You can sometimes spot this unicorn in the form of: "person writing a TiCS/NatRevNeuro paper about the area of research they specialize in" (except "more work to be done" in the niche area their next grant will fund)
Then they'll come up to you at the grocery store in six months and want to talk, and you'll stand there trying to remember either their, or their child's, name
Funding to tri-councils is actually going up. "Science" in this context seems to be cuts to fisheries and agri-foods programs.
I originally misread this and was like, "huh, 2000 subjects is pretty modest for 64 papers." Then I realized it was STUDIES 💀
Olivia, who I hated even before I knew who Sydney Sweeney is
One more week to submit your abstract! There are some heavy hitters as keynotes, but I will also be there giving a "theme talk"
Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer...
Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!
I'm starting to think Kid Rock is not actually a kid. Has anyone checked his long-form birth certificate?
One time in 2006 a student wanted to be excused from the final so she could work on Stephen Harper's Conservative Party leadership campaign. Somehow this situation feels way, way different?
Also this:
Have you tried googling yourself, but misspelling your last name? It's kind of amusing:
"fringe researchers [...] have used it to produce at least 16 papers purporting to find biological evidence for differences in intelligence between races, ranking ethnicities by I.Q. scores and suggesting Black people earn less because they are not very smart."
Cautionary tale on collecting open science w/human data: ABCD developmental brain dataset was hijacked for race science after investigators failed to safeguard information:
🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
we used to call it connectionism or PDP
I work with a surprising number of successful people who have never been told 'no'. Watching them lose their shit when hearing that word for the first time tells me everything I need to know about the "well maybe I'll start my own university then!" mindset.
You know you've really screwed up your Reactionary Free Speech University™ when Pinker's all, "whoa you guys are nuts"
I hate to admit, I'm old enough to remember the transition from 5 1/4, which we called floppy/floppies, to 3 1/2. We just kind of kept calling them floppies because that's what the name was.
Is it weird that their Editorial Board lists 2,747 individuals? I feel like that's... weird.
www.nature.com/palcomms/jou...
Also, mandatory coffee at 4 pm, to weed out those slackers who are raising a family and all that
It's satire right?
If the information content of Rev 1 and 2 is really weak, then by all means invite 2 others. But most of the time, reviewers will agree on the critical stuff that directly bears on whether a manuscript should be published.
Or, you know, make a list of people to invite and work your way down that list till you have enough yesses.
Also, fellow action editors, while I have your attention:
You don't need to hedge against people saying no by inviting 4+ reviewers all at once. Most invite systems allow you to designate alternate reviewers if your first invites are declined.
As an action editor: the number of invites I have to send out to get even two people to say yes is at least 5 or 6. How many would have said yes if they weren't already burnt out from being Rev 3 or 4 on a bunch of other papers?
Proposal: two peer reviews of a manuscript is almost always enough.
As reviewer: I'm sick of reluctantly agreeing to review a paper only to find out later I'm one of FOUR reviewers. This is a massive waste of resources at a time when it gets harder and harder to get people to agree to review.
Full service, you say?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Quick advertisement for #openscience: making all our data and materials freely available online increased the visibility of our prior study, and sparked a new collaboration with researchers on the other side of the globe
New paper! In collaboration with a team in Australia, we demonstrate how beta oscillations in left prefrontal EEG reflect statistical learning of speech in children:
Sometimes I see Arial and a little part of me dies inside
