I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Please subscribe to the account of the IMBES, whose flagship journal, "Mind, Brain & Education" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1751... I have the pleasure to lead as the editor-in-chief. IMBES is freshly on Bluesky. Watch out for new exciting announcements, content, including from MBE!

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International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES)@imbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is pleased to be on BlueSky. Our mission is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in biology, education, and the cognitive and developmental sciences. 🧠

The International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is pleased to be on BlueSky. Our mission is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in biology, education, and the cognitive and developmental sciences. 🧠

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist. It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

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New work from our lab, from collaboration with Cathy Manning. Check it out!

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Topographical differences during motion processing in autistic and dyslexic children https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702841v1

Important contribution to the ongoing debate on what are executive functions and how to assess them in a genuinely culturally sensitive ways. Thanos to @pauloglaurence.bsky.social for this piece, now available at our “Mind, Brain & Education” #psychsky #devpsysky

Paulo G. Laurence@pauloglaurence.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper alert! 🚨🚨🚨 Executive Function Beyond Minority World Contexts: A Call for Culturally Relevant Assessments in Historically Overlooked Populations in Majority World Countries doi.org/10.1111/mbe....

Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience

As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...

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Scientists at MGH are redefining what’s possible in brain research. 🧠 The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable. www.nih.gov/news-events/... #neuroskyence 🧪

Scientists Develop High-Performance MRI Scanner in Effort to Define Microscopic Brain Structures

Next-generation system noninvasively images tiny nerve structures disrupted in brain disorders.

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Our School of Health Sciences HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sion, Switzerland, is looking for a new head of the research institute. More info here - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Pls Reshare #medsky #neuroskyence

Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Thanks to the efforts of @paulmatusz.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social and many others (not on Bluesky), we'll make things work www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm

My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!

Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠

Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.

Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity

Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...

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When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏

When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions: A Tutorial Using DeclareDesign With a Worked Real-World Example - Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Charles Hulme, 2024

Recent studies in psychology have documented how analytic flexibility can result in different results from the same data set. Here, we demonstrate a package in ...

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Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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NEW: This is brilliant from Trudeau. "Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥

For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.

Katie Witkiewitz@katiew.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been stalking NIH Reporter to see if any new R01s fund at the 15% F&A rate, but... no new full R01s have funded since 2/10/2025, not a single R01 - across all of NIH - since 2/08. Only 18 grants have been newly funded - I am happy for the F31/F32/F30, R35, K99 trainees who have received $$.

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target. They will not be spared. www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

'Structural racism': Top taxpayer-funded academy rife with DEI programs, hefty executive salaries

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has received millions of dollars of taxpayer grants while promoting a variety of left-wing causes.

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TIL the voucher program incentivising drug development for rare pediatric diseases wasn’t extended in December. It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.

Trump’s science crackdown hits rare disease research: ‘We need to sit down with Elon Musk’

Jill Wood had pinned her hopes on a little-known federal program to fund her son’s gene therapy. The initiative, which awards vouchers to companies targeting rare pediatric diseases, offered her ...

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a great lil code from David for the flagged words in NSF grant applications.

David Pagliaccio@dpagliaccio.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are working on grants and want to identify any of the flagged NSF keywords without a ton of cntl+F, I wrote a very short R script here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies

White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

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#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

The 50501 Movement—or 50 states, 50 protests, one day—is garnering support throughout social media over its plan to stage demonstrations across the nation to "fight Fascism" on February 5. You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...

Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.

Dayum @zotero.org , zero chill.. we stan. #neuroskyence #medsky

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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I flagged how we are using partial randomisation to allocate our small grants. We check if an application meets a quality threshold (around half of applications might) and then we allocate the funding at random between all those that meet the threshold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding

More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.

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