Recent paper I co-authored says better outcomes from emerging Alzheimer's disease therapies require system changes, including empowering primary care to do detection/care by aligning payer policies. Emerging biomarkers and digital tools can accelerate detection/diagnosis to reduce heath disparities.

Why we do, what we do, GLITCHERS story and what we're doing next: www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2l...

🚨 New publication in collab with Shayna Rosenbaum's lab: "Aphantasia is associated with spatial memory and navigation difficulties in complex virtual environments" Our test SeaHeroQuest shows a correlation between nav performance and mental imagery (VVIQ) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really proud to have contributed to this review. It feels like a step toward validating an idea that is still underexplored: video games are a rich and largely untapped resource for cognitive and behavioral scientists.

⚠️New review on video games for cognitive citizen science! "From Players to Participants: Citizen Science and Video Games to Understand Cognition" arxiv.org/abs/2604.24321

NEW preprint with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social 🎉 In this final study of my PhD, we combined immersive virtual reality with mobile EEG and gait analysis during a path integration task, recording from 30 young and 32 older adults www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠💤 New paper out in @plosbiology.org! Together with Adriana Michalak (@dr-adri.bsky.social), Davide Marzoli, Francesco Pietrogiacomi et al., we show that dreaming, especially immersive dreaming, plays a key role in how deep sleep feels. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @erc.europa.eu #ERC-StG #sleep

Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review New review from @antoinegc.bsky.social and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social labs, on which I am a co-author, and first author is the amazing Syrine Salouhou arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082

Very glad to be part of this review! The main table listing studies is a great resource.

⚠️New review straight out of the oven! "Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review" arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082 We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.

Here is a brief overview of existing approaches to studying "real-world" navigation. Really happy to have worked on this with @hugospiers.bsky.social & @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11347

New lab preprint! Human Navigation Behaviour and Brain Dynamics in Real-world Contexts with co-authors: @pfvelasco.bsky.social and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11347

Casier-politique.fr est une base de données des condamnations des élu·e·s de la république, classés par parti politique, année et délit. ⚖️ 370 condamnations recensées, pour 220 élu·e·s 🗳️

New preprint, collab wth Dr Catalina Turuc's lab @thebartlettucl.bsky.social Urban Green Space and Mental Health and Well-being: A Multi-Level Spatially Layered Framework for a Field Experiment in London papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

⚠️New preprint alert!⚠️ We combined eye-tracking with micro-phenomenology to understand individual differences in gaze behaviour and decision process. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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