Pierre Mégevand
@vanmedge.bsky.social
Physician-scientist @ uni Geneva & hospital, Switzerland. Bridging the gap between neurons and neurology. #iEEG, #epilepsy, multisensory integration. Unique cornflake.
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Pierre Mégevand
@vanmedge.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Dear #eeg #neuroskyence #neurosky people: we've just set up a feed that focuses on intracranial EEG research.
Please check it out: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3iraqfrxtckpozvwlzbtihc/feed/aaabu2nq26lhy
Use the tags #iEEG, #ECoG, #sEEG or #stereo-EEG to post.
(this time with the correct link 😅)
Please check it out: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3iraqfrxtckpozvwlzbtihc/feed/aaabu2nq26lhy
Use the tags #iEEG, #ECoG, #sEEG or #stereo-EEG to post.
(this time with the correct link 😅)
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#eNeuro | Man et al. explored effort during listening in noisy environments, finding that pupil size was an effective measure of effort, and that visual perception reduced the amount of effort needed to comprehend speech. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0288-25.2025
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#eNeuro | Man et al. explored effort during listening in noisy environments, finding that pupil size was an effective measure of effort, and that visual perception reduced the amount of effort needed to comprehend speech. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0288-25.2025
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Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.
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My quote of the day
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My quote of the day
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
This would be hilarious if it were fictional.
One of Xin Yan's coauthors on a couple of those garbage papers was a Delia Wolf Christiani. In her later role as Prof. at Harvard (& Research Integrity Officer) she did not reply to questions about them, or how she felt about XY's legal threats against critics.
forbetterscience.com/2021/06/17/q...
forbetterscience.com/2021/06/17/q...
Qi-Gong Master’s Bigu Diet
“Without even drinking water, she sometimes gained 0.5 kg to 1 kg after a telephone conversation with Dr. Yan.”
forbetterscience.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This would be hilarious if it were fictional.
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Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...
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What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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"On peut pas aller en prison, on est pas des animaux".
C'est tellement lunaire que ça en devient comique. Les mecs ont tellement pas l'habitude d'avoir une quelconque conséquence à leurs actes que ça en devient incompréhensible.
C'est tellement lunaire que ça en devient comique. Les mecs ont tellement pas l'habitude d'avoir une quelconque conséquence à leurs actes que ça en devient incompréhensible.
Cette déclaration dit tout.
La bourgeoisie est impunie et se croit au-dessus des lois.
La prison est réservée aux "animaux" (le bas peuple et les personnes racisées).
Il y a un monde entre eux et nous.
La bourgeoisie est impunie et se croit au-dessus des lois.
La prison est réservée aux "animaux" (le bas peuple et les personnes racisées).
Il y a un monde entre eux et nous.
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"On peut pas aller en prison, on est pas des animaux".
C'est tellement lunaire que ça en devient comique. Les mecs ont tellement pas l'habitude d'avoir une quelconque conséquence à leurs actes que ça en devient incompréhensible.
C'est tellement lunaire que ça en devient comique. Les mecs ont tellement pas l'habitude d'avoir une quelconque conséquence à leurs actes que ça en devient incompréhensible.
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Sensorimotor Theta Oscillations Coordinate Speech Movements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681482v1
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sensorimotor Theta Oscillations Coordinate Speech Movements https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681482v1
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Happy "No Kings" Day!
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy "No Kings" Day!
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.
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Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
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A study of hundreds of thousands of infants in France did not find any increased risk of birth defects among those whose mothers received a Covid vaccine in the first trimester, building on previous evidence for the vaccines’ safety.
Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds
The results of a large study in France are consistent with previous research indicating that Covid vaccination is safe and effective in pregnancy.
nyti.ms
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A study of hundreds of thousands of infants in France did not find any increased risk of birth defects among those whose mothers received a Covid vaccine in the first trimester, building on previous evidence for the vaccines’ safety.
À l'interne d'obstétrique qui a tapé les réflexes de mon épouse avec la tranche de son natel : je t'ai vu. Je ne t'oublierai pas.
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
À l'interne d'obstétrique qui a tapé les réflexes de mon épouse avec la tranche de son natel : je t'ai vu. Je ne t'oublierai pas.
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Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736
With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!
#iEEG
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736
With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!
#iEEG
Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736
With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!
#iEEG
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736
With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!
#iEEG
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Evaluating the temporal order of motor and auditory systems in speech production using intracranial EEG https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41062786/
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Evaluating the temporal order of motor and auditory systems in speech production using intracranial EEG https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41062786/
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Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
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New Paper in Nature Communications!
We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence
Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence
Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Transfer learning via distributed brain recordings enables reliable speech decoding - Nature Communications
Speech brain-computer interfaces face challenges scaling across individuals with different brain organization. Using minimally invasive recordings from 25 patients, the authors developed transfer learning methods that enable robust speech decoding even with incomplete brain coverage.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New Paper in Nature Communications!
We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence
Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence
Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
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The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...