Here we are. Again. "Structural changes are being pursued, but these are modest." #Academia #Research #ECRs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Proton recently released long-awaited Zoom/Teams/GM alternative: privacy-sensitive ProtonMeet. Caveat? App is not included in more advanced Proton plans. For 288e/pa (Family), one has to fork out additional 100e/pa to have longer conversations, screen sharing, chat and meeting recording...

9 months ago, I asked authors of a paper in top #neuroscience journal to correct inaccurate citation of my work. Still no correction, no clear update, and my work is still described as something it's not. Paper notes ChatGPT was used for "readability". One wonders about state of science.

In neuroscience, open data has done a lot of good. But current developments are clearly pushing us to ask harder questions: who owns biomedical data, who gets access, and who benefits from its reuse? #ResponsibleAI #Neuroscience #OpenScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The ERC reapplication saga is a reminder that research funding policy is never just technical. It shapes who gets another chance, who can stay in #science, and how early-career researchers plan already precarious academic paths. #ECRs #Research #Funding www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

⚡Within one week, two major European #research funders confronted the same problem, but sent very different signals. ERC announced resubmission restrictions for unsuccessful applicants, saying that peer-review burden on panels became too high. Cost of systemic overload is being passed downward.

🇨🇭Switzerland may be one of the first countries to openly acknowledge that research funding systems need to adapt if they are to remain sustainable. 1/4 #AcademicFunding #Science #ResearchFunding #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers #ECRs www.snf.ch/en/kaczpDec5...

⚡ Happy to share that Sonja Sudimac and I will again be delivering our environmental neuroscience seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this summer semester: Exploring Minds and Environments. (125264-S26) 1/ @cen-mpib.bsky.social

“Those skills (conflict resolution, accountability) are more important than learning how to spell.” Higher-order socio-cognitive skills are constrained by underlying cognitive capacities, weakening those foundations predictably degrades complex social reasoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Te...

2026 - already called year of analog, as more people choose to "unplug", "unsubscribe" and shift away from tech. Rebellion against subscriptions is just the economic dimension of broader tiredness with current socioeconomic model. #society #unplug #digitaleconomy youtu.be/8AKn-zJMIwY?...

Interesting longitudinal study on infants about development of representations of natural objects: #neurocience

An interesting study on how gaze and gesture jointly support spatial reasoning in architecture. Mechanisms described may also be relevant for clinical conditions involving disrupted eye-hand coordination and visual-symbolic processing of the #environment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPYTPN...

Wow, this has also potential to be great tool for teaching!

Happy 80th birthday to the iconic Dolly Parton.

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks. A behavioral neuroscientist explains what we've been missing about one of the animal kingdom's most underestimated minds. buff.ly/Uxj7boZ

Great news: Today, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social launched its first mobile MRI lab 🧠🚐 This opens up exciting new possibilities for @cen-mpib.bsky.social to take environmental neuroscience research far beyond the lab into the field. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... #neuroscience #environment

top risks 2026 is officially out after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks this year is the tipping point:

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ava Farnan, W. Taylor Kimberly, et al: Detecting patterns of atrophy in cognitively impaired individuals using portable, low-field MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

So how is the first 7 days of 2026 going? Let's just hope it is not representative.

❤️‍🔥"Either we're all Europeans, or none of us are" From 13:40 @warfrontsweekly.bsky.social commentary absolutely nailed it 🔨 when it comes to what has to change in European mindset, for Europe to have future as a project. #Europe #Geopolitics #Ukraine youtu.be/5Qc2ZRV5znQ?... via @YouTube

The number of armed conflicts worldwide has more than doubled in past 15 years, with around 130 ongoing today. These conflicts trap entire generations in cycles of violence and trauma, resulting in major physical and psychological health burdens at population level. www.icrc.org/en/report/ic...

⚡Large-scale genetic study of 14 psychiatric disorders shows many diagnoses share common genetic roots. Comorbidity may reflect shared biology, not just clinical overlap. Authors also point to prenatal and early-life factors shaping how genetic risk becomes disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is the worst crisis in history of US-Europe alliance with signals indicating Europe needs to become independent, strategically autonomous and find new global partners. #Europe #democracy #geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-h...

Zum Wochenbeginn noch etwas Herzerwärmendes: Auf Sumatra brach ein Biologe in Tränen aus. Nichts Schlimmes war passiert, er sah bloss die überaus seltene Pflanze "Rafflesia hasseltii", nach der er über ein Jahrzehnt lang gesucht hatte. 🤗

Last year in North Sumatra, I witnessed the cascading consequences of rainforest destruction - a crisis no longer limited to ecosystems, but one that directly places local communities in the path of escalating climatic extremes. #environment

⚡American commentator Jon Stewart steamrolled global elites using the Epstein example. With the precision of a neurosurgeon, he laid bare the rotten core of a social class whose members share the same interests, even as they stoke political divisions. www.youtube.com/shorts/RRvcE...

New analysis sends clear warning about short-form videos. Across 98,299 people, higher TikTok/Reels/Shorts use equals worse attention + weaker inhibitory control. The endless scroll isn’t just a habit, it’s linked to measurable declines in core cognitive functions. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Really sad news. Jane Goodall transformed our understanding of primates and championed conservation worldwide. Her impact is immeasurable. #science #research

💻 Last week 💻 @isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠 #ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience

If confirmed, this breakthrough gene therapy for Huntington’s disease could be a historic step forward in treating previously untreatable neurological disorders. #neuroscience #research youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs?...

Almighty Gods of Wisdom & Reason — don’t leave us! When publishers push AI “reading assistants” message is clear: don’t bother reading. On top of don't-bother-writing attitude I see in reviewed papers, my feeling is that we are losing the very essence of #science.

The most accurate depiction of establishment playing game of deflection these days: #migration

Language in scientific writing is a mirror of academic culture. This editorial is a timely reminder that careful, precise, and balanced expression strengthens scholarship. Yet too many papers today are framed like product branding rather than contributions to knowledge. #science

Phantom feelings in lost limbs present a puzzle for neuroscientists who were taught to believe that once a body part is amputated, another body part will creep into its spot on the brain’s map of the body. A new imaging study undermines that theory. https://scim.ag/45SInZQ

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There’s always that one trending paper that makes you pause… 🤔

📑New CEN pre-print by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social, @isdedal.bsky.social and Simone Kühn is out! 'Urban versus Rural Living: Associations with Mental Health, Physical Health, and Psychological Constructs' osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint from @cen-mpib.bsky.social: our 500-study review on how place shapes mind, body, and brain. 🧠 Urban upbringing alters stress-related brain circuits. 🌿 Rural living linked to resilient prefrontal structure. 🌍 Health disparities & gap in global representation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Be it drugs or alcohol - literally every country in this world experiences this problem. Nobody seems to understand how vicious cycle of poverty and inequality pushes people into the arms of substance addiction. 1/2 youtu.be/auHBNYqbQ2c?...

Mood this year:

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Amazing day for Poland! Welcome aboard!🇵🇱 #AxiomMission4 #Science #Nauka #SlawoszUznanskiWisniewski #Badania #ISS #Kosmos #Technologia

The major dispersal of humans out of Africa around 50,000 years ago was preceded by an increase in diversity of the habitats that humans chose to live in, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/40cyoMV 🏺 🧪

Deeply worrying developments in regards to Green Claims Directive. EU withdrawal from this initiative will be a disaster that will hit consumers in entire Europe. #environment

Until 2014, I spent a few years researching what remained of Crimean Tatar cultural heritage. The history of deportations had been censored for long time, and meticulous Soviet erasure of Tatar culture after World War II is still barely recognized as a crime. kyivindependent.com/dutch-parlia...

POV: Orbiting Mars. 2 volcanoes. 1 dust storm and the darkness of space around you. You can browse the 170MP (!) here easyzoom.com/image/633505 Full size, download & more info here flic.kr/p/2r95M3B @esa.int Mars Express 2024-02-16 Olympus & Ascraues Mons Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck 🧪🔭

Widzę dziś w komentarzach, że wszyscy chcieliby, żeby wyjaśnienie wyniku wyborów było tak proste, by zmieściło się w darmowym limicie. A tak naprawdę im jest ono krótsze, tym bardziej odbiega od rzeczywistości. #Wybory

Nature connection matters! A new study finds that frequent nature visits and stronger nature connectedness boost well-being & environmental actions. 🌱🌍🧪 Read the research by I. Alcock, D. Sheffield, P. C. L. White & @findingnature.bsky.social : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interesting perspectives on our relationship with animals in latest issue of @bpsofficial.bsky.social‬ The Psychologist: More than companions? The shifting focus of human-animal relations research. #psychology www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

“Fighting for Russia without a single Russian among us” Moscow’s forced mobilization is wiping out indigenous men from colonized regions like the Yukaghirs, now with less than 2,000 left.