“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

#Art #Culture 🖼️ "Orsay vu par le Collège de France" 🖼️ Dialogues entre des professeurs Collège de France et les conservatrices et conservateurs du  @museeorsay.bsky.social. 🖼️ Avec les Prs Anne Cheng, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Henry Laurens et @standehaene.bsky.social . 👉 https://tinyurl.com/mvhdnw6v

Les capacités de concentration humaine sont-elles tombées en-dessous de celle d'un poisson rouge? Non, d'après une méta-analyse de 287 études sur 21000 participants dans 32 pays, elles sont restées stables de 2000 à 2020 (chez les enfants, et ont légèrement progressé chez les adultes).

Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.

An important upcoming meeting: sto.stanfordtickets.org/ethical-and-...

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36... Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I love the audacity of some nature/science papers on psych "you're wondering about nature v nurture? cool we studied ALL THE KIDS IN FRANCE" (upshot is that sex differences in math performance are driven by schooling, not age) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I was going through my open tabs and realized I forgot to highlight this great News & Views in @nature.com by John List and Andrew Simon discussing @standehaene.bsky.social et al's paper showing that a gender gap in math arises soon after children begin school 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Droit de réponse à "l'enquête" de Marie Dupin, Cellule investigation de Radio France, France Info: ramus-meninges.fr/2025/06/20/d...

Do girls and boys really differ in their mathematical skills? A recent @nature.com paper by @standehaene.bsky.social et al shows that French boys and girls enter school with similar abilities, but after just four months, boys pull ahead 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Je précise que l'article est purement descriptif, tout comme l'est la note de la DEPP documentant l'évolution de ces écarts au fil des niveaux scolaires. Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique. www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...

Un résumé dans le Monde: www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Publication dans la revue Nature de l'étude montrant l'apparition des écarts garçons-filles en mathématiques au cours du CP: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

#Éducation #Éducation #Genre Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot. 👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...

The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted 🧪 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink. See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille. Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants. Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express: www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

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 🧵

Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria

A great position opening at NeuroSpin— with access to the world’s strongest human MRI, the Iseult 11.7 Tesla magnet!

I’m interested in how we can better communicate genetic science, when cool soundbites may confuse more than they clarify. An example: “You share 98.8% of your genes with a chimpanzee!” Is this true? What does it really mean? Let’s unpack this oft-quoted pearl of wisdom in a 🧵 all about sharing. 🧪1/n

Le cycle de conférences « agir pour l’éducation » du Collège de France @collegedefrance.bsky.social se poursuit sur le thème « réenchanter les maths à l’école » Avec de nouvelles stars à venir: Naama Friedmann Monica Neagoy Emmanuel Sander www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...

New preprint from the lab: Aakash Agrawal and I use 7T fMRI and MEG to dissect the cortical stages of invariant word recognition and test our recent theoretical proposal of an ordinal letter code in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A huge thanks to Rockefeller University, and particularly to President Richard Lifton, for their wonderful hospitality!

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Après la crème quantique de Guerlain, voici les lunettes pour dyslexiques d'Atol (500 € quand même) basées sur une "découverte révolutionnaire française"... qui s'avère n'être qu'une étude douteuse à la méthodologie bancale et au conclusions plus que discutables. #Bullshit youtu.be/xxUX-DT1hAs?...

From Cambridge and NeuroSpin with love— congratulations to all the researchers and clinicians involved. The paper is here : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A detailed model of conscious ignition in the primate brain, using realistic whole-brain connectivity and making validated predictions for AMPA/NMDA receptor ratios. Congratulations Ulysse!

Congrats to @standehaene.bsky.social, who will be presented with the 2025 Lewis Thomas Prize on Monday! Dr. Dehaene is being honored with Rockefeller’s prestigious science writing award for his writings that demystify the inner workings of the mind.

Please spread the word!! We are accepting applications for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Computational and Cognitive Summer School in Suzhou, China. Dates: June 29 to July 20 of 2025. Application deadline: March 31. #computationalneuroscience. For the top three reasons to attend, see thread below:

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target. They will not be spared. www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

Love a good no-report study! By @michaelthecohen.bsky.social et al. Intriguing similarities between neural correlates of conscious perception of faces here with those of auditory stimuli in Sergent 2021. I wonder if this neural signal is content-specific or not. doi.org/10.1093/cerc... #neuroskyence

Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

Call for new research group leaders… literally 50 meters from NeuroSpin and its 6 MRI magnets and MEG! Come work with us !

Deux conférences sont déjà disponibles en haute qualité sur le site du Collège de France: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...

Delighted and honored to soon receive the Lewis Thomas Prize for writing about science ! For my two recent books « How we learn » and « Seeing the mind » I’ll be giving a lecture at Rockefeller on Seeing the mind: Past, present and future of brain imaging research www.rockefeller.edu/lewis-thomas...

🔥”Brain-to-Text Decoding” is now out on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17480 Our paper from AI at Meta and @bcbl.bsky.social presents Brain2Qwerty, an AI model that decodes text from non-invasive recordings of the brain. Below a detailed thread 🧵1/7

The thread from our latest study:

Encore une étude basée sur un échantillon représentatif de la population qui trouve la même chose que nous: les élèves surdoués réussissent mieux scolairement, ont moins de problèmes de comportement, et ne sont pas différents des autres en termes de fonctionnement social et émotionnel. ⬇️

2.5 years after ‘the great debate’ at ASSC Amsterdam, we revisit it: Lamme, @standehaene.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social , Boly and @anilseth.bsky.social present their theories, and Melloni and myself try to extract some insights and criticisms. >>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models": LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w... LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...

Un nouveau numéro du "Passeur", la lettre gratuite du Conseil Scientifique de l'éducation nationale @csen-officiel.bsky.social "COMMENT UTILISER LES RÉSULTATS DES ÉVALUATIONS NATIONALES POUR MIEUX AIDER LES ÉLÈVES ?" www.reseau-canope.fr/conseil-scie...

New paper from the lab! Mathias Sablé-Meyer used behavior, fMRI and MEG to study the mental representation of geometric shapes (quadrilaterals ranging in regularity from squares and rectangles to random figures). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...