Guillaume Sescousse
@gsescousse.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist interested in decision-making, dopamine and addiction. Working at Inserm.
Interesting objective quantification of the (unsurprising) strong positive relationship between journals' APC and "prestige".
Nicolas Clairis@nclairis.bsky.social · 2mo agoBased on a suggestion from @gsescousse.bsky.social, we wanted to use our WhereToPublish database to check the relationship between article processing charges (APCs) and the "prestige" of the journal. 1/7
Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates! sbdm2025.github.io
12th Symposium on Biology of Decision Making 2025 - Lyon
SBDM-2025
sbdm2025.github.io
For the francophones out there, we've just launched a national online survey about social network use in adults and adolescents. Don't hesitate to participate (15-20 min) and spread the word! www.sual.fr/about-5 @juliadeter.bsky.social @joelbillieux.bsky.social @benjaminrolland.bsky.social
Etude PURPLE | AddictoLyon
sual.fr
This should be a fantastic conference, we have an exciting line-up of speakers and great food! Please consider joining and spread the word!
Nils Kolling@nilskolling.bsky.social · last yr.Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!
Interesting, coming from an adminstration that puts free speech above all values... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
theguardian.com
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works on two of the most urgent U.S. health problems and has generally received bipartisan support. By the end of this week, the staff of the agency could be cut by 50%, according to senior staff members.
Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.
nytimes.com
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
This is like the climate crisis: we've accumulated loads of evidence that the ecosystem we created is unsustainable and has detrimental effects, but we keep not acting on it...
Daniel P. Moriarity@dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2y ago"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interesting food for thought for the burgeoning field of move fMRI. @charleslaidi.bsky.social @paulinefavre.bsky.social
Martin Hebart@martinhebart.bsky.social · 2y agowww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Between-movie variability severely limits generalizability of "naturalistic" neuroimaging. Not sure about the (over)generalization to all of naturalistic neuroimaging, nor the claim that this severely limits the approach. But definitely provides food for thought.
We've been paying over 8$ billion in APCs to 6 main publishers. This is simply outrageous and unsustainable. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 via @themeta.news
Full and unconditional support to @deevybee.bsky.social
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd as this gains attention outside of scientific circles, as it surely will, @deevybee.bsky.social will undoubtedly face a great deal of harassment. Other fellows of the @royalsociety.bsky.social will have to decide whether she faces it alone or not.
What a great decision! www.science.org/content/arti... Thank you Clarivate, it makes me want *even more* to submit my next paper to @elife.bsky.social !
Super interesting initiative: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers
Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature. Borrowing the idea of ‘bug boun...
nature.com
PhD opportunity in Lyon in neuropsychiatry 👇, please share ! Topic: brain connectivity during naturalistic fMRI as a predictive marker of disease trajectory after first-episode psychosis. More details in the document attached below. Contact: guillaume.sescousse@inserm.fr
We were surprised by a recent #Frontiers blog. They make derogatory statements, accuse us of data manipulation & mischaracterize our comms with them. 😔 Critiques of our work are welcome. Falsehoods about us and our work are not. Here we set the record straight. 1/7 #SciPub #AcademicSky #PeerReview
The Strain on Scientific Publishing - Response to: “Bad bibliometrics don’t add up for research or why research publishing policy needs sound science”
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
Very interesting and informative study with "null results". And also the first time I see a neuroscience paper where the first and only author is a consortium, rather than an individual. Best way to reinforce team work. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Very amusing to see how Frontiers phrase their request to review manuscripts as an "Opportunity to review a new Original Research Article". Wow, such an honor, I feel humbled :-)!
New proposal from cOAlition S on OA publishing: 1. Authors, not third-party suppliers, decide when and what to publish 2. The scholarly record includes the full range of outputs created during the research cycle Amen to this! www.coalition-s.org/blog/introdu...
Ever been confused how to relate 3 variables (like Age, Brain and Cognition) via linear statistical models? See this gentle primer (with @rogierk.bsky.social) for structural equation modelling, including concepts like mediation, moderation and measurement invariance: github.com/MRC-CBU/misc...
Waking up to the death of Karl Tremblay this morning... Filled with sadness... Thank you for all the beautiful songs you have left us with ❤️
Flight Quotas Hold the Most Significant Potential for Reducing Carbon Emissions from Academic Travel eartharxiv.org/repository/v... --> only "moderating air travel distance or frequency can achieve a significant reduction in the green house gas emissions from academic travel" via @themeta.news
Great initiative to flip subscription journals to open access mitpress.mit.edu/shiftOPEN/ via @themeta.news
⭐️New PhD position⭐️ on Understanding and disrupting Social Decision-Making in Health and Disorder, joint with the wonderful @arkadykonovalov and funded by BBSRC warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa.... Details of our lovely lab www.sdn-lab.org. Send your CV + cover letter to me by Dec 5th. Pls RT!
Understanding and disrupting social decision-making in health and disorder
warwick.ac.uk
"Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published [...] in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016" 🤯 arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 I agree with Uta Frith, we need to "restrict the number of papers anyone can publish [to one] per year" doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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So happy to see lots of great colleagues joining! To make this community thrive, use reposting liberally 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙌🖐️ 📩📩📩📩📩📩📩
New paper with @ianhussey.bsky.social @taymalsalti.bsky.social @rubenarslan.bsky.social. Most measures are only used once or twice, w/o agreement on gold standards - a serious barrier to cumulative science. that leads to lots of papers without meaningful progress. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
