Izabela Maria Sztuka
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Izabela Maria Sztuka
@isdedal.bsky.social
Environmental Neuroscience, Cog Comp Neuroscience, AI & BCI | Archeologist & Rose lover | Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
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“To be talented is not enough. What’s really important is how you manage that talent if you have it. This is as important as the talent itself.”

#career
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Elie Saab: "I don't believe in instant success"
The Lebanese fashion designer discusses his global success and his impact on world fashion. #Globalconversation
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Really sad news. Jane Goodall transformed our understanding of primates and championed conservation worldwide. Her impact is immeasurable.

#science #research
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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💻 Last week 💻
@isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠

#ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If confirmed, this breakthrough gene therapy for Huntington’s disease could be a historic step forward in treating previously untreatable neurological disorders.

#neuroscience #research
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Almighty Gods of Wisdom & Reason — don’t leave us!
When publishers push AI “reading assistants” message is clear: don’t bother reading. On top of don't-bother-writing attitude I see in reviewed papers, my feeling is that we are losing the very essence of #science.
September 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The most accurate depiction of establishment playing game of deflection these days:

#migration
September 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Language in scientific writing is a mirror of academic culture. This editorial is a timely reminder that careful, precise, and balanced expression strengthens scholarship. Yet too many papers today are framed like product branding rather than contributions to knowledge.

#science
Wonderful editorial from our colleagues about why self-promotional language should be avoided in scientific articles.
Self-promotional language may attract readers but is discouraged in Communications Psychology. Because style matters in fostering credibility.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
August 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Phantom feelings in lost limbs present a puzzle for neuroscientists who were taught to believe that once a body part is amputated, another body part will creep into its spot on the brain’s map of the body.

A new imaging study undermines that theory. https://scim.ag/45SInZQ
After an amputation, the brain’s map of the body is more stable than previously thought
Imaging study could inform future prosthetics and treatments for phantom limb pain
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August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Dziś Dzień Psa
August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There’s always that one trending paper that makes you pause… 🤔
August 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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📑New CEN pre-print by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social, @isdedal.bsky.social and Simone Kühn is out!

'Urban versus Rural Living: Associations with Mental Health, Physical Health, and Psychological Constructs'
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August 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New preprint from @cen-mpib.bsky.social: our 500-study review on how place shapes mind, body, and brain.

🧠 Urban upbringing alters stress-related brain circuits.
🌿 Rural living linked to resilient prefrontal structure.
🌍 Health disparities & gap in global representation.

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July 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Be it drugs or alcohol - literally every country in this world experiences this problem. Nobody seems to understand how vicious cycle of poverty and inequality pushes people into the arms of substance addiction.
1/2

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Teens unable to walk, mothers with rash-covered babies: How Kush is ruining lives
YouTube video by Sky News
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July 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mood this year:
July 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The #Ax4 crew is now onboard the International SpaceStation
🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀

With @astro-slawosz.bsky.social passing through the hatch, the #Ignis mission officially begins 🔥

@esa.int
June 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The major dispersal of humans out of Africa around 50,000 years ago was preceded by an increase in diversity of the habitats that humans chose to live in, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/40cyoMV 🏺 🧪
June 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Deeply worrying developments in regards to Green Claims Directive. EU withdrawal from this initiative will be a disaster that will hit consumers in entire Europe.

#environment
June 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Until 2014, I spent a few years researching what remained of Crimean Tatar cultural heritage. The history of deportations had been censored for long time, and meticulous Soviet erasure of Tatar culture after World War II is still barely recognized as a crime.

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Dutch parliament recognizes Soviet 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide
In the adopted text, Dutch lawmakers declared that the Soviet-led deportation of Crimean Tatars, which took place between May 18 and 21, 1944, constitutes genocide by contemporary legal and historical...
kyivindependent.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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POV: Orbiting Mars. 2 volcanoes. 1 dust storm and the darkness of space around you.

You can browse the 170MP (!) here easyzoom.com/image/633505

Full size, download & more info here flic.kr/p/2r95M3B

@esa.int Mars Express 2024-02-16
Olympus & Ascraues Mons

Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck 🧪🔭
June 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Widzę dziś w komentarzach, że wszyscy chcieliby, żeby wyjaśnienie wyniku wyborów było tak proste, by zmieściło się w darmowym limicie.

A tak naprawdę im jest ono krótsze, tym bardziej odbiega od rzeczywistości.

#Wybory
June 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Nature connection matters!

A new study finds that frequent nature visits and stronger nature connectedness boost well-being & environmental actions. 🌱🌍🧪

Read the research by I. Alcock, D. Sheffield, P. C. L. White & @findingnature.bsky.social : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
How are nature exposures and nature connectedness related to well‐being and environmentalism in the population of England?
The twin crises of mental and planetary health can benefit from understanding how visiting nature and nature connectedness are related to well-being and environmentalism. These relationships are c...
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May 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Interesting perspectives on our relationship with animals in latest issue of @bpsofficial.bsky.social‬ The Psychologist: More than companions? The shifting focus of human-animal relations research.

#psychology

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More than companions? The shifting focus of human-animal relations research… | BPS
Ella Rhodes hears from psychologists whose work on human-animal interactions and animal welfare is moving to decentre humans as the most important animal on the planet.
www.bps.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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“Fighting for Russia without a single Russian among us”

Moscow’s forced mobilization is wiping out indigenous men from colonized regions like the Yukaghirs, now with less than 2,000 left.
May 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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🚨We have an opening for a postdoc to use protein design techniques to developing and characterizing binders against intrinsically disordered proteins involved in neuroscience.

Experience in protein biochemistry and/or molecular neuroscience preferred.

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Postdoc: De novo protein design for neuroscience - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Molekylærbiologi og Genetik - Neurobiologi, Aarhus Universitet
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May 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM