Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy to have contributed to this huge effort, that definitely raises questions about the standards in the field! 030
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaJim Walters @lordofwalteria.bsky.social · 06/07/2026#Wikipedia UNDER ATTACK At least 10 editors have been imprisoned. A Saudi pediatrician got 14 years behind bars after editing pages about govt surveillance & a women’s rights activist. Belarus sent one to a penal colony for editing a post about murdered journalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...nytimes.comWikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet 08054
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaErica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:nature.comHuman learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry - Nature NeuroscienceBusch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed... 419777
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey. 191958537
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Updated preprint w/ @sylvchev.bsky.social We studied prestim EEG activity to see whether single trial activity reflected what participants expected. And it does! More thrilling even, we can do so even in uncued trials, when there is nothing to expect a priori www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 090
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaLe Monde @lemonde.fr · 18/04/2026Au CNRS, une coupe budgétaire inédite fragilise un peu plus la recherche : « On va dans le mur »lemonde.frAu CNRS, une coupe budgétaire inédite fragilise un peu plus la recherche : « On va dans le mur »Le PDG du Centre national de recherche scientifique, Antoine Petit, a annoncé, le 24 mars, une baisse supplémentaire de 20 millions d’euros sur le budget 2026 de l’institution. Les chercheurs et les directeurs d’unité s’alarment. 106154
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Using simulations, we investigated whether Value-Shaping imitation was always a good thing. And it's not (or is it ?? *gasp*) 🧵 1103
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaJoao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr 212771
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaKatie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Open Research Europe is re-launching with a new platform, and broader set of supporters, this fall. It uses the publish-review-curate model. "Publishing will remain completely free for both European Commission-funded researchers and authors from participating countries." home.cern/news/news/ce...home.cernCERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platformIn an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of Euro... 1711
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaNathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026For researchers: a useful list of techniques to sharpen your googling. h/t @alondra.bsky.social #skystorians #histsci #histmed #histtech 14217
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 612657
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Peer review would be easier if we stopped treating it like combat with the authors. Results want to be free, and perfect is the enemy of good. Do the data support the conclusions? If so, that’s enough. A paper isn’t a blank slate for projecting your own ideas. 410924
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaValérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...lemonde.fr« La liberté académique est une condition de la démocratie elle-même »TRIBUNE. La France doit tirer une leçon de l’expérience américaine : sans statut juridique fort, la liberté académique ne résiste pas longtemps aux chocs politiques, explique, dans une tribune au « Mo... 07832
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeksKaren Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i... 24471894174
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaNatalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026the 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. 36316
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026neuroAI comparisons of ANNs to brains do have a range of problems. Even more than I had realized. And I was worried before: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 69228
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaAki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 12/01/2026ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr... There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!ellisinstitute.fiPostdoc positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute FinlandCall for postdoctoral researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning 02213
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback. 16590237
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaMason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Proc B with @sampassmore.bsky.social! We used simulations to explore the innovation strategies of speed climbers 🧗♀️ Innovation is higher among slower athletes and lower when the population size is larger, and the overall balance of innovation and copying appears to be suboptimal 🔗 bit.ly/499QjZMbit.lySimulation-based inference with deep learning suggests speed climbers combine innovation and copying to improve performanceAbstract. In the Olympic sport of speed climbing, athletes compete to reach the top of a 15 m wall as quickly as possible. Since the standardization of the 34318
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaDavid Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026For aficionados of timing, prediction, psychophysics-and anyone who wants to look at something other than the news to be distracted-a new study by Matthias Grabenhorst and Georgios Michalareas: The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... #neuroskyencepnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 0204
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaAnne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Wrapping up and reflecting on the year with our lab: anneurai.net/2025/12/16/2...anneurai.net2025 in reviewAs 2025 comes to a close, here is a short review of what we’ve been up to. This time written collaboratively as a lab! See previous years: 2021 in review,&n… 0121
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaDirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025🚨 New preprint 🚨 Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273 14119
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaManlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 13/10/2025When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits The latest #ComplexityThoughts: 👉 manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern... 🎧 on Spotify and Apple #ComplexSystems #Resilience @ricardsole.bsky.socialmanlius.substack.comHow modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystemsSlowing change may be our last line of defense 12210
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaDavid Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche : participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co... #esr #TeamESR #HelpESRparticipationcitoyenne.ccomptes.frLes marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des ComptesCorps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, font appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle... 38762
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaDr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 23/09/2025👩🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute ! 74348232
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaReporterre 🌍 | Le média de l'écologie @reporterre.net · 24/09/2025Une nouvelle limite planétaire a été franchie pour la première fois en 2025, révèle un rapport : l’acidification des océans. Ce processus, directement lié à nos émissions de CO2, est délétère pour les écosystèmes marins. Lire l'article ➡️ l.reporterre.net/0yt 16360
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgEvolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNASThe tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement... 15616
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Linux OS always, but we really need to make LibreOffice better. So far it sadly really cannot compete with Office 360. 140
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaGeorgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Looking forward to giving a Contributed Talk at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social tomorrow on this study! Come and say hi if you're at the conference, or watch the livestream here (10am BST / 11am CET) 👉 hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...hva-uva.cloud.panopto.euMetacontrol & flexibility in inference and decision-making - (REC C1.04) - 14-8-2025This live stream is for 2 sessions: Metacontrol & flexibility in inference and decision-making (10:00 - 11:00) and Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Social Behavior (11:00 – 12:00) 0141
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaPhilippa Johnson @phil-johnson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Interested in finding out what causes you to disengage from a task? Catch my talk about the dynamics of arousal and engagement at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social today at 11! You'll find me in room C1.04, and Friday afternoon at poster C168. 1121
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Very excited for @cogcompneuro.bsky.social, where I will present two nice ongoing projects! On Tuesday, meet me at poster A105 to learn about a huge value-learning dataset we are putting together (so far 3800 human subjects). Turns out, range adaptation is all the rage! 2162
Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This is the type of important research that will hopefully guide policy-makers to go beyond the "we just need role models"-excuse 130
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaJen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Rage coding this morning using #TidyTuesday NSF grant terminations data. Research in STEM Education and Social, Behavioral, & Economic Science is clearly being targeted by the current administration. I made a lot of depressing #rstats plots, check them out jenrichmond.github.io/posts/2025-0... 26027
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaStefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications. A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures. Few main takes will follow osf.io/preprints/ps... 13819
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaScience Magazine @science.org · 23/12/2024Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.scim.agGender and retention patterns among U.S. facultyWomen faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance. 19472259
Reposted by Isabelle HoxhaEric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 18/11/2024🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasciarxiv.orgEstimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ... 7192147