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International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) @imbes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The 2026 IMBES Mission Award goes to...Paul Matusz! @paulmatusz.bsky.social This award recognizes success in establishing, building, and supporting infrastructure that enhances collaboration for the purpose of improving educational knowledge and practice. Congratulations, Paul!

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Please subscribe to the account of the IMBES, whose flagship journal, "Mind, Brain & Education" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1751... I have the pleasure to lead as the editor-in-chief. IMBES is freshly on Bluesky. Watch out for new exciting announcements, content, including from MBE!

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Mind, Brain, and Education

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International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) @imbes.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is pleased to be on BlueSky. Our mission is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in biology, education, and the cognitive and developmental sciences. 🧠

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Caroline Nettekoven @carobellum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist. It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New work from our lab, from collaboration with Cathy Manning. Check it out!

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Important contribution to the ongoing debate on what are executive functions and how to assess them in a genuinely culturally sensitive ways. Thanos to @pauloglaurence.bsky.social for this piece, now available at our “Mind, Brain & Education” #psychsky #devpsysky

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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Scientists at MGH are redefining what’s possible in brain research. 🧠 The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable. www.nih.gov/news-events/... #neuroskyence 🧪

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Scientists Develop High-Performance MRI Scanner in Effort to Define Microscopic Brain Structures

Next-generation system noninvasively images tiny nerve structures disrupted in brain disorders.

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.

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Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity

Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏

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When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions: A Tutorial Using DeclareDesign With a Worked Real-World Example - Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Charles Hulme, 2024

Recent studies in psychology have documented how analytic flexibility can result in different results from the same data set. Here, we demonstrate a package in ...

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Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

NEW: This is brilliant from Trudeau. "Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥

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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target. They will not be spared. www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

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'Structural racism': Top taxpayer-funded academy rife with DEI programs, hefty executive salaries

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has received millions of dollars of taxpayer grants while promoting a variety of left-wing causes.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 03/03/2025

TIL the voucher program incentivising drug development for rare pediatric diseases wasn’t extended in December. It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.

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Trump’s science crackdown hits rare disease research: ‘We need to sit down with Elon Musk’

Jill Wood had pinned her hopes on a little-known federal program to fund her son’s gene therapy. The initiative, which awards vouchers to companies targeting rare pediatric diseases, offered her ...

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

a great lil code from David for the flagged words in NSF grant applications.

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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The 50501 Movement—or 50 states, 50 protests, one day—is garnering support throughout social media over its plan to stage demonstrations across the nation to "fight Fascism" on February 5. You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...

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Hiren Thakore @hirenthakore.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I flagged how we are using partial randomisation to allocate our small grants. We check if an application meets a quality threshold (around half of applications might) and then we allocate the funding at random between all those that meet the threshold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding

More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I was pleased to speak today at this symposium on the role a national academy can play in improving research culture. I spoke about several things we are doing at @britishacademy.bsky.social but just to pick out a few www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...

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Research Culture symposium 2025

Drawing on the strength of the sector at King's first annual Research Culture Symposium.

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 17/01/2025

Add #neuroskyence, 🧠📈, or 🧠🟦 to your post for it to appear in this feed.

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences doi.org/10.1162/jocn... new in @jocn.bsky.social

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities: nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

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Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Silicon Valley has a sociopath problem that hasn’t yet been fully explored.

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I could not put this down. Then immediately shared it with my female friends, at least one of whom already knew it. And then we realized: we write them, we read them. When for something to ever change, men should be reading and listening. The good guys, as the article shows.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New paper out this week - again finding no evidence to support panic over smartphones & teens’ wellbeing. “Our findings contribute to the growing counter-narrative that technology use does not have as large of an impact on adolescents’ mental health and well-being as the public is concerned about.”

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Middle childhood is a time of major biological change (puberty) and contextual change (elementary to middle school)--could this be an important timepoint for understanding important changes in the individual and perhaps an intervention point? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SSWWK7...

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Positioning adolescence in the developmental timeline

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Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz @paulmatusz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Superficial views of reproducibility & OS practices, & “careering” on them is such a pet peeve of mine. “Meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding & stronger empirical foundations” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Reproducible science <= Good, well-dev’d theory 🧠 🧪 #PsychSciSky #devpsy

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Prof Catherine Loveday @catherineloveday.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If anyone could spare 3 minutes to do a very quick informal survey on friendship, I’d be most grateful! Looking for people over 30. Thank you westminsterpsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake. elifesciences.org/articles/104... #neuroscience

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Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm

Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake.

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