Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data. 26865340
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Just got home (well, just woke up after getting home) from this year's @achems.bsky.social Conference! I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity to present my work to such a lovely group of people at the Polak Young Investigator session, and I received a lot of useful feedback. 110
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 14/04/2026Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databsandrewheiss.comOpen files in external programs with Positron or Visual Studio Code | Andrew HeissPositron is great for code, but macOS has better programs specifically for writing with Markdown. Quickly open a Quarto file in an external program with tasks. 3174
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAvram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Two programs of research diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both... 1) Work that incrementally advances human knowledge 2) The replication crisis 171
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality. 03111
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/xkcd.comCar Size 1024880
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoBrian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-... Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact? A contribution that altered policy or practice... A paper that extinguished an active area of research... An uncredited gem... 184
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/11/2025My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-... 610833
Reposted by Putu Agus Khorisantonohakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~ osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈osf.ioOSF 0329
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoJoe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comAcetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual DisabilityThis nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability. 724593
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoJaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Are you a woman in midlife (or older) who has struggled with an eating disorder as an adult? A new anthology, “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder,”is looking for your story in the form of a personal essay! You can read more about the anthology and submit your writing here!tinymedanthology.moksha.ioMoksha 1149
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoNatural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 19/09/2025If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon. Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️ 15110
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/09/2025too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation (how do we stop this disinformation) when you should really ask a second (how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically) 815239
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Ever thought that food tastes bland when you have a cold? In this piece, I explain how that happens as I summarise my latest article on the neural encoding of odours in the canonical taste cortex! theconversation.com/smell-trigge...theconversation.comSmell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anythingOur latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst. 020
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10doi.orgTastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature CommunicationsFood aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a... 2257
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Police and military brutality in Indonesia is escalating exponentially. Military personnel are laying siege to universities (Unispa & Unpas) in the middle of the night, with rubber bullets and tear gas. youtube.com/shorts/IeuDh...youtube.comKAMPUS UNISBA DAN UNPAS TAMANSARI DISERANG APARAT MALAM INI! #unisba #unpas #tamansariYouTube video by Dinamika politik 020
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.aljazeera.comPhotos: Indonesia protesters clash with riot police as tensions soarDeadly protests erupt across Indonesia after police vehicle kills motorcycle taxi driver, causing public outrage. 219983
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Come by and have a chat about crossmodal flavour representation in the insula! #OHBM2025 040
Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Good read on the need for us to integrate fMRI research with other fields of neuroscience. Now to look at how I can do it in my own work... 🤔 030
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoJuleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · 17/03/2025The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research | Nature Metabolism Great collaboration led by Satchin Panda and team! Happy to contribute. Time to take timing into consideration!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comThe time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature MetabolismThis broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto... 03214
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comElon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit YatesIt is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates 15140901244
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on. 340552
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoElio Balestrieri @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩 To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out: doi.org/10.1162/imag... Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶doi.orgBeyond oscillations - Toward a richer characterization of brain statesAbstract. Our moment-to-moment conscious experience is paced by transitions between states, each one corresponding to a change in the electromagnetic brain activity. One consolidated analytical choice... 02610
Reposted by Putu Agus Khorisantononoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025[deep sigh] ourobor-ass 1516
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Pretty much agree with this 2266
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪 201361594
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map. www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comThe medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space - Communications BiologyUsing multivariate fMRI analysis, this study reveals how medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC and lOFC) construct cognitive maps of abstract task space, advancing understanding of decision-ma... 711317
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAshleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 05/02/2025🧵 -> article medium.com/@notashley/t...medium.comThe Cass Review claimed it didn’t support conversion therapy — oops, now it does.The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone… 9319118
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoJenolab @jenolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...eci.ec.europa.euEuropean Citizens' InitiativeGive your support ! 8057385761
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs. 518154793403
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoSarah B @flythehighlife.bsky.social · 01/02/2025In my imagination, Marina Hyde’s composition process involves her striding around her living room, on her second wine, recording acerbic monologues articulating her utter disdain as voice memos 1428
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAsifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...thebritishacademy.ac.ukInternational Fellowships 2025The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. 02628
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoApurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our @iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread... 35718
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoDavid K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 31/01/2025My latest book can be found here... It has >100 new simple recipes and aims to offer a slice of hope and optimism to anyone going through difficult days. amazon.co.uk/dp/1739967038 194
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoDiego Candia-Rivera 🏳️🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Our methodological review on Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions 🧠🫀 is now available as early access in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering @embs.org. with Luca Faes, @fdevicofallani.bsky.social and Mario Chavez @neurodynamicslab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/RBME...doi.orgMeasures and Models of Brain-Heart InteractionsExploring brain-heart interactions within various paradigms, including affective computing, human-computer interfaces, and sensorimotor evaluation, has demonstrated enormous potential in biomarker dev... 0189
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If we don’t collect or distribute the data, nobody can argue there is a bias.media.tenor.coma man is holding his finger to his forehead while thinking .ALT: a man is holding his finger to his forehead while thinking . 12510
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoCLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards 064
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoDiego Candia-Rivera 🏳️🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The validation of our method to gather a time-resolved estimation of cardiac rhythms is now online in @royalsocietypublishing.org Our method provides a robust estimation of cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic dynamics, allowing covarying pattern analyses doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 1269
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The thing about the “Musk is a fake gamer” story is that the dude demonstrably lies and bullshits all the time, but it’s a lot harder for a layman to spot an engineering problem than see through the gamer shit, but the result is the same, in that it punctures his mythology as all powerful genius 12857143
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/01/2025the media: the trouble is, no-one’s giving advice to men! loads of people: be fun. wash regularly so you smell nice. learn to cook. take pleasure in giving other people pleasure. be interested in other people. the media: so here’s a man who says you should become a human trafficker. 241956323
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/01/2025LLMs were a mistake. The internet was a mistake. Computers were a mistake. Fuck, goddamn _people_ were a mistake. 1221660243
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoGerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 16/01/2025🧵1/5 🌡️ #Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body #ownership🖐️, yet their role remains highly debated. In our new study, we test this assumption within the framework of pathological body ownership after right-brain #stroke🧠 153
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoAnuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 13/01/2025While Meta, who says they believe that decentralized social media is the future, tries to block links to federated competitors, @jay.bsky.team and the @bsky.app team are boosting competitors in the space. It's one thing to talk to the talk, but it's another to walk it every chance you get 👏🏼404media.coMeta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor PixelfedPixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic." 3298
Reposted by Putu Agus KhorisantonoDouglas Garrett @garrettneuro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSingle-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature CommunicationsThe hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual... 15019