We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
The Transmitter writes about @clionaod.bsky.social's work with
@ainedineen.bsky.social, @annatruzzi.bsky.social, Graham King, @lorinanaci.bsky.social, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D'Arcy, Jessica White, @chiarac.bsky.social, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social!
Intelligence is not just about having "strong" brain connections. It’s also about how efficiently the brain coordinates processing speed across regions.
@lindenmp.bsky.social and @jason-z-kim.bsky.social share what their computer model is revealing about cognitive power: https://bit.ly/3LQuoxT
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
Data quality biases normative models derived from fetal brain MRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Renauld et al. present scilpy, an open-source #Python library for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography: doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wow, very cool!
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
#106 - Chiara Caldinelli, Jing-Jing Li, Garrett Chao, Mike Arcaro & Anne Collins. The role of the thalamus in dynamic decision-making
🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆
There are two open positions:
1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.
sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨
We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...
Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
Better Code, Better Science - Introducing a new open-source book project on scientific coding using AI tools russpoldrack.substack.com/p/better-cod...
Six people near Seattle. That's all researchers need to create a new human brain map that combines functional and cellular data.
Thank you @callimcflurry.bsky.social for sharing the study in @thetransmitter.bsky.social!
More incl. eligibility criteria: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-mappin...
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Changing cognitive chimera states in human brain networks with age: Variations in cognitive integration and segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....
We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!
"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️
This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how.
Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Tiny brains, big strategy. Bumblebees scan the world with purpose, using active vision to lock onto just the info they need. Precision flight, selective focus, and fast pattern recognition all in a split second.
buff.ly/SLoGXQ0
New paper out at @openmindjournal.bsky.social!!
We studied early vocab in deaf, hearing, blind, and sighted children in order to learn how sensory access (vision 👀, hearing 👂) and linguistic experiences shape how children learn words...
Read on for a quick summary! 1/N
Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions!
sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...
We are accepting applications for funding of courses or conferences in autism research, healthy cognitive aging, and systems and computational #neuroscience. Deadline is 5/22/2025: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science #autismresearch
Excited to get started on this @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project led by @karlaholmboe.bsky.social together with Mara Cercignani - examining how the building blocks of cognition unfold over time. www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...
Jeremiah Cohen standing in front of a giant green neuron.
THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping.
It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.
@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint,
"Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵
🧪🧠🤖👩🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Polyglot brains: A new imaging study reveals how speaking multiple languages reshapes the anatomy of a brain area that processes speech sounds.
We hope to see you there!
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle
(new from Adriano Tort and colleagues)
#neuroskyence 🧠🫁
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Growth charts of infant visual neurodevelopment generalize across global contexts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....
TL;DR- CBGT-driven evidence accumulation is not static during a deliberation, but highly pliable on a moment-by-moment basis. This raises interesting questions about current assumptions of how decision policies arise.
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Code: github.com/zhuojunyu-ap...
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𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
"theoretical framework to analyse individual variability in biological and artificial systems that perform flexible decision-making tasks"
Looks like must read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
