🚨Now out in Science Advances @science.org: #Parkinson's patients off dopamine medication (PD-) explore too much and exploit too little. Modeling shows they overvalue uncertainty, not that they choose randomly. On levodopa (PD+) they become comparable to controls www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵👇

Dopamine depletion in Parkinson’s increases directed but not random exploration

Levodopa restores the balance between exploration and exploitation in Parkinson’s disease.

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Five autistics walk into an autism support group - before immediately realising what a stupid fucking idea that was. And that’s before the mysterious earthquake and useless magic powers. It’s a Superpower?? Chapter One is out!! allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

Really pleased that our new paper has been published in The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, looking at #ADHD prevalence and incidence over the past 25 years in England. You can find the paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ⬇️ More info below. @kingsioppn.bsky.social

i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N

Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Interested in research integrity, reproducibility, open science, or research culture? Join the King's Open Research Summer School for five days of talks, workshops, and discussion with leading researchers trying to improve science. Register free; open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kings-...

The latest episode of the Blindboy Podcast is about Autistic flow, and by extension monotropism (although he doesn't use the word). He discuses Towards Autistic Flow Theory (2024) and Transitioning in and out of Autistic Flow (2026). Links & further reading below. podcastaddict.com/the-blindboy...

by artist JB Cornish

When it comes to blood flow in the brain, not all neurons are created equal. Rather, only a subset of neurons may be driving vascular changes, a new study finds. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neurovascula...

Arousal neuron activity explains brain blood flow in mice

The findings could impact how researchers interpret signals from techniques that use blood flow as a surrogate for neural activity.

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Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds

The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

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This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature

Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

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How to motivate autistic students: Let them access their strongly held interests! School staff won't need to prompt them much—or even at all, plus the students will be more motivated, independent, & relaxed than when given repetitive tasks. By @thewoodbug.bsky.social: woodbug.blog/2019/03/27/a...

Autistic children and intense interests: the key to their educational inclusion?

Autistic children and adults are often described as ‘obsessive’ or as having ‘narrow’, ‘restricted’ or ‘circumscribed’ interests. And when this trait…

woodbug.blog

When they say the left hates technology ask what? 🚬 or 📚? AI or paper & pens? Redefine tech to mean pollution causing bs and you can say we're anti tech. > Let's talk about the benefits of existing technology. A book isn't full of pop-ups and ads, and it doesn't funnel money and power to big tech.

Felienne Hermans@felienne.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Skipped a week, sorry non-Dutch friends! But this week's newsletter is translated again! www.felienne.nl/2026-14/#eng... (Including a translation of my opening remarks in The Dutch Parliament this week on AI in schools)

Jay Chester, 48, who regularly puts their foot in their mouth during routine social interactions, often redrafts their faux-pas over the course of the following weeks, months or years – but to their dismay, their attempts to submit their revised chitchat has been met with confusion

Autistic writer upset they can’t submit second draft of conversation

An autistic writer has reportedly been left “frustrated” that they are unable to submit the second draft of the very stupid thing they just said in casual conversation. Jay Chester, 48, who regularly…

thedailytism.com

Really important points at the core of debates on the ethical use of AI in all of healthcare, education and research

King's College London@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“AI must be compatible not just with individual users, but with the communities whose collective questioning defines what a practice is for.” In the latest issue of @nature.com, Professor Sylvie Delacroix, from @kcllaw.bsky.social explores the challenges of AI interpretability. ⬇️

Thrilled to share our new paper, which shows that the relative timing of cholinergic and dopamine release dynamically gates whether dopamine acts as an RPE for in vivo plasticity and reinforcement learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving

Nature Neuroscience - Jang et al. measured dopamine and acetylcholine release in the striatum of rats performing a decision-making task and found that the relative timing of cholinergic and...

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Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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As a parent of Corkonian children, I'm required to have this song in my playlist. And so it pops up every so often, but honestly it *always* hits right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=njE3...

“The Spark” - Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew

YouTube video by The Kabin Studio

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Very excited to post our paper led by @daburke.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... where we uncover a simple mathematical rule underlying how brains learn that a cue predicts a reward. 1/26

Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning - Nature Neuroscience

Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...

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I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Nice blog by a programmer giving his experience of AI in its current form www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th...

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

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A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6mo ago

Some people confuse correlation and causation, some people confuse causation and “deterministic direct 1:1 causation” 🥲

📢NEW OP-ED! Together with the brilliant @taniaduarte.bsky.social, @markwong.bsky.social, @suoman.bsky.social & @timdavies.org.uk we wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social why the new UK Government AI Skills Hub is undermining our democracy. Our 🔑 points are->🧵 www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...

The Real Cost of the UK’s ‘Free AI Training for All’ is Democracy

Researchers argue the UK's 'AI Skills Hub' should be re-thought with input from civil society groups and public interest organizations.

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The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

The publisher estimates the Bayesian Workflow book will ship in June www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Wor...

Bayesian Workflow

Bayesian statistics and statistical practice have evolved over the years, driven by advancements in theory, methods, and computational tools. This book explores the intricate workflows of applied Baye...

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Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Annika Külpmann@anniria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵