Maria Niedernhuber
@mariandrnh.bsky.social
neuroscientist in consciousness research they/them 🏳️🌈
if i submit a registered report here rr.peercommunityin.org/about will this somehow prevent me from submitting my paper to a journal other than the RR-friendly journals associated with PCI RR?
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Warum heißt es eigentlich Bundeswehr und nicht Weaponized Incompetence?
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Can anyone recommend travel grants which I (senior postdoc) am eligible for and which would cover perhaps a lab visit of 3-4 months (starting from December or January)? I might have some gap of unknown length between two grants due to the university which received the second grant being quite slow.
Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, Thread below👇
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
We've just published a small opinion piece in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, arguing for the under-estimated utility of resting state neuroimaging data, given exciting new methods to analyse it. Work led by @loopyluppi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the traditional Herculean pillars of constra...
nature.com
The scandal of rip-off rents is reaching new heights. The only way to stop landlords treating their tenants as cash cows is for the government to put in place rent controls so ordinary people can keep money in their pockets. Rent controls. Now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Asking rents reach record highs across Britain, new data from Rightmove shows
Competition between tenants remains significantly lower than at its peak, with the average rental home now receiving 10 inquiries
independent.co.uk
Derweil hatte die linke Regierung Sanchez in Spanien bereits im März 26 ein breit gefächertes Entlastungspaket für seine Bevölkerung verabschiedet. Erwartetes Wirtschaftswachstum (BIP) 2026: • in Spanien 2,6 % • in Deutschland 0,5% Woher kommt dieser Mythos Konservative könnten Wirtschaft? 3/3
Spain approves €5 billion package to curb impact of Iran war
The European Union's fourth-largest economy has in recent years registered growth rates far higher than its peers, notably thanks to domestic consumption, tourism and exports.
euronews.com
i love how in the UK, every new PM says something like politics is broken but we will give you hope www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Andy Burnham: My pitch to London for good growth and devolution
Read Andy Burnham’s pitch to London. Discover his vision for 'Number 10 North,' tackling living standards, council housing, and rebalancing UK power.
standard.co.uk
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Yep, the idea of a ‘carbon footprint‘ was developed by Ogilvy & Mather, a New York City-based British advertising and public relations firm working for BP: www.clf.org/blog/the-tru...
The Truth About Carbon Footprints
Carbon footprints & carbon footprint calculators are a marketing tool to make individuals feel guilty for Big Oil's pollution. See how the oil industry is blaming you and me.
clf.org
would more middle class academics be happy to share whatever they do to improve their finances in this job and how they went about it, like side gigs, consultancy gigs, and investments, or organisations they joined, companies founded, or whatever it is?
"They [Reform] are a party that has a problem with women and they need to sort it out" - Sarah Wakefield Green Party Candidate for Makerfield tonight on Question Time
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
The Gender Recognition map of Europe. This is how bad the UK is now. 43rd out of 49. Down with Russia, Hungary, Albania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Worse than Turkey, Serbia and Belarus. A lot worse than Ukraine, and Ukraine has been at war for four years.
Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:
The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work
The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…
retractionwatch.com
Sadly this isn’t new. Here in Stroud Labour threw good Cllrs out of the party because they insisted on working with Greens to keep the Tories out. Disgraceful for a central party to treat their cllrs like that.
Not In Our Name has reached 105,000. If you are against abuse and discrimination of trans women, particularly after the discriminatory EHRC guidance released yesterday, then please sign. Notinourname.org.uk Because it’s not only trans women that can get caught up by this, many cis women can too!
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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Stéphanie says… 🏴☠️🦈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 3mo agoTook a little while, but the total is inextricably building… It’s now at 104,000. 105,000 is next. So if you haven’t signed, and you’re disgusted by the abuse and harassment of trans women, then please sign at: Notinourname.org.uk Then tell your family and friends: every signature matters. 🫶
The new EHRC guidance is truly horrible and completely unworkable. Are we all going to be made to carry around kariotype photos? (not that it covers all aspects of sex) But this really takes the biscuit. People who think my marriage is inherently sinful shouldn't be assumed to be homophobic? What?!
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 3mo agoI lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... other countries try to attract the biggest talent from abroad, the UK tries to reach net 0 immigration.
Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop
Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debate
theguardian.com
Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.
Can’t help but feel this is a reaction to that YouGov poll, which I feel is a strategic error
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoBurnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Our preprint has grown up, and it is now out in @natneuro.nature.com Bottom line: variable patterns of brain connectivity in #autism can reflect distinct underlying biological mechanisms 🧠🐭 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Mouse fMRI datasets: tinyurl.com/44dwe6dz Detailed explainer below👇
Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses - Nature Neuroscience
Pagani et al. used cross-species fMRI to reveal two autism subtypes, characterized by lower and higher brain connectivity and linked to synaptic and immune-related pathways, respectively.
nature.com
Alessandro Gozzi@gozziale.bsky.social · last yr.Can we use brain scans to identify biologically distinct "autisms"? And If so, how? In our latest cross-species study 🐭👨 with @iitalk.bsky.social we dive into these questions! Find out more here 👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below 🧵 1/n
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... so Starmer is unpopular over appointing Mandelson, and now - are they really putting a close friend of Mandelson forward as future PM?
Wes Streeting plans to resign and mount leadership challenge, allies say
Sources say health secretary intends to trigger leadership election as early as Thursday
theguardian.com