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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 6d

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · 22d

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

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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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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 29d

The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full.

It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · 29d

So true and beautifully said @pdimanova.bsky.social ❤️Having your sweet peanut there made it even more special. Intergenerational care at its best: science and family on your poster, in our hearts and spirits, across the community. #Flux2025 brought it all together!

Plamina Dimanova @pdimanova.bsky.social · 29d

Attending Flux 2025 feels like being home academically!
Thanks everyone for the interesting talks, insightful discussions, and inspiring conversations. Huge thanks to @noramraschle.bsky.social for the opportunity to immerse in the developmental cognitive neuroscience society again 🧠

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · 29d

What an excellent flash talk this was @sofiascatolin.bsky.social ! Very proud on all the nice work and presentations by you, our team members & all. Huge thanks to the organizers and flux community for being so welcoming, inspirational & ready to move forward together! #child #development #brain

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Sofia Scatolin @sofiascatolin.bsky.social · Sep 8

I had an amazing time at #Flux2025 presenting our research and connecting with colleagues!

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Jonathan Bugmann
🌱 Believing in Change: The Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Emotion Beliefs, Growth Mindset, and Mental Well-Being in Young Adults
📅 Saturday | Poster Session III
🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall
🌱 Proof that believing in change isn’t just philosophy, it’s written in the brain.

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

@sofiascatolin.bsky.social
💡 Parent-Child Functional Neural Similarity and Its Association With Child Mental Well-Being
📅 Saturday | Posters III
🕙 10:15–11:45AM | Goldsmith Hall
🎤 Flash talk: Saturday | 9:10–9:15AM | Hyde Suite 1&2
✨ As the Beatles sang: in the end, it’s all about the love we share

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Dennis Saikkonen
🔄 Developing Minds: Functional Brain Maturation and Mentalizing From Childhood to Adulthood
📅 Saturday | Poster Session III
🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall
😎🌼Growing up isn’t just about the brain changing, it’s about seeing the world through others’ eyes.

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Elena Federici
👫 Shared Perspectives: The Neural Basis of Sibling Similarity in Affective Processing
📅 Saturday | Poster Session III
🕙 10:15–11:45 AM | Goldsmith Hall
👯‍♀️ When siblings sync, it’s not just Spotify playlists, it’s in the brain too.

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mirjam Habegger
🧠 Predicting Children’s Mental Health Longitudinally by Their Functional Brain Connectivity
📅 Friday | Poster Session II
🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall
🔮 A poster that peers into the future - without a crystal ball, just networks of the brain.

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lena Götz & Gian Andri Bamert
📚 Neuromyths in Swiss Society: Prevalence and Implications for Education and Learning
📅 Friday | Poster Session II
🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall
🍪🧠🎶 Gingerbread hearts, brain hemispheres & Mariah Carey: myth-busting at its sweetest.

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

@pdimanova.bsky.social
🧬 Parent-Child Similarity in Corticolimbic Brain Structure: Intergenerational Effects and the Role of Parental Childhood Experiences
📅 Friday | Poster Session II
🕟 4:30–6:00 PM | Goldsmith Hall
🎶 Johnny Cash vibes included: you’ll know the song when you see

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Nora Maria Raschle @noramraschle.bsky.social · Sep 2

✈️ The NMR Kids Lab is heading to #Flux2025 in Dublin!
We can’t wait for inspiring talks, lively poster sessions, and connecting with colleagues in developmental neuroscience.
👉 Visit our lab's presentations! Each poster comes with a cartoon-style story summarizing the science 🧠🎨 #brains #scicomm

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Aug 25

A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...

How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends”

Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.

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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · Dec 13

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Neuroscience methods - YouTube

Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jul 23

We recorded simultaneous brain activity from 27 teacher–learner pairs as they taught each other facts about unfamiliar items as well as eye-gaze, speech, nodding and breathing.

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Child and Family Mental Health Lab @cfmhlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We're thrilled to see our new meta-analysis on childhood maltreatment and interoception published in Nature Mental Health! 🧠💔

Led by our @juliaditzer.bsky.social, we found that emotional abuse/neglect is linked to lower trust in bodily signals — a risk factor for mental health issues.

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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · Jul 7

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩

With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.

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A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception

Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · Jul 7

It was an honor to lead this project as first author.
Thanks to my wonderful co-authors Christian Woll, Clara Burger, Alisa Ernst, Ilka Böhm, @alzietlow.bsky.social & @susangarth.bsky.social for their support and expertise! 🫰

Full paper: rdcu.be/eu8bo

A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception

Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

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Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature

Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

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Carolyn Baer @carebaer7.bsky.social · May 21

New paper! When do children trust others and when do they come up with their own ideas? Kids 8+ considered and weighed each person's confidence to decide whether to form new beliefs.
With @janengelmann.bsky.social and @celestekidd.bsky.social
Free here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Children Use the Relative Confidence of People With Conflicting Perspectives to Form Their Own Beliefs

We provide evidence that children sensibly integrate the judgments of different people who disagree according to their confidence. We asked children (ages 5–10 years, N = 92) to make judgments about ...

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