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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

Slide titled: "Assumptions of the model and model checking"
with a scatterplot with axes how much people should worry vs how much people do worry.

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I just read the following quote from Mel Robbins, presented as if it were good advice. It makes me shudder: “You’ll never feel ready to change your life. One day you just get tired of your own excuses and force yourself to do it.” There is so much badness in that single sentence. 1/10

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Chris Timmermann @christimmermann.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our new paper - the first peer-reviewed brain and phenomenological examination of 5-MeO-DMT is out in Neuro of Consciousness. TLDR: We tested whether ‘the mount Everest’ of psychedelics could induce a complete state of consciousness deconstruction while preserving awareness. 1/n #neuroskyence

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Rogier Min @rogiermin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Excited to share our latest paper! We argue that in MS, the primary immune attack isn’t on myelin or myelinated axons — but on the ion & water homeostasis machinery in astrocyte endfeet. A short thread on this new perspective 1/11

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 05/03/2025

🔬 The Predicting Replicability Challenge seeks innovative teams to help transform how research credibility & trustworthiness are assessed. Open to participants globally. 💰 prizes awarded to top teams in each round! Learn more & submit a statement of interest by 8/18/25: www.cos.io/predictin...

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So, here we go: hello Bluesky! Reposting the last one from my Twitter. Looking forward to connecting! Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making - new article out! Much enjoyed writing this together www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making

Serotonin has been associated with a wide range of neural computations and behaviours, yet an overarching function of this neurotransmitter has been h…

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Timing Research Forum @timingresforum.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Hi #neuroskyence and #PsychSciSky friends! 🧪🧠⏰ The Timing Research Forum is now on Blue Sky! We're a 1500+ strong group of researchers devoted to studying the psych/neuro basis of time perception. We have a newsletter, virtual journal clubs, and a biennial meeting! Check us out #academicsky

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

New paper! People often do not remember information they just searched for (link.springer.com/article/10.3...). Subjects were asked to draw the contents of their memory immediately after searching for a target in a natural scene Thread!

Alt: An image showing two visual scenes, both indoor rooms, and also two sketches that people drew of those scenes.

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Balázs Knakker @bknakker.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

This needs to be reposted regularly.

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Balázs Knakker @bknakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Done, don't you donate too? 🍩🍩🍩🍩

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