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A week ago, @nature.com published a very special issue on reliable research in the social and behavioral sciences. It features four papers that look at reproducibility, robustness and replicability and represents an amazing amount of work. Check it out here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Charting the human brain’s lifelong functional organization Neuroscientists have created a continuous atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age.

I also urge you to read the excellent, accompanying News and Views by Richard Bethlehem and Daniel Margulies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging
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Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%. Interventions that address complex...

And for those interested in the policy angle, check out the related policy brief here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A big-push community intervention reduced rates of child marriage by 80% - Nature A community-wide intervention in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child marriage from 79% to 14%, showing that bundled, big-push approaches can dramatically shift entrenched behaviours.

@nature.com published a very important study last week: it should that an intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child (ie under 18) marriage from 86% to 21%. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parkinson’s disease affects network of brain regions that controls whole-body action A network called SCAN shows abnormally high connectivity with deep brain structures in people with Parkinson’s disease.

I know that I've posted about this paper before, but I was just reading the research briefing in @nature.com and got impressed all over again so thought I'd share: Parkinson's disease affects a network of brain regions that control whole-body action 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Excited to share @nathumbehav.nature.com's new “How to” collection—a practical set of researcher‑to‑researcher insights on everything from building supportive lab cultures to ethical online data use, designing surveys and megastudies, evaluating LLMs, and more. 🧪 www.nature.com/collections/...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

A recent @nature.com paper asks a big question: Do LLMs actually have moral competence or are they just good at sounding right? This question is answered by distinguishing between moral performance and competence and a roadmap to assess what LLMs are really doing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human eva...

I'm excited to see what people think of @openscholar.bsky.social, an open-source language model that can answer scientific queries with accuracy similar to human experts. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.

The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole Analyses of hundreds of thousands of papers in the natural sciences reveal a paradox: scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a more confined set of topics.

or reading the related News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 14 January 2026

Happy Friday! For those of you who didn't see the excellent @nature.com paper showing that scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a narrower range of topics, consider listening to the podcast: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context - Nature Single-neuron recordings in humans reveal largely separate content and context neurons whose coordinated activity flexibly places memory items in context.

Recently published in @nature.com :the human brain stores what happened and the context in mostly separate neurons—binding them only when needed, which enables flexible memory (and hopefully avoids confusion) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

One of the best parts of my week was seeing this paper -showing that the use of AI/ML tools leads to more publications, citations, and faster career progression but a narrowing of topics studied - come out in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A recent @nature.com shows that it's possible to reduce the suffering of chronic pain without numbing sensation or using opioids... at least in mice 🧪. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025 Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 17 December 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, consider listening to @nature.com's end of year podcast - it's a great way to end 2025 and this holiday season 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds Conversations with AI can sway people’s political views. Concerningly, a chatbot’s facts are not always accurate, especially when it supports right-wing positions.

And finally a great news and views in our pages that brings the two papers together: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 part...

And here's the @science.org paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues - Nature Human–artificial intelligence (AI) dialogues can meaningfully impact voters’ attitudes towards presidential candidates and policy, demonstrating the potential of conversational AI to influence politic...

Did you know that chatting with LLMs can shift people's attitudes towards political candidates & policy issues? A recent @nature.com paper show that AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds; a related paper in @science.org describes when they work best www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health - Nature A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.

A recent meta-analysis published in @nature.com finds that there is no general effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health (though there are some effects for specific groups, e.g. low-income samples). Read more details in the full paper here: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ethically sourced image data set encourages fairness in AI research AI systems rely on data that often lack diversity, perpetuate biases and violate intellectual-property rights. An ethical human-image data set addresses these problems.

Read the associated News and Views by Walter Scheirer www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking - Nature The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE, pronounced ‘Feebee’)—an image dataset that implements best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety, diversity and utility—can be used respon...

All AI models are constrained by the quality of their data. A recent @nature.com paper introduces the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), a diverse dataset implementing best practices for consent, privacy, compensation, safety and utility. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.

Do glitches on video calls annoy you? A new study in @nature.com shows that they reduce trust in telehealth, lowered job-interview ratings, weakened social connection, and decreased likelihood for parole, likely due, in part, to the sense of uncanniness they trigger 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...

How does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe - Nature The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-sp...

What aspects of language are universal, and which are due to familiarity? A @nature.com paper finds that while STG shows shared responses to basic speech sounds, only native language boosts encoding of word boundaries + sound-sequence stats 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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