Tuberculosis still kills around 1.3 million people every year. It was once a massive killer in Europe and the US, but not anymore. How did these countries manage to tackle it? Our first article on TB in a three-part series: ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis...

Les visas des chercheurs, des universitaires et des étudiants pour les Etats-Unis ne seront pas accordés à celles et ceux qui ont exprimé de l'hostilité au régime autoritaire de Trump. Ces refus de visa se feront par analyse des posts sur les réseaux sociaux. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

This is fantastic, causal work demonstrating the basal ganglia’s role in explore-exploit decision making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Year ago, the prevailing attitude was that deep learning would significantly improve polygenic risk scores (or anything else, to be fair). A rather important set of negative results indicating that isn't the case (though I imagine many will still try). nature.com/articles/s41...

New in Nature MentalHealth! with Vrizzi, Najar, Lemogne, and @mael-lebreton.bsky.social We tested whether behavioural and RL-based model parameters are test-retest reliable and predict mental health traits. The result? Not really. A cautionary tale for comp. psychiatry doi.org/10.1038/s442...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

#OTD 1920 Edward Kaplan b (d 26 Sep 2006) Best known for 1958 "sleeper hit" paper describing what is now known as the Kaplan–Meier product-limit statistic for survival & lifetime data. Now one of the most cited statistics papers of modern times, it took >12 yrs to catch on. 🧵/6

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

New study in JAMA. Modelling shows that at current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again in the USA. If rates continue to decline, ditto for rubella, poliomyelitis and diphtheria, leading to many preventable hospitalisations and deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠

Such a dangerous idea. US attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' www.nbcnews.com/science/scie... Process of science – a human endeavour – full of biases. Key to recognize & counter. But can’t let false balance & middle ground fallacies taint research.

Trump proposes massive NIH budget cut and reorganization www.science.org/content/arti...

The world now has a plan for when the next global pandemic hits https://go.nature.com/43X27wg

My first Saturday morning coffee on my deck this season 😎☕️

Intéressante tribune sur l'illusion d'une université française attractive pour les chercheurs américains tentés par l'exil. Ou de l'incapacité de regarder en face les conséquences de sa propre politique. Terrible absence de sens des responsabilités... www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

"The work we reviewed here supports an alternative view that the manifold and circuit approaches to cognition are inseparable." Can I get an amen? 😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Quand Nicolas Demorand "révèle" qu'il souffre de trouble bipolaire de type 2, il ne dit rien de son affaire" 😡 En tant que psychiatre, je suis vraiment très en colère à la lecture de cet article de Charlie Hebdo de cette semaine. Un post n'est pas suffisant pour l'exprimer⬇️

Tips for getting started with Bayesian statistics dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!

Excited to share our preprint: "Recasting adaptation as strategy inference". This work explores how humans spontaneously adapt to changes by inferring strategies, rather than relying on incremental learning.@philippedomenech.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @computationalbrain.bsky.social 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

L’excellent Soulcié pour L’Est Républicain.

📣 🌈 🩺 Pétition et tribune dans @lemonde.fr : "Avant de mourir, peut-on mieux vivre ? Pour un accès compassionnel aux psychédéliques en fin de vie" par la Section Médecine Psychédélique de l'AFPBN

Improvements to brain-computer interfaces are bringing the technology closer to natural conversational speed. #neuroskyence #braincomputerinterface #speech

American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Eric Topol reviews recent studies of the shingles vaccine and dementia. 🧪

When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

New results! Working memory is read out via a theta (3-6 Hz) traveling wave sweeping across cortex. Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

🚨 !!! New preprint !!! 🚨 Excited to share my student @samibeaumont’s latest work, where we demonstrate that inference over putative strategies is sufficient to fully accounts for human adaptation across diverse statistical contexts, when reinforcement learning cannot. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #Neuroscience #Preprint

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to stimulate deep w/in the brain w/o the need for brain surgery, and without actually making a physical lesion in the brain (i.e. FUS or pallidotomy)? This paper provides 'proof of concept' that a transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) approach may be achievable.

Aussi aujourd'hui je retombe par hasard sur ce banger:

An immigration crackdown in the United States is rattling the global research community, with high-profile detentions and deportations of academics stoking fears even for travellers with valid entry documents https://go.nature.com/4iMw7PV

À faire absolument savoir. Le safran n'est PAS un traitement à recommander dans le #TDAH. Ça n'a aucune efficacité démontrée. Ce qui est vendu, c'est du rêve en réalité. Pour 32,90€ par mois (!!!) non remboursé, ça fait cher pour du vent. #SanteMentaleBusiness

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.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

Are you a (computational) neuroscientist looking for a postdoc? Come to Paris! There are plenty of great labs always looking for talent, including our own

CNRS AI rising talents program is looking for PIs in the field of ML and related disciplines. Candidates working at the interface of AI and neuroscience are encouraged to apply. Comes with a package of up to 1M€ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/...

Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social 🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺 #AcademicSky

Excited that Adam Lowet's PhD work has been just been published in @nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s415.... He has already posted about it on Twitter/X (see twitter.com/Adam_Lowet/s...), but let me re-post his thread here. 1/9

"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening." www.bmj.com/content/388/...