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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz

@paulmatusz.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof & Physiolab Coordinator, Institute of Health, HES-SO Valais 🇨🇭 PI of GROWN, The SENSE Center🇨🇭 Editor-in-Chief of Mind, Brain & Education journal (IMBES)🧠📖 real-world models of attention & learning; ↗️ health & well-being: 👁️👂🧠 🦵📖

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jan 24

In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Jan 24

The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience

The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound

Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) convert images to sounds to equip blind individuals with nominally visual functions, like face or letter sensitivity. Prior studies showed that image-to-sound SSDs ...

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

www.nih.gov

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jul 4

NONfunding ** fathers

Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jul 4

funding* fathers

Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

HES-SO Valais-Wallis hiring Responsable de l'institut Santé (80-100%) *** Leiter oder Leiterin des Forschungsinstituts für Gesundheit (80-100 %) in Sion, Valais, Switzerland | LinkedIn

Posted 6:12:18 PM. La HES-SO Valais-Wallis forme plus de 2’800 étudiants et étudiantes et contribue, au travers de la…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Apr 15

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...

PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory substitution

Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory substitution device for the blind.

www.artificialvision.com

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks, Peter :)

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · Mar 28

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!

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 🧠

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Mar 16

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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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Mar 14

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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Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · Mar 13

$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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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 4

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." 💥

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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · Feb 22

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 · Feb 19

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 $$.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Mar 1

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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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Mar 3

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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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

David Pagliaccio @dpagliaccio.bsky.social · Feb 25

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...

NSF keywords

activism activists advocacy advocate advocates barrier barriers biased Biased toward biases Biases towards bipoc black and latinx community diversity community equity cultural differences cultural her...

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Sarah Lempriere @sarahlempriere.bsky.social · Feb 19

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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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · Feb 9

#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...

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · Feb 4

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...

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jan 30

ty kindly!

Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · Jan 30

+1 please :)

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Hiren Thakore @hirenthakore.bsky.social · Jan 28

Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.

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