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Gon García-Castro

@gongcastro.bsky.social

Clueless postdoc investigating language acquisition and comparative cognition • fNIRS and Bayesian stats • él/he 🌐 gongcastro.github.io 📍Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, previously at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

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Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

wsj.com

Gon García-Castro@gongcastro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Claiming that one can become a PhD holder by prompting ChatGPT is the academic equivalent of calling yourself a professional athlete after watching your three year old brother hit five consecutive home runs in Wii Sports.

Gon García-Castro@gongcastro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📃New paper out in Brain Topology! A collab w/ Ana Hernández-Sauret and Diego Emilia Redolar-Ripoll: Dissociating the Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Cognitive Control in Depression: A Combined HD-tDCS and fNIRS Study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dissociating the Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Cognitive Control in Depression: A Combined HD-tDCS and fNIRS Study - Brain Topography

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is marked by cognitive and affective dysfunctions associated with altered prefrontal cortical activity. While high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (H...

link.springer.com

Gon García-Castro@gongcastro.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A 30-40% profit margin for a company that mostly relies on unpaid labour from their own "clients" to barely do their job making science (which they did not produce) available is a good case for abolishing the whole industry.

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
Gon García-Castro@gongcastro.bsky.social · last yr.

Claro, la subida de los precios se debe al aumento de los salarios de los trabajadores sin un incremento de la productividad. El timón danés que se están haciendo las principales compañías tecnológicas entre ellas—invirtiendo unas en otras miles de millones sin producir nada—no tiene nada que ver.

Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last yr.

Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

La Directa@ladirecta.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | L'organització de la manifestació en suport a Palestina calcula que la convocatòria ha reunit 300.000 persones. Hi ha tanta gent que algunes persones estan baixant per la Rambla i el carrer de Pau Claris. El Passeig de Gràcia està completament col·lapsat.

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Susan Cartwright@listen2.bsky.social · last yr.

UN says the genocide in Gaza won't stop as it's profitable. Palestine is a training field to test weapons & surveillance tech that are now sold worldwide. Those making billions? Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Caterpillar, Microsoft, MIT, Blackrock, insurers, real estate firms.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last yr.

Wouldn't this method show that classic social psychology garbage was highly replicable? Besides, false findings can replicate even without pub bias - hot hand "fallacy" replicated but data analysis was incoherent. After a couple decades of science reform, I'd like to think we've moved beyond this

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · last yr.

I'm not sure if this is a normal way to assess replication, but it wasn't what I expected and seems prone to being affected by publication bias... (paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

The team looked at 1,006 results from 400 papers published in the field between 1959 and 2011 — up until Jules Hoffmann won a share of the 2011 medicine Nobel prize for work on the Drosophila immune response. They then went through the published literature looking for later work that either supported or refuted each claim. Rather than looking for studies that exactly replicated the methods of an experiment behind a result, or reproduced an identical effect, they searched to see if the claims were successfully built on by other studies, were broadly reproduced using more-modern techniques or still stood up to scrutiny now that knowledge of the field has moved on. Using their expertise of the field, the researchers classified claims as either verified, unchallenged by other papers, challenged or partly verified.