Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #BigTeamScience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social We wrote a blog reflecting on it: anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time. A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%. https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse

Was chatting to one of my most brilliant Physics students yesterday and he had no idea how mechanical watches work and was fascinated by the fact that they make use of such basic Physics principles and the history of how watchmakers have overcome various limitations on accuracy. Shared this with him

A short thread on the history of the theory of emotion 👇

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Nice thread on the limits of using LLM to model ‘general cognition’

Not only #brainrot ! Social media can make us better informed (if we control what and how long we consume) #psyskyance #journalclub www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social‬) & co Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Influential figures can encourage faster adoption of pro-environmental behavior as the right thing to do through: Phase 1: Moral recognition Phase 2: Moral amplification Phase 3: Approaching tipping points Phase 4: Institutionalization Phase 5: Norm abandonment www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1

The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York! Check them out and register (free!) here 👇 #neuroskyence #compneurosky

In-person participant recruitment has been hard - especially for new group studies we're launching. Any (good/bad) experiences with running short behavioral experiments in the lecture hall (not just as demo, but to collect real data)? Esp looking for ethics guidance wrt consent.

Let’s abandon for-profit Scientific Publishers altogether💸🤢

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io

This is a very interesting article, worth the read. I've noted a large decrease in insects over my lifetime, but I thought it was just local pollution/pesticides. Their sensitivity to water and heat stress is a big concern for even relatively 'untouched' ecosystems.

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New ideas, technologies and initiatives often struggle to succeed. Can viral diffusion improve spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? Can networks protect us from disinformation? Can the science of collective intelligence restore our capacity for productive online discourse? 1/2

Amazing opportunities to join Ulf Hahnel's new research group in Lüneburg 😍 The postdoc position will be in close collaboration with @vedransekara.bsky.social and me, with research stay(s) in Copenhagen. PLEASE HELP SHARE WIDELY🙏

❇️ Job opportunity ❇️  Behavioural Science Researcher & Consultant (Mid-Level), Hybrid (UK-based, with travel to the office once a week in Leamington Spa). 📅 Closing date: 23 May 2025

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congratulations to Pierre Orhan (@pierreorhan.bsky.social) who successfully defended his PhD on "Learning dynamics in biological and artificial neural networks", conducted at @normalesup.bsky.social

🔔Call for abstracts! 🔔 We're inviting applications for flash talks at our workshop on Reinforcement Learning with real-world data at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social, details below ⚡⚡⚡

In this paper we show across 3 experiments that most of the response variance in the auditory cortex is explained by context-invariant temporally constrained windows, largely insensitive to sound statistics. Nerdy hierarchical processing stuff 😅

🎉 I'm excited to share that 2 of our papers got accepted to #RLDM2025! 📄 NORMARL: A multi-agent RL framework for adaptive social norms & sustainability. 📄 Selective Attention: When attention helps vs. hinders learning under uncertainty. Grateful to my amazing co-authors! *-*

#PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Some important wisdom from: @timparrique.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @proftimjackson.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social Check out #wellbeingeconomy, #degrowth, #doughnuteconomics if you haven't yet. Technology alone won't save us. We need a new economic approach. #ClimateCrisis

Social contagion is a powerful force. People copy thoughts, feelings, & actions of those to whom they are connected. Understanding social network structure & function makes it possible to use social contagion to intervene in the world to improve human welfare. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/

👨‍🏫 #AcademicSky 👨‍🏫 How I found professional satisfaction by adjusting my definition of success “Late one evening, I stared at a rejection email for yet another grant proposal. […] after countless job applications, I hadn’t been invited to a single interview, and ...” [Sounds familiar? Keep reading⮛]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!! Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Happy international day for girls and women in science! 👩‍🔬 As we see reports coming in from the US of portraits of female scientists being taken down and words like female and gender being banned from grant proposals/research papers, celebrating these events is becoming increasingly important.

Congratulations to Magdalena Sabat (@magdalenasabat.bsky.social) who successfully defended her PhD that she performed between our lab and the LNC2 at @normalesup.bsky.social !

Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris). doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence