Solar power is great and all but it doesn't make the other sources decrease. Coal capacity has doubled since 2000...

What has my research lab been up to in 2025? Time for a wrap up of our research! This image is a gathering of key figures from our 2025 publications: Links to publications in the replies: #spierslab #research #neuroskyence

Fil RH #CNRS de la semaine #VeilleESR Ayé, les concours chercheurs CNRS sont ouverts ! C’est le moment idéal pour prendre la vague, toute honte bue, et publier quelques données pluriannuelles sur ces recrutements 1/9 carrieres.cnrs.fr/concours-ext...

A New Era for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis: Emerging biomarkers and digital tools are unlocking earlier and more accurate diagnosis www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/a-ne... via @cfr.org #Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science

A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...

Autism causes vaccines, by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.

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Les chercheurs du CNRS sont formels : si vous n'avez pas le sens de l'orientation, c'est à cause de...

L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique. Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger. Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes. 1/2

Un rapport "Education et croissance" écrit par notre nouveau Nobel d'économie en 2004. Promoteur de la LRU, de l'Université payante et de la suppression du CNRS, le tout en préconisant de faire ces réformes discrètement, "sans donner l’impression de remettre en cause ses fondements". 🤦

First time as an editor: the first two reviewers I invited on a manuscript agreed immediately. Normally I need to invite 10+ reviewers for two to accept, and it takes ages. Thanks to them!

🧠 New Mobile Brain/Body Imaging study on spatial navigation out! This was a very inspiring and productive collaboration with @clementnaveilhan.bsky.social and @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social. Journal of Neuroscience 26 September 2025, e1005252025; lnkd.in/dJmK7_Ns

🚨 Final reminder — iSCAN abstracts due TODAY🚨 Make sure to submit your abstract for a poster or data-blitz talk for #iSCAN2025! We have put together an exciting, interdisciplinary lineup of talks spanning basic neuroscience, clinical research, and methods. Submit here: shorturl.at/y12tE

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

#TalentsCNRS 🥉 | Félicitations à @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social, chargé de recherche @CNRS au LIRIS, récompensé par la médaille de bronze du CNRS pour ses recherches sur la navigation spatiale comme marqueur du déclin cognitif. ➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... 🤝 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

What evidence do we have on the Social Determinants of Dementia (SDOD)? Delighted that this scoping review, a year or so in the making, is now published in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social. Expertly led by Anouk Geraets, we identified... doi.org/10.1002/alz.... 1/

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New personal record of desk rejects 🥳 I am taking a note of journals that take over a month for the desk 📖 It is also a unusual situation where pretty much everything has been already reviewed at eLife on our Neuro paper (click for open reviews), now the sample size is just substantially larger.

Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Les élections au CoNRS sont ouvertes ! Je me présente en section 3 (ex section 7), avec le soutien des associations et sociétés savantes GRETSI, club EEA et SPECIF-Campus. N'oubliez pas de voter !!

If you think the future of cognitive health is doing the same old stuff… scroll on. 💤 We’re building a lab in your pocket - powered by games, built with science - shoutout to our amazing partners @hugospiers.bsky.social, @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social + crew! 🧠🎮 GO ON PUT A LAB IN YOUR POCKET:

Chapter in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science with @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social We explain the history and current directions of Citizen Science in the cognitive sciences: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New #OECS entry on Citizen Science by @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social and @hugospiers.bsky.social oecs.mit.edu/pub/5cdl3f1m...

New article out from me and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social Simple entitled: 'Citizen Science' In the Open Encyclopedia for Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu/pub/5cdl3f1m...

Psychological impact of biomarker-assisted diagnosis of #Alzheimers disease journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #dementia #mentalhealth #neurology #psychology

#CoNRS #CNRS #ESR La liste des candidat.e.s par section est maintenant disponible Vote du 19 au 26 juin 2025 www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/elections/sc...

Lower socioeconomic status and marginalized race/ethnicity is associated with more accelerated and faster biological aging as measured by epigenetic clocks and there was NO evidence of publication bias - a rare finding for biomarkers 🤯 Meta-analytic dataset will be released soon! 🔖

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

Je n'ai pas accès à l'article mais j'aime ce petit chapô bien écrit. "When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how science has always been fuelled by politics" www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Here's an explainer because this is a good post and I want to explain it 🧵

IL est en ligne le nouveau Radio Show d'ARTE Radio. On est en léger direct de Lyon pour vous raconter l'incroyable histoire des insurrections des Canuts de 1831 et 1834 quand tout à coup, BREAKING NEWS : les Ubers rentrent dans la lutte www.arteradio.com/son/la-revol... @artefr.bsky.social

Check out our preprint "Sleep Links Gist Abstraction to Veridical Memory"! osf.io/preprints/ps... Summary 🧵: Sleep benefits memory and it reorganizes it. It integrates new and pre-existing memories, and extracts gist across episodes. However, extracting gist might generate false memories. 1/10

I was interview by Petra for her Artist’s Voice podcast about Art, Science and Memory. Hope someone out there finds this useful / interesting: youtube.com/watch?v=AuLq...

New preprint! We present two very large eye tracking datasets of museum visitors (4-81 y.o.!) who freeviewed (n=1248) or searched for a +/x (n=2827) in a single feature-rich image. We invite you to (re)use the dataset and provide suggestions for future versions 📋 osf.io/preprints/os...

Looks like someone really studied the banned word list! Old Code of Conduct vs. current Code of Conduct: www.diffchecker.com/eMYGHHuB/

Also, what happened to your diversity and inclusion committee? www.visionsciences.org/diversity-an...

Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽

Seems we need an updated version now.

🧠🚀Clinical trajectories preceding incident dementia up to 15 years before diagnosis: a large prospective cohort study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤝🧠Population-level interventions that target risk factors for dementia (eg blood pressure, smoking and obesity) save money and give people extra years in good health ! 🚀from individual-level 🏋️‍♀️ to population-level 🤝 interventions🫶! 👉🏼 Summary shorturl.at/6lD2O 👉🏼The modeling study shorturl.at/wAbpM

#MT180 | C’est l’heure des résultats ! Les candidates qualifiées pour l’étape régionale sont : 🥇 Chloé Chave, qui reçoit le 1er prix du jury ainsi que le prix du public 🥈 Noémie Dumont, qui reçoit le 2è prix du jury

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Healthy Sleep Durations Appear to Vary Across Cultures: https://osf.io/g3ezc

What is cognition? www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/03/what... - some weekend musings on this tricky concept, with lots of help from all you Blueys!

Today I'm delivering an open science lecture for our master students. These kind of lectures are one of the most enjoyable parts of my job

Merci aux chercheurs et chercheuses pour leur participation 🤩 : @jeromeprado.bsky.social sky.social @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social trot.bsky.social @claude-gronfier.bsky.social @falex33.bsky.social @gsescousse.bsky.social @benjaminrolland.bsky.social ky.social @mikailnourredine.bsky.social