AI can now scan papers, generate hypotheses, and even help discover drugs—but still relies on something human: judgment, curiosity, and making sense of messy results. The future isn’t AI replacing scientists—it’s amplifying them. Read more in @nature.com's editorial: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm not sure how accurate this study is, but found the results interesting "An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports of Nature Communications papers links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How much sleep should you get to age in a healthy way?! @nature.com paper links sleep duration to 23 biological ageing clocks and finds a U‑shaped pattern: short or long sleep is associated with higher bio-age gaps; the lowest is around ~6.4–7.8h (varies by organ/sex). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Millions of people(including me) turn to LLMs for information and advice. But who shapes their output? A @nature.com paper shows the influence of state controlled media on LLM output. Read all the details in the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent @nature.com paper uses evidence from thousands of MBA and law cohorts to show that more diverse student groups are associated with higher median salaries at graduation. This is a timely, data‑driven contribution to debates on higher‑ed policy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why does cooperation fade—even when incentives are strong? A recent @nature.com paper analyzes real-world group lending data and finds that motivation erodes over time, rebounds when norms are reset, then declines faster each cycle. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was honored to be featured on @stimulatingbrains.org's podcast, hosted by @andreashorn.org, so please listen if you're interested in scientific publishing or being an editor at @nature.com stimulatingbrains.org/77-mary-eliz...

Large language models (LLMs) trained on outputs from other LLMs/AI can inherit undesirable behaviors, even if they are not directly referenced in the training data shows a recent @nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@nature.com is hiring an editor to join the Clinical, Translational, Genetics and Biotechnology team and handle genomic technology areas, including genome engineering, cancer genomics, synthetic biology, omics-based diagnosis and technologies springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

A week ago, @nature.com published a very special issue on reliable research in the social and behavioral sciences. It features four papers that look at reproducibility, robustness and replicability and represents an amazing amount of work. Check it out here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@nature.com published a very important study last week: it should that an intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child (ie under 18) marriage from 86% to 21%. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know that I've posted about this paper before, but I was just reading the research briefing in @nature.com and got impressed all over again so thought I'd share: Parkinson's disease affects a network of brain regions that control whole-body action 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share @nathumbehav.nature.com's new “How to” collection—a practical set of researcher‑to‑researcher insights on everything from building supportive lab cultures to ethical online data use, designing surveys and megastudies, evaluating LLMs, and more. 🧪 www.nature.com/collections/...

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent @nature.com paper asks a big question: Do LLMs actually have moral competence or are they just good at sounding right? This question is answered by distinguishing between moral performance and competence and a roadmap to assess what LLMs are really doing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to see what people think of @openscholar.bsky.social, an open-source language model that can answer scientific queries with accuracy similar to human experts. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Friday! For those of you who didn't see the excellent @nature.com paper showing that scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a narrower range of topics, consider listening to the podcast: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recently published in @nature.com :the human brain stores what happened and the context in mostly separate neurons—binding them only when needed, which enables flexible memory (and hopefully avoids confusion) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the best parts of my week was seeing this paper -showing that the use of AI/ML tools leads to more publications, citations, and faster career progression but a narrowing of topics studied - come out in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent @nature.com shows that it's possible to reduce the suffering of chronic pain without numbing sensation or using opioids... at least in mice 🧪. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As 2025 draws to a close, consider listening to @nature.com's end of year podcast - it's a great way to end 2025 and this holiday season 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Did you know that chatting with LLMs can shift people's attitudes towards political candidates & policy issues? A recent @nature.com paper show that AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds; a related paper in @science.org describes when they work best www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent meta-analysis published in @nature.com finds that there is no general effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health (though there are some effects for specific groups, e.g. low-income samples). Read more details in the full paper here: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All AI models are constrained by the quality of their data. A recent @nature.com paper introduces the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), a diverse dataset implementing best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety and utility. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do glitches on video calls annoy you? A new study in @nature.com shows that they reduce trust in telehealth, lowered job-interview ratings, weakened social connection, and decreased likelihood for parole, likely due, in part, to the sense of uncanniness they trigger 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What aspects of language are universal, and which are due to familiarity? A @nature.com paper finds that while STG shows shared responses to basic speech sounds, only native language boosts encoding of word boundaries + sound-sequence stats 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is exciting: We just opened a position for a multimedia editor to broaden @nature.com 's presence on social media, including TikTok. If you're interested, consider applying springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

Did you know that AI can figure out its own way to learn, and that its way is better than one designed by humans? Read more in a @nature.com N&V (and the original paper is in the comment) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How do stereotypes shape AI, and what does that mean for the future of hiring? Hear more in @nature.com 's podcast here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I really like my job because it allows me to contribute to important @nature.com papers like this one, which shows that online media and large language models (LLMs) distort age and gender in stereotypical ways. Learn more in this video 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vdw...

I play the harp and have always loved music and being creative, so was very excited to see this paper in Nature Communications showing that creative hobbies may slow brain aging! 🧪 Read more in @nature.com's news coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One of "my" recent @nature.com papers showed how delegating tasks to AI/LLMs can increase dishonest behavior... and I'm delighted to say that it was picked up by @sciam.bsky.social. Read more in their story here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

I feel very proud to be part of @nature.com, and to have colleagues who handled this excellent #DeepSeek paper that describes DeepSeek-R1, because it's the first widely used commercial LLM that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love taking trains so was so glad to see @nature.com's recent editorial advocating for sustainable rail travel www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I feel like this should go without saying, but repeated hits to the head can only be bad: A recent @nature.com paper describes the neuron los and inflammation caused by repeated head trauma in young athletes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that people who move to more walkable cities in the US end up walking more? This seems obvious, but is quite solid evidence for the influence of the built environment on human activity and well-being. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that scientists have been able to link heatwaves to the carbon emissions from specific companies? Read more in @nature.com's recent new story 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How did rumors spread in revolutionary France? A recent @nature paper take an epidemiological approach to understand the spread of the "great fear" in France... and is an example of the type of social science work that we are now publishing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've always felt that @bsky.app is better for research-related information, an opinion supported by @nature.com 's survey and a recent arXiv preprint: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People explore unfamiliar options more when deciding how to avoid losses than when seeking gains, shows a recent paper published in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why does chocolate taste so good? One answer is the microbes www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The content produced by genAI is based on others' ideas... does this count as plagiarism? Read more in this fascinating @nature.com news feature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It seems that concepts that used to be science fiction are rapidly becoming reality. How can we make sure this happens in the most responsible way possible? A Perspective in @nature.com by Iyad Rahwan et al outlines a method for researching "science fiction" science 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...