A jerk here on Bluesky. On LinkedIn no mentions about the person.

The game is: look if there is any recurrent name among the authors, and among the references.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Well, even with zero errors in the count of citations, I have some nice example of Springer proceedings (Scopus indexed) in which citation count for some author produces quite shocking numbers.

I do not understand why the link to the paper is so persistent! :-D

But I like it! 🙌

But I really hope large collaborations like the following and others that are emerging in this period will change the way we embrace science: from competition to collaboration.

The paper is here:
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
The OSF project to access the rest is here:
osf.io/y97t3/overview

I will not discuss the results here because large collaborations often do not converge on common views as far as interpreting data and results is concerned (data last! opinions change!).

No need to say that everything (data, materials, the whole research protocol) is open, transparent, and ready to be reproduced and replicated. Top! Top! Top!

I had the pleasure and the chance to coordinate this fantastic group of colleagues with Francesca Talamini. And I tell you: if you ever have the chance to be involved with large collaborations, there is no way back: this is how science should be done (IMO).

Altogether, we conducted an in-lab, in-person study investigating whether playing a musical instrument is associated with better short-term memory performance and other cognitive benefits, whether expert musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians.

This work is the result of the joint effort of 110 colleagues over 4 years, the first multilab in psychology and neuroscience of music.

Let aside the absurdity of the request, 3d graphs are difficult to read (IMO). In the past, if one of the variables was suitable for the change, I was expressing one axis with color (greyscale).

Rice is already taken, I go for wheat (durum, wheat of course, 😀).

I do not understand where is the news :-|

In Italy, it is common practice in many fields (eg medicine) that the PI is last author "by default".

Definitely! For example, in Italy traditional metrics are often taken at face value! 😱. A person with 2N citations is assumed to be twice as good as someone with N citations, even if the first works in neuroscience within a team and the second in the history of neuroscience on his own.

Contemporary multilabs challenge the first/last/rest ternary view. But definitely, a more complex metric keeps into account more dimensions.

I guess you know the early films by Dario Argento. If you do not, look for them. Another Italian classic of the seventies is The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono).