I hope this one gets an #IgNobel would be well deserved

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Another AI-fabricated book from Top Quality academic publisher Spring Nature.

Publication charges

#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️ 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...

Proton 💙

"This decision by the CNRS will help the organisation save €1.4 million annually in subscription fees, funds that will be redirected towards initiatives promoting open science, particularly the development of open databases." YES! #scientificPublishing

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

"commercial publishing is becoming increasingly detached from the needs and interests of researchers and now serve profits, not science"

Anyone understands why such a big part of internet depends on one single US-based company? That sounds like a terrible security flaw on so many levels (sovereignity, vulnerability, etc.)

EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...

R.I.P. US-based research 😅

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse. It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so. 4/n

"Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access)"

Not super reassuring for young european researchers 😅 thank you Donald

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss. 🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici... 💰Early bird fee ends November 9th! #ABIM2026 #neuroimaging

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured. Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)! Interested? Check it out ⬇️

Excited to share such a career milestone 🌟 Our new @pnas.org paper shows how E–I balance drives dynamic brain adaptation. Thanks to @jorgejovicich.bsky.social, @dimitrivdv.bsky.social, @asiaferrari.bsky.social, @bcassone.bsky.social & amazing co-authors 🙏 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just discovered (a bit late I admit) this fascinating talk from @hugospiers.bsky.social Now I really want to play that SeaHeroQuest game! Hope it gets available again soon!

New paper from the lab on the predictive role of prefrontal cortex metabolites in motivated effortful behavior in humans. Congrats to Arthur Barakat and @nclairis.bsky.social who led the work & to all our collaborators!

Arthur's main & final PhD paper is finally out! In it, we show that a few metabolites (mainly glutamate, aspartate and lactate) measured at baseline with 1H-MRS in the dmPFC/dACC allow to predict inter-individual differences in the motivation to engage with cognitively effortful tasks! 1/2

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...

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