Jessica Feria
@jess-afp.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD student • University of Bonn • 🇲🇽 🧠 👩🔬
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"So far, more than 80 op-eds have appeared in local newspapers in more than 30 states, discussing research on Alzheimer’s disease, drought-tolerant trees, addiction treatments, and more."
www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
www.science.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"So far, more than 80 op-eds have appeared in local newspapers in more than 30 states, discussing research on Alzheimer’s disease, drought-tolerant trees, addiction treatments, and more."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.
www.nature.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New study on misrepresentation of global south. “Most commercial detection tools, and even models developed by academic researchers, are trained on datasets collected in and about the Global North. […] Cultural nuances and references from regions in the Global South are often lost in the process.“
“Fake news detection” AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows
Last May, as India conducted the largest democratic election in history, I spoke to reporters and fact-checkers in the country about the challenges they faced identifying political deepfakes. Many of them spoke to shortcomings in existing AI detection tools, and the biases baked into them.
Most …
www.niemanlab.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New study on misrepresentation of global south. “Most commercial detection tools, and even models developed by academic researchers, are trained on datasets collected in and about the Global North. […] Cultural nuances and references from regions in the Global South are often lost in the process.“
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"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus
Memory engrams are formed through experience-dependent plasticity of neural circuits, but their detailed architectures remain unresolved. Using three-dimensional electron microscopy, we performed nano...
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"How are memories formed and stored in the brain?...Long-term memory acquisition was found to be associated with a selective increase in multisynaptic boutons..". Groundbreaking new study from my friend and colleague Anton Maximov's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
Bonus: My son Luca's first pub
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We're thrilled to announce the creation of the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program.
Introducing the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program
We’re thrilled to announce the creation of the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program, an opportunity for a sleuth to spend a year working with us. Too often, sleuths work for free, often at …
retractionwatch.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We're thrilled to announce the creation of the Retraction Watch Sleuth in Residence Program.