Great to be part of this effort, led by Joaquim Radua, @drhannahsavage.bsky.social and Miquel Fullana, among other www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #neurosci #affectsci

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

1/ New paper by Hame Park, (@AraziAyelet), Bharath Talluri, Marco Celotto, Stefano Panzeri, Alan Stocker & Tobias Donner published in Nature Communications – “Confirmation Bias through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex”: rdcu.be/etlR7. Here is a summary:

Finally! Welcome to the blue sky, my dear friend and wonderful colleague @ulrikebingel.bsky.social 🧠

Diving into predictive timing of pain at my poster today. SIPS in beautiful and lively Kraków so far: Welcome Reception = amazing 🔥! Big shout‑out to Bąbel & team! Lots of great talks - and special appreciation for the ECR community! @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

Today I presented my poster on expectation effects on emotional processing across the lifespan at #SIPS2025 in Krakow. @sipsplacebo.bsky.social @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌 Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️ Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨

Or listen to the podcast episode from @jama.com about it: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Patients' treatment expectations may crucially affect their treatment outcomes.☝️ Our new piece in "@jama.com Insights" explores how to help patients have a better experience and better outcomes with their treatments! 🤕 Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Großartiger Erfolg! 👏 Die Uni Hamburg hat im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie den Zuschlag für vier Exzellenzcluster erhalten. Damit werden die bestehenden Exzellenzcluster ab 2026 für sieben weitere Jahre gefördert. (1/2)

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Ru Kong, Lucina Q. Uddin A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

For people interested in the spinal cord, there is now an open postdoc position at UCL working on OP-MEG of the spinal cord, with Prof. Sven Bestmann. Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A spate of research findings offer fresh evidence to the debate about whether peer reviewers should be paid for their time and expertise — a fraught topic that has provoked discussion among researchers https://go.nature.com/3QVhFc6

Advice to ‘eat your fruits and veggies’ is sound https://go.nature.com/43qUeyQ

🧪 A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/4jaZ3RB

A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what she intends to say nearly instantly https://go.nature.com/3QStZtI

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

Excited to share our latest publication from @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social! Our data highlight how neurocognitive resources influence positive expectation effects on the processing of aversive stimuli. Stay tuned for what this implies for depressed patients. rdcu.be/edRLS

Insights into cognitive mechanics from education, developmental psychology and cognitive science Review by Joshua K. Hartshorne & Mengguo Jing Web: go.nature.com/41CBdrG PDF: rdcu.be/ebGB0 #psychology #psychscisky

Ich bin wirklich schockiert über die Worte von Friedrich Merz. Das ist so dermaßen bodenlos. Das ist so dermaßen falsch (auch inhaltlich). Wir sind rhetorisch auf dem Level Trumps angekommen.

Summary of the disastrous situation for science in the US & by collaboration, globally ".. leaders hostile to science & unqualified for their roles; executive orders that restrict meetings, publications, travel & grant making; censoring ideas & even certain words" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Abstract submission extended! You can now submit your abstract to the Computational Psychiatry Conference until next Friday, 14th February #CPConf2025

There's beauty in our ability to see colors where there are none. Here, I turned one of my travel photos into a color illusion. Does it work for you? (If you want to do the same to your own photo, you can follow the instructions that I followed: bit.ly/2mjPhFA)

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

Protests are growing across Germany. This was the scene in Hamburg yesterday. 80,000 protesting against the rise of fascism and the AfD. This is what resistance looks like. (🎥 Mattheus Berg)

Hamburg ❤️

The geometry of the neural state space of decisions - looks like very cool new work, highlights utility of integrating response time distributions into neural modeling

The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience can now also be found here! 🤘 @escaneu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSkySci @mtsakiris.bsky.social @hvansteenbergen.bsky.social @silanilab.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social Please spread the word and tag fellow ESCAN members!

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Bluesky Will Launch Flashes, a Photo Sharing App and Potential Alternative to Instagram nerdist.com/article/blue...

New work from the lab now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

What a cool utility! I'd actually wondered this as most of my people are outside of oz. blueskydirectory.com/utilities/be...

Ganz Hamburg… hört selbst 😃 #hh1601

Hamburg stabil gegen Weidel und die Afd.

Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to soc media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced X for you? Tell us about it: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I share this intuition but would love to see evidence. Is anyone working on this from a CS education standpoint?

More than 60 German academic institutions left X today #eXit

@ucirvine.bsky.social is founding a new depression institute, headed by Dr Diego Pizzagalli. Diego wrote a long thread in the bad place which I won't fully copy here, but here are some highlights, including its mission and details on an upcoming cluster hire. 1/8

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great overview on brain atlases here by Revell et al! Which one is best though? Well, it's not that simple! None of them reflects "ground truth", and parcellation scale, shape, and coverage impact structure-function predictions. Good discussion in the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍾New article out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social🍾: We review how social expectations form and change in individuals with depression and how they shape the onset, course, and severity of depression. Particular emphasis is on why social expectations persist despite pos info. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Nice review of the history of the peer review system It’s increasingly clear to me this has to change - experts should be paid by journals to do this key task that adds rigour & value to scientific publications Journals have exploited academics & universities to make massive profits for too long