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Canadian 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor at Tilburg University 🇳🇱, interested in the neuroscience of decision making, aging, and Alzheimer's disease. Also a dad 🤓

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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · Sep 24
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Hi! Finally getting around to making new blog posts. Here's an introduction (by me, a rookie) into #CausalDiscovery approaches.

How can we use observational data to discover the underlying causal system?

Please comment &/or share!

#CausalInference #Stats #Neuroscience
Causal discovery: An introduction | Andrew's Blog
This post continues my exploration of causal inference, focusing on the type of problem an empirical researcher is most familiar with: where the underlying causal model is not known. In this case, the...
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notts-psych.bsky.social
Want meaningful paid experience working with young people? Applications are open for Summer School Ambassadors 2026!

To apply:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/currentstude...

Deadline: 16 Feb 2026, 12 noon

Questions? Email ss-ambassadors@nottingham.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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gordonfeld.bsky.social
Join my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively.

Deadline 31st March.

Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...
January 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in the community

Impressive sample of 11,000+ participants:
in @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in the community - Nature
The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathological changes is reported based on blood-based biomarkers in a Norwegian population-based cohort.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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charlesdriver.bsky.social
The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

#psychjobs
UZH: Lecturer Research «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship»
The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a tenured Lecturer Research position for «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship». We are seeking an enthusias...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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richardfbetzel.bsky.social
🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding.

How is this massive network organized?

Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
richardfbetzel.bsky.social Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Dec 14
New lab paper - will say more about this in a little while
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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matthiasnau.bsky.social
Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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This one's pretty nice:

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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sushrutthorat.bsky.social
🚨New Preprint!
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715

+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex
Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Project structure for scientific coding projects
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 3
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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transmetropolitanr.bsky.social
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Way too much wasted time to have ppl independently screen articles. Who will do it? Who will pay them?

100% behind removing the incentives to publish low quality garbage.

What's missing is a vetting process: academics and host institutions should risk being blacklisted if they spam w/ AI+ fraud.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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cfchabris.bsky.social
An important set of ideas to counter the growing burden of fraudulent scientific publications:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication. The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
reid-lab.org
This is 🤯

All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.

#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A very good use case for AI right now is to detect AI and flag LLM spam. Big waste of human resources to have to filter through this garbage to discriminate signal from noise...
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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a group of south park characters stand around a man holding a sign that says i will now tell you a german joke
ALT: a group of south park characters stand around a man holding a sign that says i will now tell you a german joke
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October 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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erniebornheimer.bsky.social
Human nature
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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joelreithler.bsky.social
We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing.

For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
tinyurl.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jan A. Kufer, Meher R. Juttukonda, et al:

Venous arterial spin labeling MRI signal is associated with oxygen supply-independent reduction in cerebral oxygen extraction in typically aging older adults

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
reid-lab.org
Hmm, what is that link supposed to be showing? I get the same message, being on campus. But the main website is fine?
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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mbeisen.bsky.social
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Sequential Development of Task Representation from Hippocampus to Prefrontal Cortex Supports Goal-Directed Spatial Navigation

"We found this ring-like structure evolved after learning, in a way that the hippocampal-prefrontal manifolds converged to a shared geometry"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sequential Development of Task Representation from Hippocampus to Prefrontal Cortex Supports Goal-Directed Spatial Navigation
Successful goal-directed navigation requires the coordination between the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. However, it is not fully confirmed that the medial prefrontal cortex learns its spat...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM