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Putu Agus Khorisantono

@agustation.bsky.social
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Postdoc researcher in nutritional neuroscience @ Nutrilab, KI (Stockholm, Sweden) Interested in what makes us eat what we eat he/him

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I 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.
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you work in chemosensory sciences, even tangentially, I definitely recommend joining this amazing group of people. I felt at home the moment I arrived, even though I wasn't joined by the rest of the lab. Everyone was so kind and welcoming, and the work presented was of the highest calibre.
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Just 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.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 14/04/2026
Cool 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 #databs
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Open files in external programs with Positron or Visual Studio Code | Andrew Heiss
Positron 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.
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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Two 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
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Congratulations 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.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/
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Car Size
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ericsson & 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...
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
A diagram showing how 13 minutes' walk gets you to just 75% as many places as a 15-minute walk
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
detection 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... 🧠📈
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Last 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...
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This 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.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Are 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!
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If 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 🦎 ☠️
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/09/2025
too 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)
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ever 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...
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Smell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anything
Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thank you, Ian!
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our findings highlight the insula's crucial role in flavour integration, explaining why smells are so vital to our perception of taste. So next time you enjoy a meal, appreciate the complex interplay happening in your brain! 🧠🍽️ #Neuroskyence #FlavourPerception 10/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This implies that the insula encodes a property that doesn't change throughout the session, such as identity. Meanwhile, the convergence in the OFC suggests that it likely encodes something that dynamically changes throughout the session, e.g. subjective value. 9/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In fact, we developed a method to examine runwise representational drift of flavours in the insula, and we saw a slight divergence between similar and different flavours in the insula over the course of a session, but we could see the opposite effect in the OFC. 8/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We're the first to show this direct shared encoding between retronasal odours and tastes in humans at the neural level, challenging the current consensus that this integration only happens further downstream in the OFC. 7/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why does this matter? Imagine reducing sugar or salt in foods without sacrificing flavour! If certain aromas can trick your brain into perceiving sweetness or savouriness, we could design healthier foods that still taste great. #HealthInnovation 6/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This integration isn't just anywhere in the insula. We pinpointed it to specific subregions – the dysgranular and agranular anterior insula. Meanwhile, only tastes could be decoded from the activation patterns in the granular subregion. 5/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
What was most interesting, however was that a decoder trained on the tastes and tested on the odours (and vice versa) also performed significantly above chance. This showed that that retronasal odours (aromas) elicit similar activations to their associated tastes in the insula. 4/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We then used mass-univariate GLM to identify a taste activation map. Within this map, a decoder was able to separate the sweet and savoury tastes. Interestingly, it could also separate 'sweet' and 'savoury' odours. 3/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We first familiarised participants with sweet & savoury flavours (taste + aroma). They then attended two fMRI sessions where they received just the taste (without smell) or just the smell (without taste). 2/10
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Excited 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... 1/10
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Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food 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...
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Police 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...
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KAMPUS UNISBA DAN UNPAS TAMANSARI DISERANG APARAT MALAM INI! #unisba #unpas #tamansari
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.
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Photos: Indonesia protesters clash with riot police as tensions soar
Deadly protests erupt across Indonesia after police vehicle kills motorcycle taxi driver, causing public outrage.
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Come by and have a chat about crossmodal flavour representation in the insula! #OHBM2025
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Good 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... 🤔
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Juleen R. Zierath @juleenrzierath.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The 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...
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The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism
This 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...
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Kit 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...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It 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
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.
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Elio Balestrieri @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025
Aaaand 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 🫶
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Beyond oscillations - Toward a richer characterization of brain states
Abstract. 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...
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
[deep sigh] ourobor-ass
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Pretty much agree with this
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Batman saying homophobia is the weapon of the enemy, and we won't use it
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’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. 🧪
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Pretty 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...
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The medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space - Communications Biology
Using 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...
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 05/02/2025
🧵 -> article medium.com/@notashley/t...
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The 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…
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Jenolab @jenolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
There'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/#...
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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Sarah B @flythehighlife.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In 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
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fellowships 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...
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International Fellowships 2025
The 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.
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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Hey 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...
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My 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
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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Worth a read!
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