A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

With the end of 2025, my short stint on #xiaohongshu comes to an end after the second honestly completely innocuous video was presumably shadow banned or broken so it could not be shared. That's a bit too silly for me.

In this sense "Guten Rutsch" to everyone. Let's hope 2026 will be less of a catastrophe. Enjoy the small good things with people you love.

Cologne's cathedral in the evening:

“Freely explore this environment”: individual differences in exploration behavior and survey knowledge link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Before going back to Germany for Christmas, we took our bikes for another spin around Lake #Taihu in #Suzhou. The condition were simply superb: Not many people, clear weather, temperatures around 10 to 15 C, amazing cycling infrastructure and stunning scenery.

🍤 hippocampus = the brain's memory machine 🍤 unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

not to mention a bunch of other stuff: janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Anyone else struggling with @cos.io ‘s OSF providing “429 Too Many Requests” error after accessing 2-3 pages on OSF?

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Due to popular demand, here is a visualisation of the custom "maze" algorithm we used to uncover gradients along the cortical surface.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Wow, there are actually good news!!!

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

anyone got any advice on the following situation? I wrote and did a big chunk of the admin for a large MRC grant which also also awarded. I am named in the Staff breakdown on the grant as "researcher co-lead" with 100%FTE, and I am mentioned by name as "postdoctoral researcher Maria Niedernhuber"

Utterly delighted to have been awarded 5 years of research funding from the ERC to study low-activity brain states that could underpin flexible rule use. Let’s see what "pinging" can tell us about how task sets are assembled and changed!

🧠 New paper alert (the 1st one from our new lab)! Led by 1st author & VR wizard @jaquent.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com How do our brains distinguish novel from familiar places as we explore our environments, e.g., a new city? 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵 Thread below with key findings ⬇️

I can't tell you all how proud and happy I am that this sees the light of day! Thank you to everyone involved. 🙏

So far I only had to provide a birth date but I would consider twice before uploading my ID. Honestly. why can't we have nice tings?

Looks like Australia's social media ban came into effect. Age verification appears based on 1) facial scan age estimation or 2) ID scan. This in turn appears to be done by third party companies, so opens doors to privacy issues / leaks. Also, what exactly was the evidence base for this ban again?

New article by @jaquent.bsky.social and co: Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can your AI beat a mouse? Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing. 10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n

Recently have been doing virtual reality experiments with mice in complex, open world environments. No linear tracks. No T-mazes. No simple gratings. No binary choices. No blocky, high contrast environments. Those are great for some experiments, but we want to focus on COMPLEX processing. (6/n)

Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7) rdcu.be/eSwvU

I've started listening to local .mp3 files again because using VPNs doesn't always work and to my total surprise the #YouTube download program `yt-dlp` works really well at the moment.

Excited to share my first PhD preprint! “How human aging disrupts the head direction network: evidence from VR experiments and mechanistic models” We investigated why our sense of direction becomes less stable as we age. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/ thread 🧵

Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."

Recent cool & helpful paper from Ottink et al. (2025): Integration of Euclidean and path distances in hippocampal maps Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Interesting findings about L/R HC and how spatial representations relate to differences in strategies.

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog... Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis is reducible to shortcomings in human intelligence. This idea is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude: "Hot Summer Nights". Please check it out! Spotify open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions Looks interesting, from Groves et al #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

The level of craziness yet again reached new heights.

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

What are your favorite books/articles/resources about graphic design for academic posters and presentations?

what an absolutely iconic intro. immediate goosebumps! how weird that it should get famous with the exorcist. now they're inseparably connected in our collective consciousness. even more incredible, mike oldfield was 19 years old when he made this song. how on earth?!...

The paper that I have been working on for ages has finally been accepted. More news on this soon! All in all, a really great weekend.

Here in China (in my exile from the #EU), I am still allowed to call this "Leberwurst" even though it contains no meat. #veggie Jokes aside: the first self-made bread spread I am actually happy with.

For the Spring Holiday of 1985, during our year studying at the Beijing Language Institute (2nd year of SOAS Chinese degree course), my roommate (APB) and me decided to go on a big adventure overland from Chengdu to Lhasa 1/🧵