This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.

Très contente d’avoir participé à ce super projet! En espérant inspirer les chercheurs et chercheuses à se lancer dans la vulgarisation 👩🏼‍🏫

Baby otter doing baby otter stuff

stupid #stats question: in our dataset (~150 teenagers), we observe outliers (+/-3SD from the mean). However, we know from larger datasets (n ~ 1500) that their values are credible (the variability in the general population is larger than in our sample). => Do we keep or exclude our 'outliers'?

We have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!

Two postdoc positions in the lab within the ERC Synergy project "Chronology" in collaboration with S. Ostojic, M. Jazayeri and V. van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social . Two focuses: sound sequences representations across the brain & novel all-optical technology. Contact: [email protected]

Ok, development and ethics peeps, I have a testing dilemma for you: A kid comes to the lab to take part in a neuroimaging study (EEG, MRI, cognition) with their mom. Consent is signed (only 1 legal guardian signature is required by ethics). The parents are divorced, the dad freaks out and (1)

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

The flowers are starting to pop in the park.

C'est assez hallucinant de voir un communiqué signé par 5 sociétés médicales qui soit à ce point bourré d'affirmations péremptoires non soutenues par les données scientifiques. www.sfsp.fr/images/25042... Exit la distinction corrélation-causalité, toute prudence a été abandonnée (comparé au 🧵

There's a PhD studentship opportunity available at the Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences! 4 years, funded by working as a graduate teaching assistant. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD691/p...

Nos bébés seraient des génies de l’apprentissage ? Interview avec Julie Bertels, spécialiste des capacités d’attention et d’apprentissage des bébés au cours de leurs 1ers mois de vie et in utero ! Pour écouter c’est par ici : milgram.ulb.be/julie-bertels/ Photo: J. Vanooteghem/Unsplash

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

QUESTIONNAIRE MEMOIRE SURDITÉ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Sometimes Brussels is absolutely stunning

Children working in markets in India could solve complex applied math problems, but they couldn't solve easier problems when presented in an academic style. Kids in school had opposite results: good on abstract problems, but terrible on an applied market (i.e., real life) problem.

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

New preprint ! 🧠 Neural signatures of (nonlinguistic) stream segregation keep maturing from childhood to adulthood. The amplitude of the P400 (one of those "signatures") predicts speech perception in noise - already in kids. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come along to my (free, online) UCL NeuroAI talk next week on neural architectures. What are they good for? All will finally be revealed and you'll never have to think about that question again afterwards. Yep. Definitely that.

2025 FLUX Conference Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️ Local Organising Committee: Rhodri Cusack (Chair) Hugh Garavan John J Foxe Robert Whelan Catherine Fassbender Flavia H. Santos fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/

Researchers paid nearly $9 billion to publishers between 2019 and 2023 so you could read our work. Why? Why??

Does it make sense to share a pre-print while it gets reviewed in a double-blind way? Or should we just wait?

I know I’m getting older because Notion makes ZERO sense to me, but the kids today are so fluent with it. I’ve sit down a few times with the only goal to « get good at it », but … I guess I’ll stick to post-it everywhere, all the time

New funding call: Want to contribute to transparency and reliability in research? Open Science NL offers funding for replication studies across all disciplines. Apply by 6 March 2025, with budgets of up to €200,000. Find out more in the Call for Proposals 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/new-...

Shocked and saddened to learn that our colleague Igor Zyma from Taras Shevchenko University and his wife Olesia Sokur were targeted and killed by a Russian drone attack https://unn.ua/en/news/russian-attack-on-the-capital-ukrainian-neuroscientist-igor-zima-and-his-wife-killed

Mary Poppins, a beautiful story where a nanny and some parkouring chimney sweeps teach children, through the medium of witchcraft, about CLASS WAR.

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Un petit résumé en français de notre dernière étude, sur le site du @cnrs.bsky.social : "Cartographier la perception des phonèmes du français" www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm

Stream segregation, musical abilities, and the development of speech perception in noise https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39636231/

Stream segregation really is a key component that supports speech perception in noise, mediating effects of development (8-23 years) and musical abilities. New paper here: pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...

**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

Look who’s back ? (Pun intended) - this is proof that I did work on several manuscripts this year. Hopefully out soon : )

And here’s the trick, if you’re curious: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office... On top of accessibility, it was amazing to be able to « check the previous idea » in the subtitles at times - even if the talk was crystal clear - making up for attention lapses

Interested in doing a PhD on how to help people learn a new language? We have an ESRC-funded PhD studentship available, to work on the project ‘Individualised second language learning’ from Oct 2025. Application deadline is 3 Dec. More information at www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab! We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT! Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/