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Demetrio Ferro

@d-ferro.bsky.social
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Cognitive💭 Computational🧑‍💻 Neuroscientist🧠 Physiology of perception, attention, decision-making. Swimming, hiking, ecology & greenery enthusiast. d-ferro.github.io; gin.g-node.org/56fe 🗣️it en es fr @crmatematica.bsky.social; @upf.edu

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COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📢Have work to share with the computational and systems neuroscience community? Abstract submissions for #COSYNE2027 are now open. Deadline: 18 October 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE Submit your abstract: www.cosyne.org/abstracts-su... #Neuroscience
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Servei de Recerca de la UPF @sdrecercaupf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The @ec.europa.eu has launched a comprehensive interactive infographic designed to equip researchers with both strategic and practical guidance on maximising the impact of their work through effective intellectual property management. ➡️ ja.cat/Pfe5Q
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sepex.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada) Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en…
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Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience (Human Neuroscience Lab, CIMCYC, University of Granada)
Os enviamos información sobre una oferta de contrato postdoctoral en el Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, Granada. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ Job offer (1) Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience The Human Neuroscience Lab ( of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, …
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Demetrio Ferro @d-ferro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How Does Our Brain Change When We Are Close to a Goal? Our study shows that goal-directed drives reshape dACC value coding, linked to faster, more focused, and less risky decisions. Thanks @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social @upf.edu for sharing! #Neuroscience #Neuroskynce #BehavioralEcology #Neuroeconomics
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Com canvia el nostre cervell quan tenim un objectiu a tocar? - Departament | Escola d'Enginyeria - UPF
Un estudi liderat per Enginyeria UPF identifica com la proximitat a un objectiu modifica la presa de decisions i la manera com el cervell representa el valor de les diferents opcions. Els resultats, p...
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You want to 'democratize' science? Fight for funding and opportunities. Companies are trying to take that away from you🧪
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Kostas Chatzimichail @kochatzi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
🧵 Excited to share my first paper, now out in Science Advances! 🧠 How does premotor cortex represent actions when we perform them vs. when we watch others? We looked at this using population-level recordings in macaque premotor cortex. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)
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Dynamic population coding of kinematic structure across executed and observed actions in primate premotor cortex
Premotor neural populations dynamically integrate seeing and doing by reflecting the unfolding kinematics of grasping actions.
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Demetrio Ferro @d-ferro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @natcomms.nature.com !🧠🔍 Accumulating virtual rewards enhances both decision-making accuracy and neural value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex by dynamically shifting a goal-dependent internal reference point. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters
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Female beast hunters battled leopards in ancient Rome, long-lost mosaic shows
Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters
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Dorian @flvillager.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A Super El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temperatures looked like this, millions died. Reshare. Earthlyeducation
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
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Luke ❌👑 @lukehklipp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Been really struggling to wrap my mind around this graph. It shows just how wildly off the charts global temps are right now. When is so hot that it becomes an imperative to organize around and meaningfully address?
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 20/03/2026
I, too, am calling for people to cut oil demand. In addition to these ideas, also try demanding: -adequate funding for transit operations, -protected bike lanes, and -an end to freeway expansions.
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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 03/03/2026
For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, Nature spoke to scientists from around the world about how their work has been shaped by playing Pokémon games, watching animated TV series and films and trading cards in school playgrounds. 🧪
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Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠 The deadline is this Friday, March 6th. Run! 🏃‍♂️💨 Apply here: 🔗 www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 24/02/2026
Climate change can flip some mountain ecosystems from grasslands to woodlands, according to a study in Colorado. Artificially warmed plots transitioned from mostly herbaceous plants to mostly woody shrubs over 29 years. In PNAS: ow.ly/vOGH50Yl7JC
Green sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was one of the studied shrubs and increased in biomass in warmed plots. Stock photo.
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Gerald Zaltman's pioneering research methods for understanding the unconscious desires of customers are used by companies around the world. Dare to Think Differently draws on these groundbreaking methods to explain the innovative thinking used by successful executives ow.ly/YfqL50Yiu19
Book cover of Dare to Think Differently:
How Open-Mindedness Creates Exceptional Decision-Making by Gerald Zaltman
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Jens-Bastian Eppler @j-b-eppler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
As promised: a detailed figure-by-figure thread on our @pnas.org paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We use signal correlations and noise correlations in chronic imaging data to show that representational drift is shaped by a balance between Hebbian and stochastic changes. Let’s dive in 👇 🧠🧪 1/9
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Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning | PNAS
Recent evidence indicates that even under stable environmental and behavioral conditions, responses to sensory stimuli undergo continuous reformatt...
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cognition is not steady state. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications
How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...
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Fanny Cazettes @fannycazettes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠 Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/02/2026
A study published in Nature analyses the impact of AI on scientific research, revealing that AI-augmented scientists publish 3.02 times more papers and receive 4.84 times more citations compared to their peers. go.nature.com/4rmyX2x 🧪 #ArtificialIntelligence
Increasing prevalence of AI adoption in science.
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨Do we need a large, expensive MRI scanner to map whole-brain networks in the mouse? Not necessarily! In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI 🧵👇
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Biff Rendar @biffrendar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“Why does MAGA hate the planet?” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
Why does MAGA hate the planet?
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is cool. Complex behavior is built from subcomponents. Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years. if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.
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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
💡 Our new #preprint is available online! How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change? In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments. 🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a thread 🧵
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Serge Ahmed @sergeahmed.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours - Nature
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes the value, salience and valence of learned stimuli along distinct neural dimensions, and the geometry of these representations shapes motivated behaviours in ...
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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology
Cruddas et al. reviewed how core concepts from wave physics relate to cortical wave physiology and psychology. They examined how cortical waves emerge, how they facilitate coordinated, hierarchical, and counterstream dynamics, and how they encode perceptual and behavioral signals.
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 06/02/2026
🌟 The #FENS–#EJN Image Competition is open! This is your chance to showcase your creativity at #FENS2026 in #Barcelona! 🇪🇸 🗓️ Deadline: 28 February 2026 👉 Learn more and submit your image here: buff.ly/TPA5eoV #FENS #BrainResearch #NeuroscienceConference
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Cortex works with rhythms and waves. Nested spatiotemporal theta–gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Nested spatiotemporal theta–gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors reveal how the mouse brain uses a nested spatiotemporal motif to support hierarchical visual processing: broad theta traveling waves sweep across cortical layers and areas t...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 04/02/2026
New study uses #satellite records and shows that #SouthernOcean #phytoplankton responds in contrasting ways to marine #heatwaves and #cold spells. The impacts vary sharply by region, exposing distinct #ecological sensitivity to #climate -driven extremes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Extreme temperature events reshuffle the ecological landscape of the Southern Ocean - Nature Communications
Satellite records reveal that Southern Ocean phytoplankton responds in contrasting ways to marine heatwaves and cold spells. These opposing impacts vary sharply by region, exposing distinct ecological...
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 04/02/2026
🚨 #FENS2026 LAST DAY! 🗓️ 5 February is the final day for early registration, abstract submissions and travel grants for the #FENSForum. Be part of Europe’s largest #neuroscience conference and connect with the global brain science community. 🧠 👉 buff.ly/psyzZje
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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-too... Tool use - when idiot humans land clear, what's a cow gotta do to keep preened, hey? #sentience #philsci #animals #philsky #welfare #climate
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A cow has been filmed using tools for the first time ever, stunning scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine
A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in livestock
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 01/08/2025
🚨 #FENS2026 NEW DATES 🚨 First, Formula 1 sent us from Madrid to #Barcelona. Now the Tour de France Grand Départ has us switching gears again—we're updating our dates to 6-10 July 2026! 🗓️ Find out more 👉: loom.ly/zMkMKcA 🔔 Stay tuned!
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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Nature @nature.com · 24/11/2025
Book review 📚 Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it go.nature.com/4oj1dke
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Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it
To preserve the natural world, economists should account for forests and wetlands as much as for factories and farms.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 24/11/2025
This 2017 preprint by @suryaganguli.bsky.social is foundational: the dimension of a neural code can't be > that of the experiment used to measure it. Yet it is not very widely known. Maybe because people don't like the message? And because it's "unpublished"? (After writing it, Gao left for SpaceX)
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 19/11/2025
Ultra-processed foods – what’s the impact? In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat. Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️ spkl.io/63327AduhR
Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Proud to share our manifesto - with a vision and concrete steps towards just sustainability transitions in Dutch academia! With @rogierk.bsky.social, De Jonge Akademie, Green Young Academy www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
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Universities should be more ambitious in the climate transition, according to The Young Academy - De Jonge Akademie
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Years ago I started the Green Young Academy with @sanlifaez.bsky.social & @anne-urai.bsky.social. Across meetings, zoom calls, pitches and even a meeting with the King, this grew into 2 projects launched today: A report on Universities' sustainability plans & a manifesto with sustainability pledges
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 18/10/2025
“Is academic research becoming too competitive?” Alternative framing: “Is academic research becoming too unsupported?” The former suggests the blame is on the researchers. The latter highlights underlying causes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New article “Disentangling Metabolic & Neurovascular Timescales Supporting Cognitive Processes” by CIMeC_UniTrento in collaboration with leading partner institutes Congrats F.Saviola, S. Tambalo, L. Beghini, A. Ferrari, B. Cassone, D. Van De Ville, J. Jovicich! #PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2506513122
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This new book sounds interesting
This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Public engagement: building common ground
How can we help to bridge this divide? Simply producing more excep­ tional science will not be enough to rebuild public trust. Rather, we must adopt a new model that recognizes communication and advocacy as core pillars of science, on a par with rigor and reproducibility. Public engagement efforts should be valued for faculty promotions, much like obtaining grants and publishing our findings in scientific journals. Researchers should be recognized and rewarded for activities such as giving public talks, working with local schools, engaging with policy­ makers, developing social media campaigns and platforms or writing accessible articles for general audiences. Developing these skills must be an integral part of scientific training, reinforcing the notion that the responsibility to champion science lies with us. Courses that teach graduate students and postdocs to communicate complex ideas clearly, to use social media effectively and to advocate for evidence­based policies must be deemed critical and supported by our universities. These efforts should not be viewed as distractions from research but woven into the fabric of what we do as scientists. Rebuilding public trust requires a cultural paradigm shift: scientists must see themselves not just as producers of knowledge, but also as its ambassadors and translators. Such a fundamental change will occur only if it is embraced by our scientific leaders and institutions, emphasizing the critical role of public engagement for science to succeed.
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
'Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers' @nature.com Career News 🧪🎓 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers
The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds.
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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 16/08/2025
🧪 @grib-barcelona.bsky.social & Yale scientists analysed 3.000 genes linked to brain disorders, finding early-life origins for autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and more. Read the full article 👇
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3000 genes to understand autism and other neurological disorders - El·lipse
An international collaboration between researchers at the PRBB and at Yale University shows how genetic alterations happening during early neurodevelopment can translate into neurological pathologies later in life.
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Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona @prbb.org · 18/08/2025
🍽️ Segons un estudi d’@isglobal.org, a Espanya la carn i els lactis generen més de la meitat de l’impacte ambiental de la dieta sobre la salut. Llegeix-lo ara!👇
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La carn i els lactis, els principals culpables alimentaris dels danys ambientals que afecten a la nostra salut - El·lipse
Un estudi liderat per investigadors i investigadores d'ISGlobal ha quantificat per primera vegada els danys a la salut causats pels impactes ambientals de la nostra demanda d'aliments.
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