intracranial EEG artifact: if an electrode is located over a blood vessel, you can occasionally see some nice rhythms. sadly, these are not neural rhythms, but reflect the pulsation of the blood vessel, which moves the electrode around slightly. can also be seen in non-invasive EEG occasionally.
What should Europe do when demand for #ERC funding keeps rising?
Restrict access or invest in excellence?
Please read our open letter calling for reconsideration of the ERC 2027 resubmission restrictions & for constructive alternatives that preserve openness
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Are you the less lucky of the co-first or co-last authors? @shougroup.bsky.social makes the case for changes to the way that equal contribution information is sent to indexing sites such as #PubMed.
🧪 #AcademicSky #publishing
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Manifiesto COSCE por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación más eficiente y de mayor impacto
Estimadas socias, estimados socios: La Confederación de Sociedades Científicas de España (COSCE) ha redactado el Manifiesto “Por un Sistema Español de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación…
Dear funders, if you want to improve the success rate of your calls for scientific proposals, increase the budget instead of introducing new rules to try to reduce the number of applications.
Apart from the retroactive approach, one of the main issues here: assuming that the first evaluation step is a fair one (for reviewers and applicants).
Quite a poor solution for an institution promoting excellence.
The number of submissions will only increase and I believe their solution is a poor fix. But my friends and I disagree about better solutions. To make resubmission intervals longer for people who get a low rating acts as a penalty for low ratings. If these ratings reliably evaluated quality: good.
I sympathise with review pressures but cannot believe this is anywhere near an optimal solution: the ERC panel review is the weakest part of the process, based on short summaries & non-topic experts-- punishments will be given unfairly, not even based on the actual B2 applications
Bluesky posters are already coming up with dozens of solutions that are better than this one...
I wish this were the case
Just throwing this out there...
sfdora.org/2025/03/27/u...
Is anyone else seeing papers sit at journals for 2 months or more before a desk rejection or before being sent out for review? Is this becoming more a more common? Bit frustrating given what some of these journals charge and when contracts, grants, and career evaluations have strict deadlines.
A “fun” experience with BMC Neurology @bmc.springernature.com who sat on our submission for over 10 months without ever sending for review, despite repeated reminders… we have now retracted to submit elsewhere…
Come to work with us 🙂. Job alert: 2 full-time Technical Support Staff positions at CIMCYC (University of Granada, Spain). Applications open until 24 April 2026.
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!
The CIMCYC presented its open science strategy at the II National Open Science Conference (Spain)
David López García, Neuroimaging Data Analyst at the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence, presented the institutional strategy to encourage the adoption of best research practices.
We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.
New paper from our group out in @pnas.org! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Big thank you to coauthors @vosstacular.bsky.social and @anikka-jordan.bsky.social. Anikka spearheaded this project during her time as an RA and is now a grad student at Yale.
New discovery! Spoiler alert: Neural dynamics are key.
Evidence for predictive computations in a brain hierarchy during a visual search task
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social
#neuroscience
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I’m quite surprised by how slow the assistance has been at Prolific @joinprolific.bsky.social .It feels inconsistent: sometimes responses are great, but other times they take a very long time. I’ve sent three emails over the past two weeks and haven’t received any reply.
⚠️ If you are in the Pentagon today working to JUSTIFY a target list including clearly civilian infrastructure, you are complicit in war crimes.
You swore an oath. You have a duty to say "no."
The consequences will be rough, but obeying will be worse.
Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed
Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal
Here is the list of other alumni
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Replicability of representational similarity and its role in
successful memory retrieval
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Did I find the original Super Mario’s (NES; 1985) cloud? Is this my best achievement in 2026?
Rescuing specific memories by rejuvenating engram cells.
Commentary by Louisa Zielke at @tcddublin.bsky.social on a recent important paper from @graeffjohannes.bsky.social & Graff Lab at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social in @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Top: Putative engram cells were identified as GFP (cFos) signals in the indicated mushroom body cell body region dorsal to the calyx 24 hours after spaced training of UAS-mCD8-GFP; kayak-Gal4/Tubp-Gal80ts flies. pERK signals observed after odor exposure 24 hours after training were used to identify cells activated during memory recall tests. Bottom: Schematic for optogenetic reactivation of engram cells. Channelrhodopsin-YFP (ChR2-YFP) was expressed in putative engram cells using the same strategy of expressing GFP above. Twenty-four hours after spaced training, flies were tested for their preference of blue light (which activates channelrhodopsin) vs. green light.
Long-term memories become imprecise as animals age, but what are the neural mechanisms? This study shows that increased #dopamine signaling during #memory consolidation causes memory #EngramCells to respond to inappropriate cues, inducing memory generalization @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v62VtD