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"Universities should take their staff’s caring responsibilities seriously, especially in the early years of parenthood, and recognize that not everyone has the same freedom to travel or work long hours. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The three-and-beyond-body problem: juggling kids, travel and careers in academia

The issues faced by scientist-couples can be multiplied once they start a family, making conference travel a logistical trial.

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Ask when something happened and the mind starts at now, running backward. Twenty-six people in VR headsets showed how fast that rewind goes. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/backward-sca...

Your Memory Searches the Past in Reverse - Daily Neuron

Ask when something happened and the mind starts at now, running backward. Twenty-six people in VR headsets showed how fast that rewind goes.

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🚨New post🚨 Three brain myths that need to die nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/three-brai...

Three brain myths that need to die

Did you know that your blood passes through your kidneys roughly 300 times per day?

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Now final in @elife.bsky.social: #Synesthetes really do 'see' when reporting colors while reading (typeface gray) numbers: pupils change according to the perceived colors' brightness - if a synesthete sees a bright yellow, the pupils become smaller. elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1). If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

"Stress-enhanced opioid self-administration was not observed in the women tested here nor linked to positive drug effects or stress relief in men or women. "

Siri Leknes@sirileknes.bsky.social · 2d ago

A really interesting finding from this study was a dissociation between affect & motivation: Stress induction increased self-administration despite the drug not actually helping people cope with the stress: no improvement in positive or negative affect (vs placebo)

Science-backed tips on how to avoid distractions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Science-backed tips on how to avoid distractions

Struggling to stay focused in the lab? Attention researchers offer some advice.

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"When a conversation slows, I no longer see it as a sign of failure. I see it as evidence that we are finally doing the harder work of understanding one another" www.science.org/content/arti...

"But unsuccessfully applying for a grant or a job is not evidence of being a bad scientist, it can just reflect a system under strain." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Job insecurity is chipping away at me and my cohort. Is it us, or the state of the economy?

The career market is difficult to navigate — and academic achievements feel like they’re no longer enough, says Daniella Watson.

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What an inspiring lady! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses

Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination in US academics’ retirement benefits, Mary Gray works as a statistician and social-justice campaigner.

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"Our findings indicate that current widespread practices in structural MRI are unlikely to identify robust morphometric phenotypes for psychiatric disorders." rdcu.be/fwZNF

The cross-site reproducibility of MRI morphometric phenotypes in psychiatric disorders

Nature Neuroscience - A large analysis of MRI studies in five psychiatric disorders reveals that maps of brain volume differences in psychiatric illness are rarely reproducible, highlighting the...

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If you read one paper on the conceptualization of mental health problems this year, make it this one. Much of it aligns closely with my views—bummer it's not published elsewhere. Curious what you think and which clinical, research, or logical weak spots you see. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Frontiers | Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder

We propose the concept of a problem-sustaining pattern as a revision of the established concept of mental disorder. The proposed concept preserves valuable f...

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Rich countries have ten times as many doctors per person as poor ones— A person’s access to doctors depends heavily on the income level of the country they live in. High-income countries have around ten times as many doctors per person as low-income ones.

The *duration* a response key is pressed is a better predictor of the confidence in the response than the *reaction time* before pressing it, research by Zhou et al (face recognition, judging motion coherence, and trivia quiz) suggests: buff.ly/OjE6S26

Our paper is out in @natmachintell.nature.com! We trained multiple RNNs to perform free recall. The best-performing ones learned a strategy akin to the memory palace technique. See thread below for more info. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A neural network model of free recall learns multiple memory strategies - Nature Machine Intelligence

Li et al. show that recurrent neural networks optimized for free recall discover diverse, human-like memory strategies beyond classical temporal context models, with top models using an index-based me...

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This is a really interesting and important study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... However, isn't it concerning that sweeping conclusions about functional organization of cortex are being reached on the basis of a single task?

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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And here's a new paper from @jayvanbavel.bsky.social, @steverathje.bsky.social, and colleagues showing the biases I mentioned stemming form AI sycophancy. osf.io/preprints/ps...

“We should expose pre-college students to computational [thinking. W]e should look to inspire the public’s interest in the intellectual adventure of the field. We’ll thus spread the joy, awe, and power of computer science, aiming to make computational thinking commonplace” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006)

Computational thinking | Communications of the ACM

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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“Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative.” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006) h/t @olivia.science dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Computational thinking | Communications of the ACM

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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Unpredictable preferences, not flawed learning, drive social misunderstandings in autism

Unpredictable preferences, not flawed learning, drive social misunderstandings in autism

Social misunderstandings in autism may stem from highly varied personal preferences rather than a lack of empathy. New research shows both autistic and non-autistic people struggle to guess what autistic teenagers like.

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Assistant Professor in Visual Anthropology – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Visual Anthropology | Ethnographic Filmmaking | Cultural Research | Faculty Position Join impactful research and teaching in visual ethnography. higherjobz.com/assistant-pr... #AcademicJobs #Anthropology @uva.nl

Assistant Professor Visual Anthropology at UvA

Apply for Assistant Professor in Visual Anthropology at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Open to PhD researchers in anthropology.

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“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...

Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Blogged: Spoilt for choice, spoilt by choice? Choice overload may not occur *every* time that we have a large number of options, but it is real, and researchers have identified a new mechanism that activates it: buff.ly/DVFh0ty

Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 4-year PostDoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 17 August: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

i want to as well www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I want to see a prison-to-PhD pipeline

Ryan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.

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Very helpful tips for creating industry CVs (including: do not let AI eras your unique voice! ) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Seeking an industry role after your PhD? Make sure your CV reflects that

A doctorate can open many doors. A CV tailored to your planned career path can help to unlock them.

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Happy birthday to brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) 👩🏼‍🔬🐡🧪⚒️ #histsci who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic 🧵

Electric cars are taking off quickly in Latin America— Five years ago, almost no one in Latin America bought an electric car. Today, the situation is different: electric cars now make up a meaningful and fast-growing share of new car sales.

Shingles vaccine could prevent 1 in 17 dementia cases among nursing home patients

Shingles vaccine could prevent 1 in 17 dementia cases among nursing home patients

A new study suggests that older adults who receive the recombinant shingles vaccine have a significantly lower risk of developing dementia. The findings point to a surprising brain-health benefit for a routine immunization.

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