Fascinating new study confirms that having children somehow impacts women’s academic careers more than men’s. Truly groundbreaking… 😅

When Birds Sing Indoors - Research News “I didn’t realize how tense I was until the birds started, and then I immediately relaxed.” This was how one study participant described his experience when birdsong filled his workplace.

When birdsong suddenly appears, it affects us, and most often in a positive way🎶🐦
That's our experience from RITMO from when Maham Riaz carried out an experiment on her unsuspecting colleagues😅

Vinícius Rezende Carvalho YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO

Our brains predict the world before it happens🧠
Postdoctoral researcher Vinicius Rezende Carvalho studies how brain rhythms shape predictions and how deep brain recordings can unlock new insight into cognition, perception, and language.
@viniciusrc.bsky.social

Olgerta Asko YouTube video by UniOslo_RITMO

The brain turns chaos into meaning🤯🧠
PhD fellow Olgerta Asko studies the prefrontal cortex to understand how we make predictions about the world and transform information into action.
@olgasko.bsky.social

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

💡🧠New #preprint: we tested whether reward #learning produces lasting, context-general changes in spatial #priority.

Using #EEG + #pupillometry, we found strong #reward-learning signals, but weak transfer 4 days later, suggesting limits to persistent, task-general spatial priority #plasticity.

Neuroscience has a species problem If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

:D

Human Nervous System (Part 2) - How the Brain Works! (Animation) YouTube video by Thomas Schwenke

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Some of my favorites 🙂

#quotes

A very, very brief history of time From tracking the heavens to formulating relativity and entropy, understanding time has been a major human endeavour, says a University of Melbourne expert

“Time is intimately tied up with the structure of space and the way things work. It’s not a blank canvas upon which you impose your existence, it’s part of your machinery and existence – the passage of time.”

#time #science #curiosity

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How brains construct reality with Karl Friston We tend to think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. But perception is active, inferential, and deeply shaped by uncertainty. In this interview with the Institute of ...

We often think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. | https://bit.ly/49UAMxr

In this interview, neuroscientist Karl Friston argues that the brain is not a mirror of reality but a prediction machine, constantly constructing the world it experiences.

#philsci

AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research While AI can streamline certain parts of the scientific process, a philosopher argues that it cannot replace human expertise and collaboration.

AI can speed up research, but it can’t automate science. Pattern-finding isn’t discovery. Humans still decide what counts as evidence, which questions matter, and whether results survive replication and debate into consensus.

#AI #Science #Neuroscience #research #philosophy #AIphilosophy

Forsker: Vær glad for livets overraskelser Hver av dem gjør hjernen din litt mer finjustert.

So happy to see my research at @forskning.bsky.social

#brain #brainresearch @uio.no

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From Generalisation to Deliberation I write about the human ability to move from generalisation to deliberation

If human deliberation is grounded in episodic memory and lived, embodied experience, what would it take for AI to get anything like that grounding?
Thank you @arjensenius.bsky.social for a nice article on my trial lecture.
#AI #BRAIN #embodiedAI #AIresearch

www.arj.no/2026/01/09/g...

Is AI pretending to be intelligent, or is it really? @blaiseaguera.bsky.social #Technology #Books

Researcher and CTO at Google, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, argues that AI's intelligence lies in its ability to make predictions.

Read the full article: bigthink.com/books/blaise...

Why You Should Welcome Life's Surprises with Gratitude - Research News Each time you have an experience that defies your expectations, your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned.

Perhaps you should start the new year with welcoming life's surprises?🤔
Your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned every time you have an experience that defies your expectations!🧠
Read about @olgasko.bsky.social's research here:
www.uio.no/english/rese...

The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025 From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025

www.scientificamerican.com/article/10-m...

From a workshop on collaboration skills, two things stood out as essential foundations of good teamwork: TRUST & COMMUNICATION:
👉Reliability, transparency & a space where it’s safe to ask, challenge & learn.
👉Clarity on goals, roles, expectations & feedback.

Strong science is built together!

Human single-neuron responses to multi-feature auditory deviants: Evidence from amygdala, hippocampus, insula, and auditory cortex The ability to detect unexpected sounds within regular acoustic patterns is fundamental to adaptive behavior. This capacity is reflected in the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential and ha...

New preprint from my colleagues @viniciusrc.bsky.social & @ablenkmann.bsky.social: they recorded single neurons in human amygdala, hippocampus, insula & auditory cortex during a multi-feature auditory oddball paradigm (frequency, timing, intensity, location).
www.authorea.com/users/100748...
#brain

Seeing my own child take part in an eye-tracking study today reminded me how hard research is: babies move, get distracted, and don’t follow instructions…yet every single data is precious.🧠👶
A little reminder: research needs participants, stubborn researchers, and funding to exist at all.💙

“…to understand the brain, we might need to challenge our intuitions about how it works - “in the same way that quantum mechanics is challenging to comport with our understanding of physical phenomena in the world.”
www.quantamagazine.org/mental-pheno...

Animals seamlessly combine what they see and hear. This study presents a simple, biologically inspired model that predicts how visual and auditory cues are integrated across humans, monkeys, and rats.

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Sources: Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05133-8), National Human Genome Research Institute (https://www.genome.gov/ human-genome-project), The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/18/dna-fingerprinting-30-years-on), National Institutes of Health (https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genetictesting), Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/816).

🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA.

It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.

1/ Want to try your hand at science communication but don’t know where to start?

We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm

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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?

We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.

Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#neuroskyence #musicscience

Figure from Alnes et al., 2025

​Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!

Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. In an age that pr...

📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠
#evolution #brain

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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

We praise innovation, yet starve the science that makes it possible. The history of discovery shows a simple truth: transformative breakthroughs arise from questions without immediate utility. Support curiosity, not just impact!!!🔬🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science