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@agustation.bsky.social

Postdoc researcher in nutritional neuroscience @ Nutrilab, KI (Stockholm, Sweden) Interested in what makes us eat what we eat he/him

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Sasha Gusev
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

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@agustation.bsky.social

If you work in chemosensory sciences, even tangentially, I definitely recommend joining this amazing group of people. I felt at home the moment I arrived, even though I wasn't joined by the rest of the lab. Everyone was so kind and welcoming, and the work presented was of the highest calibre.

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Andrew Heiss
@andrew.heiss.phd

Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databs

andrewheiss.comOpen files in external programs with Positron or Visual Studio Code | Andrew HeissPositron is great for code, but macOS has better programs specifically for writing with Markdown. Quickly open a Quarto file in an external program with tasks.

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Avram Holmes
@avramholmes.bsky.social

Replying to @pessoabrain.bsky.social

Two programs of research diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both... 1) Work that incrementally advances human knowledge 2) The replication crisis

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Brian Nosek
@briannosek.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.

Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social

🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)

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Brian Nosek
@briannosek.bsky.social

Ericsson & Simon (1980) takes the middle cell psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-... Now, your nominations for minimal citation impact but moderate actual impact? A contribution that altered policy or practice... A paper that extinguished an active area of research... An uncredited gem...

Paweł Lenartowicz@freestylerscientist.pl

Ericsson & Simon (1980) Verbal reports as data. 8671 citations, and its impact and 'citation coverage' could be higher.

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hakwan lau
@hakwan.bsky.social

detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~ osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈

osf.ioOSF

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Joe Hanson
@drjoehanson.bsky.social

Replying to @drjoehanson.bsky.social

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

jamanetwork.comAcetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual DisabilityThis nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

too many people only ask one question when they see the impact of disinformation (how do we stop this disinformation) when you should really ask a second (how do we stop the sentiment that made these people seek out disinformation and accept it uncritically)

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@agustation.bsky.social

Ever thought that food tastes bland when you have a cold? In this piece, I explain how that happens as I summarise my latest article on the neural encoding of odours in the canonical taste cortex! theconversation.com/smell-trigge...

theconversation.comSmell triggers the same brain response as taste does – even if you haven’t eaten anythingOur latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
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@agustation.bsky.social

This implies that the insula encodes a property that doesn't change throughout the session, such as identity. Meanwhile, the convergence in the OFC suggests that it likely encodes something that dynamically changes throughout the session, e.g. subjective value. 9/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

Our findings highlight the insula's crucial role in flavour integration, explaining why smells are so vital to our perception of taste. So next time you enjoy a meal, appreciate the complex interplay happening in your brain! 🧠🍽️ #Neuroskyence #FlavourPerception 10/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

In fact, we developed a method to examine runwise representational drift of flavours in the insula, and we saw a slight divergence between similar and different flavours in the insula over the course of a session, but we could see the opposite effect in the OFC. 8/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

This integration isn't just anywhere in the insula. We pinpointed it to specific subregions – the dysgranular and agranular anterior insula. Meanwhile, only tastes could be decoded from the activation patterns in the granular subregion. 5/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

Why does this matter? Imagine reducing sugar or salt in foods without sacrificing flavour! If certain aromas can trick your brain into perceiving sweetness or savouriness, we could design healthier foods that still taste great. #HealthInnovation 6/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

What was most interesting, however was that a decoder trained on the tastes and tested on the odours (and vice versa) also performed significantly above chance. This showed that that retronasal odours (aromas) elicit similar activations to their associated tastes in the insula. 4/10

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@agustation.bsky.social

Good read on the need for us to integrate fMRI research with other fields of neuroscience. Now to look at how I can do it in my own work... 🤔

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Until recently, in-vivo brain imaging has largely been absent from… integrative efforts, limiting the opportunities to contribute our discoveries, theories or vision toward a comprehensive view of brain function, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

thetransmitter.orgfMRI must break out of its siloWe need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

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Juleen R. Zierath
@juleenrzierath.bsky.social

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research | Nature Metabolism Great collaboration led by Satchin Panda and team! Happy to contribute. Time to take timing into consideration!! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

nature.comThe time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature MetabolismThis broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

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Kit Yates
@kityates.bsky.social

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comElon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit YatesIt is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Khoa
@khoavuumn.bsky.social

Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

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Elio Balestrieri
@eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social

Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩 To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out: doi.org/10.1162/imag... Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶

doi.orgBeyond oscillations - Toward a richer characterization of brain statesAbstract. Our moment-to-moment conscious experience is paced by transitions between states, each one corresponding to a change in the electromagnetic brain activity. One consolidated analytical choice...
Elio Balestrieri@eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social

Excited to share the first preprint of my postdoc! We explored a novel features space to describe M-EEG timeseries. These features are highly informative in differentiating brain states, even more than canonical features like power in predefined frequency bands! :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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noam
@noamchompers.bsky.social

[deep sigh] ourobor-ass

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

A snake eating its tail doesn't capture the stupidity of current times. What's going on now is more like a snake sticking its head up its own ass.

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Ted McCormick
@tedmccormick.bsky.social

Pretty much agree with this

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social

The only way "clear scientific consensus" would show that AI is more effective than human teachers is if we define education down to what the AI can deliver, a condition which we've been approaching for years prior to the arrival of ChatGPT. We should use the occasion to re-examine our values.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪
@altnih4science.bsky.social

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social

NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow. This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.

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Ben Hayden
@benhayden.bsky.social

Pretty soon its going to be easier to keep a list of the brain areas that don't encode a cognitive map. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

nature.comThe medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex jointly represent the cognitive map of task space - Communications BiologyUsing multivariate fMRI analysis, this study reveals how medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC and lOFC) construct cognitive maps of abstract task space, advancing understanding of decision-ma...

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Sarah B
@flythehighlife.bsky.social

In my imagination, Marina Hyde’s composition process involves her striding around her living room, on her second wine, recording acerbic monologues articulating her utter disdain as voice memos

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app

queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Asifa Majid
@asifamajid.bsky.social

Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

thebritishacademy.ac.ukInternational Fellowships 2025The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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@agustation.bsky.social

Worth a read!

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.