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Lavinia Carmen Uscătescu

@luscatescu.bsky.social
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Cognitive neuroscientist; Collegiate Assistant Professor @ Virginia Tech support.psyc.vt.edu/users/luscatescu

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 25/05/2026
🚀 Apply to become the new Editor in Chief at Collabra: Psychology, a mission-driven Open Access journal.🚀 Our blog posts describe the responsibilities of this role, the journal, and the application process. Please submit application materials by June 30th, 2026. #PsychSciSky
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Collabra: Psychology seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief
Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that sha…
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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 25/05/2026
Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers by Roy Keyes #RStats bigbookofr.com/chapters/career%20an…
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Give your research the presentation it deserves. Join us April 8 for a free, interactive webinar: Mastering Scientific Presentations 💫 Free and open to everyone 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AcademicResearch #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ScientificPresentations #ResearchImpact

Free webinar: Mastering Scientific Presentations

8 April 2026,
11:00–12:00 UTC

Learn scientifically-grounded principles for designing memorable and engaging scientific presentation slides, posters, articles, and reports
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 08/02/2026
As the leading global voice on the environment, UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in addressing humanity’s most pressing environmental challenges. To achieve this, we regularly seek qualified professionals to join our team. See current vacancies here: ow.ly/Gxon50Y9Qw2
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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We’re recruiting for a Head of Registry Operations, a key role in reshaping how we do things. Reshares appreciated. jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/head...
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Head of Registry Operations (1894) | Buckinghamshire New University
Full Time  (37hrs per week) –Permanent – High Wycombe Salary -  £58,225 - £67,468 per annum
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thanks, in part, to sustained APS advocacy, #NIH will no longer characterize basic experimental studies involving humans (BESH) as clinical trials. This reduces unnecessary burden and helps psychological and behavioral research move forward faster! www.psychologicalscience.org/policy/2026-...
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Success! NIH Changes Clinical Trials Policy
On 29 January 2026, NIH announced that basic experimental studies involving humans will no longer be subject to NIH Clinical Trials Requirements.
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COSIG @cosig.net · 02/02/2026
To make COSIG more discoverable for educators looking to develop course material on publication integrity and peer review, COSIG now has an entry in OER Commons! @oercommons.bsky.social #OER oercommons.org/courses/the-...
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The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG)
COSIG is an openly licensed, continuously expanding repository of practical guides for performing post-publication peer review (PPPR). The resource is freely available at https://cosig.net. At the tim...
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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Three more days to submit to SANS 2026 in San Diego! Not done with data collection/analyses yet? In case you missed it, we have a "Pre-Registration" category where you can submit an abstract for a study you plan to conduct! More info here: socialaffectiveneuro.org/abstract-sub...
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Abstract Submission - Social Affective Neuroscience Society
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Aline Bompas @alinebompas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Here’s a PhD advert to join my lab in Cardiff, UK : www.findaphd.com/phds/project... open to applicants from the United Kingdom or the European Union DL for applications 13th of February Please share widely!
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Brain and body speed at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Brain and body speed at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thinking about applying to Neuromatch Academy or Climatematch Academy? Join a free January info session to learn what to expect and how to prepare. Free · Online · Multiple time zones neuromatch.io/neuromatch-a... #ResearchTraining #GlobalEducation #STEMEducation
Graphic promoting Neuromatch Academy information sessions. Text reads: “Learn about our courses. Ask questions live. Apply with confidence.” Neuromatch Academy branding is visible.
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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bei uns ist die eine W3 Päd. Psychologie zu besetzen ! jobs.zeit.de/jobs/profess...
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Professur (W3) für Pädagogische Psychologie - Universität Bielefeld
Universität Bielefeld bietet Stelle als Professur (W3) für Pädagogische Psychologie in Bielefeld - jetzt bewerben!
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.
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VacancyEdu.com @vacancyedu.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
37 PhD Positions-Fully Funded at University of Liverpool, England #VacancyEdu #PhD #PhDposition #PhDlife #PhdScholarship #FutureDoctor #DoctoralCandidate #Postgraduate #PhDstudents #ResearchOpportunity #PhDcommunity #PhDStudentship vacancyedu.com/37-phd-posit...
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37 PhD Positions-Fully Funded at University of Liverpool, England - Vacancy Edu
University of Liverpool, England invites online Application for number of  Fully Funded PhD Positions at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully
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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 28/12/2025
Tempus is hiring for 4 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs
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pammageddon.bsky.social @pammageddon.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame!
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
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The Entangled Brain
Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This is absolutely wild, and super important. There are zillions of studies claiming that fMRI signals indicate increased brain activity, and it looks like that's often just wrong. If confirmed, this means we've misinterpreted a lot of research.
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RSS Celebrating Diversity @rssdiversity.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026! 📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more. 🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1 #StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
An informational flyer for the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistics for Every Body' online event. The flyer includes a summary of the inclusive data communication topic, headshots and affiliations of key speakers, and practical information like the event date (Jan 28, 2026), time (12:00-13:30), and how to register: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
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Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One week left to apply to the EPFL computer science PhD program www.epfl.ch/education/ph.... It's an amazing environment to do impactful research 🧪 (with unparalleled compute)! My NeuroAI group is hiring 🧠🤖. Consider this review service by our fantastic PhD students: www.linkedin.com/posts/spnesh...
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cnsorg.bsky.social @cnsorg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🚀 Neuromatch invites CNS community to online July 2026 courses 📅 Info Sessions (21 & 28 Jan): neuromatch.io/neuromatch-a... 🧠 Comp Neuro (6–24 Jul): neuromatch.io/computationa... 🤖 Deep Learning in Neuro (6–24 Jul): neuromatch.io/deep-learnin... 🧬 NeuroAI (13–24 Jul): neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
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Thérèse Collins @theresecollins.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Master in Cognitive Science #cogsci run by Univ Paris Cite & Sorbonne U is open for application for the 2926-2027 academic year. Tracks: #CogPsych #linguistics #philosophy #computational #neuroscience #neuroai Internships available in dozens of Parisian labs 100% English
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Application | cog-SUP
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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The entire document is so worthy of reading by a fire or with a cat on lap, or both, pausing frequently to ponder and thought-wander a bit, then continuing on. How I do it, anyways. Solid and compelling arguments crafted with expertise, precision, and measured passion.
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Just stumbled across this on another social media site, I love it! onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...
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Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿 Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper: Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)
YouTube video by librebel
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Dr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
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Relational Cognition Lab
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Social Psychology ASA Section @asasocpsych.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The Dept. of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking applications for an assistant or associate professor who specializes in advanced data analyses, with an open substantive specialty. Read more here: jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64668
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking applications for a tenure track position as Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology (9 month term of appoi...
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs
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Job Posting I-390/25: Research Associate - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin
Faculty I - Humanities and Educational Sciences, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature / History and Philosophy of Modern Science
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Free to attend virtually: a NASEM event "Rethinking researcher assessment and incentives at U.S. academic institutions: A workshop" October 28-29, 2025 Agenda: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_... Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/45044_10-202...
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Rethinking Researcher Assessment and Incentives at U.S. Academic Institutions: A Workshop
Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
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Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry
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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing *1-yr term; $1,000 USD www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social
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PatsE @pkayecreative.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#regulateAI
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵
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Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track
The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...
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Stephen Aguilar @stephenaguilar.com · 25/08/2025
Definitely apply! UNC is developing a critical mass—it would be awesome to be a part of it!
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Philosophy Dept @ U of Toronto invites applications for 7 #philjobs incl Asst Prof – Metaphysics & Epistemology, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 3): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Asst Prof – Philosophy & Statistics, St. George Campus (deadline: Nov 4): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... #philsci
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Assistant Professor - Metaphysics and Epistemology
Assistant Professor - Metaphysics and Epistemology
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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My newsletter has finally launched! New article out later today. Don't miss out. Sign up here: kareemcarr.substack.com
A white marble slab with the words Vital Statistics engraved at the top, sitting above a panel of four statistical charts. Listing from from upper left, clockwise: a scatter plot, histogram, density plot of a normal distribution and line chart. The lettering and figures are lit as if with an internal warm, yellow glow. Miniature toy figures are standing around the base of the marble block in evening wear with wine classes. There is a celebratory atmosphere.
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Tamás Nagy @nagyt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🚨 New study alert! We're excited to share our "Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology" in #AMPPS. We tackle the credibility crisis in research by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. 🧵#OpenScience #QRPs @psychscience.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 24/07/2025
Understanding significance testing through its historical roots Journal Club by Alexandra Masciantonio go.nature.com/4kVtRpN
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 24/07/2025
We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We are excited to announce the launch of a joint quarterly newsletter in partnership with @neuromatch.bsky.social. Together, we want to connect neuroscientists who share a common interest in computational neuroscience. www.thetransmitter.org/newsletters-... #neuroskyence
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
While academic publishing may not be broken, it isn’t built to serve science either. It runs on a chain of perverse incentives, but everything we need to rebuild it is already in our hands. #OpenScience #AcademicSky buff.ly/oSesI1s
Screenshot of article summary of: Toward Science-Led Publishing by Damian Pattinson, George Currie published as an opinion piece, in Learned Publishing Summary The current dynamic of scholarly publishing prioritises the wants of the publishing industry over the needs of the research community. This article explores this theme through the lens of ‘publisher-led science’ as a description of our current status quo, and through ‘science-led publishing’ as an improved future state. We argue that financial motivations central to most publishing distort how research is presented, how it is assessed and even what research is undertaken, leading to a system that hinders, rather than facilitates, scientific progress. We propose three elements of a science-led publishing approach that would accelerate research communication, incentivise collaboration between authors, editors and reviewers, and create a more transparent and equitable research landscape. We believe that research funding and research assessment are two of the primary levers for wider change in research and research culture and consider the future purpose of scholarly publishing in a world where these proposals have been widely adopted.
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Lavinia Carmen Uscătescu @luscatescu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
After three years in the making and one full year under review - this paper is finally seeing the light of day! @mkronbichler.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Using the excitation/inhibition ratio to optimize the classification of autism and schizophrenia - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Using the excitation/inhibition ratio to optimize the classification of autism and schizophrenia
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Neurofrontiers @neuro-frontiers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
📢Call for students📢 Are you a student passionate about #science communication? Do you speak more than one language fluently? We want to hear from you! We're looking for multilingual students to help us make #neuroscience more accessible. Details here: neurofrontiers.blog/the-brain-ac... #SciComm
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The brain across languages - Neurofrontiers
What this project is about Understanding the brain is essential and, without a doubt, fascinating. But while the science of the brain affects everyone, the language of that science remains predominant...
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 05/07/2025
Here's a site that searches scientific publications for phrases that indicate that the text was created by ChatGPT and pasted into the manuscript without checking (e.g. "Certainly, here are some recommendations..."). There are HUNDREDS of them, often without disclosure of AI. 1/2 www.academ-ai.info
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Suspected AI – Academ-AI
Documenting the adverse effects of AI in academia
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Lavinia Carmen Uscătescu @luscatescu.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
and also about how girls and women are still failed repeatedly until they may be lucky enough to receive an autism diagnosis
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