It’s a privilege today to join a lineup of true legends in celebrating Alfonso Caramazza, in a place that means so much to me. @harvard.edu

Now on @franceinter : How do babies see the world? Comment les bébés voient-ils le monde ? With the participation of @jrhochmann.bsky.social at the Baby Lab of Lyon @babylyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr To listen to this episode: www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Affiliation in mice induced by an auditory-conditioned stimulus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.11.705410v1

It’s a wrap! I had an incredible time at the NYUAD Institute discussing frontier neuroscience alongside an outstanding lineup of speakers. Truly inspiring conversations and new ideas to carry forward. Thank you to David Melcher and Olivia Cheung for organizing this and having me there.

So proud and honored to have shared the floor with amazing women scientists for a panel discussion on Women in Neuroscience at NYU Abu Dhabi. It’s appalling to see that no matter where you are, women in science face the same big challenges. But changes are happening and we now have each other 💪

📣 ERC grantees: this one’s for you! AERG, together with the ERC (@erc.europa.eu), is appointing Ambassadors for ERC in: 📍 Bulgaria | Estonia | Hungary | Latvia | Lithuania | Malta | Netherlands | Portugal Interested? Don’t miss the chance—apply now! 👇 aerg.eu/news/call-fo...

In 1000 days, a baby learns to speak, walk, reason, acquires social norms, and begins to shape their own personality. At the @babylyon.bsky.social, we are dedicated to understanding how this extraordinary journey unfolds. Here’s our story www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMn... @cnrs.fr @erc.europa.eu

👶 En quelques mois seulement, les bébés franchissent des étapes importantes… Comment se développent-ils aussi rapidement ? Le BabyLab Lyon cherche à répondre à cette question ; Avec la participation de @jrhochmann.bsky.social @ljubapi.bsky.social de l’@isc-mj.bsky.social 🎬👇

A fantastic news for all 👏🏻 @epanlab.bsky.social

#PImeetings Mood of the day:

We were so lucky to have you around! 💙 Thanks for your visit at @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social - come back anytime!

Visiting the Biotech in Geneve and discovering a vibrant scientific community and the most exciting research in neuroscience. Such a blast!!!

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Being multilingual est bueno para el cerebro 😇 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth” Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐

🚨new article with C. Galusca & L. Bonatti @springernature.com Learning is best when a teacher engages directly with the learner, e.g., by routinely gazing toward them. Is social engagement always beneficial for learning? If not, when? Full story in open access 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Take your tests at midday!!! Results demonstrate a Gaussian distribution of passing rates throughout the day, with a significant peak at midday. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new study published in Psychological Science, by @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social from @acee.princeton.edu, highlights how people around the world often overestimate climate skepticism and presents ways to push back on this misperception. #ClimateChange

Congratulations to the new generation of ERC grantees!! The AERG looks forward to welcome you in our community. To know more on the AERG activities and how become a member 👉 aerg.eu #ERC

The beautiful Hall of Mirrors that today hosts an exciting symposium on “The underconceptualization of everyday life”, put together by @ericman.bsky.social 🤩 with @bpomie.bsky.social @benedek.bsky.social and myself at the ESPP conference in Warsaw. So much to think about !

Today at #ECVP25 @mmellon.bsky.social presented new data of an #fNIRS study providing the first evidence of selectivity for social interaction events in visual cortex in 6- and 10-month-old babies 👶🏻 Tempting to think that this reveals where social perception begins in the brain 🧠 @ecvp.bsky.social

At the #ECVP2025 today Violette Munin presented her new fMRI work on the visual stream for processing social information. If you are around and want to continue the discussion, we are here for this ☺️ Stay tuned for more talk from our lab in the upcoming days! @ecvp.bsky.social @isc-mj.bsky.social

🚨 new paper out! Perception of motion and of social interactions are two processes that happen to be localized around the same brain anatomy: lateral occipitotemporal areas. Is motion necessary to see social interactions network? link.springer.com/article/10.1... @cnrs.fr @babylyon.bsky.social

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

The maths gender gap emerges in favour of boys, in the first year of school. Uff! @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The AERG expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in a statement urging European leaders to protect fundamental science by reaffirming the autonomy of the @erc.europa.eu aerg.eu/news/new-sta... Read the full statement 👇 aerg.eu/storage/AERG...

You wouldn’t drink from a glass if a fish is IN the glass, or would not grab a chair if one is already sitting ON it. How do we represent relations between things? And how does it relate to object and action recognition? New paper out osf.io/preprints/ps... @mmellon.bsky.social

As the AERG community @ercgrantees.bsky.social grows, the Board of Directors welcomes four new members. Meet Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social (SH, Spain), Dragan Mihailovic (PE, Slovenia), Vikas Trivedi @viktri08.bsky.social (LS, Spain) and Johannes Henn (PE, Germany)

Time to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar @dkaiserlab.bsky.social Stay totally tuned!!! 😎

This is a damn good post! @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/is-it-natu...

Heading to Marburg (Germany) to take part in an exciting event around brain and cognition 🧠 😎 🌈 @jlugiessen.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

Choose Europe for Science erc.europa.eu/news-events/... The details of the new “super grants” funding instrument are being developed by the Scientific Council and will be announced soon.

'They just don't understand me' - A qualitative exploration of autistic-identifying female experiences of social camouflaging.: https://osf.io/yx7bd

“We can all agree that science has no passport no gender no ethnicity no political party and as such it does plays a critical role in connecting people and creating a shared future in today’s fractured world” x.com/erc_research...

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning. 👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Macron and von der Leyen expected to announce protections for researchers seeking to relocate amid Trump’s crackdown www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

🚀 We are proud to launch the new "Ambassadors for the ERC" initiative, together with @ercgrantees.bsky.social ! We aim to empower researchers across Europe to advocate for frontier research. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/44bQzp7 🌟 Excited to see what can be achieved! #Amb4ERC

The Association of the ERC grantees with the @erc.europa.eu and our presidents @marialep.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social is happy to announce the launch of the initiative “Ambassadors for the ERC”, a milestone in our path to protect and empower frontier research in Europe More: aerg.eu/ambassadors

Traveling in very good company @gvallortigara.bsky.social @adelphiedizioni.bsky.social

Today, Italy has its most important celebration: the Liberation day, the anniversary of Resistance and the Liberation from Fascism. Happy April 25 to all! ✊

I’m thrilled to co-host the launch event of the “Ambassadors for the ERC network” initiative, together with fellow @ercgrantees.bsky.social ARRG board members @axc.bsky.social @mostlyphysics.net @epanlab.bsky.social and Eva Kassens-Noor. Read more about the initiative 👉 aercg.eu/news/the-amb...

Expert-Level Understanding of Social Scenes Requires Early Visual Experience www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...

Out today! @jephpp.bsky.social

Very cool paper showing that Crows can spot the odd shape out of a set where all other shapes are similar. @scinews.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛

The AERG has some clear goals for the near future of the association: •Continue to grow: we are ~250 AERG members now but there are ~14k ERC grantees! •strengthen our collaboration with @erc.europa.eu •continue to defend the value of bottom-up, curiosity-driven fundamentals research in Europe

We are not used to seeing our amphitheaters so crowded, especially not with an audience of non-scientists. But yesterday we saw it. People care about science. Scientists should be activists in building a society based on knowledge and scientific culture @babylyon.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrs.fr

What autism taught us about our social nature. Frith & Frith, Current Directions in Psychology journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....