESEARCH (@gavrobstew.bsky.social + @proffrancescahappe.bsky.social): Nearly 90% of middle-aged and older #autistic adults are undiagnosed in the UK; autistic adults are facing higher rates of mental and physical health conditions as they age www.kcl.ac.uk/news/up-to-9...

Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

The most viral post I've done in months is a link to a story about bees so clearly every post must now be about our little apian pals, here is a series of photos of bumble bee sploots (taken from here: www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/...)

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

The scientists who convinced someone to pay them to study cockatoo dance moves are the true winners "...it's possible the birds just didn’t like Avicii, the researchers suggest." 😂🧪

🚨Pre-print alert🚨 We stimulated serotonin with optogenetics while doing large-scale Neuropixel recordings across the mouse brain. We found strong widespread modulation of neural activity, but no effect on the choices of the mouse 🐭 How is this possible? Strap in! (1/9) 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

"The autism diagnosis is based on accts by largely non-autistic ppl, yet only autistic ppl possess the expertise of direct lived experience, & many autistic ppl demonstrate enhanced scientifically based understanding of autism as well." @drstevenkapp.bsky.social: www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

On 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act & during the Motormorphosis Conference for Nonspeakers, a thread on my new free paper w/ @juliettegudkne1.bsky.social (pre-Ed) Strengths of Speech Divergence: Implications for Assessment and Support. researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publicati...

🏳‍⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely. These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity? 🦗 Silence. #TransPride #MediaBias Read why it matters ⬇️

Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, AI use … hinder[s] learning and deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

And my starter pack of cat accounts run by real people, not bots or content thieves: go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Let me share a #painting of a place I've loved in the west of Ireland. "Connemara Field" came out of a day in south Conamara where I sat for hours by the side of a road with my bicycle, my paints, and my dreams. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Also, if you answer "Do you struggle with arriving to places on time?" with "No, because I set multiple staggered phone alarms, and I get ready to leave way too early, and I can't estimate how long it takes to get anywhere so I arrive everywhere at least 20 minutes too early" that is actually a yes.

Nice to see some commentary on the recent @theguardian.com piece by @iansample.bsky.social on #SciPub #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ACADEMICsky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

New paper w/ the brilliant @OdedWertheimer suggests a new computational framework for ASD variation, framing it as a computational trade-off between precise signal encoding and fast adaptation to changes. This trade-off is driven by neuronal dynamic range. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...