@awaisaftab.bsky.social I read your article: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/repost-tre... I've read before that psychotherapy works regardless of what condition someone has been diagnosed with.

mental health researchers - how is it possible that anyone would endorse any of the items in the PBQ? beckinstitute.org/wp-content/u... would people who always want to be the centre of attention not know to not directly state that?

Very excited to be able to finally share our latest work, "Cloud computing for equitable, data-driven dementia medicine," just published in The Lancet Digital Health! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... more info in thread: 🧵

"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be." DING DING DING

Next year, I'll be doing a research project, funded by the Barts Charity together with Barts and the London at Queen Mary University, investigating predictors of treatment response to rTMS in treatment-resistant depression using EEG.

We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry. I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole. #neuroskyence

Excited to dig into some weekend reading under a metric ton of blankets. It's time 🧠☕ And specifically this paper, which looks very very interesting! from @mariandrnh.bsky.social @micahgallen.com @francescafardo.bsky.social very cool experimental design direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

@network-alba.bsky.social @womeninneurouk.bsky.social @winrepo.bsky.social @wicseurope.bsky.social @womeninmedicine.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social and any other women's organisation in my field: I am writing a short article about how nonbinary people are marginalised in neuroscience/psychology

misogynists in science are not a rarity i feel. "Dr lastname and Maria" (I have a PhD), whenever I run an analysis and seek insights from people not directly in my lab, I get "Is it the first time you are doing this analysis?" (just for saying "We ran a connectivity analysis using this and that").

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... either way, we put out a new paper with @trisbek.bsky.social @jdsitt.bsky.social and Federico Raimondo

never write anything on linkedin about nonbinary identities without allowing comments only for connections. i wrote a post about how i sometimes see Women in Science organisations want to include nonbinary people as well, and being a bit clumsy with it. now i got this type of comment

as a non-binary person going to EDI events in STEM, the things I look out for to figure out whether an event primarily advertised for women is non-binary inclusive is one or all of the following (obviously I do not speak for every nonbinary person etc.):

We've got a small group for academics who are also dykes or some flavour of sapphic to co-work together in London - DM me for more info

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK The project involves a computational component, a megastudy, and a set of eye-tracking experiments. Application deadline: 7 November 2025

Thrilled to share our new study: “Distilling the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness during Transcendental Meditation”, combining subjective reports with large-scale screening of neural features to investigate pure awareness. Thread below! 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm looking to apply for lecturer jobs likely by the end of next year (ideally in the UK)! useful insights over a cup of coffee welcome!

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

TIL stimulants like Adderall reduces risk of dementia in people with ADHD to neurotypical levels. So gimme those drugs.

🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025. jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

do I know anyone with insight into the MRC experimental medicine grant process? we received the reviews and two were good (6,5) and two were bad (3,3). i can write a rebuttal to the bad ones relatively easily, but I am wondering, since the competition is fierce, whether there is any point?

The first Pan-African neuroscience journal, the African Brain Journal, prepares to launch. By Lauren Schenkman #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/f...

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

can someone recommend high-quality science communication about ADHD (like, advice for people who have it, and the sort)? i'm looking for stuff from healthcare professionals, not people who have it (i think they sometimes generalise too much from their own experience)

The British museum should give Greece their marbles back. They are clearly Greek, if UK visitors want to see Greek marbles, they can temporarily swap exhibits (this would also mean both places get more cool stuff to see): www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim" Zack Polanski, "Yes it is" And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

Since I can’t work my day job, I’m back to my side gig. 7 handmade dichroic stained glass brains up for grabs tonight at 7pm EST at www.brainedglass.com

Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…

Correlation isn’t causation, as the mantra goes—but statistical noise in correlational data can reveal causal information. When X and Y are causally linked, their noise tends to be asymmetric & this can guide #CausalInference. Check out our 📃👇 doi.org/10.1111/nous... #philsky #philsci #StatsSky #HPS

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/... *how* do you want to prepare a building for global devastation? this sounds like everything just will be going to shit

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

This one hits close to home. Jim is my office neighbor. Absolutely devastating.

Prof Selina Wray will join us as our careers keynote, sharing her journey from a working class background and part time work through to a professorship, and Dr Carole Torsney, our research keynote, will tell us about her preclinical research on sex & gender disparities in pain.

Accurate. #academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Hi! We're an interdisciplinary group from Córdoba, Argentina, studying human cognition. The lab is leaded by Dr. Pablo Barttfeld (@pablobarttfeld.bsky.social), and our research focuses on three main areas: consciousness, metacognition & attention. Follow us to get all lab's news!

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This weekend I gave another workshop on #ShamelessSelfPromotion and now you all can apply what I am preaching by self-nominating as new Max Planck Director, for example in psycholinguistics Go for it, especially if you think you aren't 'good enough' www.mpg.de/directors www.mpi.nl/news/help-sh...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... insane that it is allowed for a lawyer to lie so blatantly and simply state that Gisèle Pelicot consented when Dominique Pelicot admitted online that she was drugged, and "advertised" it as such with the person accused

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Da für viele das Pendeln wieder beginnt möchte ich nochmal darauf hinweisen dass man Sitzplätze in innerdeutschen ICEs auch über die ÖBB reservieren kann - und zwar für 3 Euro und nicht für 5,50 Euro wie bei der DB direkt. Man kann diese sogar für 1,50 Euro Einbehalt bis am Tag vorher stornieren.

CW: depression, ideation (& the brain) Case study: stimulation of the sustantia nigra produces acute, intense depression that dissipates as soon as stimulation stops. Wow. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17561432/ (FYI: In follow-up, the individual had no mood issues 5 yrs out; whew!).

*sighs in logician*

I am wondering, I know plenty openly queer neuroscientists, but are there also openly polyamorous neuroscientists? I can think of examples of more senior people who are but I would not say openly

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... a party with 5 MPs gets to shape govt policy simply by being scary. this is further right than the tories when they were in govt.