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Izabela Maria Sztuka

@isdedal.bsky.social
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Environmental Neuroscience, Cog Comp Neuroscience, AI & BCI | Archeologist & Rose lover | Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Here we are. Again. "Structural changes are being pursued, but these are modest." #Academia #Research #ECRs www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Proton recently released long-awaited Zoom/Teams/GM alternative: privacy-sensitive ProtonMeet. Caveat? App is not included in more advanced Proton plans. For 288e/pa (Family), one has to fork out additional 100e/pa to have longer conversations, screen sharing, chat and meeting recording...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
9 months ago, I asked authors of a paper in top #neuroscience journal to correct inaccurate citation of my work. Still no correction, no clear update, and my work is still described as something it's not. Paper notes ChatGPT was used for "readability". One wonders about state of science.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In neuroscience, open data has done a lot of good. But current developments are clearly pushing us to ask harder questions: who owns biomedical data, who gets access, and who benefits from its reuse? #ResponsibleAI #Neuroscience #OpenScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Who owns my health data? - Nature Medicine
The geopolitics driving artificial intelligence superpowers is reshaping biomedical datasets, and who has access to them.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The ERC reapplication saga is a reminder that research funding policy is never just technical. It shapes who gets another chance, who can stay in #science, and how early-career researchers plan already precarious academic paths. #ECRs #Research #Funding www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication | Izabela Maria Sztuka
The saga continues… After concerns raised by the research community, the ERC Scientific Council has readjusted its reapplication rules for the 2027 grant calls. For Starting, Consolidator, Advanced,...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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ERC President explains stricter application measures amid rising demand for funding
The text of an open letter sent by ERC President Maria Leptin to ERC panel members, grantees and other stakeholders on 16 April 2026.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
⚡Within one week, two major European #research funders confronted the same problem, but sent very different signals. ERC announced resubmission restrictions for unsuccessful applicants, saying that peer-review burden on panels became too high. Cost of systemic overload is being passed downward.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
4/4 This is not a full solution. But it is a positive signal: survival of a research system also depends on whether it creates viable paths to independence for the researchers it already trains. #AcademicFunding #Science #ResearchFunding #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
3/4 At a time when much of Europe is rolling out large funding schemes to attract researchers from abroad, often failing to address the "revolving-door" conundrum faced by its own ECRs, Switzerland seems to be taking seriously the question of how to retain and support its own talent.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
2/4 With its latest changes to #funding, SNSF is taking step toward managing growing pressure of grant applications while refocusing support on domestic ECRs on their path to scientific independence. SNSF explicitly links these changes to a steep rise in applications and very low success rates.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🇨🇭Switzerland may be one of the first countries to openly acknowledge that research funding systems need to adapt if they are to remain sustainable. 1/4 #AcademicFunding #Science #ResearchFunding #HigherEducation #AcademicCareers #ECRs www.snf.ch/en/kaczpDec5...
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Postdoc.Mobility, Ambizione: adaptations
The SNSF is updating the eligibility criteria for Postdoc.Mobility and Ambizione before they are replaced by a new funding scheme in 2028.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📚 Seminar is open to undergraduate students at Freie Universität Berlin and we hope it will also be accessible to students from other Berlin University Alliance institutions (HU, TU, Charité). Students interested in how environments interact with the brain and behaviour are very welcome to join. 3/
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🌳 From greenspaces to digital environments, seminar spans wide range of contexts in which humans interact with their surroundings. We’ll explore how environments across different scales shape brain & behaviour. Course also includes lab visit and activities built around real research questions. 2/
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
⚡ Happy to share that Sonja Sudimac and I will again be delivering our environmental neuroscience seminar at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this summer semester: Exploring Minds and Environments. (125264-S26) 1/ @cen-mpib.bsky.social
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Those skills (conflict resolution, accountability) are more important than learning how to spell.” Higher-order socio-cognitive skills are constrained by underlying cognitive capacities, weakening those foundations predictably degrades complex social reasoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Te...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Epstein case has Russia's fingerprints all over it.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
2026 - already called year of analog, as more people choose to "unplug", "unsubscribe" and shift away from tech. Rebellion against subscriptions is just the economic dimension of broader tiredness with current socioeconomic model. #society #unplug #digitaleconomy youtu.be/8AKn-zJMIwY?...
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Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Interesting longitudinal study on infants about development of representations of natural objects: #neurocience
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
An interesting study on how gaze and gesture jointly support spatial reasoning in architecture. Mechanisms described may also be relevant for clinical conditions involving disrupted eye-hand coordination and visual-symbolic processing of the #environment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPYTPN...
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Interpreting Architectural Drawings: The Role of Gaze and Gestures in Cognitive Offloading
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wow, this has also potential to be great tool for teaching!
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 19/01/2026
Happy 80th birthday to the iconic Dolly Parton.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 19/01/2026
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks. A behavioral neuroscientist explains what we've been missing about one of the animal kingdom's most underestimated minds. buff.ly/Uxj7boZ
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Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too
Trash pandas’ talent for escaping via lab vents may frustrate researchers, but their problem-solving skills make their brains a fascinating area of research.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great news: Today, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social launched its first mobile MRI lab 🧠🚐 This opens up exciting new possibilities for @cen-mpib.bsky.social to take environmental neuroscience research far beyond the lab into the field. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... #neuroscience #environment
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On the move: MRI goes mobile
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/01/2026
top risks 2026 is officially out after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks this year is the tipping point:
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Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2026
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ava Farnan, W. Taylor Kimberly, et al: Detecting patterns of atrophy in cognitively impaired individuals using portable, low-field MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So how is the first 7 days of 2026 going? Let's just hope it is not representative.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
❤️‍🔥"Either we're all Europeans, or none of us are" From 13:40 @warfrontsweekly.bsky.social commentary absolutely nailed it 🔨 when it comes to what has to change in European mindset, for Europe to have future as a project. #Europe #Geopolitics #Ukraine youtu.be/5Qc2ZRV5znQ?... via @YouTube
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Europe Needs to Get its Shit Together. NOW.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The number of armed conflicts worldwide has more than doubled in past 15 years, with around 130 ongoing today. These conflicts trap entire generations in cycles of violence and trauma, resulting in major physical and psychological health burdens at population level. www.icrc.org/en/report/ic...
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ICRC Annual Report 2024
In 2024, the ICRC navigated a complex and challenging operating environment to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in over 100 countries.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
⚡Large-scale genetic study of 14 psychiatric disorders shows many diagnoses share common genetic roots. Comorbidity may reflect shared biology, not just clinical overlap. Authors also point to prenatal and early-life factors shaping how genetic risk becomes disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It is the worst crisis in history of US-Europe alliance with signals indicating Europe needs to become independent, strategically autonomous and find new global partners. #Europe #democracy #geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-h...
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Why America and Europe Have Fallen Out (again)
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Kreml Plots | #standwithukraine @kremlplots.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Zum Wochenbeginn noch etwas Herzerwärmendes: Auf Sumatra brach ein Biologe in Tränen aus. Nichts Schlimmes war passiert, er sah bloss die überaus seltene Pflanze "Rafflesia hasseltii", nach der er über ein Jahrzehnt lang gesucht hatte. 🤗
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Last year in North Sumatra, I witnessed the cascading consequences of rainforest destruction - a crisis no longer limited to ecosystems, but one that directly places local communities in the path of escalating climatic extremes. #environment
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
⚡American commentator Jon Stewart steamrolled global elites using the Epstein example. With the precision of a neurosurgeon, he laid bare the rotten core of a social class whose members share the same interests, even as they stoke political divisions. www.youtube.com/shorts/RRvcE...
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The extent of Epstein’s social network knows no bounds, but it certainly knows Donald Trump
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
And it’s not just young. The Economist recently warned we should also worry about older adults’ screen time. If short-form content hurts focus in younger users, the risks for aging brains may be even greater. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’
A new generation of pensioners are glued to their smartphones
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New analysis sends clear warning about short-form videos. Across 98,299 people, higher TikTok/Reels/Shorts use equals worse attention + weaker inhibitory control. The endless scroll isn’t just a habit, it’s linked to measurable declines in core cognitive functions. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Really sad news. Jane Goodall transformed our understanding of primates and championed conservation worldwide. Her impact is immeasurable. #science #research
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Center for Environmental Neuroscience @cen-mpib.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
💻 Last week 💻 @isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠 #ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If confirmed, this breakthrough gene therapy for Huntington’s disease could be a historic step forward in treating previously untreatable neurological disorders. #neuroscience #research youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs?...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
PS. Oh and BTW, the paper is really worth reading! Authors developed high-resolution walkability index that could be used to study how people function in environments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A Walk across Europe: Development of a high-resolution walkability index
Physical inactivity significantly contributes to obesity and other non-communicable diseases, yet efforts to increase population-wide physical activit…
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Almighty Gods of Wisdom & Reason — don’t leave us! When publishers push AI “reading assistants” message is clear: don’t bother reading. On top of don't-bother-writing attitude I see in reviewed papers, my feeling is that we are losing the very essence of #science.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Not believing democracy can slip into autocracy is exactly what allows it to happen. Americans saw Trump’s admiration for Putin’s grip on power, but dismissed the possibility it could take root here. That disbelief is what leaves the country just a breath away from losing democratic freedoms.
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The most accurate depiction of establishment playing game of deflection these days: #migration
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Language in scientific writing is a mirror of academic culture. This editorial is a timely reminder that careful, precise, and balanced expression strengthens scholarship. Yet too many papers today are framed like product branding rather than contributions to knowledge. #science
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/08/2025
Phantom feelings in lost limbs present a puzzle for neuroscientists who were taught to believe that once a body part is amputated, another body part will creep into its spot on the brain’s map of the body. A new imaging study undermines that theory. scim.ag/45SInZQ
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After an amputation, the brain’s map of the body is more stable than previously thought
Imaging study could inform future prosthetics and treatments for phantom limb pain
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Andrzej Rysuje @andrzejrysuje.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dziś Dzień Psa
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
There’s always that one trending paper that makes you pause… 🤔
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Center for Environmental Neuroscience @cen-mpib.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
📑New CEN pre-print by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social, @isdedal.bsky.social and Simone Kühn is out! 'Urban versus Rural Living: Associations with Mental Health, Physical Health, and Psychological Constructs' osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New preprint from @cen-mpib.bsky.social: our 500-study review on how place shapes mind, body, and brain. 🧠 Urban upbringing alters stress-related brain circuits. 🌿 Rural living linked to resilient prefrontal structure. 🌍 Health disparities & gap in global representation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Izabela Maria Sztuka @isdedal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"stash of unlicensed erectile dysfunction tablets" is there a black market for those? 😲
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