‘Humanizer’ tool can erase signs of AI-written text — alarming scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to avoid dementia — what the science really says (it's complicated...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wonderful free course on neurophenomenology

The neurophenomenology workshop is taking off!

We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

Last month was another record for bioRxiv submissions. The pandemic surge and lag now clearly in the past and the growth continues. Thanks as ever to all the authors, readers affiliates, funders and amazing internal openRxiv team who make this happen!

Now it's time to get ready for the neurophenomenology satellite meeting tomorrow!

And in case anyone is interested: today i presented my @assc2026.bsky.social poster about sticky mind-wandering

@joannakuc.bsky.social talked about using speech-based experience sampling to examine the effects of a meditation-based intervention to prepare for psychedelics. She found more emotion words after the meditation compared to the music-listening control, and coherence of speech predicted

I also enjoyed @grabuffo.bsky.social 's talk @assc2026.bsky.social about how functional repertoires of brain activity increase under DMT compared to placebo,which also correlated with subjective experience intensity and Lempel Ziv complexity.

General impression from Santiago

Kia Nobre also gave a keynote at @assc2026.bsky.social for which for me the most interesting tidbit was that although we normally assume that you have working memory for 4-5 items, in the real world of picking up things and putting them away, we only use one at a time

That was a wrap! I very much enjoyed the @assc2026.bsky.social conference!

"Our real duty as teachers has always been challenging students to think. The task now is finding ways to engage them in the painful, essential work of critical thinking in a world where machines are willing to do it for them." www.science.org/content/arti...

"Universities should set requirements to make inclusive knowledge practices the norm, rather than the exception. They should change their promotion criteria to recognize co-produced research. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kia Nobre's keynote at ASSC gives a rundown of the internal attention field, but ends by bringing it to real life

Exciting first ASSC keynote by Lucia Melloni

Hello Santiago!

Research by Zago et al suggests that the primary visual cortex (V1), the destination of optical information for processing by the higher brain, is not required for visual mental imagery → cortical blindness does not necessarily lead to aphantasia: buff.ly/4zXDwy4

⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork

knock knock, it's the 90s. What software should I use for a simple listserv, ideally avoiding Big Tech?

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. “Intellectually, it’s not acceptable,” two science historians argue. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

📢 We’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc for a funded inter-lab project on the computational mechanisms of creativity and humor, and their role in communication and neurodivergence. 🧠✨ Questions? DM me @amirtal.bsky.social or @yoedkenett.bsky.social Please RT to help us spread the word!

"Far from being locked in a zero-sum competition with science, the humanities are re-emerging as indispensable partners in the production of knowledge." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

"Making Europe the anchor of the global science ecosystem could bring attention to a greater range of problems, promote democratic values of open science and academic freedom and encourage innovation that benefits everyone. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"In April, South Africa withdrew its draft national artificial-intelligence policy after the document was found to have cited several fabricated academic references. These sources turned out to be AI ‘hallucinations’. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Our findings identify behavioral robustness as a fundamental challenge for safe and trustworthy AI agents." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

" If, instead, the scientific community prioritizes speed, citations and formulaic output, AI will put us on the fast track to a monoculture. The choice is open, but it is being made now." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to make the Supplementary Information most useful dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

What a lovely week it was last week in Denmark teaching at the embodied Critical thinking and understanding summer school!

"Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mathematicians are developing rules for AI use — other fields should follow www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Many existing structures — from tax systems to worker-support mechanisms — were designed for an economy in which human labour was central. They are poorly suited to a world in which automation has the larger role." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ten rules for writing a constructive peer review dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For those attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social , come check out our poster finding that functional MRI brain foundation models do not outperform ridge regression. Poster number 2269 Presenting on Wednesday, June 17 | 12:45-13:45 and Thursday, June 18 | 13:45-14:45

Saw this on LinkedIn. I come not (only) to praise Philosophy but to note that there’s very little exposure to AI in Civil Engineering, if I’m reading correctly. What? No one is using Grok to build bridges? Why ever not?

Academia can sometimes feel like a nest of vipers, as recent stories tell and my own experiences support. Victims and Perpetrators #womeninstem #harassment #edusky occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

New tool Journal Trends to flag suspicious journals www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ten rules for teaching data science dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

"Gen Z scepticism should not be read as resistance to innovation. It is a signal that universities must earn trust through a deeper, more accountable form of AI adoption. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A very complicated issue, really!

a real challenge for #OpenScience

I would frame it differently: are bots worth these risks?

Should we go back to “data available on request”? We should be very careful about the confidentiality of data to protect the privacy of research participants. I like the advantages of sharing data. But maybe not with AI systems.