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Another cool paper from Iran: nature.com/articles/s41... Prenatal stress makes mouse offspring more anxious, hyperactive, forgetful, and more drawn to morphine while laterodorsal tegmentum cholinergic neurons become hyperexcitable. From Kerman, a city with reported violent crackdowns on protests.

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene! Talks (including mine) are online here 👇

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🎉 New Chapter Published! 🧠 Title: Neurobiological underpinnings of developmental dyscalculia 👥 Authors: Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, @alirezakr.bsky.social , @manpiazza.bsky.social #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #LearningDisabilities #Dyscalculia

Strategic omission: knowingly leaving out relevant prior work to make findings seem more novel is academic dishonesty. Adding citations later doesn’t undo the damage. Citations are credit and respect, not decoration. Call out this practice to protect integrity. #AcademicIntegrity

Feeling inspired following #DementiaActionWeek? Discover how @uclqsion.bsky.social‬ is shaping the future of dementia care and research.

Our lab at Carnegie Mellon is recruiting graduate students this year to study the development of the brain and cognition — come watch a brain develop, see how animals learn concepts, or take a canoe ride to see how folks learn across cultures. #PsychSciSky

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

Gallileo Gallilei museum. Firenze

Our Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) @prereview.bsky.social club on #semantics has produced it's first review 👏🏼 prereview.org/clubs/snl-se... We're planning the next date/paper: don't hesitate to reach out!

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!

🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad? Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas! Call opens May 8, 2025. 🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con

The President of the US and richest man on earth, unilaterally STOPPED children’s cancer research and clinical trials because they view them as “wasteful”. If this doesn’t get your feet in the streets, I don’t know what will. #standupforscience #scienceforall

I feel seen (from the second article)

📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky! From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more! 🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it #neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno

#ICYMI New review from @uclpals.bsky.social finds that measures of cognition during menopause are often inadequate.

Chris Murphy is very good here. Disappearances for political speech violate our core principles. Of course they test the waters with pro-Palestinian speech on the hope that people won’t protest, and then they can move on to everyone else. Call your congresspeople to demand that Khalil be released.

@mariamic.bsky.social benvenuta! 🤗

Just a few more days left to apply! Deadline is this Friday, 7 March. #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

POSTDOC POSITION at @kingsioppn.bsky.social The postdoc will work on an @ukri.org funded project on disadvantage, the pace of neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral... Please share and repost 🙏

The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This is the text of the bullshit email all federal government employees just received from the Office of Personnel Management (or are about to receive).

Once again, @cantlonlab.bsky.social shows us just how amazing she is at rallying the rest of us. (If you missed it, she was once a Time Person of the Year.) So inspired by you, Jessica. I’m in! time.com/time-person-...

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Attorney General, Kris Mayes of Arizona is a badass, speaking important truths to power: www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

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To all those good people who are reaching out to help others around you, and working to make this world a better place: Happy Valentine’s Day I love you ❤️

New RA position! We are looking for an excellent graduate/MSc student with some experience in developmental psy and interest in language, deafness, conceptual knowledge, infancy @psychologyuea.bsky.social

If you are interested in understanding (a bit) what the heck is going on in the two major agencies of the US government for scientific research

Literally all of my work on machine learning for brain health contains many of these words. Absolutely unbelievable.

I can’t think of a single programme of research in psychology that doesn’t use at least one word from this list. And most of biomedical science.

Academics with tenure: we aren’t supposed to cower and grovel for money like people do in other jobs. The whole point of tenure is to be liberated and courageous.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Everyone should send a copy of this to their Congressman and Senators. I did and asked why the hell they were ok with it: youtu.be/2B6gS_WyXKo

This might be hard to hear, but: We are not at the beginning of a war. We are near the end of a war many didn’t realize was being fought. This is what losing feels like. Start fighting. ___ You can start by joining @indivisible.org and/or by reading: survivethetyrant.infy.uk/SurviveTheTy...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Oh, indeed.

Debate resolved! Is the left-to-right association between numbers and space biologically or culturally determined? Our study involved: 👨‍👩‍👧 Unschooled adults (Himba, Namibia) 👶 Italian pre-schooled kids 🎓 Italian schooled adults — see comment for the findings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What are we waiting to quit x? #italianuniversities #unitn

😱 Octopus 🐙 replay? Amazing!

Dear community, here is a starter pack for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Please share it and feel free to send suggestions about people, labs etc. go.bsky.app/2WCr1TK

Can you predict the future? Your brain and your eyes can. 🧵 I had the honour of writing a @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatch in which I discuss exciting new findings from @philippbuchel.bsky.social, Klingspohr, Kehl & Staresina (2024). Read the Dispatch here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 1/3

Looking for a PhD in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience or related in Germany? One week left to apply for the Max Planck School of Cognition: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #PsychSciSky #compneurosky #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #Neuroimaging

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

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