Magdalena Sabat
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Post-doc in Computational Cognitive Science at Leiden & Amsterdam University
pinned post!
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
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Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal | PNAS
Arousal refers to changes in brain-body state underpinning motivated behavior but lacks a proper definition and taxonomy. Neuroscience and psycholo...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413808122
over 1 year ago
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Ali Shiravand
27 days ago
Join us for Cognitive Science for Climate Change on May 26 at ENS Paris 🌍 Exploring how cognitive science and computational modelling can help us better understand climate action. Conveniently scheduled for those coming to Paris for
#SBDM
. 🎟️ More details:
www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-co...
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Stefano Palminteri
30 days ago
Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models From equations to fitted models in minutes: how LLMs are changing computational cognitive science and how we should adapt My latest post on Medium
medium.com/@stefano.pal...
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Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models
From equations to fitted models in minutes: what LLMs are changing in computational cognitive science and how we should adapt.
https://medium.com/@stefano.palminteri/cognitive-modelling-research-in-the-era-of-agentic-large-language-models-44e109e24eea
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
about 1 month ago
Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17.
drawdown.org/careers/clim...
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Climate Science Serving America Fellowship
Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
https://drawdown.org/careers/climate-science-serving-america-fellowship?_gl=1*1p1bi7p*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwg_nNBhAGEiwAiYPYA6RYARfHJl_Z35AnAw5TZUDfEqSBEskAYoT6TkYkJgwmaypsrv8AUxoCrQEQAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAABfbcdhVcKK03fmWo_0rkDh__fIHu
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Insane effort!
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Mark Rubin
3 months ago
"Although intellectual humility is presented as a widely accepted scientific norm, we argue that current research practice does not incentivize intellectual humility." Hoekstra & Vazire (2021):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Earl K. Miller
4 months ago
The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors present that expected-sound omissions in mouse auditory cortex evoked distinct, time-locked activity in layers 1–4 of the Temporal Association Area, suggesting a higher-orde...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68847-w
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Joao Barbosa
4 months ago
Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏
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John Barry
5 months ago
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it.
action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
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Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12-omnibus-food-petition-EN?akid=s6725480..EaYo72
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Our paper is now published in Current Biology! Through 3 experiments we’re showing that auditory cortex is predominantly integrating over short periods with little contextual effects beyond ~150ms
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Jonathan Phillips
6 months ago
🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning:
apply.interfolio.com/176946
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Tim Behrens
6 months ago
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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Scott Horton
6 months ago
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/15/majority-harvards-research-funding-has-been-restored
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Thomas Andrillon
6 months ago
“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said. Hold our EEGs!
@dreamteamicm.bsky.social
is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne! We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea!
@institutducerveau.bsky.social
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Joao Barbosa
6 months ago
Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way. We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere: This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA It’s quite the opposite! (thread)
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Anne Urai
6 months ago
My latest: with
@fdabl.bsky.social
and JW Bolderdijk we argue that environmental psychology needs formal theory to make progress and increase real-world impact
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Part of special issue Behavioral Science for Climate Change by
@madalina.bsky.social
&
@neurograce.bsky.social
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101619
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Sarah Garfinkel
6 months ago
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at
@ucl.ac.uk
in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant
@camillanord.bsky.social
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Anne Urai
6 months ago
Thanks
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! I'm not at
#SfN
so I did my best to take a photo of the trophy I received (fun to snap a picture of the text' shadows).
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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Tahnée Engelen
6 months ago
So happy this paper is now out in
@plosbiology.org
! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception
#neuroskyence
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Manlio De Domenico
7 months ago
When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits The latest
#ComplexityThoughts
: 👉
manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern...
🎧 on Spotify and Apple
#ComplexSystems
#Resilience
@ricardsole.bsky.social
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How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems
Slowing change may be our last line of defense
https://manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern-now-ism-can-accelerate
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Sarang Dalal
8 months ago
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!
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Tim Vogels
8 months ago
“Mapping ion channel function”
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling
Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680368v1
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Kate Raworth
8 months ago
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/
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Isabelle Hoxha
9 months ago
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/...
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Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS
The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422144122
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Bjørn Sætrevik
9 months ago
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]
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Georgia Turner
9 months ago
@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...
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Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025
by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…
https://anneurai.net/2025/08/14/reflections-on-the-science-for-social-good-satellite-event-at-ccn-2025/
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Joao Barbosa
9 months ago
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
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Angus Hervey
10 months ago
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
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Alom Shaha
10 months ago
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
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Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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A short thread on the history of the theory of emotion 👇
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10 months ago
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Anna Beyeler 🐝
11 months ago
👨💻 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
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METR
11 months ago
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.
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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...
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Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour
Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02205-6
11 months ago
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
11 months ago
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...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2025/07/07/being-too-helpful-at-work-can-hurt-your-career-heres-how-to-say-no/
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Matteo Carandini
11 months ago
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
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Jason Koebler
over 1 year ago
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...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
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Environmental Psychology Groningen
11 months ago
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...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
11 months ago
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
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Grace Lindsay
11 months ago
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
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Local Meetups
https://2025.ccneuro.org/local-meetups/
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Anne Urai
12 months ago
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.
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Let’s abandon for-profit Scientific Publishers altogether💸🤢
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Mark A. Hanson
12 months ago
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
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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/
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Wataru Toyokawa
about 1 year ago
🚀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
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COSMOS
The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)
https://cosmossummerschool.github.io
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Rachel O'Brien
12 months ago
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.
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Ed Hawkins
about 1 year ago
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.
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Anne Urai
12 months ago
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
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
https://lnkd.in/eWMyBHs6
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen
12 months ago
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🙏
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Midlands Health Psychology Network
about 1 year ago
❇️ 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
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Vacancies — Applied Behaviour Change
Behavioural Science Researcher & Consultant
https://f.mtr.cool/rhmeeddqxf
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George Monbiot
about 1 year ago
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/...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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