Jörn Alexander Quent
@jaquent.bsky.social
Currently working in #Shanghai | PhD from MRC-CBU/Cambridge Uni | Gates Cambridge | interested in neuroscience of memory | you can call me Alex
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February 1, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#SciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #SciComm #SocialMediaAnalysis
#SciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #SciComm #SocialMediaAnalysis
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#SciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #SciComm #SocialMediaAnalysis
#SciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #SciComm #SocialMediaAnalysis
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I am even warier than the authors about the broad-brush applications of the QRP label. However, I stand firmly against classifying data dredging/fishing expeditions as responsible research practice and as exploratory research. Science reform has distorted our understanding of scientific exploration.
P-hacking vs Exploratory Analyses
"Reanalyzing data through multiple methods in search of statistically significant results (i.e., p-hacking) is questionable only if concealed; when justified and transparently reported (e.g., exploratory studies), it reflects responsible practice."
"Reanalyzing data through multiple methods in search of statistically significant results (i.e., p-hacking) is questionable only if concealed; when justified and transparently reported (e.g., exploratory studies), it reflects responsible practice."
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I am even warier than the authors about the broad-brush applications of the QRP label. However, I stand firmly against classifying data dredging/fishing expeditions as responsible research practice and as exploratory research. Science reform has distorted our understanding of scientific exploration.
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Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4
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Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural activations and representations during episodic versus semantic memory retrieval - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Tibon et al. showed using fMRI that neural activity associated with successful memory retrieval did not differ between semantic and episodic memory, using a task wit...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
Finally: the fantastic #registeredreport from bsky-less Roni Tibon is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... showing less difference between #episodic vs. #semantic #memory than one might have thought.
Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this great paper.
Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this great paper.
Neural activations and representations during episodic versus semantic memory retrieval - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Tibon et al. showed using fMRI that neural activity associated with successful memory retrieval did not differ between semantic and episodic memory, using a task wit...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Finally: the fantastic #registeredreport from bsky-less Roni Tibon is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... showing less difference between #episodic vs. #semantic #memory than one might have thought.
Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this great paper.
Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this great paper.
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural activations and representations during episodic versus semantic memory retrieval - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Tibon et al. showed using fMRI that neural activity associated with successful memory retrieval did not differ between semantic and episodic memory, using a task wit...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What happened when Daidai turned to social media for help slaughtering a couple of pigs in her village? A piece from me, CLICK ON LINK TO READ. #China
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands descend on village after woman's social media plea
The woman appealed for help after realising her father could not slaughter the pigs for a village feast alone.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
What happened when Daidai turned to social media for help slaughtering a couple of pigs in her village? A piece from me, CLICK ON LINK TO READ. #China
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Evidence for item-in-context cells in humans from
@humansingleneuron.bsky.social:
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for item-in-context cells in humans from
@humansingleneuron.bsky.social:
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Evidence for item-in-context cells in humans from
@humansingleneuron.bsky.social:
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for item-in-context cells in humans from
@humansingleneuron.bsky.social:
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
In a new paper published in #BiologyLetters, researchers use a giant Y-maze to investigate how accurately elephants can detect differences in food quantity by smell royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition #Ecology
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
In a new paper published in #BiologyLetters, researchers use a giant Y-maze to investigate how accurately elephants can detect differences in food quantity by smell royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition #Ecology
Fantastic thread and a must-read for anyone working on spatial cognition.
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting
In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...
doi.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Fantastic thread and a must-read for anyone working on spatial cognition.
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
Personally, I am sure animals have a cognitive map.
Whether that map is topographical, can, and is used to compute novel shortcuts is another question though.
Here, we simply argue that Tolman's sunburst maze results are not well replicated and the apparatus is not a good test of this question.
Whether that map is topographical, can, and is used to compute novel shortcuts is another question though.
Here, we simply argue that Tolman's sunburst maze results are not well replicated and the apparatus is not a good test of this question.
January 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Personally, I am sure animals have a cognitive map.
Whether that map is topographical, can, and is used to compute novel shortcuts is another question though.
Here, we simply argue that Tolman's sunburst maze results are not well replicated and the apparatus is not a good test of this question.
Whether that map is topographical, can, and is used to compute novel shortcuts is another question though.
Here, we simply argue that Tolman's sunburst maze results are not well replicated and the apparatus is not a good test of this question.
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting
In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.
Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
With the end of 2025, my short stint on #xiaohongshu comes to an end after the second honestly completely innocuous video was presumably shadow banned or broken so it could not be shared. That's a bit too silly for me.
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 AM
With the end of 2025, my short stint on #xiaohongshu comes to an end after the second honestly completely innocuous video was presumably shadow banned or broken so it could not be shared. That's a bit too silly for me.
In this sense "Guten Rutsch" to everyone. Let's hope 2026 will be less of a catastrophe. Enjoy the small good things with people you love.
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In this sense "Guten Rutsch" to everyone. Let's hope 2026 will be less of a catastrophe. Enjoy the small good things with people you love.
Cologne's cathedral in the evening:
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Cologne's cathedral in the evening:
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“Freely explore this environment”: individual differences in exploration behavior and survey knowledge
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Freely explore this environment”: individual differences in exploration behavior and survey knowledge
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🍤 hippocampus = the brain's memory machine 🍤
unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals
video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults
study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...
unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals
video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults
study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🍤 hippocampus = the brain's memory machine 🍤
unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals
video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults
study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...
unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals
video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults
study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Jörn Alexander Quent
fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence 🧵:
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not to mention a bunch of other stuff: janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
Jan Vanhove :: Blog - Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments
janhove.github.io
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
not to mention a bunch of other stuff: janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
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Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...