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Zach Nudelman

@zednud.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate | Cognitive Neuroscience | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Eye <-> Brain Dynamics | 🌀🎵

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵

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Zach Nudelman @zednud.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Excited to share my first #preprint with @matthiasnau.bsky.social on how gaze behavior shapes brain activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Gaze-dependent activity was widespread even during sleep, including in many visual cortices, and altered brain-wide functional connectivity! 🧵 1/8

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Brain-wide gaze-dependent activity during eyes-closed rest and sleep

Gaze behavior and brain activity are tightly coupled during perception and mental imagery. Whether this coupling extends to eyes-closed states remains largely unknown, primarily because measuring eye ...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Fascinating discussion on the societal shift from maximizing positive affect (pleasure) to minimizing negative affect (anxiety), induced by screens and metrics. Coincidentally, I‘ve just gone old school and bought a radio for running. Digital detox summer! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o...

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Opinion | I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel

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Nathan Warren @nathanwarren.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Simon Kuper spitting facts: "Perhaps the global economy needs the US, or at least a few inventive bits of it — as long as you don’t have to live there." on.ft.com/3QtMyED

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Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?

Life expectancy, happiness, sustainability and innovation among factors shaping work attitudes

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