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Anna-Lena Eckert

@eckertal.bsky.social
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Post-doc computational psychiatry @ UCL 🧠 working on psychosis, planning, RNNs 🎓PhD: BCCN Berlin 🌍Post-doc #1: Uni Marburg 👟 runner 👩‍🎓 1st gen - she,her 🌐 eckertal.github.io/personal-website

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Gregor Weichbrodt @gregor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Die Deutsche Bahn hat im offiziellen Katalog 65 Verspätungsgründe („Reparatur an einem Signal” etc.). Mir waren die zu konkret. Deshalb gibt es jetzt das „Bahnhoroskop”: Man trägt die Verspätung ein und bekommt den Grund, berechnet aus der echten Sternkonstellation zur Abfahrt. bahnhoroskop.ggor.de
Sharepic mit Zug, Ziel, Abfahrtszeit und Begründung für die Verspätung:

DEINE ABFAHRT
RB21
Potsdam Hbf
10:14 (neu: 10:34)

Grund für die Verzögerung im Betriebsablauf
ist der Spannungsaspekt zwischen dem Jupi-
ter und dem Pluto. Solange sich der Mond in
Konjunktion zum Merkur befindet, bleibt die
Bereitstellung des Zuges blockiert. Erst im
Zusammenspiel mit dem Trigon des Mondes
zum Neptun löst sich die Spannung, sodass
die Fahrt fortgesetzt werden kann.
Der Himmel lässt keine andere Disposition zu.
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Das klingt total spannend! 👀
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ --> NOY-man, the interviewer says his name at 1:40 and he does not correct him ;) youtu.be/vLbllFHBQM4?...
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John Von Neumann Interview
YouTube video by sierranevadatrail
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 25/09/2026
Quantum computing for neuroscience: opportunities beyond classical limits — a Comment article by Annemarie Wolff, Alexandre Choquette, Georg Northoff, Atsushi Iriki & Guillaume Dumas www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence @introspection.bsky.social
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Quantum computing for neuroscience: opportunities beyond classical limits - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Some of the least understood phenomena in the brain emerge from interactions between local and global brain states, yet representing their joint activity is a considerable computational challenge. As ...
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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨New PhD Position!✨ Come and work with us on understanding cognition with a mix of cognitive modelling and ultrasound neuromodulation! More info on the lab & position: mic-lab.de/positions/ph... Official job ad: tinyurl.com/miclab-phd 🙏Please RT - deadline is Oct 14 ‼️
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Research Associate (m/f/d): Models, Interventions, and Cognition — MIC-Lab
Models and interventions of cognition.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 18/09/2026
Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)
Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 💫 💥 Interested in PhD / Postdoc opportunities in computational psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience? My lab at University College Dublin 🇮🇪 is currently accepting expressions of interest for internally funded PhD/Postdoc applications for positions starting in September 2027 (!). 1/
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026
Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.
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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 10/09/2026
Listening to this Mingus classic on the importance of version control
Album artwork for Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah Um, featuring an abstract geometric painting in muted red, blue, yellow, pink, and cream. Below the cover, the track “Better Git It in Your Soul” and artist Charles Mingus are displayed.
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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was hesitating if I should participate (not a Python person, sry), but I enjoyed it very much! And I noticed some outcomes already: 1) I casually opened some PyPI documentation and just applied the thing I needed? 2) I had a dream where I was debugging a .py file, never happened with me before
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
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129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“And now the weather…”
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Hardik Rajpal @h-rajpal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What role does Emergence play in Neural Networks? We find that learning emergent low-dimensional representations is key for out-of-distribution generalisation. New Preprint out with @neural-reckoning.org arxiv.org/abs/2607.10430
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Emergent Generalization by Representation Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
Dimensionality reduction has proven powerful for identifying neural manifolds, which are low-dimensional structures underlying high-dimensional neural activity. These low-dimensional representations h...
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Das Versprühen von #Glyphosat durch israelische Flugzeuge hat im #Libanon und in #Syrien gravierende Folgen: In dieser Reportage berichten Bäuer:innen aus den Golanhöhen, wie seitdem nichts mehr auf ihren Feldern wächst. Hilfe bekommen sie keine. 1/2
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Israel versprüht Glyphosat in Syrien - Bauern stehen vor dem Nichts
Israel sprüht Glyphosat in Grenzregionen Syriens und Libanons, zerstört Felder und schadet Bauern. Umwelt und Landwirtschaft leiden stark.
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New, expanded preprint! Sensorimotor training makes a finger-extending exoskeleton feel lighter, suggesting active use helps wearable augmentation become perceptually transparent. Much longer, much better version now on bioRxiv: w/ Arina Schippers @mattlongo.bsky.social @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social
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Sensorimotor training lightens the perceived weight of body augmentation devices
Wearable haptic and robotic devices must transmit useful forces and tactile information without remaining perceptually intrusive. Here we show that perceived weight provides a behavioral marker of thi...
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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our next workshop will be at @imperial-ix.bsky.social -> 16.07 from 16:00 With a talk and discussion hosted by @sdrsd.bsky.social Registration is free, but required! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand... See you there
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I don't use the H-word lightly, but this has been an absolute honor. My brain got tickled by quantum mechanics, evolution, RNA, computer graphics, neutrinos... Meeting brilliant ppl from around the globe, young & old, swimming daily in spectacular Bodensee. Cannot believe this job sometimes #LINO75
On a boat with a group of brilliant and delicious young scientists from around the worldTaking a picture with Pat Hanrahan and new friend Justas
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Amazing 1st lecture by Katalin Karikó, who gave candid insights into her life in science & deeply non-linear path towards her Nobel Prize in 2023. Favourite quote: "When things go wrong, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself" What a way to kick off #LINO75 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462526...
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Breaking Through
Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher’s daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water, she saw potential everywhere: in the promise of a seed, in th...
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Made it to Lindau through the heatwave and the classic DB rollercoaster, just in time for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2026 #LINO75 Ready for a week of inspiring science and Bodensee charm 🏞🍷 Thanks alma mater @unimarburg.bsky.social for nominating me!
Beautiful Bodensee in southern Germany with a view of Lindau Island, with bright blue skies and a mountain range in the background.A picture of the programme booklet for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2026
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
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If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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Nils Kolling @nilskolling.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New preprint alert! doi.org/10.64898/202... Throughout life, we are often told to persist in the pursuit of our long term goals. However, the most important factor to consider in the real world for whether to continue pursuit or abandon one's goal is knowing how much progress you are making.
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Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys
Primates pursue goals over extended periods and over multiple steps. The ability to track progress and its rate is critical for such pursuit, yet the neural mechanisms of this tracking are unclear. We...
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵
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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New preprint from down under: Can acute TMS effects on dynamic brain states predict subsequent symptom change during treatment for depression? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #restinstateEEG #TMS #Depression #HMM #longitudinal
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#arXiv is banning researchers for one year whose manuscripts contain hallucinated references. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @briannosek.bsky.social, @tdietterich.bsky.social, @richardsever.bsky.social, @dermotlynott.bsky.social, @philipncohen.com, #WCRI2026
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Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban
The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is convinced it’s the right approach.
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Not really, but I think many are grappling with this atm? It's really not surprising, when zeitgeist is fast productivity >> deep understanding, also in schools & unis. Understanding is expensive & short-term incentives for it are low. I try to politicise students, eg. www.humanetech.com/ai-roadmap
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A better future with technology is possible.
We're a nonprofit exposing the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media and empowering people to take action. Discover The Social Dilemma, our podcast, course, and more.
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
100%... I think AI has changed supervision the most. I usually agree on next steps at the end of a student meeting. What used to take 1 week now takes 1 day & they don't understand code *or* results. It's a lot more work for me in the end (+ I have such a resistance against reviewing that code)
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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 15/05/2026
How networking harassment fuels the leaky pipeline
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How networking harassment fuels the leaky pipeline
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 15 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02484-7The leaky pipeline is not only about hiring and promotion but also what happens in networking spaces where harassment goes unchecked. When careers depend on conferences and collaborations, institutions and research communities must stop leaving people to manage the risk alone, argues Shahar Hechtlinger.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 17/04/2026
If you're interested in doing a 2 year Schmidt "AI in science" postdoc fellowship in neuroscience/AI stuff with me starting in July or Oct 2027 take a look at this and get in touch soon. We've had a lot of luck recently getting these fellowships. www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-e...
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Fellowships
We welcome applications from outstanding researchers applying for external fellowship funding.
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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hiring: Neuroscience roles at the International Brain Laboratory. We’re looking for: Neuroscience Community Engineer Neuroscience Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist All applications must be submitted by May 8th. Flexible US/Europe locations. www.internationalbrainlab.com/opportunitie...
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Aitor Morales-Gregorio @aitormg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Come learn some programming with a healthy helping of critical thinking; something no genAI can take away from you :) Also Prague is great fun ;)
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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I was lucky to be part of ASPP, Bordeaux in 2021. I learned so much, but more importantly it gave me the confidence and skills to keep going afterwards. It really shaped the path I took, including getting involved in MNE-Python. It’s a great opportunity, the people running ASPP are just the best.
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
the median number of authors on a research paper who are familiar with the underlying code: 1 it generally feels like that number will decrease even further, honestly a quite scary development. 😕⬇️
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
ASPP teaches concepts & best practices for scientific python, which remain relevant even with AI taking over the heavy lifting of writing the code. Where the code is coming from (human brain vs. GenAI) is quite secondary to a well-organized workflow incl. testing, debugging, distribution etc.
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“eight years after the arrival of their first child, women were 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers”
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 23/03/2026
Sustainable neuroscience through open science
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Sustainable neuroscience through open science
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 23 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02426-3Neuroscience is crucial for understanding human behaviour. Yet, its resource-intensive methods contribute to the climate crisis. We call on neuroscientists to align their research with ecological sustainability goals across the research cycle and propose three key steps: replace unfocused data collection, reduce excessive emissions and refine imprecise methods.
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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I am unsure if anyone sees or reads this at all, but if you do: I am curios to hear about more resources, all train nerdery is welcome with me, always! 🚄❤️🌍
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
And finally some inspiration: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying | Gianluca Grimalda
My company in Germany has demanded my swift return from climate-change fieldwork near Papua New Guinea. I can’t comply, says social scientist Gianluca Grimalda
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sharing these papers again too! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... The academic doughnut, @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/84991
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How Can Neuroscientists Respond to the Climate Emergency?
The world faces a climate emergency. Here, we consider the actions that can be taken by neuroscientists to tackle climate change. We encourage neuroscientists to put emissions reductions at the center...
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If flying cannot be avoided, carbon offsetting might be worth it. Atmosfair is one of the more credible providers w.r.t. transparency & impact www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/ Try to get it reimbursed with your travel expenses, worked for me once at my university.
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Act Now! - atmosfair
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Plan international rail trips... with pretty affordable passes that most unis reimburse without any issues in the past 🚄 www.interrail.eu/en www.thetrainline.com
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Interrail.eu | 1 rail pass, 33 countries
Travel across Europe and discover 33 countries by train with Interrail. Enjoy the best rail travel experience in Europe with our Interrail Pass!
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