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Magdalena Sabat

@magdalenasabat.bsky.social
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Post-doc in Computational Cognitive Science at Leiden & Amsterdam University

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very pleased to announce that Polish translation of #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, is now available! lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/5255...
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Wojna z nauką. 5 potężnych sił, które niszczą prawdę i zagrażają światu | Peter Hotez, Michael E. Mann
To nie chaos. To system dezinformacji. Kto za nim stoi? Wojna z nauką to manifest dwóch wybitnych naukowców, którzy od dekad stoją na pierwszej linii frontu w walce z dezinformacją. W czasach, gdy...
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:
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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour
Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🔥 Individual or system change?🔥 This debate has been at the center of much of my social media engagement for years (causing a fair bit of frustration). Yet I have never published research directly addressing it. Until now. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Charlotte A. Kukowski @charlotte-kukowski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨Fed up with the "individual vs. system change" debate?🚨 We've got you covered. 🙌 In our new paper in Nature Climate Change, we endeavour to move beyond that binary by introducing the agency frame (a-frame), a practical lens for identifying and intervening on high-impact climate behaviours. (1/n)
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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky
An illustration of different species, from worms to humans, foraging, indicating the main topic of our research group.
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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Join us for Cognitive Science for Climate Change on May 26 at ENS Paris 🌍 Exploring how cognitive science and computational modelling can help us better understand climate action. Conveniently scheduled for those coming to Paris for #SBDM. 🎟️ More details: www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-co...
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models From equations to fitted models in minutes: how LLMs are changing computational cognitive science and how we should adapt My latest post on Medium medium.com/@stefano.pal...
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Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models
From equations to fitted models in minutes: what LLMs are changing in computational cognitive science and how we should adapt.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...
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Climate Science Serving America Fellowship
Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Insane effort!
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"Although intellectual humility is presented as a widely accepted scientific norm, we argue that current research practice does not incentivize intellectual humility." Hoekstra & Vazire (2021): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The replication crisis in the social, behavioural and life sciences has spurred a reform movement aimed at increasing the credibility of scientific studies. Many of these credibility-enhancing reforms focus, appropriately, on specific research and publication practices. A less often mentioned aspect of credibility is the need for intellectual humility or being transparent about and owning the limitations of our work. Although intellectual humility is presented as a widely accepted scientific norm, we argue that current research practice does not incentivize intellectual humility. We provide a set of recommendations on how to increase intellectual humility in research articles and highlight the central role peer reviewers can play in incentivizing authors to foreground the flaws and uncertainty in their work, thus enabling full and transparent evaluation of the validity of research.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors present that expected-sound omissions in mouse auditory cortex evoked distinct, time-locked activity in layers 1–4 of the Temporal Association Area, suggesting a higher-orde...
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 27/01/2026
Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏
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John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
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Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our paper is now published in Current Biology! Through 3 experiments we’re showing that auditory cortex is predominantly integrating over short periods with little contextual effects beyond ~150ms
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Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said. Hold our EEGs! @dreamteamicm.bsky.social is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne! We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea! @institutducerveau.bsky.social
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 25/11/2025
Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way. We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere: This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA It’s quite the opposite! (thread)
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My latest: with @fdabl.bsky.social and JW Bolderdijk we argue that environmental psychology needs formal theory to make progress and increase real-world impact doi.org/10.1016/j.co... Part of special issue Behavioral Science for Climate Change by @madalina.bsky.social & @neurograce.bsky.social
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! I'm not at #SfN so I did my best to take a photo of the trophy I received (fun to snap a picture of the text' shadows). www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When 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.social
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How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems
Slowing change may be our last line of defense
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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!
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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling
Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...
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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ever 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/...
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Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS
The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...
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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025
I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #BigTeamScience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […] [Original post on fediscience.org]
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Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255.
Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887.
Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789.
Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108.
Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507.
Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235.
Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi
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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social We wrote a blog reflecting on it: anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...
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Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025
by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/08/2025
Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 16/07/2025
Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time. A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%. f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Was chatting to one of my most brilliant Physics students yesterday and he had no idea how mechanical watches work and was fascinated by the fact that they make use of such basic Physics principles and the history of how watchmakers have overcome various limitations on accuracy. Shared this with him
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Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
A short thread on the history of the theory of emotion 👇
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Anna Beyeler 🐝 @anna-beyeler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us ! www.fens.org/careers/job-... @neuromagendie.bsky.social @neurobordeaux.bsky.social
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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Nice thread on the limits of using LLM to model ‘general cognition’
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Not only #brainrot ! Social media can make us better informed (if we control what and how long we consume) #psyskyance #journalclub www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour
Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 07/07/2025
New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social‬) & co Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Influential figures can encourage faster adoption of pro-environmental behavior as the right thing to do through: Phase 1: Moral recognition Phase 2: Moral amplification Phase 3: Approaching tipping points Phase 4: Institutionalization Phase 5: Norm abandonment www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change
To mitigate climate change, we will need to rapidly abandon unsustainable behaviors and adopt more sustainable alternatives. Moralization can inhibit the diffusion of novel sustainable behaviors, so m...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York! Check them out and register (free!) here 👇 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In-person participant recruitment has been hard - especially for new group studies we're launching. Any (good/bad) experiences with running short behavioral experiments in the lecture hall (not just as demo, but to collect real data)? Esp looking for ethics guidance wrt consent.
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Let’s abandon for-profit Scientific Publishers altogether💸🤢
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
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The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)
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