The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027. And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done. The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...

Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development? We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team. iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...

The BNA Scholars Programme is building a diverse future for neuroscience. Mentoring, training, funding & a thriving community of 35 Scholars and alumni. 📅 Apply by 4th Jan - no membership required. www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...

BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Why do some people lose memory faster with age? A mega-analysis of 13 longitudinal datasets (3,700+ adults, 10,000+ MRIs) shows that memory decline tracks brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, and that these links strengthen with age, but not APOE status: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. #sciencematters

Patients who took a daily semaglutide pill for 2yrs did not demonstrate a significant difference from those given placebo on a commonly used Alzheimer’s disease (CDR-SB) rating scale despite improving AD- biomarkers. Betting on MOA is > than chance. endpoints.news/novo-nordisk...

We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

We look forward to welcoming Professor Carol Brayne CBE on Monday for her lecture: Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies. @camneuro.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social Monday 27 October 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 BOOKING: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Over 12,500 brain scans from cognitively healthy adults reveal that sex differences in age-related brain atrophy can’t explain why women have higher rates of Alzheimer's disease. The authors call for research into alternative explanations. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/hIYj50XgiCn

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Episode 8 of Mempathy is out! We explore why people with memory loss frequently repeat the same stories and how best to respond. We also look at ways to harness this tendency to boost old and new memories. Find it here or on usual podcast platforms: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-494xk-...

🏆 Your #neuroscience deserves to be celebrated! Could you be our next prizewinner? Applications for 2025 BNA Awards & Prizes close on 31st October. www.bna.org.uk/membership/a... #postgraduate #undergraduate #publicengagement

Sad goodbyes at the “Arabs in Neuroscience” course at NYU Abu Dhabi. Thanks to Mohamed and Abdullah for all their hard work! So inspiring to meet such smart and talented young scientists…

Another interesting paper from LifeBrain consortium suggesting that sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in women www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very useful tips…

Such a loss for Mother Nature, but a message of hope…

Very much enjoyed a day helping with the @drcmr.bsky.social training programme in development and aging www.drcmr.dk/news-events/... - great questions from attentive students!

The brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next. New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4

Wow! This is amazing news. Having friends who are confronted with Huntington's, this brings a ray of hope. bbc.com/news/article...

That reminded me of a favorite quote from Lester Pearson, a former Canadian Prime Minister and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Dutch late night TV has its take

"CamCAN 15 years on" - a new preprint reviewing all findings about the cognitive neuroscience of ageing from sharing CamCAN data, led by @rhens.bsky.social : osf.io/preprints/ps...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Here we go again - a room full of attendees from all over the world at #COGNESTIC 2025, excited to learn about #neuroimaging analysis. Kshipra Gurunandan starts it off with a Primer to #Python. @mrccbu.bsky.social

This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏

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Carl Sagan’s Profound ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Speech Set to a Beautifully Calming Classical Soundtrack laughingsquid.com/carl-sagan-p...

New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator. We also explore how brain networks respond to surprise: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New CamCAN study led by @praykov.bsky.social used 11 different white matter (WM) measures to show that WM health is multidimensional: 4 latent MRI-derived factors explained 89% of WM variance, were predicted by vascular health, and predicted cognition: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Brilliant news for health and happiness of children and their parents in UK! Vaccines are a marvel of human ingenuity, reason, and science motivated by compassion which have transformed our civilisation. We should all do our bit to encourage uptake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... - don’t allow kids who aren’t vaccinated to attend school?

Join some Nobel Laureates and sign this petition to remove RFK Jr. from office. He is a danger to the people of the United States and a national security threat. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

Tax-funded travel to faith schools is not a necessity – it’s a subsidy for a parental preference. If local authorities continue to provide this benefit, then they must also support families who reject a faith school in favour of a school without a religious character. humanists.uk/2025/08/28/t...

New CamCAN paper led by @noham-wolpe.bsky.social shows that older adults’ tendency to see facial expressions as more positive may not be the adaptive “rose-coloured glasses” we thought, but could signal early cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40854689/

The MAHA assault on vaccines will kill people & usher in a scientific Dark Age. RFK Jr has got to go. Please join me, my fellow @accountabilityji.bsky.social advisory board members, Nobel laureates, National Academy members, & colleagues calling for his resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...

Edinburgh University paid out £881789 to its vice chancellor Sir Peter Mathieson for pay & expenses" The University must offer him a huge pay check or he might leave😲 And then lectures will collapse, research will vanish & the University will crumble😉 www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Preprint servers are such helpful tools — and they make science so much more accessible to people without university affiliations. If generative AI kills them, it’d be a loss for everyone… including the people making LLMs who I assume used preprints to train their models. 🧪