Interested in the neuroscience of dietary decisions? Check out our lab's latest preprint led by Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ @tgro.bsky.social, @laurencf.bsky.social, Stefan Bode, @paulmgarrett.bsky.social Explainer thread below 1/n

The Centroparietal Positivity Traces the Path of Evidence Accumulation During Dietary Decisions

Each day we make dozens of decisions about food. These choices are informed not only by information that we receive from our senses, but also by our memories, values, cultural norms, and goals. Eviden...

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Safeguarding humanity!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Pope Leo on Monday set out a sweeping A.I. vision, warning leaders to safeguard humanity from the technology's most disruptive effects.

Maybe our capacity for attentions spans isn't changing but if our motivation to span attention is changing the problem is still there. Food overabundance brought us eating disorders. Information overabundance brought us dysfunctional attentional habits? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

nature.com

The fascinating mystery of the Arousal+ neurons. Who are they? What do they do?

Agnès Landemard@agnesland.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Fucking wow! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own

theguardian.com

www.socialeurope.eu/taking-the-b...

Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously

The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.

socialeurope.eu

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Quite nice to read this paper after my last lecture on the psychology of AI discussing similar predictions about the detrimental role of AI sycophancy in social interactions. Important policy implications in terms of regulation recognising sycophancy as harmful

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

science.org

10 years on, still no justice for Giulio. Join us next Sunday to demand answers and mourn a defender of human rights and a seeker of truth. Giulio disappeared while researching independent trade unions in Egypt in 2016. His body was later found, but the world has had no answers.

Social media use predicted later inattentiveness among 8324 US children in the later 2010s. Looking forward to see replications across social media types, usage (scrolling I suspect much more important than interacting with comments) and cultures. theconversation.com/social-media...

Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds

A study of 8,000 children suggests social media, not screens in general, may be fuelling a rise in inattention.

theconversation.com

The world is watching @cop30brazil.bsky.social. Show leadership and add the fossil fuel phase-out roadmap to the #COP30 agreement. Listen to @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social and follow the 80+ countries that want justice! Make fossil history!

The debate on evidence accumulation in decisions continues, well done to @laurencf.bsky.social and @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social for this inspiring preprint validating our earlier work on neural correlates of evidence accumulation in value-based decisions.

Dan Feuerriegel@danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain? We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong) 1/n

A recent report of a brain injury during a clinical trial using transcranial ultrasound (TUS) has prompted the case reviewers Kim Butts Pauly and @efouragnan.bsky.social to make their concerns public. If you are interested in TUS read their letter here: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog shorturl.at/SUmix

Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder

sciencedirect.com

Very nice new framework for social games flexibly combining continuous social interactions with their sensorimotor implementation. A wonderful work of @violapriesemann.bsky.social and colleagues. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot... fascinating reading

Organoids and assembloids offer a new window into human brain

These sophisticated 3D cultures reveal previously inaccessible stages of human brain development and enable the systematic study of disease genes.

thetransmitter.org

Congratulations @mkwittmann.bsky.social and all the authors, quite a brilliant paradigm and fascinating set of studies about how humans may simplify in their brain the complex world of social interactions

Marco K Wittmann@mkwittmann.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

I did my phd with @andrea-benucci.bsky.social and I can only recommend working with him if you are interested in perception and want to gain experience with optogenetics and imaging methods. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Optogenetic Control of Texture Perception in the Visual Cortex at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Optogenetic Control of Texture Perception in the Visual Cortex at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

thelancet.com

🧵 Addio Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ricostruire le nostre case digitali | @ariannaciccone.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/facebook-ins... via @valigiablu.it

Addio Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ricostruire le nostre case digitali - Valigia Blu

La radicalizzazione di Mark Zuckerberg, l'assalto all'informazione e alla democrazia della nuova oligarchia tech americana, addio a Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ri-costruire la nostra casa digitale.

valigiablu.it

"There is a sadness in this world, for we are ignorant of many things. Yes, we are ignorant of many beautiful things — things like the truth." - Log Lady www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

theguardian.com

www.science.org/content/arti... Boring is interesting (and so is boredom for that matter)

As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings

Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community

science.org

@andreapisauro.bsky.social www.questionegiustizia.it/articolo/sul...

Sul delitto Matteotti, e oltre

Sul delitto Matteotti, e oltre Rivista Questione Giustizia di Magistratura Democratica.

questionegiustizia.it

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

The fall of the Syrian regime might end a long civil war, but war continues in Gaza with fragile ceasefire in Lebanon. This open letter by more than 1000 psycho/neuroscientists calls for peace & pressure on Israel including stopping provision of arms. To read&sign: sites.google.com/view/psychne...

Dilly Ding Dilly Dong 💛❤️

AS Roma@asromaoficial.bsky.social · 2y ago

Claudio Ranieri è il nuovo Responsabile Tecnico della Prima Squadra Bentornato a casa, mister! 💛❤️

Might be relevant for people leaving #twitter/x one thing I did before closing my account was downloading its archive which is useful if you want to keep track of your former twitter life. And it may also be safer in your hard drive than on a public account! help.x.com/en/managing-...

How to download your X archive and Posts | X Help

It's easy to download your X archive from your first post to your last. Here's how.

help.x.com

A million a day is quite significant

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2y ago

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

Today at a news conference in Rome Keir Starmer commended the “remarkable progress” the far right Italian government has made on immigration. Here’s Amnesty International’s highly critical statement on the human rights violations the Italian govt has been accused of. A model to follow? No thanks.