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Magdalena Sabat
@magdalenasabat.bsky.social
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Post-doc in Cognitive Science at ENS-PSL, Paris | changing fields to Computational Social Science at the Leiden & Amsterdam University (January 2026) | wannabe biodiversity activist
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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Feb 11
Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris).

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal | PNAS
Arousal refers to changes in brain-body state underpinning motivated behavior but lacks a proper definition and taxonomy. Neuroscience and psycholo...
doi.org
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anne-urai.bsky.social
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award!

I'm not at #SfN so I did my best to take a photo of the trophy I received (fun to snap a picture of the text' shadows).

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 5d
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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michelforst.bsky.social Michel Forst @michelforst.bsky.social · Oct 13
NOW OUT: Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience

📝 A set of Guiding & Operational Principles for the effective protection of peaceful #EnvironmentalProtesters

👉 Full Guidelines (English): unece.org/sites/defaul...

#UNECE #AarhusConvention
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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manlius.bsky.social
When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip

Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits

The latest #ComplexityThoughts:

👉 manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern...

🎧 on Spotify and Apple

#ComplexSystems #Resilience

@ricardsole.bsky.social
How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems
Slowing change may be our last line of defense
manlius.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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sarangnemo.bsky.social
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!
schematic of fetal OPM-MEG
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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tpvogels.bsky.social
“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling
Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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kateraworth.bsky.social
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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isabellehoxha.bsky.social
Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS
The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...
www.pnas.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #bigteamscience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items: Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255. Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887. Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789. Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108. Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507. Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235. Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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georgiaturner.bsky.social
@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

We wrote a blog reflecting on it:

anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...
Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025
by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…
anneurai.net
August 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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jbarbosa.org
Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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angushervey.com
Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.

A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.

https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
July 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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alomshaha.bsky.social
Was chatting to one of my most brilliant Physics students yesterday and he had no idea how mechanical watches work and was fascinated by the fact that they make use of such basic Physics principles and the history of how watchmakers have overcome various limitations on accuracy. Shared this with him
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
ciechanow.ski
July 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
magdalenasabat.bsky.social
A short thread on the history of the theory of emotion 👇
micahgallen.com Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 13
Modern theories of emotion (especially “interoceptive inference”) often cite William James as a key inspiration. But what did James actually say about emotion, and is it supported by the data? Here’s a brief look at the core arguments and classic evidence. 🧵
July 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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anna-beyeler.bsky.social
👨‍💻 Open PI position in our institute 👨‍💻 !! If you are an expert in Computational Neuroscience and want to start your lab in Bordeaux, contact us !
www.fens.org/careers/job-...
@neuromagendie.bsky.social
@neurobordeaux.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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metr.org
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
magdalenasabat.bsky.social
Nice thread on the limits of using LLM to model ‘general cognition’
 Jeffrey Bowers @jeffreybowers.bsky.social · Jun 26
Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268
July 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
magdalenasabat.bsky.social
Not only #brainrot ! Social media can make us better informed (if we control what and how long we consume) #psyskyance #journalclub www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Following news on social media boosts knowledge, belief accuracy and trust - Nature Human Behaviour
Altay et al. show that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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amydiehl.bsky.social
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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carandinilab.net
New by Agnès Landemard (@agnesland.bsky.social‬) & co

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations

Brainwide fluctuations in blood volume arise from two populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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epgroningen.bsky.social
Influential figures can encourage faster adoption of pro-environmental behavior as the right thing to do through:

Phase 1: Moral recognition
Phase 2: Moral amplification
Phase 3: Approaching tipping points
Phase 4: Institutionalization
Phase 5: Norm abandonment

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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neurograce.bsky.social
The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York!

Check them out and register (free!) here 👇
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Local Meetups
2025.ccneuro.org
June 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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anne-urai.bsky.social
In-person participant recruitment has been hard - especially for new group studies we're launching.

Any (good/bad) experiences with running short behavioral experiments in the lecture hall (not just as demo, but to collect real data)? Esp looking for ethics guidance wrt consent.
June 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM