Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18

"Springer Nature’s group revenue has risen by 6% to €926m (£800m) in the first half of 2025, while adjusted operating profit (AOP) was up by 10% to €241m (£208m)." they could at least say thanks to all of us researchers who made that waste of public money possible 🥲

Not a good development

New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data. Guardian @theguardian.com coverage: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky

"Discover" currently has 66 journals: 25 have *identical* names to #MDPI journals, 11 are one letter off (Food vs Foods), and 22 more are clear mimics (Chemical Engineering vs. ChemEngineering). From 2020-2024, #SpringerDiscover opened 61 new journals and grew its output by 🎊 8077% 🎊 Gross! 🤮 3/n

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals. The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky. This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy. 1/n

tough times for fMRI... The main world providers being US, Russia, Algeria and Qatar

Does ChatGPT store chat logs, even after you've deleted them? Short answer: Yes.

Interesting system: "Icebox." A way to publish findings and why they've stopped. Maybe the project's completed. Maybe it hit a roadblock, or became underwhelming. One concern (that could be addressed)... 1/5

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes. Sure to generate discussion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

The quality of evidence in psychology publications has improved substantially over the last two decades, across all subareas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00427-1 a challenging paper for computational psychiatry by @stepalminteri.bsky.social @mael-lebreton.bsky.social, but it's luckily not just a black/white picture with possibly state being better captured by behavioral tasks vs trait by self-reported questionnaires

"In the US, the average age at which a scientist becomes “independent” has increased from about 35 in 1980 to 44 in 2020. That’s almost 10 fewer years in which they are most actively and vigorously pursuing their own ideas, and 10 more spent in service to the ideas of the previous generation."

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The million dollar question And the answer, naturally, is: 1. Cloud providers (offering GPU compute at scale) 2. GPU manufacturers Because LLMs need a TON of GPU compute!

Public Access > Open Access

fediscience.org/@geekoo@mast... "LLMs like ChatGPT can appear fluent while providing incorrect or incoherent answers. This behavior mirrors Wernicke’s aphasia, a human brain disorder." finally a good diagnosis of LLMs #chatgpt #LLM #aphasia

Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...

"Le terme “intelligence artificielle” m’embête, car le mot “intelligence” amène des fantasmes anthropomorphiques. Cela fait croire que ces systèmes pensent comme nous, alors que cela n’a rien à voir", explique Luc Julia à @chloew.bsky.social.

1/n Beyond the well-characterized #neuro-anatomical, -functional and -#cognitive changes, 50-70% of individuals with #Parkinson's Disease (PD) exhibit #autonomic #dysfunctions. We performed a systematic #review: shorturl.at/LEjKR

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier. Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

We show that eye-movements are selected based on effort minimization - finally final in @elife.bsky.social eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... & the 'convincing & important' paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 I consider this my coolest ever project! #VisionScience #Neuroscience

wisskomm.social/@iqwig/11422... They recommend to backup articles on europepmc in case of pubmed going down. I guess now is really the time for Europe to wake up #pubmed #europepmc

jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/03/14/JNEUROSCI.1740-24.2025 "Dissociation of value and confidence signals in the orbitofrontal cortex during decision-making: an intracerebral electrophysiology study in humans"

"LLMs can help us to think but they cannot think for us. People must read and approve what they generate before passing it on. Realizing that hallucinations are inherent in LLMs seems important before the technology is put in charge of computers, weapons and economies."

Looking into PhD studentship opportunities for any US students seeking to study abroad 🎓. There are a few I've found here... happy to chat to prospective students (I work in evolution, molecular biology, immunity, genetics). A thread 🧵 1/n

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epf... for when BlueSky will start having ads and/or will be sold to another rich guy, don't forget that there are alternatives already supported by some institutions 😊

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... This is now the article with the highest Altmetric score of all time for @mitpress.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social

We need to burn it all to the ground, figuratively.

Wow 13 years after SPM12, SPM is finally getting a refreshed update, really looking forward to the new features

Article: "SPM 25: open source neuroimaging analysis software" arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081

A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys: How would you define "cognition"?

We dont have a lizard brain that we can blame www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

fediscience.org/@NicoleCRust... "NIH issues new policy to speed access to agency-funded research results"

I'll be talking about all things metacognitive on 23rd Jan in a public lecture at the @royalsociety.org It's free to attend and will also be broadcast live on the RS YouTube channel (no pressure then 😅) royalsociety.org/science-even...