absolute gem of a thread 😀

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d ago

Penicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.

My boy Waffle here, showing us what Saturday mornings are all about. #Caturday

Airplane (1980) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies

I'm on the hunt for papers to cover on Research Digest again. Psychologists, if you've got a recent paper you'd like us to consider, drop a link!

Aw gee, thanks, you shouldn't have.

Just saw The Odyssey. Casting Matt Damon as Leopold Bloom was brave, but it really worked. Tom Holland good as Stephen Dedalus too. Anne Hathaway brilliant as Molly, but wish they had not cut her soliloquy. Wasn’t familiar with which bits of Dublin they used, but that didn‘t seem to matter.

I've just been asked to book a video call with HR at my company to confirm my identity for a DBS check. Apparently submitting my passport, driving licence, and working for the company for FIFTEEN YEARS is not sufficient for them to know who I am. 🤷🏼‍♂️

How many subjects do you actually need for reliable task fMRI studies? Much larger samples are often recommended—but that depends on how you analyze the data. New preprint with @neuranna.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Scaling laws for group-constrained, subject-specific task fMRI analyses

Functional MRI provides a powerful way to characterize the architecture of the human brain. Yet individual brains often vary in the exact anatomic locations of functionally specific regions; as a resu...

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Prominent researchers in my field spent over 2 decades telling big stories about the relation between brain & mental health with very little robust data. This has led to really crazy stuff like this, impossible if we had not normalized this bizarre storytelling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A scientist says he can scan prisoners’ brains for signs of evil. Did his disputed science put a man on death row?

Kent Kiehl convinced the US legal system he can find violence in prisoners’ brains. His theories have been since used by defense lawyers – with grave consequences for prisoners

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The nice people at Psychopharmacology provided a link to our review: 'The mystic trip: how psychedelic research fell for mysticism'. It's view only but that's ok for starters? Link: rdcu.be/fub8q Time to get over the MEQ?

Walking into the cinema to go see The Odyssey while carrying an LRB tote bag and a highlighted copy of Emily Wilson’s review. It impresses all the staff, and they offer me a free bag of popcorn. I refuse, as I pull out my container of Kimchi. Everyone stops what they’re doing and applauds

Not wishing to brag, but I read four papers yesterday. FOUR. All the way through, and everything. Absolute scenes.

I loved the movie and am already making plans to see it again. However, as I’m a messy bitch who lives for the drama, I am LIVING for this review of the film by Emily Wilson. She eats him UP! Hehehe!

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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I will die on the hill that they should be called 'bleets'

Timmy the Sheep: Thumbs Up

ALT: Timmy the Sheep: Thumbs Up

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Xander O’Connor@xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

obviously correct (and lol at the image) but if someone simply cannot do this, “posts” is fine as long as you don’t try to get other people to say it too (and def don’t propose other “fun” alternatives; it disrespects our culture)

Going to start a new AI company. Misanthropic. It’s going to be exactly the same as all the others.

Progress in cancer treatment is incredible. Here's a new pancreatic cancer treatment that is *tripling* survival rates after a year compared to chemotherapy.

John Mullahy@johnmullahy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow

How does your brain register whether something feels good or bad? New research had people listen to stories in an MRI scanner and found the brain maps feelings on a single scale from unpleasant to pleasant, using far more regions than expected. #Valence, #Naturalistic Link: doi.org/10.64898/202...

1/ What can resting-state neuroimaging offer cognitive and translational neuroscience🧠? Turns out: a lot! 🧵 Long in the making, short in the reading: “Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science" is out now in @natrevneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/ftWBh

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...

rdcu.be

Really good.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago

"The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other logical explanation. 'I did everything right,' the old man said to himself. He considered himself a very stable genius."

"The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other logical explanation. 'I did everything right,' the old man said to himself. He considered himself a very stable genius."

The Old Man and the Strait

“The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other lo...

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the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

What? No it can't. Don't be silly.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2w ago

A science PhD can be completed within 18 months: supervisors should involve doctoral students with conducting, writing up and publishing experiments straight away, says Adrian Furnham #PhDs #research #supervision #academicsky https://ow.ly/5Fxb50ZpZ4O

This is a real shame - Patrick Vallance has been a really excellent and committed Science Minister who knew the territory and took a strategic view. Big shoes to fill

READ RIDDLEY WALKER!!!!

evan dahm@evandahm.bsky.social · 3w ago

reall enjoying this book but I can already tell my main takeaway is going to be referring to sex as "doing the juicy" for literally the rest of my life

@fionatribe.bsky.social

How psychedelic research "fell for mysticism" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42467097/ "Psychedelic experiences [are] shoehorned into a very particular and peculiar quasi-religious construct."

Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

GOOD GOD. What have we done?!

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3w ago

🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham reveals he puts milk in his tea before water "It softens the tea bag a bit and makes it stronger"