Two programs of research diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both... 1) Work that incrementally advances human knowledge 2) The replication crisis

Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.

xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-... Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact? A contribution that altered policy or practice... A paper that extinguished an active area of research... An uncredited gem...

My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~ osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Are you a woman in midlife (or older) who has struggled with an eating disorder as an adult? A new anthology, “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder,”is looking for your story in the form of a personal essay!  You can read more about the anthology and submit your writing here!

If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon. Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️

too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation (how do we stop this disinformation) when you should really ask a second (how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)

Ever thought that food tastes bland when you have a cold? In this piece, I explain how that happens as I summarise my latest article on the neural encoding of odours in the canonical taste cortex! theconversation.com/smell-trigge...

Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

Police and military brutality in Indonesia is escalating exponentially. Military personnel are laying siege to universities (Unispa & Unpas) in the middle of the night, with rubber bullets and tear gas. youtube.com/shorts/IeuDh...

tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again

Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.

Come by and have a chat about crossmodal flavour representation in the insula! #OHBM2025

Good read on the need for us to integrate fMRI research with other fields of neuroscience. Now to look at how I can do it in my own work... 🤔

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research | Nature Metabolism Great collaboration led by Satchin Panda and team! Happy to contribute. Time to take timing into consideration!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩 To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out: doi.org/10.1162/imag... Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶

[deep sigh] ourobor-ass

Pretty much agree with this

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🧵 -> article medium.com/@notashley/t...

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

In my imagination, Marina Hyde’s composition process involves her striding around her living room, on her second wine, recording acerbic monologues articulating her utter disdain as voice memos

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our @iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...

My latest book can be found here... It has >100 new simple recipes and aims to offer a slice of hope and optimism to anyone going through difficult days. amazon.co.uk/dp/1739967038

Worth a read!

Our methodological review on Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions 🧠🫀 is now available as early access in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering @embs.org. with Luca Faes, @fdevicofallani.bsky.social and Mario Chavez @neurodynamicslab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/RBME...

If we don’t collect or distribute the data, nobody can argue there is a bias.

The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

The validation of our method to gather a time-resolved estimation of cardiac rhythms is now online in @royalsocietypublishing.org Our method provides a robust estimation of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic dynamics, allowing covarying pattern analyses doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The thing about the “Musk is a fake gamer” story is that the dude demonstrably lies and bullshits all the time, but it’s a lot harder for a layman to spot an engineering problem than see through the gamer shit, but the result is the same, in that it punctures his mythology as all powerful genius

the media: the trouble is, no-one’s giving advice to men! loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people. the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker.

LLMs were a mistake. The internet was a mistake. Computers were a mistake. Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake.

🧵1/5 🌡️ #Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body #ownership🖐️, yet their role remains highly debated. In our new study, we test this assumption within the framework of pathological body ownership after right-brain #stroke🧠

While Meta, who says they believe that decentralized social media is the future, tries to block links to federated competitors, @jay.bsky.team and the @bsky.app team are boosting competitors in the space. It's one thing to talk to the talk, but it's another to walk it every chance you get 👏🏼

*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

heck yeah

If you have a recent PhD and you're from Southeast Asia, you might want to apply for this. Tell your friends about it, too. #SoutheastAsia #research @asianstudies.org www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Do you think these companies are going to stop with trans folks? They're going to enable hate speech and dehumanizing rhetoric against anyone who's not an able bodied straight white Christian man. The time to speak out is now.