A bit old now, but great Registered Report by Maya Raza (not on here)

In a vague attempt to lighten mood (and possibly even with educational benefit), I have added a couple more cartoons about the tools of cognitive neuroscience (with brief explanations): www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h.... Thanks to @iancooketapia.bsky.social for prettifying.

Really important points…

Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?" The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.

Important reminder that the relationship between functional connectivity and a trait is likely to be state-dependent, and hence it may be unwise to rely on resting state only

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?

Want to help make replications easier to find, share, and credit? Join us in Germany for a hackathon to do just that. Applications now open ⬇️

Brilliant!

Trains are good for reminiscing. I forgot to congratulate @adamjcurtis.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva with no corrections. Only downside is that as his external, I felt both old and odd, examining an “academic grandchild” (via @aidanhorner.bsky.social)…

WiFi speed on Eurostar: 30 Mbps download and 5 upload… WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…

"Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet." www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check out the WikiJournal of Science, created to address this.

Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.

A journal that supports a society, and run by brilliant colleagues like Kate!

You still have two weeks to register for COGNESTIC, 14-25 September 2026. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking, especially for early-career researchers. For more info: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

An international research effort combining brain imaging and memory testing from thousands of adults is offering a clearer picture of how age-related brain changes affect memory. @andersfjell.bsky.social Learn More in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another step closer to the edge of chaos in the US… hope the BBC can survive here…

The link below give you some idea of our legacy in building the conversation around brain connectivity. Hope to see you in Nimes, June 2026! www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw

If you're attending the Cogn Neuroscience meeting in Vancouver (March 7-10), we're offering a pre-meeting workshop on March 6, featuring TheVirtualBrain. We'll cover everything from theory to the guts of the code with worked examples to apply to your own data. www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...

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