Feature article in @elife.bsky.social about the safelabs.info project

In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.

Wrapping up and reflecting on the year with our lab: anneurai.net/2025/12/16/2...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇 universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/

Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Het advies van het Nationaal Burgerberaad Klimaat staat online en is overhandigd aan de Tweede Kamer. #mijlpaal #klimaat #burgerberaad Advies is online te downloaden via lnkd.in/ebZvPuRD Belangrijk dat de adviezen breed gesteund worden, nu is de politiek aan zet. #klimaatcommunicatie

⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026! 🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon). Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/

In @thetransmitter.bsky.social’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025, we recognize 25 early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience. #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience bit.ly/4rnFnyQ

Te groeien of niet te groeien, dat lijkt de vraag in het klimaatdebat. Moeten we streven naar een wereld van overvloed of moeten we genoegen nemen met minder? Twee denkbeelden botsen in de strijd om de toekomst. @jaaptielbeke.bsky.social buff.ly/7NN1sT7

My latest: with @fdabl.bsky.social and JW Bolderdijk we argue that environmental psychology needs formal theory to make progress and increase real-world impact doi.org/10.1016/j.co... Part of special issue Behavioral Science for Climate Change by @madalina.bsky.social & @neurograce.bsky.social

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! I'm not at #SfN so I did my best to take a photo of the trophy I received (fun to snap a picture of the text' shadows). www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Going to @sfn.org? Come check out my poster tomorrow [LBP078], Saturday from 14-15, on how wildfire smoke exposure impacts adolescent cognitive and neural trajectories! #SfN25 #SfN2025 eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SfN25

Did a big update of our lab wiki anne-urai.github.io/lab_wiki/ with the help of the amazing SAFE labs safelabs.info guidance. Still many things to improve; happy to hear feedback from other PIs on how to further make lab wikis useful and used!

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/...

Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

Years ago I started the Green Young Academy with @sanlifaez.bsky.social & @anne-urai.bsky.social. Across meetings, zoom calls, pitches and even a meeting with the King, this grew into 2 projects launched today: A report on Universities' sustainability plans & a manifesto with sustainability pledges

Proud to share our manifesto - with a vision and concrete steps towards just sustainability transitions in Dutch academia! With @rogierk.bsky.social, De Jonge Akademie, Green Young Academy www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...

We show that pouring knowledge & beliefs about the climate crisis into students' heads DOES NOT RELATE to their collective action 🫨Thus knowledge/beliefs are insufficient for action, as Albarracin & Kahan have long shown 🤜We employed verified collective action rather than hypothetical intentions

Hi @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, perhaps weird Q: with @phil-johnson.bsky.social we have submitted a preprint which we'd love to list in a grant (deadline Tuesday 4th Nov, ~24hrs from now). Any bioRxiv affiliates who have time to take a quick look? 🙏

I've been thinking about this thread all week, about how we live with the knowledge of climate change, genocide, racism, sexism. How we wake up every morning with this knowledge and yet endeavour to be happy in our own small ways because how can we live otherwise?

Complete this sentence, "The brain is ...". What's your favorite answer? I'm team cluster 17/18. Taken from this delightful paper by Taylor Bolt and @lucinauddin.bsky.social; results of text in >4 million peer-reviewed articles + text analytic tools. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798046/

Wise cartoon posted outside a @princetonneuro.bsky.social PhD student office. Let’s all remember to enjoy the journey today (and all days).

Congratulations to our colleague @thijsbouman.bsky.social for being awarded a prestigious Vidi grant for his project A Climate of Cynicism! Thijs (together with a PhD + post doc) will examine whether cynicism rather than indifference hinders climate efforts @rug.nl epgroningen.nl/associate-pr...

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is out: How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction global-tipping-points.org

🌍 Come work with us 📢 We’re looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary team on Varieties of Climate Agency at the University of Hamburg. We’d love to hear from you! 👉 Apply here: tinyurl.com/JobUHH 🔎 Learn more about the project: lnkd.in/epDC7PK7 ❗Deadline: 31.10. More 👇

I'm trying to remember what something is called so I can google about it. Edu toy from the '80s. We had it in The Netherlands. A flat plastic box with tiles that you placed based on quizzes and questions. When you finished you flipped the box and if your answers were correct it formed a picture.

When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits The latest #ComplexityThoughts: 👉 manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern... 🎧 on Spotify and Apple #ComplexSystems #Resilience @ricardsole.bsky.social

Crazy times? We built a new resource hub to connect individuals to supports for climate traumas, eco-distress, frontline environmental work, parenting in the polycrisis, and more: take a short quiz and get a personalized care package delivered straight to you www.unthinkable.earth/resource-hub

Happening in half an hour: webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social on the role of social science in collective climate action 👇

Join me for a webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social, co-hosted by @scientists4future.nl and @scientistrebellion.nl What Now for Social Science and Local Collective Action? 13 October 2025, 20:00-21:00 (NL time)

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Hivemind, what are your favorite platforms for scientific collaborations/networks in their early stages? Listserv (Google Groups?) is easy but limited functionality + would prefer to move away from Google Dedicated channels (Slack, discord) often fall out of use Hoping to avoid platform lock-in

Excited to see @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social tomorrow to learn about the most impactful climate actions! Join the webinar 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'm looking for an intersection that might not exist, but if it does I'd be excited. I already know: - People study interventions for ecological thinking: e.g., increasing climate awareness, increasing climate action - People do work on climate-aware computing, software Does anyone do both?

🚨 first time ever full brain-wide map of the activity of single neurons during decision-making. 600k+ neurons covering 279 brain areas, which together represent 95% of the mouse brain volume! Exciting times ahead! 🐭🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurons all across the brain! Check out the flagship projects I worked on as a postdoc 👇

Decision-making modellers - any tips for interactive classroom demonstrations to teach about sequential sampling models (DDMs)? Sure, it's fine to show an RT distribution but more fun to have the students do a few trials themselves and see outcomes. Online or offline games could work.

15-17 octobre 2025 🧠Neurosciences de demain à + 2° 🌏 Quelles neurosciences à l'ère de l'Anthropocène ? Lieux : Palais du Pharo et Campus Timone, Marseille neuro22m1a2deg.sciencesconf.org 1/n

Teaching statistics 101 with some insights from Russell.

He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.

We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon