Back from snowy Budapest after presenting one of our ongoing fNIRS studies with neonates at #BCCCD2026. 🧠👶 One of the best conference experiences I've had. Thanks to the organisers and to everyone who stopped by to give nice feedback!

Soltando pierna y también el hígado y el bazo.

🚨 Newsflash: Frederick III of the House of Habsburg named person of the year 1444 by TIMES for the invention of the printing press.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

“El laïcisme no és només un principi que limita la interferència religiosa en la política, sinó també una garantia que l’estat garanteix la igualtat per a tots els seus ciutadans i purifica la llei de la discriminació basada en la fe i la moral.“

Una nova línia de resistència per a la lluita LGBTI+: el laïcisme. Per Defne Öcal. www.realitat.cat/2025/12/una-...

Tidal también tiene wrapped, y me complace anunciar que, a favor de todo pronóstico, Amaral sigue ahí.

¡Estrenamos el primer episodio de Paciencia pa' la Ciencia! youtu.be/h7VF4y0AlxY Ojalá os guste, lleva todo nuestro cariño por esta profesión 🌻

Brings a motorbike to a marathon and declares having democratised sports after finishing first.

Claiming that one can become a PhD holder by prompting ChatGPT is the academic equivalent of calling yourself a professional athlete after watching your three year old brother hit five consecutive home runs in Wii Sports.

📃New paper out in Brain Topology! A collab w/ Ana Hernández-Sauret and Diego Emilia Redolar-Ripoll: Dissociating the Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Cognitive Control in Depression: A Combined HD-tDCS and fNIRS Study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A 30-40% profit margin for a company that mostly relies on unpaid labour from their own "clients" to barely do their job making science (which they did not produce) available is a good case for abolishing the whole industry.

Por si alguien más está pensando dejar Spotify:

📒 Here's a new blog post, in which I present pymbrola, a Python module that provides an interface with the MBROLA speech synthesiser: "pymbrola: A Python interface to the MBROLA speech synthesiser" gongcastro.github.io/blog/pymbrol...

La ciencia es, de forma efectiva e inevitable, una herramienta discursiva. Y el hecho de que mucha gente aún crea que podamos demarcar la ciencia es parte del problema.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Claro, la subida de los precios se debe al aumento de los salarios de los trabajadores sin un incremento de la productividad. El timón danés que se están haciendo las principales compañías tecnológicas entre ellas—invirtiendo unas en otras miles de millones sin producir nada—no tiene nada que ver.

Made some friends in the Marmara sea.

Outsourcing your thinking process to an autocomplete machine on steroids is definitely a good thing to encourage your students to do, and is definitely how AI is supposed to push societal progress.

Yo creo que uno no debería hacer divulgación hasta que no tenga su primer Nobel y cuarenta y cinco años cotizados. Antes de eso me parece prematuro hablar de ciencia de manera accesible y rigurosa.

It only takes me another attempt at coding a multilevel model in Stan to remember what a blessing brms is.

Barcelona 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | L'organització de la manifestació en suport a Palestina calcula que la convocatòria ha reunit 300.000 persones. Hi ha tanta gent que algunes persones estan baixant per la Rambla i el carrer de Pau Claris. El Passeig de Gràcia està completament col·lapsat.

UN says the genocide in Gaza won't stop as it's profitable. Palestine is a training field to test weapons & surveillance tech that are now sold worldwide. Those making billions? Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Caterpillar, Microsoft, MIT, Blackrock, insurers, real estate firms.

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I'm back with a new blog post! 📒 "Installing the MBROLA speech synthesiser" Some months ago, we decided to synthesise some auditory linguistic stimuli in MBROLA for an experiment. Setting up MBROLA was a bit of a nightmare. In this post I share how we did it. gongcastro.github.io/blog/pymbrol...

This week I taught an introductory lecture on fNIRS at the Deep Tech Brain Summer School at @ub.edu. We covered some theory, experimental design in dev populations and a live demonstration of data acquisition and preprocessing using @nirx-nirs.bsky.social's NIRSport2. Thanks to the organisers!

Wouldn't this method show that classic social psychology garbage was highly replicable? Besides, false findings can replicate even without pub bias - hot hand "fallacy" replicated but data analysis was incoherent. After a couple decades of science reform, I'd like to think we've moved beyond this

Three years into the "formal" onset of AI hype and the only domains where AI has objectively impacted people's lives is that we now get identified, located, made redundant, and killed more easily.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

La actual era de la austeridad y los recortes ha sido rebautizada como "la era de la abundancia". Naturalmente, no nos queda otra que volver a la austeridad y los recortes.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Solo me quedan dos episodios de #Andor. Es muy una pasada que la saga con la que crecí desde los cinco años haya albergado algo una serie tan interesante, potente y políticamente comprometida.

There's some audacity in this statement after a decade of promoting the mantra that there is a "replicability *crisis*" that should make everyone doubt the credibility of science, as a whole. Now it turns out it's been fueling anti-science discourses without improving the credibility of science?

"Nosek also wants academia to create clear career paths for people doing replication studies—it should be something that university bosses admire and want to promote." Also NO. This is someone's pet theory for how science works, not actually how science works.

This. I could compromise that replicability is at best, "desirable", as in: Provided solid theoretical background, causal inference, and statistical properties, then being able to observe an effect across equivalent observational/experimental settings *can* provide further credibility to it.

Voy a poner la fotocopiadora de la biblioteca a echar más humo que la locomotora Orient Express.

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Back with a late update from #WILD2025 in Donosti! Flora Chartier (our new PhD star ✨) and I presented exciting, preliminary results from our studies. Thanks everyone for the feedback! Here's a glance of our poster on the ongoing fNIRS study in newborns at the @sjdhospitalbarcelona.org.

Ens veiem el dissabte a Barcelona. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇱🇧🇱🇧

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Sergio Toribio is a Spanish citizen. Pressure the Spanish foreign ministries and help us keep Sergio safe! E: [email protected] ...2/

Tenéis una obligación con Sergio Toribio y el resto del Madleen @freedomflotilla.bsky.social de exigir su liberación inmediata: @jmalbares.bsky.social @exterioresgob.bsky.social Un intento de evadir vuestra responsabilidad es un apoyo al genocidio del pueblo palestino. Actuad YA. #AllEyesOnMadleen

If you don't do your due diligence on who you speak to, you are totally culpable. This isn't free discussion of ideas. This is lending credibility to a publication run by overtly right-wing 'academics'

🚨🇵🇸| El @nytimes.com ha publicado un vídeo encontrado en el teléfono de uno de los enfermeros ejecutados por el ejercito israelí en Gaza. 👉 Los vehículos son claramente identificados y con las luces encendidas: eso desmonta - una vez más - la versión israelí.

Casi se me había olvidado lo poco que me gusta volar pero siempre puedo confirmar en la señora sentada a mi lado y su café desparramado por toda la fila tras unas turbulencias para recordármelo.

The leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women in the U.S. is homicide by an abusive partner. Perinatal women are more than twice as likely to be murdered than to die from sepsis, hypertensive disorders or hemorrhage.

The role of cognateness in native spoken word recognition: https://osf.io/7k3ga

New preprint w/Serene Siow, Kim Plunkett, and Nuria Sebastian-Galles. We investigated how listeners exploit phonological similarity to correctly translate words from a completely unfamiliar language!🧵 🔗 osf.io/7k3ga_v1 @upf.edu @ox.ac.uk