Hoe ik vertrok uit Gaza – en voor het eerst oog in oog stond met een Israëlische soldaat decorrespondent.nl/16372/hoe-ik...

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

We developed Arnold - the first control policy that learns multiple motor skills across detailed musculoskeletal models. A small step towards understanding the computational principles behind motor intelligence.

De druk op de Maastrichtse woningmarkt voor studenten lijkt een stuk lager dan voorgaande jaren. Het totaal aantal studenten stijgt nauwelijks, waardoor er geen extra kamers nodig zijn, zegt het hoofd van Maastricht Housing. www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikel... #Studentenkamers #Maastricht

China added 256 GW of solar in H1 2025—over 2× the rest of the world combined (124 GW). With ~80–85% of new solar investment happening in China, it dwarfs nuclear builds & makes short-term coal bumps irrelevant. Exponential change is cementing China as the world’s energy leader. #Solar #BESS #SWB

🚨 New paper alert! Excited to share our latest work in Movement Disorders: “Somato-Cognitive Action Network in Focal Dystonia” 👉 doi.org/10.1002/mds.... We found asynchrony between SCAN and cerebellum in different dystonia subtypes. Thread below. #dystonia #fMRI #PrecisionFunctionalMapping #neuro

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

‘What if it’s just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary?’ Great read on the current status of genAI and how it may further develop and affect our near future

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Correlation is not cognition.[1] Stop with the nonsense. Everyday we slip further into the abyss. I often regret reading emails from other academics. [1] Guest & @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (2023). On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421...

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

LLMs don't lie because they want to. They lie because they're trained to role-play, reinforced to please and lack grounding in truth. This misalignment isn't just theoretical: it’s showing up in fabricated data, hallucinated praise, even red-teamed blackmail. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Commission is pushing for a massive increase in funding for Horizon Europe 2028-2034. If I understand correctly, Pillar I, which includes @erc.europa.eu and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships, would go from the current €25 billion to €44 billion. Let's hope it happens!

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Neural control meets biomechanics in the motor assessment of neurological disorders: a narrative review doi.org/10.3389/fnci...

Peripheral neural interfaces for reading high-frequency brain signals doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Now I've looked more closely at these two recent papers in Nature, and they are both excellent examples of why we need new narratives for talking about molecular biology to non-specialists. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At #ISPGR2025 we were fortunate to have @olekiehn.bsky.social as keynote today, sharing with us his cutting edge research on context-dependent locomotor pathways, with implications for understanding locomotor impairment in people with Parkinson’s disease and #DBS opportunities to treat those.

Hey so - it's been a while since NeuroImageGate (when the entire editorial board quit and formed Imaging Neuroscience). Obviously, NeuroImage hired a new board and kept running. Does anyone have any data or observations on how the two journals are doing now, relative to each other?

The decision of some Western economies to stay entangled in fossil fuel will result in losing technological edge and heavy economic losses. Germany experienced this already for ignoring electric vehicles as well as stepping back from solar energy. The US will experience the same.

Holy shit. India’s Foreign Secretary just shut down Trump’s claim he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. Modi told him: “There was never any discussion… about a trade deal or U.S. mediation… India has neither accepted mediation, nor does it do so—and never will.”

good work by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e...

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Simon Tisdall: Whether inept, driven by survival or corrupt, they are unfit to lead their countries, let alone make decisions that imperil the whole world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. Vincent Scardina, a Trump supporter, gets emotional while discussing his employees who were recently arrested by U.S. immigration authorities. Scardina owns a roofing company in Key West and says that one-third of his employees are now gone.

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

US sending migrants to legal no-mans land Guantanamo, while Europe quietly endorses the concentration-camp like migrant detention centres in Libya. US deports migrants to El Salvador, EU deports them to Tunisia. Etc. The self-proclaimed human rights champions competing in brutality against migrants

Seth gets it

🧪 The entire Fulbright Board resigned, citing the Trump administration's alleged usurpation of authority and denial of selected recipients. They assert these actions contradict the Fulbright-Hays Act and undermine the program's bipartisan mission. #AcademicSky

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

It is not that I don't feel appreciated. It is great to work with some many folks in the communities of science. I just don't get my own administration's extraordinary caution.

NetSci knows how to throw a party! 🕺🪩 👯 #NetSci2025 #ChateauNeercanne

Zeer treffende samenvatting van Pieter Derks: www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d...

There’s a lot of folks reaching to bad faith immigration policies as an anchor to understand the weaponization of science reform. This is metaphorically and practically fraught and deserves a little 🧵

There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

I'd love your input. We recently submitted a grant to the NWO Replication Studies program and received unexpectedly low marks for the quality of the replication study. The main criticism? That we proposed a multicenter (many-labs) design.

At universities, we're currently discussing whether we can still use writing assignments as assessments for students. But how about grants? Can we still use written grant proposals for the allocation of research funds given the wide use of generative AI? #myAIisbetterthanyours

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The global fMRI signal is a substantial component of the arousal response governed by the autonomic nervous system."

Just drop anything and everything you are doing and read this astonishing story. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server