Fascinating new study confirms that having children somehow impacts women’s academic careers more than men’s. Truly groundbreaking… 😅

When birdsong suddenly appears, it affects us, and most often in a positive way🎶🐦 That's our experience from RITMO from when Maham Riaz carried out an experiment on her unsuspecting colleagues😅

Our brains predict the world before it happens🧠 Postdoctoral researcher Vinicius Rezende Carvalho studies how brain rhythms shape predictions and how deep brain recordings can unlock new insight into cognition, perception, and language. @viniciusrc.bsky.social

The brain turns chaos into meaning🤯🧠 PhD fellow Olgerta Asko studies the prefrontal cortex to understand how we make predictions about the world and transform information into action. @olgasko.bsky.social

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

💡🧠New #preprint: we tested whether reward #learning produces lasting, context-general changes in spatial #priority. Using #EEG + #pupillometry, we found strong #reward-learning signals, but weak transfer 4 days later, suggesting limits to persistent, task-general spatial priority #plasticity.

Some of my favorites 🙂 #quotes

“Time is intimately tied up with the structure of space and the way things work. It’s not a blank canvas upon which you impose your existence, it’s part of your machinery and existence – the passage of time.” #time #science #curiosity pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-v...

We often think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. | https://bit.ly/49UAMxr In this interview, neuroscientist Karl Friston argues that the brain is not a mirror of reality but a prediction machine, constantly constructing the world it experiences. #philsci

AI can speed up research, but it can’t automate science. Pattern-finding isn’t discovery. Humans still decide what counts as evidence, which questions matter, and whether results survive replication and debate into consensus. #AI #Science #Neuroscience #research #philosophy #AIphilosophy

So happy to see my research at @forskning.bsky.social #brain #brainresearch @uio.no www.forskning.no/hjernen-part...

If human deliberation is grounded in episodic memory and lived, embodied experience, what would it take for AI to get anything like that grounding? Thank you @arjensenius.bsky.social for a nice article on my trial lecture. #AI #BRAIN #embodiedAI #AIresearch www.arj.no/2026/01/09/g...

Is AI pretending to be intelligent, or is it really? @blaiseaguera.bsky.social #Technology #Books Researcher and CTO at Google, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, argues that AI's intelligence lies in its ability to make predictions. Read the full article: bigthink.com/books/blaise...

Perhaps you should start the new year with welcoming life's surprises?🤔 Your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned every time you have an experience that defies your expectations!🧠 Read about @olgasko.bsky.social's research here: www.uio.no/english/rese...

From a workshop on collaboration skills, two things stood out as essential foundations of good teamwork: TRUST & COMMUNICATION: 👉Reliability, transparency & a space where it’s safe to ask, challenge & learn. 👉Clarity on goals, roles, expectations & feedback. Strong science is built together!

New preprint from my colleagues @viniciusrc.bsky.social & @ablenkmann.bsky.social: they recorded single neurons in human amygdala, hippocampus, insula & auditory cortex during a multi-feature auditory oddball paradigm (frequency, timing, intensity, location). www.authorea.com/users/100748... #brain

Seeing my own child take part in an eye-tracking study today reminded me how hard research is: babies move, get distracted, and don’t follow instructions…yet every single data is precious.🧠👶 A little reminder: research needs participants, stubborn researchers, and funding to exist at all.💙

“…to understand the brain, we might need to challenge our intuitions about how it works - “in the same way that quantum mechanics is challenging to comport with our understanding of physical phenomena in the world.” www.quantamagazine.org/mental-pheno...

Animals seamlessly combine what they see and hear. This study presents a simple, biologically inspired model that predicts how visual and auditory cues are integrated across humans, monkeys, and rats. 🔗 buff.ly/HfMDRkH

🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA. It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.

1/ Want to try your hand at science communication but don’t know where to start? We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm 🔗 buff.ly/1jesQg5

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience

​Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!

📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠 #evolution #brain iai.tv/articles/our...

We praise innovation, yet starve the science that makes it possible. The history of discovery shows a simple truth: transformative breakthroughs arise from questions without immediate utility. Support curiosity, not just impact!!!🔬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #research #curiosity #science

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! 📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee... #iEEG #ECoG #SEEG

🧠🚨The first brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour has been created! Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw #brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior

«As statistical machines, the models make predictions by generalizing on the basis of learnt associations, leading them to produce answers that are plausible, but sometimes wrong.»

📉 Big shift in publishing: eLife has lost its Impact Factor, raising debate over its bold open-review model, and the continuing dominance of traditional metrics. 🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

🧠🎶 New research shows your brain doesn’t just hear sounds, it reshapes itself in real time. Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies. #Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain

Researchers have mapped the key structural changes in the pelvis that enabled early humans to first walk on two legs and accommodate giving birth to a big-brained baby go.nature.com/4n5h71m

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds? Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Science in one picture 🧠🔬😁 #research #academicword #science