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Sam Beaton

@sambeaton.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher @ox.ac.uk Population Neuroimaging 🧠 | Functional Data Analysis 📈 | Statistical Genetics & ML 🧬

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Sam Beaton @sambeaton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Europe needs to recognize the naivety of viewing the defence of science as a matter of better communication, whereby populist politicians can be swayed by reason. Better messaging will not protect science if a populist government has set out to undermine science itself"
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.
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