Palantir in the NHS - my latest about questions of efficacy and ethics
bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Note: There is no advantage to be nominated by a current member vs. self-nominating. The election process will not indicate how candidates were nominated.

The deadline is Wednesday April 15th.

Feel free to DM me with any questions.

On #NationalWalkingDay don't get lost ...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

This study looks great - this issue has finally been getting the attention it deserves - if network architecture is ‘intrinsic’ it should say something about connectivity across tasks …

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.

osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

New review from our group out in Nature Reviews Psychology:

Determinants of individual navigation ability

with my excellent co-author: @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social

We only experience time moving forward. But memory can both predict what comes next and reconstruct what must have happened before.

In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint, we show how hippocampal development enables this flexible representation of time 🧵

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Nice to see this RR out

I'm up for this

A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.

Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!

This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!

elifesciences.org/articles/99931

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

🚨 Another reminder that corridor care is dangerous.

Patients are collapsing out of sight. Staff are forced to deliver care in unsafe conditions. This is not normal, and it’s not acceptable.

This must change now - that's why we're taking a stance.

Read more ⬇️
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea

In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story.

(gift link!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...

It is putting the country first. Why not consider that, cynicism aside, many labour MPs (at least) support this because it's right.

Feeling incredibly grateful! Thank you to my examiners, Ed and Chris, for an engaging and insightful discussion about my work, and to my supervisor, Alexa, for her incredible support and guidance over the past four years. Excited for the next chapter as Dr. Zhang.

Credit to @fionalancelotte.bsky.social for the astonishing MATLAB needlework, too...

Congratulations to the brilliant Xinyue (Joy) Zhang on passing her PhD viva with flying colours and no corrections! Many thanks to her wise examiners Ed Wilding and @chrismbird.bsky.social. It's been a pleasure to have you in our lab, @xyzhang.bsky.social!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by C. Sainz Martinez, J. Jorge, et al:

An optimized framework for simultaneous EEG-fMRI at 7T enabling safe, high-quality human brain imaging with millisecond temporal resolution and sub-millimeter spatial resolution

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The podcast is now available on Spotify!

You can still take part in our survey here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

PFI = private finance initiative. Short term gain, big long term pain for patients and the #NHS

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

I have total #mdrs2025 FOMO 😭 - looking forward to the posts!

Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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We focused on fMRI studies of 🧠 networks… but there’s so much more neat idiographic work being done in other neuroimaging & psychology domains! See @mattmattoni.bsky.social's recent review for more thoughts on uniting these perspectives
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...