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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 1d

💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene!
Talks (including mine) are online here 👇

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Collège de France

www.college-de-france.fr

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Jul 20

@marcobuiatti.bsky.social this will interest you!

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Jul 20

How awful! Sorry to hear you had to go through this …

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Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com!
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social

🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.

👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · Jul 6

🎉 New Chapter Published!

🧠 Title:
Neurobiological underpinnings of developmental dyscalculia
👥 Authors:
Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, @alirezakr.bsky.social , @manpiazza.bsky.social

#Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #LearningDisabilities #Dyscalculia

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Jul 10

Strategic omission:
knowingly leaving out relevant prior work to make findings seem more novel is academic dishonesty.
Adding citations later doesn’t undo the damage.
Citations are credit and respect, not decoration.
Call out this practice to protect integrity. #AcademicIntegrity

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Jun 3

Feeling inspired following #DementiaActionWeek?
Discover how @uclqsion.bsky.social‬ is shaping the future of dementia care and research.

UCL MSc - Dementia: from Neuroscience to Clinical Practice MSc

Listen to the course co-Directors as well as current and former students talk about the MSc 'Dementia: from Neuroscience to Clinical Practice'. This MSc, off...

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Sep 20

Our lab at Carnegie Mellon is recruiting graduate students this year to study the development of the brain and cognition — come watch a brain develop, see how animals learn concepts, or take a canoe ride to see how folks learn across cultures. #PsychSciSky

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Apr 18

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU

The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...

sciencebusiness.net

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · Apr 15

Gallileo Gallilei museum. Firenze

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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) @prereview.bsky.social club on #semantics has produced it's first review 👏🏼 prereview.org/clubs/snl-se... We're planning the next date/paper: don't hesitate to reach out!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 19

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.

 I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social · Mar 25

We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!

Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant/Research Associate in computational modelling of emotional memory (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Apr 12

I would have bet! Humans are no magic …

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Apr 12

#concepts #neuroscience #cognition #cognitivemaps #neuroimaging #neurodevelopment

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Apr 12

🧠 Are you completing a PhD in neuroscience or psychology and seek a competitive postdoc abroad?
Join my lab at CIMeC as a Marie Curie Fellow. We study abstract concept from newborns to adult using fMRI, EEG & more. Reach out for ideas!
Call opens May 8, 2025.
🔗https://r.unitn.it/en/cimec/per2con

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Mar 26

The President of the US and richest man on earth, unilaterally STOPPED children’s cancer research and clinical trials because they view them as “wasteful”.

If this doesn’t get your feet in the streets, I don’t know what will.

#standupforscience
#scienceforall

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Mar 26

Disgraceful

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Mar 26

I feel seen (from the second article)

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · Mar 22

📢 CIMeC is now on BlueSky!

From now on, we’ll be sharing updates from our Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, including research highlights, academic activities, events, and much more!

🔗 www.cimec.unitn.it

#neuroscience #cognitivescience #unitrento #cimec_unitreno

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 22

#ICYMI New review from @uclpals.bsky.social finds that measures of cognition during menopause are often inadequate.

Beyond brain fog: Urgent need to address the unmet cognitive needs of women going through menopause

Researchers at the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences find that measures used to assess cognition during menopause are often inadequate and highlight the need for an outcome measure of…

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Mar 12

Chris Murphy is very good here. Disappearances for political speech violate our core principles. Of course they test the waters with pro-Palestinian speech on the hope that people won’t protest, and then they can move on to everyone else. Call your congresspeople to demand that Khalil be released.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Mar 11

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Mar 6

@mariamic.bsky.social benvenuta! 🤗

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Mar 4

Just a few more days left to apply! Deadline is this Friday, 7 March. #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Feb 14

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · Mar 1

Sale here - cound’t get to sleep yesterday night after seeing the horrific scene. We are in the middle of a turning point in history. And it’s not a good one.

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