FENS‐Kavli Network of Excellence: Postponed, non‐competitive peer review for research funding Receiving research grants is among the highlights of an academic career, affirming previous accomplishments and enabling new research endeavours. Much of the process of acquiring research funding, ho....

Suggestions for a way out of this vicious circle:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research Nature Human Behaviour - Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research

This drives the time and effort arms race for grant applications that led to the current situation.

Importantly, the bottleneck / cost driver in the funding game is not so much reviewer effort, but applicant effort:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Peer review for grant applications serves a fundamentally different role than for publications: ensuring a certain absolute level of quality/robustness with (in principle) unlimited ‘winners’ in case of publications, vs. producing a relative ranking in a zero-sum game in case of grant applications.

If AI plays a noteworthy role in grant review, the rational strategy would be to optimize one's proposal for the known/expected AI model upfront. Realistically, this requires automatization via AI as well, increasingly taking humans out of the loop on both sides of the application process.

polyphasic sleep schedules

Cheating Hypnos:

Can polyphasic sleep schedules reduce the need for sleep?

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Introducing one of the workshops at #ConfMusSleep: SLUMBER: A Framework for Home-Based Sleep Ex-periments Offering Dynamic Delivery of Auditory Stimuli. Led by Ali Saberi (RadboudUMC, NL), Samuel Morgan (Uni Stuttgart, DE), Tinke van Buijtene (UPF, ES).
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Save the date for the 1st MEEP – Heidelberg Summer School on Memory and Sleep: May 31st to June 3rd
Keynote speakers: @marwimber.bsky.social @mgarvert.bsky.social & Dan Bendor
Sessions on:
memory processes
sleep & replay
analysis and stimulation techniques
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The registration for the 1st Conference on Music and Sleep is now open! 🎶💤
Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆

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Neuroscience of Dreaming Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...

⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)!
A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking.
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Hacking the functions of sleep: Non-invasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society Sleep is essentially contributing to human health and wellbeing through multiple biological functions, including restoration and biosynthesis, brain clearance, energy metabolism, immunological and end...

😴 Our new review on non-invasive sleep stimulation in Physiological Reviews! Huge thanks to my shared first co-author Friederike Breuer, to Til Ole Bergmann & Martin Dresler for their supervision, and to all co-authors for an inspiring collaboration ✨
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I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how | BBC Science Focus Magazine Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it

"I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how."

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Some behavioral strategies or tools allow their user to massively outperform competitors or their former selves, as they are essentially performing a different task with that strategy/tool.

Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy:

Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.

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Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy: Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.

Relatedly, in memory sports there are no limits on the size of the memory palace.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why we sleep: insights from current research | Radboud University In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any or...

🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇

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Neuroscience of Dreaming Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...

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Please note that the duration not of the project, but of the application needs to be 6-18 months. Seems not unrealistic for writing up something transformative.

Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:

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FENS‐Kavli Network of Excellence: Postponed, non‐competitive peer review for research funding Receiving research grants is among the highlights of an academic career, affirming previous accomplishments and enabling new research endeavours. Much of the process of acquiring research funding, ho...

Some ideas how to fix/improve the system:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research Nature Human Behaviour - Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research

While much of the procedure is still inefficient, any reduction in the numbers of full proposals is likely a net win for the scientific community in a system that is to a large extent a lottery:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

According to the new NWO procedures, the project description isn’t considered at all for the evaluation of the pre-proposal though, it’s only intended to help with finding reviewers in case you make it to the second round.

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

Empirically, more extensive project descriptions do not affect the eventual decision anyway:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...

The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:

1. Dream engineering

"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."

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We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
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Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur

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I am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps

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