Look at Edinburgh being stunning for British Cognitive Neurosciences

Super fun paper by the awesome Michael Bukwich and team!

This is a cool paper :)

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

What an absolutely extraordinary milestone. Congrats @fmrib-steve.bsky.social @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and everyone else involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scary. Authors building in hidden instructions for presumed LLM peer reviewers (in white text on white background).

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!

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.

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 #neuro

Woohoo! Congrats Steve!!

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors🙏 elifesciences.org/articles/99848

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.

This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)

This is one of the prettiest things I have seen in a long time :)

Two extremely cool papers!

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. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

This is what the science machine does. No massive breakthrough. No single cure. Just lots and lots of cumulative knowledge that makes things better… www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nice news for ECRs in Europe. Particularly interesting: from 2027 starter grants can be directly after PhD!

Interesting approach where they stick proteins to the grid using magnets

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.

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.

💬 “It felt more like a collaboration than an exam.” Victor, Alexandra & Katerina share what it was like publishing their work through eLife’s PRC model, and how it helped them focus on what was possible rather than what was out of reach. #AcademicSky buff.ly/jTfZdpl

Strong endorse!

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/... #OpenScience

V cool work

A must read

This looks important.

This looks important.

Yeah. Papers deemed having “incomplete” or “inadequate” evidence at eLife have been published unchanged elsewhere. Web of Science (WoS) will not index the former (bc WoS claims they are “flawed”) but will index the latter (bc their deficiencies have been magically healed by “peer review”).

🌟 We’re 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 👇

Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: buff.ly/wGQWNqs Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

After every encounter with the current scientific publishing system

This is vandalism.

A major blow to worldwide science and health....self-defeating and short-sighted to assume that it is saving us $. Control of infectious diseases and prevention of outbreaks will collapse without sci funds. The cost of the pandemics-to-come will dwarf any "saving" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this article in @uk.theconversation.com on @melgaby.bsky.social & @behrenstimb.bsky.social’s (@ox.ac.uk & @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social) work revealing how cells form a map of our behavioural structures, enabling us to solve new problems. ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-we-disco...

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision

Woohoo!!!!!!

As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...

We proudly present... 🥁 our Associate Directors, who will oversee the 3 pillars of OxCIN: Laurence Hunt (Technological bridges) @lhuntneuro.bsky.social Saad Jbabdi (People & Training) @saadjbabdi.bsky.social Charlotte Stagg (Translation) www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/governance/associate-directors

So proud of @lhuntneuro.bsky.social and @saadjbabdi.bsky.social (obvs Charlie rocks too, but I can’t claim any credit there :)

Our publishing model emphasises peer reviews, eliminating accept/reject decisions in favour of high-quality, public eLife assessments. Find out exactly what this new process entails in our process page: buff.ly/TanURTC

First big new @simonsfoundation.org neuroscience collaboration launches - exciting!! The product of a HUGE competition among the best minds and teams. Congrats to this group: www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...