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Claudinei Biazoli

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Social and Affective Neuroscience | Global Mental Health ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2483-4109

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026
Did you know that there’s only a single letter separating an “idionomic clinical workflow” from an “idiotnomic clinical workflow”? I haven’t managed to write my screed about cluster analysis yet, here’s another blog post in the meantime: www.the100.ci/2024/10/28/i...
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Idiographic Approaches in Psychology: Hold your horses
There have been persistent calls spurring psychologists to do more “idiographic” research, starting even before Peter Molenaar’s “Manifesto on Psychology as Idiographic Science”, which is already 20 y...
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Arush Lal, PhD @arushlal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨New in @nature.com Health: Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation, and overlapping crises. Reform should not be reduced to doing less with less. It must be honest about its problems and ambituous about its scope and solutions. 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reforming global health for an age of mistrust, fragmentation and overlapping crises - Nature Health
To move from debate to delivery, global health architecture reform must rebalance power, reinforce systems and restore trust, with a sharper focus on managing geopolitics and emerging threats.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ever wondered why we sometimes 'catch' another person's anxiety even after a brief interaction? We developed a paradigm to induce contagious anxiety and find that empathy and mental imagery mediate anxiety contagion. See thread & preprint for details! osf.io/preprints/ps...
A link to the preprint described in the thread
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Shella Keilholz will shortly become the Editor-in-Chief of Imaging Neuroscience, following the selection process described in our Author Guide. Steve Smith is stepping down as EiC after serving for three years, following the transition from NeuroImage.
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person? I'm excited to share our new preprint led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for #OHBM2026: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Functional brain organization is stable within individuals across years
Brain regions exhibit dynamic yet highly coordinated activity patterns that form large-scale functional networks measurable through resting-state correlations. While their association with fluctuating...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We have 2 new papers out in Nature Mental Health. [1] Led by @jonathanrepple.bsky.social: key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping, w focus on heterogeneity of depression, longitudinal disease trajectory & underrepresentation of lived-experience www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Key challenges in advancing research on depression phenotyping - Nature Mental Health
In this Review the authors discuss the reasons behind the limited advance in depression phenotyping and provide strategic points for addressing this gap.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/05/2026
Done with my last talk before leave! This one was fun and I'm glad I added Columbo last minute. Slides here, in case you're curious: juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
Slide with Columbo -- "Just one more thing" -- in the top.

If you're a reviewer: some low-hanging fruits for reviewers
- asking authors for clarification regarding their estimand
- an association -- why would we be interested in that?
- prediction -- what's the actual predictive use case?
- some causal effect -- what are the underlying identification assumptions?
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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨new lab preprint; brain fingerprinting entirely revisited: Can we differentiate individuals from just seconds of neurophysiological recordings with machine learning, without resorting to black-box approaches? In this work, Maxence Lapatrie says 'yes'. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the Philosophy & Neuroscience Collaborative Mentorship Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/mentorship (This is 1/2 announcements we will make over the next 1-2 weeks.)
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2025
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

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Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).
Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

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1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 27/08/2025
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"Childhood as they once knew it has ceased to exist" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...
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The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza
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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published! tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
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Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/06/2025
A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows genetic associations with environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits in an international collaboration using data from more than 21,000 identical twins. It's the largest genetic study of identical twin differences to date. 🧬 🧪
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Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes - Nature Human Behaviour
This study uncovered genetic associations with environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits in an international collaboration using data from more than 21,000 monozygotic twins—the largest genetic study of monozygotic twin differences to date.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
If you like epidemiology, public health, data science, causal inference, or the occasional anti-antivaxxer snark, you'll love E is for Epi. Sign up at epiellie.substack.com
A grid of public health promotion images from the US Library of Congress image database. Overlaid, the name of my newsletter (E is for Epi), my name and credentials (Dr Ellie Murray, epidemiologist), and the link (epiellie.substack.com)
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
👏👏👏 fMRIPrep Lifespan: Extending A Robust Pipeline for Functional MRI Preprocessing to Developmental Neuroimaging | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/05/2025
This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)
Title slide: Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysisDecision flowchart "So you want to conduct a mediation analysis"
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲? We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state. Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Brain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“A moment later, we were all laughing—a collective laughter, as if we had tripped during a picnic. But this laughter doesn’t belong to picnics. It is a distorted sound, like the music of a damaged cassette tape”
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Triangulation of evidence in medical research explained, in work led by Sirena Gutierrez and @mariaglymour.bsky.social Will do a thread when I get a moment link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Evidence triangulation in health research - European Journal of Epidemiology
For many important questions about influences on clinical and public health outcomes, no single study can provide a decisive answer. The perfect study—a large, diverse, well-conducted trial randomizin...
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Francesca Brencio @ipazia76.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! @matthewbroome.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social @rritunnano.bsky.social @emas-b.bsky.social @femimind.bsky.social @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and many talented colleagues!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/03/2025
New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
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Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
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Olaf Borghi @olafborghi.com · 19/03/2025
In politics, people are not always truth seekers. Often, we reach conclusions because they fit with preferred political narratives: we are biased by ideological motivations. But are some people better equipped to overcome such bias than others? 🚨 Find out in the first pre-print from my PhD 🚨
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/03/2025
Hey beautiful causal inference people! I was invited to give a workshop on mediation analysis, ca. 90-120 min. What would you cover? Thinking both in terms of topics to be covered (e.g., mediator-outcome confounding, sensitivity analyses?) & practical implementations (R packages worth introducing)
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Vicente Medel @medelero.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎉 Exciting news! Our symposium with Enzo Tagliazucchi, "Computational Models integrating Neurobiology & Social Determinants of Brain Health," is accepted for #OHBM2025! 🌎✈️ From South America to Brisbane—thrilled to bring diverse perspectives to global Neuroscience!
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Lynsey Bilsland @lynseyb.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new target validation funding call is now live! @wellcometrust.bsky.social aims to support validation of novel targets relevant for anxiety, depression and psychosis. wellcome.org/grant-fundin... Join us for the webinar at 13:00 GMT on 25th Feb - wellcome-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Mental Health Award: Advancing target validation - Funding | Wellcome
This call will provide funding for validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or ...
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EVC @ebvc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Murnane memories
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Fantastic news that Andy Clark is the inaugural winner of the #DennettPrize, in honour of Daniel Dennett. Congrats Andy 🍾🍾🍾 super-well deserved @sussexuni.bsky.social hardproblem.it/projects/the...
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The Dennett Prizeclose
<p> The International Center for Consciousness Studies establishes the Dennett Prize—an annual prize that is awarded to an outstanding scholar whose research has significantly advanced the und...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The protection of the vulnerable (women & children) must remain a non-negotiable priority in the face of global instability @pmnch.bsky.social team in @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com
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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 31/12/2024
This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).
A one-panel comic by Glauco Villas Boas. A group of people stand against the corner of a wall. One reaches around the corner and uses a long stick to push open a door labeled 2025.
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Fran Hancock @franbrain.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Our review on Metastability has been published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience - you can view it here rdcu.be/d3bh9. Fantastic collaboration involving experts from the UK, the US, Spain, Australia and Portugal.
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Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Metastability is a concept from dynamical systems. In the brain, it is thought to reflect the balance between the cooperative and independent functioning of brain...
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Emily Singer @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...
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The Transmitter books
The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.
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