I hate this: "The Editors have retracted this article... the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) instrument was used without proper permissions" link.springer.com/article/10.1... The MMSE is a series of 11 simple questions. A perfectly good paper is retracted because you can copyright 11 questions

“Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain” There goes academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Dit is een uitstekende en beklemmende reconstructie van hoe het Iraanse regime demonstraties in de stad Rasht uiteensloeg, eindigend met een enorme brand in de bazaar en vele doden. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Een superrijkenbelasting (of laten we het vrijheidsbijdrage noemen) van 2% voor iedereen die meer dan 100 miljoen vermogen heeft, zou Nederland 5,5 miljard opleveren. De belastingdruk voor rijken is al laag, met rendement maken ze nog steeds winst op hun vermogen. www.volkskrant.nl/economie/kor...

another week before the application portal closes (and no extension, unfortunately) so please apply and/or help circulate this ad

This is a genAI company *doing its own research* to find that using its product reduces coding skills.

"It would have been nice to skip the detour through countless replication failures, but sometimes that’s how the meandering path of progress goes."

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our chapter "Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models" with Yi-Hsin Su, Romy Frömer, and @ashenhav.bsky.social, now out in the new volume, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"! doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02925-6_10

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here: forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater? It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts. Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome! www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mahmoud E.A. Abdellahi, Penelope A. Lewis, et al: Targeted memory reactivation elicits temporally compressed reactivation linked to spindles doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

"Despite consensus around the importance of overconfidence, scholars disagree about whether [it] qualifies as a trait." A new adversarial collaboration finds some common ground on the topic: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

Mind & Life Europe is hiring! We are seeking a part-time editorial assistant for Hyphae, our new academic journal. A remote role ideally for PhD students with training and mentoring included. Apply by 15th Feb. Learn more: https://ow.ly/pbiV50Y8kiu #Jobs #Vacancy #JobsInAcademia #OpenPosition

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car. Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX. /1

Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching. #neuroskyence 🩺 Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

🧠 Wie ‘s nachts veel wakker wordt, hallucineert vaker. 🎨 Margarita Spasova

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

Always good to see these kinds of complexities to counter simplistic narratives around dopamine "levels"...

🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs

"Could the next version of the DSM be a 'living' document that has more focus on the causes of mental illness?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"persevering at science while acknowledging its limitations is meaningful. Research fosters understanding and can unite people and nations that are divided." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"A decade of work has left researchers convinced that aphantasia is a real phenomenon, but many are puzzled by how little it seems to affect behaviour." Fascinating overview of work on the topic! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New tool to help you decide whether a journal is predatory www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are health influencers making us sick? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“When writing by hand, you’re forming all these intricate motor patterns, whereas when typing, it’s only very simple finger movements,” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A study that examines career histories of China's elite scholars reveals that the nation is turning inwards in its search for talent. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ArXiv says submissions must be in English: are AI translators up for the job? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"I lost sight of the importance of curiosity when I was consumed by problems and fears under the tenure clock." www.science.org/content/arti...

Dear dMRI hive mind: anybody who has the standard 3T HCP DWI sequence as exar & pdf and could share? Somehow cannot find them online. 🙏🙏

Ik heb nooit columnist willen worden, maar toen @mareonline.nl me vroeg kon ik onmogelijk nee zeggen. Mijn eerste column gaat over de ik-kon-nou-eenmaal-niet-anders-retoriek van bestuurders en nonnen. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/ik-wi...

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

"In 6,700 tests, the bot managed to pass standard 'attention check' questions (which are designed to catch inattentive humans and simple bots) 99.8% of the time." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I had so much fun visiting Slovenia last week to work on a project proposal with my colleague Urban Kordes!

"I have come to appreciate that success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers or the steep climb up the academic ladder. For me, it now means tracing my own path, one that is sustainable and isn’t defined by what others expect of me." www.science.org/content/arti...

There is no point to science communication without the audience being confident that the communicator *understands* the science. chatbots will never bridge that confidence gap 🧪

AI systems are trained on data that is socially informed not just cold "facts" (ie all of attitudes & stereotypes that support ongoing inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality etc) unsurprising AI chatbots are advising women & minorities to ask for less pay #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

We're hiring a Program Manager to join the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to be in the thick of our efforts. You would work closely with us to drive our current projects forward.... ⤵️

Have you ever wanted to study individual differences in attention only to be frustrated by prohibitive low reliability? If so, what a coincidence! Let me introduce you to the first study from the newly formed Sheffield PandA lab: Using RSVPs to measure the speed of attention: rdcu.be/e0t0A 1/

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

"If a single click can irrevocably delete years of work, ChatGPT cannot, in my opinion and on the basis of my experience, be considered completely safe for professional use." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"more time on the apps both preceded and predicted rising attention difficulties4 — a pattern that other researchers have documented as well5. “Social media is increasing the inattention symptoms," www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why ADHD goes undiagnosed in girls www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is paracetamol in pregnancy a risk factor for ADHD? An overview of the evidence www.nature.com/articles/d41...