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Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD

@drchrysikou.bsky.social
1.1K followers 1.3K following 6 posts

Associate Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Associate Dean for Research CoAS, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences @ Drexel, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, neuroscience of creativity, (cognitive) control freak

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Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD @drchrysikou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/a-national...
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A National Prefrontal Lobotomy: The Costs of Cutting the Social Sciences
Issue 158: The long-term impacts of funding cuts threaten "social science for a safer world"
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Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
For example, consider this excellent 33-post 🧵 from @jeremymberg.bsky.social, who used to lead NIGMS Written from the perspective of a scientist, it describes the long chain of discoveries needed to produce this week's release of an exciting new, non-opioid pain reliever onto the market
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Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD @drchrysikou.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer. TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Good blog post on describing why the NIH drop in IDC would have such negative effects. It is clear, non-technical and has things that can be done by everyone www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...
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The Hidden Backbone of Research: How a 15% Cap on Indirect Costs Will Devastate Universities
So, if we’re serious about keeping research alive, it’s time to push back. Because 15% isn’t just a cut—it’s a death sentence for academic institutions as we know them.
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 17/01/2025
The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...
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Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...
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Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD @drchrysikou.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Are you a creativity researcher just starting in Bluesky? Check out the @tsfnc SfNC Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/S5Ce66c
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jcrwhittington.bsky.social @jcrwhittington.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Frederic R. Hopp @fhopp.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Busy bookworm or targeted hunter? Check out this amazing work on using computational modeling for exploring #curiosity in book selection!
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Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD @drchrysikou.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Very interesting interview—the future of sponsored research? goodscience.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview with Daniel MacArthur
This is an interview with Daniel MacArthur, whom I first met when he was at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston.
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