This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same

So, this "curing cancer" thing will have to wait to feed the word salad generator. https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

📢📢📢 Neuroscientists and psychologists with kids Did your research interests change as a result of (or after) having kids? Would you mind telling me how/why if it has? Appreciate a repost for reach…

In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant

Can confirm: 4am in summer works for all these birbs

Gemma Izek@berlinerbarbie.bsky.social · 2w ago

And that's how it got moved to outside my tent at 4am

Lucky there's no link between these four stories: 1. Fire 2. Fire 3. Fire 4. New oil drilling

New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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Thanks to Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social for this editorial on our new paper challenging the current definition of "rest" in TMS studies in @jphysiol.bsky.social Experimental Physiology physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/... Our study: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

When is a muscle at rest? The problem of background activity in brain stimulation

Click on the article title to read more.

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🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

Should UKRI use 'AI' to triage and assess your #research #grant applications? Tell them here 👇

UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 2w ago

The UK Metascience Unit has launched the ‘National AI in Research’ Survey. We're looking for researchers across all disciplines and career stages to share their views on the use of AI in research. The survey will be published and used to inform national policy on AI in research.

The UK Metascience Unit has launched the ‘National AI in Research’ Survey. We're looking for researchers across all disciplines and career stages to share their views on the use of AI in research. The survey will be published and used to inform national policy on AI in research.

National AI in Research Survey

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

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The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter

To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...

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Step aside, Donald.

Rooney for PM.

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Finally, a big editorial on #AI in #science that makes sense: "Slower, worse, more expensive"

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w ago

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

I learnt today of the death of Dr Hannah J Block (@hjblock.bsky.social) a brilliant scientist whose work I've always enjoyed. Block's lab produced high quality, honest, careful work without spin or exaggeration, negative results as carefully reported as positive. A real loss to neuroscience 🧠❤️

New #monkey just dropped. Colobus congoensis - AKA 'Likweli' - is a shy vegetarian with orangey lips and a voice like a burping pig. 🐒 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DRC forest

Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.

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My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

In case you missed the first day of @wmsymposium.bsky.social, I had the chance to share for the first time our psychophysical TMS approach for studying cognition. With @thehandlab.bsky.social, @nkonstantinou.bsky.social, & @eester.bsky.social Very excited for this one! More soon.

Episode #370 of the amazing @outrageoptimism.bsky.social #climate podcast begins so starkly: Is it over? As the UK enters its wildfire season, as thousands die of extreme heat, as nations burn each others' oil as tech bros take all our 💲 & our water... 😢 www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/is-...

Is It Over? A Direct Answer to Climate Despair

Is it already too late? If you follow the climate crisis closely, despair is a reasonable and rational response to what you're looking at.

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That's world class #DataVis

The TMS-RAT is finally out in Brain Stimulation. Check it out here: www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Development and Validation of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reporting Assessment Tool (TMS-RAT)

A standardised tool for comprehensive reporting can improve transparency, support consistent documentation, and enable comparison across transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies. To date, the m...

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Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚡ #TMS #Preprint ⚡🐀 🧪 🧠 🧵 Brain stimulation methods are complex; reproducibility depends on knowing what was done. @solyas.bsky.social's paper reports work with myself & 15 other @tmsmultilab.bsky.social members to develop a modular, flexible reporting tool: the TMS-RAT doi.org/10.64898/202...

#SillySeason in the UK

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...