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Magdalena Sabat

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Post-doc in Cognitive Science at ENS-PSL, Paris | changing fields to Computational Social Science at the Leiden & Amsterdam University (January 2026) | wannabe biodiversity activist

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Feb 11

Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris).

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal | PNAS

Arousal refers to changes in brain-body state underpinning motivated behavior but lacks a proper definition and taxonomy. Neuroscience and psycholo...

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 23h

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 2d

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling

Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

www.biorxiv.org

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 4d

Hi! Are you willing to share the poster? ( I missed the conference)

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS

The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 7d

Actually Europeans are quite aware of what cookies are and how to limit tracking, obviously younger people more than older generations, with notable differences between countries. Still, more than I.e. Americans ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Safer Internet Day: are you managing cookies?

In 2023, slightly above one third (36%) of people in the EU aged 16 to 74 who used the internet in the 3 months prior to the survey reported that they had changed their internet browser settings to pr...

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 7d

I actually really religiously do not accept cookies:) and so do quite an impressive proportion of Europeans www.statista.com/chart/amp/31...

Infographic: How Europeans Deal With Cookie Controls

This chart shows the share of respondents who have ever prevented/restricted cookies on their devices using browser settings.

www.statista.com

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #bigteamscience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items:
Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255.
Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887.
Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789.
Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108.
Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507.
Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235.
Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · Aug 15

@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

We wrote a blog reflecting on it:

anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...

Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025

by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · Aug 10

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Aug 5

Seems not exactly opposite, in scenario 2 you’re both rich and others think you are rich

Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Jul 29

Me, thinking about the +1k they owe me from a year ago 🫩

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · Jul 16

Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.

A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.

https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · Jul 12

Was chatting to one of my most brilliant Physics students yesterday and he had no idea how mechanical watches work and was fascinated by the fact that they make use of such basic Physics principles and the history of how watchmakers have overcome various limitations on accuracy. Shared this with him

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Jul 13

A short thread on the history of the theory of emotion 👇

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 13

Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵

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Anna Beyeler 🐝 @anna-beyeler.bsky.social · Jul 10

👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Jul 9

Made me think of a recent book by @robintransition.bsky.social ‘How to fall in love with the future. A Time traveller’s guide to changing the world’

Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Jul 9

Nice thread on the limits of using LLM to model ‘general cognition’

Jeffrey Bowers @jeffreybowers.bsky.social · Jun 26

Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268

Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Jul 9

Not only #brainrot ! Social media can make us better informed (if we control what and how long we consume) #psyskyance #journalclub www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour

Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.

www.nature.com

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Jul 7

New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social‬) & co

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations

Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply

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

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jan 29

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

www.404media.co

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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Influential figures can encourage faster adoption of pro-environmental behavior as the right thing to do through:

Phase 1: Moral recognition
Phase 2: Moral amplification
Phase 3: Approaching tipping points
Phase 4: Institutionalization
Phase 5: Norm abandonment

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 28

Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1

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