Tim Behrens
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Slowly becoming a neuroscientist. EiC
@elife.bsky.social
pinned post!
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
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eLife
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Help us challenge the traditional publishing system. Find out why you should send your research to eLife:
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Looks quite good this year :)
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Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Opportunity of the year!!!! Whittington lab is live and hiringā¦
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Super fun New blog post about
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awesome preprint.
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
28 days ago
How does the prefrontal cortex plan? New research from
@kristorpjensen.bsky.social
& colleagues proposes a āspacetime attractorā model, showing that the brain may plan using the same principles it uses to fill in missing information about the present.
www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/new...
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Helen Barron
about 1 month ago
** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memoryš Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR:
tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj
Happy to chat to interested applicants.
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Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu
https://tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
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Laurence Hunt
about 1 month ago
Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with
@mkflugge.bsky.social
, collabs with
@lilweb.bsky.social
+ industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
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Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry
https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/graduateschool/mrcdtp/how-to-apply/icase-2026/development-of-robust-single-subject-markers-of-predictive-inference-for-computational-psychiatry
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
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šAre you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! š° Fully-funded 4-year programme ā¹ļø
www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
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Kris Jensen
about 1 month ago
Iām super excited to finally put my recent work with
@behrenstimb.bsky.social
on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome
@kristorpjensen.bsky.social
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Awesome 4 year phd in compsys neuro !!
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This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome
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Look at Edinburgh being stunning for British Cognitive Neurosciences
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Super fun paper by the awesome Michael Bukwich and team!
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This is a cool paper :)
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
4 months ago
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase āThereās no such thing as a free lunchā. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is āThe only free cheese is in the mousetrapā - which is so much better
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What an absolutely extraordinary milestone. Congrats
@fmrib-steve.bsky.social
@fmrib-karla.bsky.social
and everyone else involved.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th UK volunteer
UK Biobank scientists say the human body can be studied in greater detail than ever thanks to people like Steve.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d65jvznvzo
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Scary. Authors building in hidden instructions for presumed LLM peer reviewers (in white text on white background).
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Let's say you have a journal that isn't worried about protecting an impact factor, so it didn't need to package a million results into a single paper (to maximise citation-to-publication ratio). What would you do? Couple of suggestions below. Others very much appreciated!
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Or perhaps we could use citations to add evidence to a scientific point?? It is so depressing that even with something as simple as a citation we have confounded the way we communicate science with credit assignment.
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Tim Vogels
4 months ago
Here is your last reminder that the application deadline for
Imbizo.Africa
is nearing quickly, the 1st of July, in fact tomorrow. Still the place where diversity is at its best in the world! Tell all who need to hear.
#africa
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#Imbizo - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo - #Imbizo
Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo summer school in Cape Town, South Africa
https://Imbizo.Africa
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Woohoo! Congrats Steve!!
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
5 months ago
š„° Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication š! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authorsš
elifesciences.org/articles/99848
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Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here
EPFL researchers introduce CellSeg3D, a self-supervised tool for 3D cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy, eliminating the need for manual labeling and enhancing accessibility for various biolo...
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/self-supervised-label-free-3d-cell-imaging-is-here/
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This is an excellent step towards transparency but it still hides the majority of reviews. The next (and most important) step is to publish all reviews and get rid of the arbitrary decision.
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This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)
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This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)
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Two extremely cool papers!
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
5 months ago
We're proud to share that
@mehranahmadlou.bsky.social
, Senior Research Fellow at SWC, will join
@oxforddpag.bsky.social
as a Group Leader. His new lab will study the neural basis of flexible behaviour and its relevance for neuropsychiatric disorders.
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This is what the science machine does. No massive breakthrough. No single cure. Just lots and lots of cumulative knowledge that makes things betterā¦
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK cancer survival rate doubles since 1970s amid āgolden ageā, report says
Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more after advances in diagnosis and treatment
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/03/uk-cancer-survival-rate-doubles-1970s-golden-age-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nice news for ECRs in Europe. Particularly interesting: from 2027 starter grants can be directly after PhD!
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Simon Bayly
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Interesting approach where they stick proteins to the grid using magnets
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Pete Buttigieg
6 months ago
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Dan Goodman
6 months ago
Very happy to see this message that science publishers are not only a waste of money, but are actually distorting the scientific process itself, slowing down progress. This has been the key argument for me for a while. The waste of resources is bad, but the distortion of science is unforgivable.
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eLife
6 months ago
š¬ āIt felt more like a collaboration than an exam.ā Victor, Alexandra & Katerina share what it was like publishing their work through eLifeās PRC model, and how it helped them focus on what was possible rather than what was out of reach.
#AcademicSky
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Publishing with eLife: āmore a process of a collaboration than an exam you need to passā
An author team shares their experience of eLifeās collaborative publishing process.
https://buff.ly/jTfZdpl
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Strong endorse!
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George Currie
6 months ago
Does publishing serve science or is science serving publishing? Damian Pattinson and I (
@elife.bsky.social
) argue scientific publishing has evolved into a system that, rather than facilitate scholarly communication, distorts and dictates it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Prof Rick Adams
6 months ago
V cool work
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Prof Christina Pagel
6 months ago
A must read
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This looks important.
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This looks important.
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PlantEvolution š±š¾
6 months ago
Yeah. Papers deemed having āincompleteā or āinadequateā evidence at eLife have been published unchanged elsewhere. Web of Science (WoS) will not index the former (bc WoS claims they are āflawedā) but will index the latter (bc their deficiencies have been magically healed by āpeer reviewā).
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eLife
6 months ago
š Weāre proud to have been named an inaugural winner of the
@crossref.bsky.social
Metadata Excellence Awards today for our commitment to high-quality metadata in the research we publish. Read more below š
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eLife
6 months ago
Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor:
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Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institutionās stance on the
#ImpactFactor
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