🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The links we find between personality and a wide array of medical, social and psychological outcome sugests we should take personality seriously as an exposure, a confounder, and a source of study selection. Personality appears highly relevant beyond the disiplinary boundaries of psychology.

Speech production is fast, complicated, cool (when the right thing is said...) Covert speech is a nice trick to study this. If you like speech planning, forward models, efference copies, brains this work is (we hope) helpful to clarify the brain mechs. #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Temporally structured motor and auditory representations in covert syllable production | PNAS

Inner speaking—the deliberate generation of speech through covert production mechanisms—is a common human experience. Current accounts propose that...

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Postdoc alert! Interested in computational modelling + infant cognition? Come work with @maxhinne.bsky.social, @francescopoli.bsky.social, and me on a project using computational models to understand cognitive development in early childhood. More information: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc Position: A Model-Based Approach to Understanding Cognitive Development in Early Childhood | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Donders Centre for Cognition? Check our vacancy!

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I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!

Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest

Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit. We are currently recruiting candidates for a 2-year position focusing on auditory perception in aging populations,...

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This study shows that individual brain rhythms play an important role in how we process speech. People with strong auditory-motor synchronization may benefit more from the interaction between auditory and motor brain systems, while others rely more on their auditory system and working memory.

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Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by @johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4fDnKY0

Interested in spending up to a year in Heilbronn and experiencing our emerging AI ecosystem first-hand? Our new AI Fellowship is now open (link below)! If you have a strong PhD from a leading university and work closely on causal AI, get in touch. I’d be happy to explore hosting you at TUM.

New >100-author preprint led by @zixuanjia.bsky.social @yutoozaki.bsky.social and @danya-pav.bsky.social is IMO our most important yet. TLDR: music is not "useless" "auditory cheesecake" - across 901 participants speaking 30 languages, singing bonds us together >1.5x more than speaking. osf.io/pv3m9

When people listen to music, they often imagine remarkably similar stories. A study in Nature Communications shows these shared imaginings selectively rely on stimulus-specific patterns in a set of modality-general brain regions. go.nature.com/4gKKw0l #Neuroskyence 🧪

I have been meaning to write a post about a preprint that I'm pretty excited about: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In neuroscience we often assume that we can learn something general about “the brain” using different species. But is this true? Do monkeys even see the world the way we do?

Hello, human geneticist here. There is no scientific basis for attempts to define people in terms of “good” or “bad” genes - these are discredited views in service of racist ideologies. For consensus & concerns of experts in our field, see e.g. this 2020 statement from @geneticssociety.bsky.social:

Parental haplotype reconstruction in up to 440,209 UK and Estonian individuals reveals recent assortative mating dynamics

Parental haplotype reconstruction in up to 440,209 UK and Estonian individuals reveals recent assortative mating dynamics

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02556-8Reconstructing parental haplotypes for up to 440,209 UK and Estonian Biobank participants, the authors estimate genetic assortative mating across 69 traits and find that assortment for height and education has intensified in recent generations.

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Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...

PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

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How does the brain make meaning when listening to wordless music? 🧵 on our new paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Music evokes shared neural representations of imagined narratives across sensory modalities - Nature Communications

When people listen to music, they often imagine remarkably similar stories. The authors show these shared imaginings selectively rely on stimulus-specific patterns in a set of modality-general brain r...

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📢 Open positions at @coe-mmbb.bsky.social — the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in Finland! We are recruiting 5-9 postdoctoral & 2-6 doctoral researchers to join our large, international research community 🇫🇮 #musicscience 🔹 Postdocs: bit.ly/4gADdbx 🔹 Doctoral: bit.ly/4g10xPz

5-9 Postdoctoral researchers, CoE in Music, Mind, Body and Brain

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Music, Mind, Body and Brain at [the Department of Music, Art and Culture studies](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/mutku) of the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to rec...

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The Economist coming out in favour of selecting embryos for IQ while dismissing the many extremely good arguments against this - from “it doesn’t work” to “promoting the idea that a flawed metric is a useful indicator of human worth is not going to go well” - is disappointing, to say the least

The Economist@economist.com · 3w ago

Progress in embryo screening will raise difficult ethical questions. But there is a big difference between the murderous coercion of early-20th-century eugenics programmes and parents seeking as much knowledge as possible when picking an embryo

Uff :( www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

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Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps

Current research opportunities

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Exclusive: For decades, researchers have marveled at how this open-air art gallery resisted extreme weathering. The secret may be macabre. Researchers report that the paint used to create the images was made with blood, including blood from human childbirth. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3St9DLW

Please share--the Shansky lab is currently recruiting at all levels to work on an NIH-funded project investigating sex differences in the neural circuits that drive defensive behaviors. The official job ad isn't yet up, but interested folks can contact me as instructed here www.shanskylab.com/join

I was honoured to make a small contribution to this paper published today in Cell, detailing the first T2T genome assembly of the zebra finch, a crucial model species for neurobiology: tinyurl.com/tguttata

The complete genome of a songbird

Bird genomes are the smallest among amniotes; however, they remain challenging to assemble due to their structural complexity. This study presents a f…

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Olfaction lacks a quantitative framework similar to vision and hearing. In new #HNL work in @pnas.org, we show that odor mixture perception can be predicted. This lays a foundation for digital olfaction, machine-readable smell metrics, next-generation electronic noses, and odor teleportation.

This is probably the best piece so far on Arday and the much wider issues raised by his case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

Great piece by @ecallaway.bsky.social A “window into the minds of some of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

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Family research often looks at effects of parents on children, but it's a two-way street! Check out our new paper in @pnas.org on evocative effects on family demographic outcomes in MoBa. Kids with much ADHD genes influence their parents' dissolution risk. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/x

When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study | PNAS

Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...

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Is there any reading on how to wrap your head around the appropriateness/difference between instantaneous causal effects/DAGs and multivariate processes that unfold over time? I am running into situations where the estimation differs, and it sort of matters

Our book, "Nature Beats" is finally out. It talks all about how we can study rhythm across species and what that can tell us about the evolution of music. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This is an extremely important and tragic story from @science.org and @retractionwatch.com on the death of a girl during a neuroscience gene therapy trial www.science.org/content/arti... There is a lot to unpack here, scientifically and ethically.

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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