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There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and autism, but what does the science say?
This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception.
pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v...
#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪
This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception.
pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v...
#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪
Vaccines and autism: Let’s talk about it
The conversation around autism and vaccines has become an increasingly hot topic of late (to put it mildly), but did you know that this debate began over 25 years ago? Here is a brief overview of t…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and autism, but what does the science say?
This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception.
pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v...
#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪
This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception.
pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v...
#PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪
I strongly recommend the new biography of Frances Crick by Professor Matthew. It is important for what it tells us about imagination, risk, persistence, error and boundless curiosity.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I strongly recommend the new biography of Frances Crick by Professor Matthew. It is important for what it tells us about imagination, risk, persistence, error and boundless curiosity.
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I wrote a review of James Watson's obituary by CSHL: liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/r...
Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson
James Watson, who described himself as “not a racist in a conventional way”, has died at the age of 97. Below is a review of an obituary for Dr. James Watson published by Cold Spring Ha…
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November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."
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doing archival research and happened across this story from 1963
teacher builds lessons around different perspectives, conservative families (backed by john birch society!) object, student *records* teacher in attempt to get her fired
sounds familiar!
p. 73 here:
books.google.com/books?id=Rkk...
teacher builds lessons around different perspectives, conservative families (backed by john birch society!) object, student *records* teacher in attempt to get her fired
sounds familiar!
p. 73 here:
books.google.com/books?id=Rkk...
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
doing archival research and happened across this story from 1963
teacher builds lessons around different perspectives, conservative families (backed by john birch society!) object, student *records* teacher in attempt to get her fired
sounds familiar!
p. 73 here:
books.google.com/books?id=Rkk...
teacher builds lessons around different perspectives, conservative families (backed by john birch society!) object, student *records* teacher in attempt to get her fired
sounds familiar!
p. 73 here:
books.google.com/books?id=Rkk...
#pessoabrain.bsky.social The paper by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham on A Neuroecological Perspective on Prefrontal Cortex is out.
the link is authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
This allows free downloads till Dec 7th.
the link is authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
This allows free downloads till Dec 7th.
authors.elsevier.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#pessoabrain.bsky.social The paper by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham on A Neuroecological Perspective on Prefrontal Cortex is out.
the link is authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
This allows free downloads till Dec 7th.
the link is authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
This allows free downloads till Dec 7th.
#neuroskyence New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
authors.elsevier.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#neuroskyence New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
authors.elsevier.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
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@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
@dickretired.bsky.social
The functional side of it all is already completely explained by showing that we create templates. See also: @hugospiers.bsky.social
During shopping we execute the exact same template as the mouse does.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@dickretired.bsky.social
The functional side of it all is already completely explained by showing that we create templates. See also: @hugospiers.bsky.social
During shopping we execute the exact same template as the mouse does.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
@dickretired.bsky.social
The functional side of it all is already completely explained by showing that we create templates. See also: @hugospiers.bsky.social
During shopping we execute the exact same template as the mouse does.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@dickretired.bsky.social
The functional side of it all is already completely explained by showing that we create templates. See also: @hugospiers.bsky.social
During shopping we execute the exact same template as the mouse does.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I wonder how much basic academic science funded by the public underlies this new treatment for Huntington’s disease?
a man sitting at a table with the words it 's a lot on his face
ALT: a man sitting at a table with the words it 's a lot on his face
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I wonder how much basic academic science funded by the public underlies this new treatment for Huntington’s disease?
#neuroskyence Can someone explain to me: if a huge neural net exposed to a huge corpus of language, and trained to learn the statistics of the next word, can produce excellent grammar, why can’t infants learn in the same way? Of course they are exposed to much less, but they have parental guidance.
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#neuroskyence Can someone explain to me: if a huge neural net exposed to a huge corpus of language, and trained to learn the statistics of the next word, can produce excellent grammar, why can’t infants learn in the same way? Of course they are exposed to much less, but they have parental guidance.
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#earlmiller.bsky.social It is frequently commented that cells in different areas have similar properties. The reason, of course, is the dense interconnections between areas. But what we need are physiological fingerprints. By this I mean radial plots of the degree of activity on many tasks.
September 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#earlmiller.bsky.social It is frequently commented that cells in different areas have similar properties. The reason, of course, is the dense interconnections between areas. But what we need are physiological fingerprints. By this I mean radial plots of the degree of activity on many tasks.
The Allen Institute is working hard at a really tough goal, with impressive results.
Happy birthday to us! 🥳
In 2003, we launched with just four employees in a small, rented laboratory working together towards a big goal - map the entire mammalian brain in a way the world had never seen.
🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek
In 2003, we launched with just four employees in a small, rented laboratory working together towards a big goal - map the entire mammalian brain in a way the world had never seen.
🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Allen Institute is working hard at a really tough goal, with impressive results.
Most neuroscientists are materialists. Out of body experiences challenge this, but they occur when the EEG suggests recovery of consciousness after aa heart attack (Parnia et alb2023).
September 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Most neuroscientists are materialists. Out of body experiences challenge this, but they occur when the EEG suggests recovery of consciousness after aa heart attack (Parnia et alb2023).
A study by Bartels et al (J Neurosci) showed that decoding what colour one person was seeing also decode what another person was seeing. I haven’t read the study but it is a clever way of trying to find out if your blue is my blue. Not my expertise but worth expert discussion.
September 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A study by Bartels et al (J Neurosci) showed that decoding what colour one person was seeing also decode what another person was seeing. I haven’t read the study but it is a clever way of trying to find out if your blue is my blue. Not my expertise but worth expert discussion.
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project
... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration
🧠📈
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project
... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration
🧠📈
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
This study aims to compare the neural representational geometry of visual perception and visual working memory using human fMRI. In our pilot experiment, observers viewed a face-scene blended image (s...
www.biorxiv.org
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project
... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration
🧠📈
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project
... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration
🧠📈
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
Gift link here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
Gift link here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
Gift link here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
Gift link here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 💊
Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as controversy continues to swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals. https://cnn.it/47s9lKt
September 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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There are a couple - I reference this one by @scienceimpacts.org the most: scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There are a couple - I reference this one by @scienceimpacts.org the most: scienceimpacts.org
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If you could show just ONE chart re: science grant terminations in the US to a group of college students, what chart would it be?
#nih #nsf #psycscisky 🧠🟦
#edusky #academicsky #statssky
#nih #nsf #psycscisky 🧠🟦
#edusky #academicsky #statssky
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If you could show just ONE chart re: science grant terminations in the US to a group of college students, what chart would it be?
#nih #nsf #psycscisky 🧠🟦
#edusky #academicsky #statssky
#nih #nsf #psycscisky 🧠🟦
#edusky #academicsky #statssky
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."
Nishida lab
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"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."
Nishida lab
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Inattentional noise leads to subjective color uniformity across the visual field
Humans perceive a vividly colored world coherently across the visual field, even though our peripheral vision has limited color sensitivity compared t…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."
Nishida lab
🧠📈
"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."
Nishida lab
🧠📈
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Enough about mitochondria. I’d like to know what RFK Jr. thinks about the danger from midichlorians.
WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
www.c-span.org/program/publ...
www.c-span.org/program/publ...
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Enough about mitochondria. I’d like to know what RFK Jr. thinks about the danger from midichlorians.
My post about Robert Kennedy comes from a report in Scientific American.
August 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My post about Robert Kennedy comes from a report in Scientific American.
In case you are worried about whether my post about Robert Kennedy is true, it was reported by Scientific American.
August 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In case you are worried about whether my post about Robert Kennedy is true, it was reported by Scientific American.