Dr Pawel (Paul) Matusz
@paulmatusz.bsky.social
Assoc Prof & Physiolab Coordinator, Institute of Health, HES-SO Valais 🇨🇭
PI of GROWN, The SENSE Center🇨🇭
Editor-in-Chief of Mind, Brain & Education journal (IMBES)🧠📖
real-world models of attention & learning; ↗️ health & well-being: 👁️👂🧠 🦵📖
PI of GROWN, The SENSE Center🇨🇭
Editor-in-Chief of Mind, Brain & Education journal (IMBES)🧠📖
real-world models of attention & learning; ↗️ health & well-being: 👁️👂🧠 🦵📖
Pinned
The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience
The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound
Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) convert images to sounds to equip blind individuals with nominally visual functions, like face or letter sensitivity. Prior studies showed that image-to-sound SSDs ...
www.biorxiv.org
In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈
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Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Addressing artifactual bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development - Nature Neuroscience
As large-scale neurodevelopmental MRI studies gain prominence, the authors identify tradeoffs between sample size and quality control that can dramatically affect results, and they evaluate a range of...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientists at MGH are redefining what’s possible in brain research. 🧠
The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable.
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#neuroskyence 🧪
The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable.
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#neuroskyence 🧪
Scientists Develop High-Performance MRI Scanner in Effort to Define Microscopic Brain Structures
Next-generation system noninvasively images tiny nerve structures disrupted in brain disorders.
www.nih.gov
July 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Scientists at MGH are redefining what’s possible in brain research. 🧠
The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable.
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#neuroskyence 🧪
The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable.
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
#neuroskyence 🧪
Our School of Health Sciences HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sion, Switzerland, is looking for a new head of the research institute. More info here - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42....
Pls Reshare
#medsky #neuroskyence
Pls Reshare
#medsky #neuroskyence
HES-SO Valais-Wallis hiring Responsable de l'institut Santé (80-100%) *** Leiter oder Leiterin des Forschungsinstituts für Gesundheit (80-100 %) in Sion, Valais, Switzerland | LinkedIn
Posted 6:12:18 PM. La HES-SO Valais-Wallis forme plus de 2’800 étudiants et étudiantes et contribue, au travers de la…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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June 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our School of Health Sciences HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sion, Switzerland, is looking for a new head of the research institute. More info here - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42....
Pls Reshare
#medsky #neuroskyence
Pls Reshare
#medsky #neuroskyence
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Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
April 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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Thanks to the efforts of @paulmatusz.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social and many others (not on Bluesky), we'll make things work www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory substitution
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory substitution device for the blind.
www.artificialvision.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Thanks to the efforts of @paulmatusz.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social and many others (not on Bluesky), we'll make things work www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm
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My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!
March 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!
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Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠
March 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠
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Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.
Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity
Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...
journals.plos.org
March 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.
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When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏
Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏
When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions: A Tutorial Using DeclareDesign With a Worked Real-World Example - Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Charles Hulme, 2024
Recent studies in psychology have documented how analytic flexibility can result in different results from the same data set. Here, we demonstrate a package in ...
journals.sagepub.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏
Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏
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Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
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$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NEW: This is brilliant from Trudeau.
"Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥
"Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥
March 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
NEW: This is brilliant from Trudeau.
"Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥
"Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥
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For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.
I've been stalking NIH Reporter to see if any new R01s fund at the 15% F&A rate, but... no new full R01s have funded since 2/10/2025, not a single R01 - across all of NIH - since 2/08. Only 18 grants have been newly funded - I am happy for the F31/F32/F30, R35, K99 trainees who have received $$.
February 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.
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The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership
They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target.
They will not be spared.
www.foxnews.com/politics/str...
They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target.
They will not be spared.
www.foxnews.com/politics/str...
'Structural racism': Top taxpayer-funded academy rife with DEI programs, hefty executive salaries
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has received millions of dollars of taxpayer grants while promoting a variety of left-wing causes.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership
They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target.
They will not be spared.
www.foxnews.com/politics/str...
They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target.
They will not be spared.
www.foxnews.com/politics/str...
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TIL the voucher program incentivising drug development for rare pediatric diseases wasn’t extended in December.
It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.
It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.
Trump’s science crackdown hits rare disease research: ‘We need to sit down with Elon Musk’
Jill Wood had pinned her hopes on a little-known federal program to fund her son’s gene therapy. The initiative, which awards vouchers to companies targeting rare pediatric diseases, offered her ...
endpts.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
TIL the voucher program incentivising drug development for rare pediatric diseases wasn’t extended in December.
It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.
It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.
a great lil code from David for the flagged words in NSF grant applications.
If you are working on grants and want to identify any of the flagged NSF keywords without a ton of cntl+F, I wrote a very short R script here
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
NSF keywords
activism activists advocacy advocate advocates barrier barriers biased Biased toward biases Biases towards bipoc black and latinx community diversity community equity cultural differences cultural her...
docs.google.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
a great lil code from David for the flagged words in NSF grant applications.
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Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits
www.science.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence
🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠
Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich?
Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠
Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich?
Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
February 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence
🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠
Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich?
Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠
Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich?
Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
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The 50501 Movement—or 50 states, 50 protests, one day—is garnering support throughout social media over its plan to stage demonstrations across the nation to "fight Fascism" on February 5.
You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...
You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The 50501 Movement—or 50 states, 50 protests, one day—is garnering support throughout social media over its plan to stage demonstrations across the nation to "fight Fascism" on February 5.
You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...
You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...
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Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.
January 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH
Please click the link to complete this form.
form.jotform.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
form.jotform.com/250226137228...
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I flagged how we are using partial randomisation to allocate our small grants. We check if an application meets a quality threshold (around half of applications might) and then we allocate the funding at random between all those that meet the threshold.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding
More funders should consider using randomization to choose grant recipients when decisions are too close to call.
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I flagged how we are using partial randomisation to allocate our small grants. We check if an application meets a quality threshold (around half of applications might) and then we allocate the funding at random between all those that meet the threshold.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I was pleased to speak today at this symposium on the role a national academy can play in improving research culture. I spoke about several things we are doing at @britishacademy.bsky.social but just to pick out a few
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
Research Culture symposium 2025
Drawing on the strength of the sector at King's first annual Research Culture Symposium.
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I was pleased to speak today at this symposium on the role a national academy can play in improving research culture. I spoke about several things we are doing at @britishacademy.bsky.social but just to pick out a few
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...
In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈
The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM