I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Just got home (well, just woke up after getting home) from this year's @achems.bsky.social Conference! I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity to present my work to such a lovely group of people at the Polak Young Investigator session, and I received a lot of useful feedback.

Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databs

Open files in external programs with Positron or Visual Studio Code | Andrew Heiss

Positron is great for code, but macOS has better programs specifically for writing with Markdown. Quickly open a Quarto file in an external program with tasks.

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Two programs of research diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both... 1) Work that incrementally advances human knowledge 2) The replication crisis

Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.

Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)

xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Car Size

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Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-... Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact? A contribution that altered policy or practice... A paper that extinguished an active area of research... An uncredited gem...

Paweł Lenartowicz@freestylerscientist.pl · 9mo ago

Ericsson & Simon (1980) Verbal reports as data. 8671 citations, and its impact and 'citation coverage' could be higher.

My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~ osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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Are you a woman in midlife (or older) who has struggled with an eating disorder as an adult? A new anthology, “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder,”is looking for your story in the form of a personal essay!  You can read more about the anthology and submit your writing here!

If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon. Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️

too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation (how do we stop this disinformation) when you should really ask a second (how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)

Ever thought that food tastes bland when you have a cold? In this piece, I explain how that happens as I summarise my latest article on the neural encoding of odours in the canonical taste cortex! theconversation.com/smell-trigge...

Smell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anything

Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.

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Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...

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Police and military brutality in Indonesia is escalating exponentially. Military personnel are laying siege to universities (Unispa & Unpas) in the middle of the night, with rubber bullets and tear gas. youtube.com/shorts/IeuDh...

KAMPUS UNISBA DAN UNPAS TAMANSARI DISERANG APARAT MALAM INI! #unisba #unpas #tamansari

YouTube video by Dinamika politik

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tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again

Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.

Photos: Indonesia protesters clash with riot police as tensions soar

Deadly protests erupt across Indonesia after police vehicle kills motorcycle taxi driver, causing public outrage.

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Come by and have a chat about crossmodal flavour representation in the insula! #OHBM2025

Good read on the need for us to integrate fMRI research with other fields of neuroscience. Now to look at how I can do it in my own work... 🤔

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

Until recently, in-vivo brain imaging has largely been absent from… integrative efforts, limiting the opportunities to contribute our discoveries, theories or vision toward a comprehensive view of brain function, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research | Nature Metabolism Great collaboration led by Satchin Panda and team! Happy to contribute. Time to take timing into consideration!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism

This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩 To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out: doi.org/10.1162/imag... Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶

Beyond oscillations - Toward a richer characterization of brain states

Abstract. Our moment-to-moment conscious experience is paced by transitions between states, each one corresponding to a change in the electromagnetic brain activity. One consolidated analytical choice...

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Elio Balestrieri@eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share the first preprint of my postdoc! We explored a novel features space to describe M-EEG timeseries. These features are highly informative in differentiating brain states, even more than canonical features like power in predefined frequency bands! :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

[deep sigh] ourobor-ass

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · last yr.

A snake eating its tail doesn't capture the stupidity of current times. What's going on now is more like a snake sticking its head up its own ass.

Pretty much agree with this

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · last yr.

The only way "clear scientific consensus" would show that AI is more effective than human teachers is if we define education down to what the AI can deliver, a condition which we've been approaching for years prior to the arrival of ChatGPT. We should use the occasion to re-examine our values.

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow. This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.

Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space - Communications Biology

Using multivariate fMRI analysis, this study reveals how medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC and lOFC) construct cognitive maps of abstract task space, advancing understanding of decision-ma...

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