AleX
@alex-mjm.bsky.social
MD, PhD.
Neuroscientist interested in Neurobiology of drug addiction.
Neuroscientist interested in Neurobiology of drug addiction.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
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www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
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The wait is over!
Welcome to #SfN25 where science, innovation, and community come together.
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Welcome to #SfN25 where science, innovation, and community come together.
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The wait is over!
Welcome to #SfN25 where science, innovation, and community come together.
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Welcome to #SfN25 where science, innovation, and community come together.
#neurosky #neuroskyence
The mind-bending power of placebo www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The mind-bending power of placebo - Nature Medicine
Studies with open-label placebos — sugar pills given without deception — suggest that the placebo effect is more psychologically complex than previously thought.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The mind-bending power of placebo www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I miss going to SfN meeting.
Welcome to Day 1 of #SfN25 from (not so sunny) San Diego!🧠
Neuroscientists are connecting in person and virtually to share groundbreaking research, network with peers, and explore the future of neuroscience.
Connect year-round on Neuronline! vist.ly/4en3q
Neuroscientists are connecting in person and virtually to share groundbreaking research, network with peers, and explore the future of neuroscience.
Connect year-round on Neuronline! vist.ly/4en3q
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I miss going to SfN meeting.
The psychology of virality www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
The psychology of virality
Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? Here, we review the
psychology of information spread, or the psychology of ‘virality’. Similar types of
information tend to spread in ma...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The psychology of virality www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine the use of top-down conceptual and bottom-up mechanistic models in theoretical neuroscience, exploring how they connect with experimental practice and where there is room for future growth.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"The Trump administration has learned to effectively weaponize the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like from people it doesn’t like. [It] shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just 8 months." www.vox.com/politics/461...
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"The Trump administration has learned to effectively weaponize the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like from people it doesn’t like. [It] shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just 8 months." www.vox.com/politics/461...
Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in patients with major depression
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in patients with major depression - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in patients with major depression
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August 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in patients with major depression
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out."
-Richard Feynman
-Richard Feynman
July 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out."
-Richard Feynman
-Richard Feynman
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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
Encoding the glucose identity by discrete hypothalamic neurons via the gut-brain axis www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Encoding the glucose identity by discrete hypothalamic neurons via the gut-brain axis
A specific neuronal population in the brain encoding D-glucose, the brain’s main fuel,
has been proposed but not yet identified. Kim et al. discovered a circuit involving
CRFPVN neurons, fasting-activ...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Encoding the glucose identity by discrete hypothalamic neurons via the gut-brain axis www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Representation of sex-specific social memory in ventral CA1 neurons
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Representation of sex-specific social memory in ventral CA1 neurons
Recognizing familiar individuals is crucial for adaptive social interactions among animals. However, the multidimensional nature of social memory encompassing sexual information remains unelucidated. ...
www.science.org
July 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Representation of sex-specific social memory in ventral CA1 neurons
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders
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June 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Precision psychiatry roadmap: towards a biology-informed framework for mental disorders www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.
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APA PsycNet
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June 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.
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psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
The brain works at more than 10 bits per second
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The brain works at more than 10 bits per second - Nature Neuroscience
A recent article makes a claim with far-reaching implications for neuroscience, technology, and society: that the human brain is subject to an information processing ‘speed limit’ of 10 bits per secon...
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June 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The brain works at more than 10 bits per second
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Smelling food primes your brain for satiety.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A food-sensitive olfactory circuit drives anticipatory satiety - Nature Metabolism
The authors describe a sensory circuit involving the medial septum (MS), where MS glutamatergic neurons integrate food odours to prime satiety and regulate nutrient intake.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Smelling food primes your brain for satiety.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Not just neurons: The diverse cellular landscape of learning and memory
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www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Not just neurons: The diverse cellular landscape of learning and memory
Research on learning and memory has primarily focused on neurons. This perspective
argues that understanding the biology of memory demands a comprehensive approach that
encompasses not only neurons bu...
www.cell.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Not just neurons: The diverse cellular landscape of learning and memory
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Biased agonism of GLP-1R and GIPR enhances glucose lowering and weight loss, with dual GLP-1R/GIPR biased agonism yielding greater efficacy
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www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Biased agonism of GLP-1R and GIPR enhances glucose lowering and weight loss, with dual GLP-1R/GIPR biased agonism yielding greater efficacy
Rodriguez et al. investigate the impact of biased signaling with a dual GLP-1R/GIPR
agonist. Biased GLP-1R and GIPR agonism leads to better and prolonged glucose lowering,
greater food intake reductio...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Biased agonism of GLP-1R and GIPR enhances glucose lowering and weight loss, with dual GLP-1R/GIPR biased agonism yielding greater efficacy
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice
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Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice
Emotional responses to sensory experience are central to the human condition in health and disease. We hypothesized that principles governing the emergence of emotion from sensation might be discovera...
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May 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults - Volume 55
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May 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum
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Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum - Learning & Behavior
In order to effectively thwart predation, antipredator defensive behaviors must be matched to the current spatio-temporal relationship to the predator. We have proposed a model where different defensi...
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May 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Anxiety, fear, panic: An approach to assessing the defensive behavior system across the predatory imminence continuum
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...