Putu Agus Khorisantono
agustation.bsky.social
Putu Agus Khorisantono
@agustation.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher in nutritional neuroscience @ Nutrilab, KI (Stockholm, Sweden)
Interested in what makes us eat what we eat
he/him
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xkcd nails car bloat

xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/
Car Size
xkcd.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-...

Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact?

A contribution that altered policy or practice...
A paper that extinguished an active area of research...
An uncredited gem...
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design

simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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OSF
osf.io
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism

At first, it seemed like there was a small association.

But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Are you a woman in midlife (or older) who has struggled with an eating disorder as an adult? A new anthology, “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder,”is looking for your story in the form of a personal essay! 

You can read more about the anthology and submit your writing here!
Moksha
tinymedanthology.moksha.io
September 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon.

Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️
September 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation

(how do we stop this disinformation)

when you should really ask a second

(how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ever thought that food tastes bland when you have a cold? In this piece, I explain how that happens as I summarise my latest article on the neural encoding of odours in the canonical taste cortex!

theconversation.com/smell-trigge...
Smell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anything
Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
theconversation.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10
Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Police and military brutality in Indonesia is escalating exponentially. Military personnel are laying siege to universities (Unispa & Unpas) in the middle of the night, with rubber bullets and tear gas. youtube.com/shorts/IeuDh...
KAMPUS UNISBA DAN UNPAS TAMANSARI DISERANG APARAT MALAM INI! #unisba #unpas #tamansari
YouTube video by Dinamika politik
youtube.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Literally haven't seen this mentioned on any of my socials but Indonesia has erupted after a cop ran over a delivery courier.
Photos: Indonesia protesters clash with riot police as tensions soar
Deadly protests erupt across Indonesia after police vehicle kills motorcycle taxi driver, causing public outrage.
www.aljazeera.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Come by and have a chat about crossmodal flavour representation in the insula! #OHBM2025
June 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Good read on the need for us to integrate fMRI research with other fields of neuroscience. Now to look at how I can do it in my own work... 🤔
Until recently, in-vivo brain imaging has largely been absent from… integrative efforts, limiting the opportunities to contribute our discoveries, theories or vision toward a comprehensive view of brain function, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...
fMRI must break out of its silo
We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research | Nature Metabolism
Great collaboration led by Satchin Panda and team! Happy to contribute.
Time to take timing into consideration!!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism
This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.
February 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩

To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out:
doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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[deep sigh] ourobor-ass
A snake eating its tail doesn't capture the stupidity of current times. What's going on now is more like a snake sticking its head up its own ass.
February 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Pretty much agree with this
The only way "clear scientific consensus" would show that AI is more effective than human teachers is if we define education down to what the AI can deliver, a condition which we've been approaching for years prior to the arrival of ChatGPT. We should use the occasion to re-examine our values.
February 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:

Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.

This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space - Communications Biology
Using multivariate fMRI analysis, this study reveals how medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC and lOFC) construct cognitive maps of abstract task space, advancing understanding of decision-ma...
www.nature.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM