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Are you a scientist interested in learning more about how to communicate science effectively to the public? Are you available Sep 25-28th? If so, apply for ComSciCon-SciWri! forms.gle/rc9vW9q9WUeg...

Are you a scientist interested in learning more about how to communicate science effectively to the public? Are you available Sep 25-28th? If so, apply for ComSciCon-SciWri! forms.gle/rc9vW9q9WUeg...

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Left Out: The Effect of Handedness on fMRI Activation in Memory Paradigms

About 11% of the population is left-handed, a significant minority of the potential participant pool for functional MRI (fMRI) studies. However, convention in fMRI research dictates these potential pa...

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How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS

Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...

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I would still love to hear responses to this - if you have an example (even if it's vague or silly), lmk!

Nora Bradford@norabradford.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback to study how subjective experience can be shaped. Deadline: Sept 5th. Apply here shorturl.at/ehOhf Please RT! @theassc.bsky.social

My thoughts about the autism spectrum: Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? Psychological Medicine. 2026;56:e240. doi:10.1017/S0033291726105376

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

Hey Philadelphia!! Do you want this mural on your building?? Here’s what we’re looking for: You must own the building. Must be in Philly The flatter the surface the better! The more people that will see it the better. We want to install in September Email me if that's you SkypeAScientist@gmail.com

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

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).

Registration is now open for C4R26 🎉 Join us Sep 28 to 30, 2026 in Philadelphia for a free conference dedicated to scientific rigor, practical research skills, methodology workshops, and building better science together. Register at c4r.io/conference #ScientificRigor #ResearchTraining

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

Kudos to whoever put this together! I've been putting off writing a comment for weeks and this finally pushed me to do it!

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please write your comment on proposed OMB federal funding changes. 👉We can't let science grants be decided by political appointees. 👉We can't let federal funding for Head Start for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors be cut without being able to appeal. DEADLINE: JULY 13 🔗 ombcomment.netlify.app

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

United States of Science 2026

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If you were upset by the recent news the Scientific American would be sold to LabX media and that many of your favorite editors would be let go, sign this letter! I absolutely loved my time at SciAm and I would love to see it continue to flourish <3 actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American

We are looking for your support by signing the letter below. It calls on Springer Nature to ensure that as part of the sale, LabX Media will rehire laid off union workers, restore staff salaries to pr...

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Yay, I got to write about octopuses again. 🐙 Stay tuned for a TikTok version of the story. Thank you @mlkieseler.bsky.social for chatting about your work! www.sciencenews.org/article/octo...

Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror

New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely on its reflection.

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I've been told my discussion with NPR about US academics/scientists moving overseas will be on NPR later today on All Things Considered! Live broadcast 4-6pm Eastern. Don’t know when my segment will be within this, but tune in! Huge thanks to @npr.org for the opportunity to share my perspective.

SciAm layoffs announcements are rolling in so many incredibly talented science journalists booted from the once prestigious publication science journalism is on its last legs y'all and it's one of our most IMPORTANT forms of journalism. These are the educators and the myth busters. it's sickening

A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

finally!! keeping this in my back pocket for the next time someone recommends this book to me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

The Body Keeps The Score

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · June 18 · 1h 50m

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this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI

SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...

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If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Just came across this clever paper that helps sort out the computations behind Aha! moments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aha! moments correspond to metacognitive prediction errors

Psychologists have long been fascinated with understanding the nature of Aha! moments, moments when we transition from not knowing to suddenly realizi…

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