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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · 8d

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · 8d

Join me for a webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social, co-hosted by @scientists4future.nl and @scientistrebellion.nl

What Now for Social Science and Local Collective Action?
13 October 2025, 20:00-21:00 (NL time)

Our social mobilisation for climate action has been too tiny to leave fossil fuels in the ground, global heating is accelerating, fossil finance and extraction are at record levels, the green technical transition is deeply inadequate when done for profit and assuming growth-as-usual, international law is trashed in the face of genocide, and there is now in the US, and elsewhere, a backlash against the already meagre policy gains. Beyond the problem of carbon pollution we are superseding 7 of 9 planetary boundaries.
In this presentation I will invite a discussion of the implications of these facts for our emotional lives, the kinds of struggles we might wage collectively, and the kind of social science we might do.

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 13d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · 21d

Hivemind, what are your favorite platforms for scientific collaborations/networks in their early stages?

Listserv (Google Groups?) is easy but limited functionality + would prefer to move away from Google
Dedicated channels (Slack, discord) often fall out of use

Hoping to avoid platform lock-in

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · 21d

Also thought back to davidgraeber.org/articles/it-...

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · 21d

100%, so many things that need to change... have been thinking a lot about ideas that empower ppl to speak up. Some attempts bsky.app/profile/anne...

Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Feb 10

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone.

@clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991

But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

Doughnut academia.
Adapting the “doughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings.

Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license.

Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist.
1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards “slow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.

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Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to see @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social tomorrow to learn about the most impactful climate actions!

Join the webinar 👇

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Most people know climate change is a problem, and want to help solve it. But too few are taking high-impact climate action, using their limited time and resources effectively to really make a differen...

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Sep 5

Stay tuned for a publication on this! @hannahbayer.bsky.social

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Would love to hear what you find!

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm looking for an intersection that might not exist, but if it does I'd be excited.

I already know:
- People study interventions for ecological thinking: e.g., increasing climate awareness, increasing climate action
- People do work on climate-aware computing, software

Does anyone do both?

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 first time ever full brain-wide map of the activity of single neurons during decision-making.

600k+ neurons covering 279 brain areas, which together represent 95% of the mouse brain volume!

Exciting times ahead! 🐭🧠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Neurons all across the brain! Check out the flagship projects I worked on as a postdoc 👇

International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Decision-making modellers - any tips for interactive classroom demonstrations to teach about sequential sampling models (DDMs)?

Sure, it's fine to show an RT distribution but more fun to have the students do a few trials themselves and see outcomes. Online or offline games could work.

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Julien Lefevre @julien-lefevre.bsky.social · May 7

15-17 octobre 2025
🧠Neurosciences de demain à + 2°
🌏 Quelles neurosciences à l'ère de l'Anthropocène ?
Lieux : Palais du Pharo et Campus Timone, Marseille

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Neurosciences de demain à plus de 2 degrés - Sciencesconf.org

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 25

Teaching statistics 101 with some insights from Russell.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 22

He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 20

We ship 11 billion tonnes of stuff around the world and 40% of that is fossil fuels.

Baltimore shipping channel reopened after explosion on cargo ship near site of 2024 bridge collapse

Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion aboard a cargo ship that was leaving the Port of Baltimore when it issued a mayday call.

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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · Aug 6

We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!

Teaching Climate Politics | Jeff Colgan & Max Bradley | CSL

YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've found Jenny Odell's books How to do nothing and Saving time very illuminating on how we think about time as divisible and plannable, and how we can see our time more holistically and part of rhythms of our energy, community

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is certainly one approach - but it also leaves little time for the unexpected but very important parts of life (a colleague who needs to vent in your office for half an hour, a student who suddenly needs help, a beautiful afternoon that makes you want to take a walk to think)

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 20

I disagree and could not recommend this book more www.oliverburkeman.com/fourthousand...

Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman

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Anne Urai 🟥 @anne-urai.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ik hoop het ook @unileiden.bsky.social !

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Aug 20

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Psychology

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jun 14

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

A cartoon titled ‘The Life of a Scientist’.

(The life is depicted as a set of steps, three up then three down with a character on each)

Baby: Such a mysterious world!
Child: I must search for answers
Young adult: Each answer leads me to more questions
Middle age: ... At least I've got lots of questions
Old age: Ok, I guess questions are my thing now
From grave: Such a mysterious world!

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Aug 20

Reminder: we're calling for submissions for an article series on tipping points! Full details here 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/06/call...

Call for submissions: Global Tipping Points article series in PLOS Climate - Latitude

PLOS Climate is collaborating with the Global Tipping Points Conference 2025 on an interdisciplinary article series focusing on tipping points in natural…

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