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Francesca Saviola @francescasaviola.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share such a career milestone 🌟 Our new @pnas.org paper shows how E–I balance drives dynamic brain adaptation.

Thanks to @jorgejovicich.bsky.social, @dimitrivdv.bsky.social, @asiaferrari.bsky.social, @bcassone.bsky.social & amazing co-authors 🙏
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes | PNAS

The balance between neural excitation and inhibition (EIB), governed by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission, is an essential mechanism su...

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 6d

Je crois qu'Age of Empire a déjà répondu à la question en participant à l'éducation à l'histoire de toute une génération à travers le monde!

Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 7d

thanks! Done already! Looking forward!

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 7d

Just discovered (a bit late I admit) this fascinating talk from @hugospiers.bsky.social Now I really want to play that SeaHeroQuest game! Hope it gets available again soon!

How video games can help with medical research with Hugo Spiers | WIRED Health

YouTube video by WIRED Events

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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 9d

New paper from the lab on the predictive role of prefrontal cortex metabolites in motivated effortful behavior in humans. Congrats to Arthur Barakat and @nclairis.bsky.social who led the work & to all our collaborators!

Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 9d

Arthur's main & final PhD paper is finally out! In it, we show that a few metabolites (mainly glutamate, aspartate and lactate) measured at baseline with 1H-MRS in the dmPFC/dACC allow to predict inter-individual differences in the motivation to engage with cognitively effortful tasks! 1/2

Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 9d

This further hilights the role of the dmPFC/dACC in the motivation to engage with effortful tasks as well as the importance of metabolic components in motivation. A big thanks to @carmensandi10.bsky.social for her supervision in this project and to all collaborators for making it possible! 2/2

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · 9d

Arthur's main & final PhD paper is finally out! In it, we show that a few metabolites (mainly glutamate, aspartate and lactate) measured at baseline with 1H-MRS in the dmPFC/dACC allow to predict inter-individual differences in the motivation to engage with cognitively effortful tasks! 1/2

Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Springer Nature’s group revenue has risen by 6% to €926m (£800m) in the first half of 2025, while adjusted operating profit (AOP) was up by 10% to €241m (£208m)." they could at least say thanks to all of us researchers who made that waste of public money possible 🥲

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not a good development

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

www.theverge.com

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Aug 11

New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data.

Guardian @theguardian.com coverage:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Paper:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky

Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find

Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Discover" currently has 66 journals:

25 have *identical* names to #MDPI journals, 11 are one letter off (Food vs Foods), and 22 more are clear mimics (Chemical Engineering vs. ChemEngineering).

From 2020-2024, #SpringerDiscover opened 61 new journals and grew its output by 🎊 8077% 🎊

Gross! 🤮 3/n

A full list of the journals by Discover, the vast majority of which mimic MDPI titles.

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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).

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Aug 4

Totally agreed. Public funding bodies should clearly consider that @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @inserm.fr maybe some interesting ideas to save money for the future #academia #ScientificPublishing

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 4

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.

The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.

This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.

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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Jul 24

tough times for fMRI... The main world providers being US, Russia, Algeria and Qatar

CNRS @cnrs.fr · Jul 16

Research laboratories have been suffering a worldwide inflation on the price of helium, an essential gas in many scientific disciplines. In response, the CNRS is implementing a national supply and management strategy for this rare gas 💨
www.cnrs.fr/en/update/he...

The helium crisis – the CNRS is breathing more new life into science

For some years now, research laboratories have been suffering from the effects of worldwide inflation on the price of helium, an essential

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Proton @proton.me · Jul 22

Does ChatGPT store chat logs, even after you've deleted them?

Short answer: Yes.

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Jul 24

en même temps il y a de plus en plus d'initiatives indépendantes des US (deepseek en Chine, Lumo développé par Proton en Suisse, Mistral en France, etc etc) donc ça peut aussi servir de boost aux productions non-américaines. Reste à voir ce que chatgpt va devenir

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Jul 21

surtout sur l'écologie reporterre.net/Convention-p...

Convention pour le climat : seules 10 % des propositions ont été reprises par le gouvernement

Que sont devenues les 149 propositions de la Convention citoyenne, alors que la loi Climat est en cours d’examen à l’Assemblée ? Reporterre a enquêté sur chaque réponse du gouvernement. Résultat : seu...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 19

Interesting system: "Icebox." A way to publish findings and why they've stopped. Maybe the project's completed. Maybe it hit a roadblock, or became underwhelming.

One concern (that could be addressed)...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jun 19

“In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well.”

Some will disagree with aspects of Seemay’s analysis but this point is undoubtedly true open.substack.com/pub/asterain...?

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 16

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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Nicolas Clairis @nclairis.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · May 30

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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