"Specifically, in courses with high AI-exposure rates, the number of A grades rose 13 percentage points from 2022 to 2025." www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Human rights cost money aeon.co/essays/to-fu... @aeon.co

Nearly 50,000 people around Lake Tahoe have been told their utility will stop providing them power because that electricity is being redirected to Nevada data centers. This is beyond cruel.

Our baby is now a paper! #ResistAI #academicsky

"The greatest potential threat to humanity could be AI-designed pandemic viruses, researchers say. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Marking is not only about correctness; it is about discerning students’ reasoning, identifying meaningful errors and deciding what counts as learning. AI cannot replace this judgement, but it can make it more visible" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I totally agree.

" improving sleep duration might offer a tractable way to reduce the risk of age-related disease" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations rdcu.be/fiE1X

Using drug design as a case to teach AI methods to non-AI students (article shows a detailed course description) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🌟 Explore Festival 2026 – May 29-31 | Marseille 10 venues, science fun for all! Blind Test with Daniele Schon (INS) on May 29, 6:30 PM @La Cômerie. 🔗 Full program: explore.univ-amu.fr/programme/bl... #Science #Marseille #ExploreFestival

this is such a powerful way to support the international neuroscience community, and a massively rewarding experience and great line on your CV to boot. please join us!

🧠 Our ⭐️Computational Modelling for Consciousness Science⭐️ workshop is primarily intended for PhD students and postdocs but advanced master’s students and ECRs are also very welcome to apply! Applications are open until 29 May: mesec.co/event/worksh... #Consciousness

"AI’s sycophantic tendency to always complete an assigned task can result in code that runs but is wrong, many researchers say. Vibed code might, for example, make up missing data to help an algorithm run, or even smooth a graph to make it look as expected." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sometimes I feel like I am missing out by mostly not using LLMs, but this article comes as a relief: "Recent price hikes, usage limitations and unreliable outputs are causing some scientific researchers to think twice about using artificial intelligence." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I like this idea for creating a reciprocal review system www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.

Asima Chatterjee, DSc, was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Calcutta. She successfully developed the anti-epileptic drug, Ayush-56, which is still used today. https://awis.org/historical-women/asima-chatterjee-dsc/ #WomenInSTEM

"This paper has argued that even incremental AI development could lead to an existential catastrophe through the gradual erosion of human influence over key societal systems," arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16946

Study finds TikTok pushes more republican content to democratic leaning accounts while keeping republican leaning accounts in a larger bubble of republican content.

Insightful: as with anything, enviromental context matters, we should be VERY judicious about the stimuli we exposue ourselves to. . .especially during goal-directed attention!

AI agents are making up data and p-hacking their way to results, without telling you www.science.org/content/arti...

Link to the paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... And check out Ataol's post above for a thread 🧵!

A student from the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cameroon reached out to me -- he's writing his thesis on estimating the causal effect of insecticide-treated net use on malaria infections & has nobody in his immediate network who could provide a quick sanity check on his methodology.>

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🚨 New article klaxon 🚨 Gaby Mahrholz, @emilynordmann.bsky.social and I have our article "Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science" published in AMPPS. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Only a few days left to apply for the Early Career Award! If you would like to apply and are not yet a DGPA member, feel free to reach out.

Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

First AI tool to detect suspicious peer reviews rolled out by academic publisher www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Given the huge negative environmental impacts, the role chatbots play in suicides/mental health issues, and the complete absence of real benefit anywhere its been integrated, there really is no reason to use it

I don’t think the problem is attention itself but on what does the brain invest it to get the highest return. We have the same budget as our grandparents had but we now also have fast food equivalent of content to spend our focus on so why bother with the boring stuff anymore.

Super important question. Unfortunately, as with many important questions in psychology, the evidence seems thoroughly equivocal:

"Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5% more co-partisan content than Democratic-seeded accounts, whereas Democratic-seeded accounts were exposed to about 7.5% more cross-partisan content" rdcu.be/fhjEU

During anaesthesia "the hippocampus — a deep brain structure crucial for memory — remains remarkably active, parsing the grammar and meaning of spoken words and even anticipating what will be said next." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interesting discussion of whether attention spans are decreasing. I have trouble with one argument, though: that lab tasks are necessarily a good measure of real-world attention. They are surely less messy, but they may not actually reflect real life www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rules for writing with a mentee, including "Approaching collaborative writing projects with patience and compassion for each other is essential." dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Now reading 📖 Cruz, Nicole (2026). Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs. Computational Brain & Behavior doi.org/10.1007/s421... 1/🧵

Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

Happy to announce the 3rd iteration of NEAT (Neuro-AI-Talks), which will take place in Osnabrück September 14th-15th 2026. NEAT is a (deliberately small scale) NeuroAI workshop that brings together researchers from neuroscience and AI. www.kietzmannlab.org/neat2026/ More information below 👇

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Probably a good time for a few general caveats for those watching the developing story of the #hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius - especially the more anxious ones among you. (Long-time followers will know most of this by heart at this point): 🧪

People of Sussex! See @peterlush.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social from the ETHOS team at the implicit workshop tomorrow (May 7th) sites.google.com/view/implici...

NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Stories of some academics refusing to use generative AI. I am glad more people are critical of it. I still find myself wondering if I should start to use it, but so far I have only done a few tiny experiments and felt it didn't really help with my core business www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Responses to the AI grant flood must prioritize fairness as part of excellence www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025, pushing fossil fuels into decline— Solar and wind energy have grown quickly in recent years, but global electricity demand has grown faster.

Looking forward to this!

Travel Award Deadline Alert! The deadline for submission of abstracts by Graduate Students for consideration of a Travel Award is approaching!  Submit your abstract before May 8 for consideration! buff.ly/T3ZJqo4