Susan Leemburg
@susanleemburg.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, EEG enthusiast, hunter of spikes, rat teacher, LED fan. she/her working at Medical Faculty in Pilsen, Charles University, CZ
If you play American football, you will get CTE. Almost all of 338 ex-players who died in 2008-21 and donated their brains had CTE. It's possible that the other 1374 who died in that period were all fine, but seems unlikely to me. CTE risk is between ~18 and ~99%. Horrifying. @nicoleackermans.com
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One of the many odd things from these academic freedom avengers: "He should be able to work on this completely discredited idea because he's a philosopher." I guess they think it's a soft bullshit discipline that must/can be completely divorced from other knowledge. Fuck philosophy I guess?
telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"
Guess you can only be blessed by the bikesharing gods once per week 😭
I watched "The Residence" because of @technicaltea.show and it was delightful. Netflix hid that from me. Netflix then recommended Mr. Mercedes as more of the same delight and I'd like a word with that algorithm please 😕
1) looks interesting and I wonder if this would work for neural data 2) o no, yet another thing called bonsai
Erik van Nimwegen@erikvannimwegen.bsky.social · last wk.Remember this? bsky.app/profile/did:... Rigorous visualization of the structure in your high-dimensional data. Fantastic work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social With help of the reviewers of Nat Biotech it is now updated, extended an officially published here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
Somewhat related to my zbiotics thread: they are not the only ones who publish limited results while making soaring claims. See for example this episode of conspirituality about the book Disrupted Science. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/boo...
Book Club: How the Internet Disrupted Science — Conspirituality
How the Internet Disrupted Science is an enlightening gaze into the shady world of for-profit and open access scientific publishing. Authors Kent Anderson and Joy Moore join Derek to discuss their exc...
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I was going to make fun of podcasters who are selling generic viagra, but at least that's a proven effective medication.
I’ve been hearing this stupid “Get totally wasted without a hangover with our supplement!” ad everywhere and when a youtube lawyer yelled “Proven effective. We read the whitepaper and so should you!” I snapped and did it. Also, the phrase “rough mornings after drinking” should be banned.
Hey @pintofscience.ch, they're at your place!
Dr Elodie Chabrol@eloscicomm.bsky.social · 2w ago🏆Les Ig Nobel s'installent en Europe et vous pouvez vivre la cérémonie officielle depuis Paris ! @psl-univ.bsky.social 📅 Jeudi 3 septembre 2026 🕠 À partir de 17 h 45 📍 Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, Paris 🎟️ Événement gratuit sur inscription - 100% en anglais my.weezevent.com/ig-nobel-36t...
Hey @nrc.nl, waarom noemen jullie hem niet gewoon een racist? Of iets als "voorstander van wetenchappelijk racisme"? www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
‘Rassenrealist’ die affaire-Arday aanzwengelde wordt geschorst door Gentse universiteit
Controverse: De aanstelling van Nathan Cofnas als onderzoeker in Gent leidde al eerder tot protest. Wie is deze filosoof, die zichzelf „rassenrealist” noemt en strijdt tegen ‘duivels’ diversiteitsbele...
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Also, we're approaching "will anyone show up to the lecture" season again. How fun 😐
Well shit man, not using the genAI bots feels more and more untenable. I'd like to be good at my job and not feel like a complete hypocrite (not more than usual anyway).
Gotta love a list of tips that goes from bare minimum to completely creative ideas that sound like a nightmare in pratice www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings
Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
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Have any of you started an investigator-initiated study in collaboration with a pharma company? How did you approach them? What kind of information should I sent for a first proposal/email?
This talk also sounded the most alchemical about LLMs. The model only works when the correct incantations are used (you're smart! you're creative!) in combination with the right kind of markdown sigils (*_*). Very Rudolf II
While I’m on the topic of still being annoyed by a conference that happened a month ago: I’m in systems-neuroscience (sorta) and was looking forward to Ken Harris’s talk. Instead of new exciting things, we got: 1) a re-introduction to perception as manifolds (it’s fine) and 2) the Big New Thing
Catching up with my post #FENS2026 notes and I came across something that still bothers me. I'm more frustrated than anything else, so 🧵 In the Brain Debate, the panel discussed what arguments to make to elected officials in favor of the continued use of experimental animals in (neuro)science.
Until we get some more info than a ******** in a tweet, I'm going to assume that Elder Scrolls 6 exists in the same place as ASOIAF 6.
"But AI companies would never steal from you. You're not a big coder" Well guess what you guys...
"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"
Helen Grant@helengrantsays.bsky.social · last mo.The poster session is until 17.30. Why is the the right side of the exhibition hall a ghost town? Half of the posters are gone too. #fens2026
And finally on Wednesday afternoon, Parvathi Satheesh will take you from cellular phenotypes to CRISPR-based genome editing in a mouse model of SCA1
Also on Wednesday afternoon, Nilpawan Roy Chaudhury presents about Abnormalities of the Lurcher Mouse and Diazepam Treatment for Stress Reactivity
