The veil of hypocrisy has fallen. We all knew yet hoped and pretended to the last moment, that football stands for something more than money... www.reuters.com/sports/socce... #WorldCup

Trump intervention causes World Cup storm as FIFA clears US striker Balogun to face Belgium

The United States' World Cup campaign took an extraordinary turn on Sunday when FIFA suspended striker Folarin Balogun's red-card ban, clearing him to ‌play after President Donald Trump personally urg...

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Here we are. Again. "Structural changes are being pursued, but these are modest." #Academia #Research #ECRs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

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Proton recently released long-awaited Zoom/Teams/GM alternative: privacy-sensitive ProtonMeet. Caveat? App is not included in more advanced Proton plans. For 288e/pa (Family), one has to fork out additional 100e/pa to have longer conversations, screen sharing, chat and meeting recording...

9 months ago, I asked authors of a paper in top #neuroscience journal to correct inaccurate citation of my work. Still no correction, no clear update, and my work is still described as something it's not. Paper notes ChatGPT was used for "readability". One wonders about state of science.

In neuroscience, open data has done a lot of good. But current developments are clearly pushing us to ask harder questions: who owns biomedical data, who gets access, and who benefits from its reuse? #ResponsibleAI #Neuroscience #OpenScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Who owns my health data? - Nature Medicine

The geopolitics driving artificial intelligence superpowers is reshaping biomedical datasets, and who has access to them.

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The ERC reapplication saga is a reminder that research funding policy is never just technical. It shapes who gets another chance, who can stay in #science, and how early-career researchers plan already precarious academic paths. #ECRs #Research #Funding www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication | Izabela Maria Sztuka

The saga continues… After concerns raised by the research community, the ERC Scientific Council has readjusted its reapplication rules for the 2027 grant calls. For Starting, Consolidator, Advanced,...

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⚡Within one week, two major European #research funders confronted the same problem, but sent very different signals. ERC announced resubmission restrictions for unsuccessful applicants, saying that peer-review burden on panels became too high. Cost of systemic overload is being passed downward.

Izabela Maria Sztuka@isdedal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🇨🇭Switzerland may be one of the first countries to openly acknowledge that research funding systems need to adapt if they are to remain sustainable. 1/4 #AcademicFunding #Science #ResearchFunding #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers #ECRs www.snf.ch/en/kaczpDec5...

🇨🇭Switzerland may be one of the first countries to openly acknowledge that research funding systems need to adapt if they are to remain sustainable. 1/4 #AcademicFunding #Science #ResearchFunding #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers #ECRs www.snf.ch/en/kaczpDec5...

Postdoc.Mobility, Ambizione: adaptations

The SNSF is updating the eligibility criteria for Postdoc.Mobility and Ambizione before they are replaced by a new funding scheme in 2028.

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⚡ Happy to share that Sonja Sudimac and I will again be delivering our environmental neuroscience seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this summer semester: Exploring Minds and Environments. (125264-S26) 1/ @cen-mpib.bsky.social

“Those skills (conflict resolution, accountability) are more important than learning how to spell.” Higher-order socio-cognitive skills are constrained by underlying cognitive capacities, weakening those foundations predictably degrades complex social reasoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Te...

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2026 - already called year of analog, as more people choose to "unplug", "unsubscribe" and shift away from tech. Rebellion against subscriptions is just the economic dimension of broader tiredness with current socioeconomic model. #society #unplug #digitaleconomy youtu.be/8AKn-zJMIwY?...

Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive

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Interesting longitudinal study on infants about development of representations of natural objects: #neurocience

Cliona O'Doherty@clionaod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

6/7 Our results further highlight the first year of life as a time of intricate brain function. Infants possess the foundations of visual cognition to group the world from very early on. Read more in Nature Neuroscience! 📖🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41....

An interesting study on how gaze and gesture jointly support spatial reasoning in architecture. Mechanisms described may also be relevant for clinical conditions involving disrupted eye-hand coordination and visual-symbolic processing of the #environment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPYTPN...

Wow, this has also potential to be great tool for teaching!

Brandy A Freitas@brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is a cornerstone of #neuroscience: a standardized, high-resolution map of brain anatomy built to keep experiments comparable across labs. 🧠 Here’s a 3D walk through its anatomical meshes in #syGlass! @alleninstitute.org #3DThursday #DataViz #VR

Happy 80th birthday to the iconic Dolly Parton.

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks. A behavioral neuroscientist explains what we've been missing about one of the animal kingdom's most underestimated minds. buff.ly/Uxj7boZ

Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too

Trash pandas’ talent for escaping via lab vents may frustrate researchers, but their problem-solving skills make their brains a fascinating area of research.

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Great news: Today, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social launched its first mobile MRI lab 🧠🚐 This opens up exciting new possibilities for @cen-mpib.bsky.social to take environmental neuroscience research far beyond the lab into the field. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... #neuroscience #environment

On the move: MRI goes mobile

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top risks 2026 is officially out after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks this year is the tipping point:

Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2026

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ava Farnan, W. Taylor Kimberly, et al: Detecting patterns of atrophy in cognitively impaired individuals using portable, low-field MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

So how is the first 7 days of 2026 going? Let's just hope it is not representative.

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❤️‍🔥"Either we're all Europeans, or none of us are" From 13:40 @warfrontsweekly.bsky.social commentary absolutely nailed it 🔨 when it comes to what has to change in European mindset, for Europe to have future as a project. #Europe #Geopolitics #Ukraine youtu.be/5Qc2ZRV5znQ?... via @YouTube

Europe Needs to Get its Shit Together. NOW.

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The number of armed conflicts worldwide has more than doubled in past 15 years, with around 130 ongoing today. These conflicts trap entire generations in cycles of violence and trauma, resulting in major physical and psychological health burdens at population level. www.icrc.org/en/report/ic...

ICRC Annual Report 2024

In 2024, the ICRC navigated a complex and challenging operating environment to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in over 100 countries.

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⚡Large-scale genetic study of 14 psychiatric disorders shows many diagnoses share common genetic roots. Comorbidity may reflect shared biology, not just clinical overlap. Authors also point to prenatal and early-life factors shaping how genetic risk becomes disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

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It is the worst crisis in history of US-Europe alliance with signals indicating Europe needs to become independent, strategically autonomous and find new global partners. #Europe #democracy #geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-h...

Why America and Europe Have Fallen Out (again)

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Zum Wochenbeginn noch etwas Herzerwärmendes: Auf Sumatra brach ein Biologe in Tränen aus. Nichts Schlimmes war passiert, er sah bloss die überaus seltene Pflanze "Rafflesia hasseltii", nach der er über ein Jahrzehnt lang gesucht hatte. 🤗

Last year in North Sumatra, I witnessed the cascading consequences of rainforest destruction - a crisis no longer limited to ecosystems, but one that directly places local communities in the path of escalating climatic extremes. #environment

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Floods and landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra kill at least 174 reut.rs/3Xjsrw5

⚡American commentator Jon Stewart steamrolled global elites using the Epstein example. With the precision of a neurosurgeon, he laid bare the rotten core of a social class whose members share the same interests, even as they stoke political divisions. www.youtube.com/shorts/RRvcE...

The extent of Epstein’s social network knows no bounds, but it certainly knows Donald Trump

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New analysis sends clear warning about short-form videos. Across 98,299 people, higher TikTok/Reels/Shorts use equals worse attention + weaker inhibitory control. The endless scroll isn’t just a habit, it’s linked to measurable declines in core cognitive functions. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Really sad news. Jane Goodall transformed our understanding of primates and championed conservation worldwide. Her impact is immeasurable. #science #research

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

💻 Last week 💻 @isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠 #ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience