Neuroskeptic
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The Shifting 'Self' of Science's Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41199636/
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Shifting 'Self' of Science's Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41199636/
"17 pairs of female friends (N = 34; ages 16-18 years) spent two nights in a sleep laboratory: one night online socialising with their friend in another room (WhatsApp + Netflix), and one night watching Netflix alone without socialising" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41189527/ Sleep lab sleepover!
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"17 pairs of female friends (N = 34; ages 16-18 years) spent two nights in a sleep laboratory: one night online socialising with their friend in another room (WhatsApp + Netflix), and one night watching Netflix alone without socialising" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41189527/ Sleep lab sleepover!
"For-profit journals disproportionately cite other for-profit journals, academia-friendly journals preferentially cite other academia-friendly journals, and non-profit journals likewise favor citations to non-profit sources." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"For-profit journals disproportionately cite other for-profit journals, academia-friendly journals preferentially cite other academia-friendly journals, and non-profit journals likewise favor citations to non-profit sources." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If you say ANYTHING with your vocal cords, you NEED to get Broca's Area. I talk pretty much all day every day and Broca's Area makes my talking better. It actually is... correcting everything as I'm saying it.
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you say ANYTHING with your vocal cords, you NEED to get Broca's Area. I talk pretty much all day every day and Broca's Area makes my talking better. It actually is... correcting everything as I'm saying it.
Sensory neurons drive pancreatic cancer progression through neuron-cancer pseudo-synapses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41005304/ "Hello, is this pancreas?" "Pancreas can't come to the phone right now. This is cancer." ☹️
September 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Sensory neurons drive pancreatic cancer progression through neuron-cancer pseudo-synapses pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41005304/ "Hello, is this pancreas?" "Pancreas can't come to the phone right now. This is cancer." ☹️
From a Nature piece on bad peer review comments www.nature.com/articles/d41... While most of these are "go away and never review again" tier, I can relate to a couple of these
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
From a Nature piece on bad peer review comments www.nature.com/articles/d41... While most of these are "go away and never review again" tier, I can relate to a couple of these
Neuron-to-cancer neurotransmission: lung cancer cells "can form functional synapses and receive synaptic transmission" from neurons pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40931078/ This is creepy
September 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Neuron-to-cancer neurotransmission: lung cancer cells "can form functional synapses and receive synaptic transmission" from neurons pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40931078/ This is creepy
"My relationship has very good Saturn" - illustrating the perils of self-report measures with nonsensical questions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40929053/ I like this, but then I am quite Mars
September 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"My relationship has very good Saturn" - illustrating the perils of self-report measures with nonsensical questions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40929053/ I like this, but then I am quite Mars
In 2001, 73.4% of British men reported masturbating in the past month; by 2012 this was up to to 77.5% pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40932457/ 4.1% of men got more honest
September 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In 2001, 73.4% of British men reported masturbating in the past month; by 2012 this was up to to 77.5% pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40932457/ 4.1% of men got more honest
A study on female soccer players has been retracted due to "lack of voluntary informed consent" and "excessive physical burden and harm imposed on the participants" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 😧
September 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A study on female soccer players has been retracted due to "lack of voluntary informed consent" and "excessive physical burden and harm imposed on the participants" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 😧
I still can't get over how the biggest research fraud scandal of recent years, is about a researcher who studied lying, cheating and dishonesty journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... It's life imitating art or something. @datacolada.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I still can't get over how the biggest research fraud scandal of recent years, is about a researcher who studied lying, cheating and dishonesty journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... It's life imitating art or something. @datacolada.bsky.social
The potential risks of opening the mind's eye with psychedelic therapies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850037/ There is just the hint of Lovecraft about this
August 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The potential risks of opening the mind's eye with psychedelic therapies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850037/ There is just the hint of Lovecraft about this
Not using ChatGPT turns you green! www.facebook.com/thebrainmaze... 40k likes on this post which doesn't even link to the original research, btw.
August 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Not using ChatGPT turns you green! www.facebook.com/thebrainmaze... 40k likes on this post which doesn't even link to the original research, btw.
Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40831348/ Hmm, but people value face-to-face conversation over text chats. When you can video call ChatGPT as easily as you can chat with it now, *that*'s when therapists will be in real trouble.
August 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40831348/ Hmm, but people value face-to-face conversation over text chats. When you can video call ChatGPT as easily as you can chat with it now, *that*'s when therapists will be in real trouble.
Here's one for data sleuths. A paper was just retracted, due to anomalies in Fig 1 and 3. But I think Fig 2 is also wack www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... This survival plot shows 7 groups of mice. We see big differences between some groups, but very regular death rates within groups. Probably made up?
August 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Here's one for data sleuths. A paper was just retracted, due to anomalies in Fig 1 and 3. But I think Fig 2 is also wack www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... This survival plot shows 7 groups of mice. We see big differences between some groups, but very regular death rates within groups. Probably made up?
Most people are overconfident even in the face of extensive, objective performance feedback: "Overconfidence persists in tournament chess, a real-world information environment that should be inhospitable to it." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40808249/
August 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Most people are overconfident even in the face of extensive, objective performance feedback: "Overconfidence persists in tournament chess, a real-world information environment that should be inhospitable to it." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40808249/
A paper suggesting that "Electrical Testicular Shocks" can treat infertility has been retracted journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Here's my graphical abstract of this retraction note:❌⚡🏀
August 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A paper suggesting that "Electrical Testicular Shocks" can treat infertility has been retracted journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Here's my graphical abstract of this retraction note:❌⚡🏀
"Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition" arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00873 This is pretty remarkable. Who could ever have predicted that LLMs (or anyone) would do it like that?
July 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition" arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00873 This is pretty remarkable. Who could ever have predicted that LLMs (or anyone) would do it like that?
You've heard of vibe coding, how about vibe neuroscience? I asked ChatGPT for a "labelled image of the human brain showing the function of different regions".
It's "vibe accurate"!
It's "vibe accurate"!
July 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You've heard of vibe coding, how about vibe neuroscience? I asked ChatGPT for a "labelled image of the human brain showing the function of different regions".
It's "vibe accurate"!
It's "vibe accurate"!
Neuroscience is more romantic than you might think.
Did you know that the brain's thalamus is named after the Greek θάλαμος, which means 'inner chamber' with particular connotations of 'bridal chamber'?
Did you know that the brain's thalamus is named after the Greek θάλαμος, which means 'inner chamber' with particular connotations of 'bridal chamber'?
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Neuroscience is more romantic than you might think.
Did you know that the brain's thalamus is named after the Greek θάλαμος, which means 'inner chamber' with particular connotations of 'bridal chamber'?
Did you know that the brain's thalamus is named after the Greek θάλαμος, which means 'inner chamber' with particular connotations of 'bridal chamber'?
Here's a spicy preprint - "how U.S. Republican and Democrat users express distress" differently in online mental health communities arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20377
June 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Here's a spicy preprint - "how U.S. Republican and Democrat users express distress" differently in online mental health communities arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20377
I'm getting less and less comfortable with AI search results.
Search engines used to be tools for finding web pages: they connected people. Search was also great at answering questions, but that was a side effect. With AI results, you just get answers. The original purpose of connection is lost.
Search engines used to be tools for finding web pages: they connected people. Search was also great at answering questions, but that was a side effect. With AI results, you just get answers. The original purpose of connection is lost.
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm getting less and less comfortable with AI search results.
Search engines used to be tools for finding web pages: they connected people. Search was also great at answering questions, but that was a side effect. With AI results, you just get answers. The original purpose of connection is lost.
Search engines used to be tools for finding web pages: they connected people. Search was also great at answering questions, but that was a side effect. With AI results, you just get answers. The original purpose of connection is lost.
Contrary to some pessimistic views, Bayesian decision parameters *can* be recovered from behavioural data in many cases, this preprint says www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "We're so back" - Thomas Bayes
June 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Contrary to some pessimistic views, Bayesian decision parameters *can* be recovered from behavioural data in many cases, this preprint says www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "We're so back" - Thomas Bayes
You've heard of cognitive System 1 and System 2, but could AI become our "System 0"? arxiv.org/abs/2506.14376 The title's a bit hype, but it's an important idea.
June 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
You've heard of cognitive System 1 and System 2, but could AI become our "System 0"? arxiv.org/abs/2506.14376 The title's a bit hype, but it's an important idea.
On "honest yet unacceptable research practices" - HURPs pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Are HURPs the new QRPs?
June 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On "honest yet unacceptable research practices" - HURPs pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Are HURPs the new QRPs?