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Dr. Justin Poncet @justinmponcet.bsky.social · 4d

#veilleesr Aux origines de la liberté académique, de l’Allemagne aux États-Unis https://theconversation.com/aux-origines-de-la-liberte-academique-de-lallemagne-aux-etats-unis-256498

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 5d

Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review:
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social

JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 5d

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 6d

Another absolutely astounding "gem" in the compact: abolish units that "belittle" conservative ideas -- while doing it in the name of an "intellectually open campus" 😮‼️

😂 Amazing! apparently no sense of irony (or consistency) whatsoever! 😂

Also completely incompatible with First Amendment.

Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent analysis of the Trump compact for universities -- read it, recommend it, share it.

Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.

Dangerous and un-American.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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R. Daneel Olivaw @rdaneel.bsky.social · 10d

Sarò ingenuo io ma sono sempre stato dell'idea che se uno è contrario alla violenza, alla crudeltà e alle ingiustizie allora dovrebbe esserlo sempre, non selettivamente per simpatia o quando gli fa più comodo per suoi interessi personali. Altrimenti è pura ideologia, faziosità e ipocrisia.🤷🏻‍♂️

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10d

Rest in peace Jane Goodall, a true giant among scientists. Your breakthroughs into the secret lives of chimpanzees viewed through an anthropomorphic lens – without yet knowing that science had forbidden it – changed science forever, and with it how we see ourselves.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13d

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Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr · 19d

Un travail extrêmement impressionnant d'une équipe de l'IPP sur la taxation des très hauts revenus.

Il y a plein de choses à en tirer, mais cela (re)confirme que les ménages extrêmement fortunés contournent l'imposition individuelle sur le revenu en se servant des sociétés qu'ils contrôlent.

Laurent Bach @laurent-bach.bsky.social · 19d

Nous mettons en accès public un document de travail (« working paper ») qui reprend et étend la note 92 de l’IPP sur l’imposition des milliardaires (1/10) www.ipp.eu/publication/...

Quels impôts les milliardaires paient-ils ? | Institut des Politiques Publiques – IPP

> Lire la note (version actualisée au 07.06.2023) > Lire le working paper (septembre 2025) > S'abonner pour recevoir les futures publications de l'IPP Présentation A l’aide de données administratives ...

www.ipp.eu

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Debbie Bangasser @bangasserlab.bsky.social · 22d

Amazing session at #EBPS2025 on sex differences in SUD, mood, & AD. @christinadalla.bsky.social organized a great group.

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Marcello Solinas @msolinas.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations @peppeganga.bsky.social !

Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 24d

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents!

Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes...

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 24d

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents!

Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes...

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Sep 9

Register now for a webinar discussion by Enago Academy
for #PeerReviewWeek, on 17 September, with
* Daniel Ucko @danielucko.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social
* Patrick Starke - ImageTwinAI
* Elliot Lumb @research-signals.bsky.social
* Mary Miskin - EnagoAcademy
* and me
enago.com/our-events/a...

Banner for the event, purple background - showing the title: "Enhancing Peer Review with AI: Where should we draw the line?", and the photos of the 5 speakers - more info and registration here:
https://www.enago.com/our-events/ai-in-peer-review-ethics-boundaries

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25d

He’s going to spend 25% of his life to live 10% longer, isn’t he?

We need to teach opportunity cost more in our schools.

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 25d

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

www.newscientist.com

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Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 24d

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

rdcu.be/eGUrv

Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

www.nature.com

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 27d

Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words

Rennie, who died on September 12, was a towering figure in scientific publishing, known for promoting improved standards in medical journals, and for organizing the first Peer Review Congress, held in 1989, and every four years since.

Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words

Drummond Rennie I first became aware of the work of Drummond Rennie almost by accident: By borrowing his office. It was the summer of 1997, and as a rising fourth-year medical student, I was spendi…

retractionwatch.com

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 26d

[ #VeilleESR #Eduscepticisme ] « Réduire l'enseignement supérieur »
« Il faut convaincre les jeunes et leurs parents de la pertinence d'orientations plus axées sur le marché du travail. »
Tribune de Julien Damont promouvant l'adéquationisme et la démassication éducative.

via @latrombe.bsky.social

www.lesechos.fr

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 26d

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 26d

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy.

More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes.
There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the
38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further
11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant).
Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average
but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems,
notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain,
Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with
much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 26d

For a reasonable person, it is hard to imagine how racist are the views of Elon Musk. In his view immigrants cause "rape and murder and the destruction of the country and dissolution of the entire way of life". His words are disgusting.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/elon...

What did Elon Musk say at the Unite the Kingdom march? Speech in full

Elon Musk called for “massive government reform” and warned “violence is coming” to the UK

www.standard.co.uk

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Prashanthi Ravichandran @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social · 27d

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

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Semaine du Cerveau @semaineducerveau.bsky.social · Sep 8

Vous êtes curieux·se d'en apprendre plus sur votre cerveau ? 🧠
Retrouvez-nous du 16 au 22 mars 2026 pour la prochaine édition de la Semaine du Cerveau ! 🤗
Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur notre site internet www.semaineducerveau.fr
#SDC2026 #neurosciences

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Matt Smear @mattsmear.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Cooperative actions of interneuron families support the hippocampal spatial code

Identifying the computational roles of different neuron families is crucial for understanding neural networks. Most neural diversity is embodied in various types of γ-aminobutyric acid–mediated (GABAe...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Sep 7

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes.
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · Sep 7

J'aime beaucoup ce mec, très efficace en très peu de temps

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · Sep 2

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

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Alternatives Economiques @alternatives-economiques.fr · Sep 7

Une nouvelle étude du Conseil d’analyse économique (CAE) se penche sur l’exil des plus riches en cas de hausse de la fiscalité les concernant. Elle conclut que le phénomène est très marginal.

Taxer les riches ne les fait pas fuir

www.altereco.media

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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · Sep 4

Being jewish after the destruction of Gaza

A thoughtful and passionate conversation between two "bad jews" about what Israel is doing to Palestinian people

youtu.be/X5kXCdzt_us?...

Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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