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Matan Mazor

@matanmazor.bsky.social

Interested in complex systems and in simple systems that believe they are complex systems. Head of the Oxford Self-Modelling Group (Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

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Julien Lie-Panis@jliep.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

Screenshot of article title page, "Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules"
Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last mo.

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49

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Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · 2mo ago

A paper in Nature describes plague outbreaks dating back to around 5,500 years ago documented in hunter-gatherer communities from southeast Siberia. The findings, based on an analysis of ancient DNA, may be the oldest-known evidence of the plague and could shed light on its origins. 🧬🏺🧪

Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature

Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far from the next known cases of infection in Late Neolithic Europe.

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Prof Rick Adams@drrickadams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about neurological syndromes that "could" exist but don't, is there any disorder that causes loss of well-learned motor skills? Motor skills seem very robust, they survive memory loss like hippocampal damage or dementia. Is there any disorder where you specifically lose skills?

Rasha Kardosh@rasharasha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Inequality is not only hard to solve. Sometimes, it is hard to *see*. We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent? Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 2mo ago

"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

Consciousness, AI, and the Limits of Scientific Explanation

Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...

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Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My much more radical opinion is that all ethical approvals for human/animal biomedical research should be openly published, and all papers resulting from those studies should be easily linked to the approval. This one *really* freaks people out and I suspect we all know why.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Presumably you already have an ethical approval in place for human-participant or animal research. Are people really wanting to argue that there shouldn't be a clear correspondence between the study that was approved and the study that is eventually published? A RR just adds transparency. 2 cents.

MetJam@metjam.co.uk · 2mo ago

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD@nicholascoles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A game of whack-a-mole with methodological confounds. We saw the same thing in the Botox-for-depression lit Improvements in attractiveness only matter in Study 1. Expectancies only matter in Study 2. Inability for women to express nonverbal disapproval only matters in Study 3, etc. 🙈

Roy Salomon@royesal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New publication from the lab in Cortex How does the brain generate the feeling that “I am the one causing my actions”*? In our preregistered EEG + VR study, we manipulated visual feedback of finger movements to see neural correlates of Embodied Agency. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neural responses to sensorimotor conflict in an embodied agency task

The Sense of Agency (SoA), the subjective experience that ‘I am in control of my actions’, has been proposed to involve both early implicit sensorimot…

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