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Antoine Coutrot

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CNRS researcher. Cognitive science, Alzheimer's Disease, eye-tracking, spatial navigation, citizen science. webpage: https://perso.liris.cnrs.fr/acoutrot/

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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · Dec 9

⚠️ New preprint !
« Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries »
Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished.  How comes? 
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Older women participating to a race at the Senior Games 2023.

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 2d

L'immigration, une chance pour la recherche scientifique.

Sur les 202 lauréat(e)s du prix Nobel de physique, de chimie ou de médecine au cours de ce siècle, ~30 % sont nés à l'étranger.

Chacun(e) apporte des idées originales, des techniques nouvelles & des approches différentes des problèmes.

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L'infographie montre les pays d'origine et les pays de résidence au moment du Prix Nobel des 63 lauréats des Prix Nobel de physique, chimie et médecine depuis l'an 2000.

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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · 3d

Un rapport "Education et croissance" écrit par notre nouveau Nobel d'économie en 2004.
Promoteur de la LRU, de l'Université payante et de la suppression du CNRS, le tout en préconisant de faire ces réformes discrètement, "sans donner l’impression de remettre en cause ses fondements". 🤦

Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · Aug 1

[#VeilleESR #Archive] Éducation et croissance, par
Philippe Aghion et Élie Cohen

Un rapport de 2004 qui permet de mieux comprendre les 15 dernières années.

(Dernière sucrerie avec les vacances)

Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · 7d

First time as an editor: the first two reviewers I invited on a manuscript agreed immediately. Normally I need to invite 10+ reviewers for two to accept, and it takes ages. Thanks to them!

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Klaus Gramann @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social · 7d

🧠 New Mobile Brain/Body Imaging study on spatial navigation out!

This was a very inspiring and productive collaboration with @clementnaveilhan.bsky.social and @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social.

Journal of Neuroscience 26 September 2025, e1005252025; lnkd.in/dJmK7_Ns

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Vlada Segen @vladasegen.bsky.social · Sep 15

🚨 Final reminder — iSCAN abstracts due TODAY🚨
Make sure to submit your abstract for a poster or data-blitz talk for #iSCAN2025! We have put together an exciting, interdisciplinary lineup of talks spanning basic neuroscience, clinical research, and methods.

Submit here: shorturl.at/y12tE

Abstract Submission

Wissenschaftliche Events zu neurodegenerativen Erkrankungen

shorturl.at

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Aug 31

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism

1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes
2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes
3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences
4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula
5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields

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CNRS Sciences informatiques @cnrsinformatics.bsky.social · Jul 30

#TalentsCNRS 🥉 | Félicitations à @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social, chargé de recherche @CNRS au LIRIS, récompensé par la médaille de bronze du CNRS pour ses recherches sur la navigation spatiale comme marqueur du déclin cognitif.
➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
🤝 @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

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Seb Walsh @sebwalsh.bsky.social · Jul 28

What evidence do we have on the Social Determinants of Dementia (SDOD)?

Delighted that this scoping review, a year or so in the making, is now published in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social. Expertly led by Anouk Geraets, we identified...

doi.org/10.1002/alz....

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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · Jul 1

13 desk rejections is insane! Thank god (and CSHL) for preprints.
Anyway, congratulations, this really is a nice paper.
(small typo in caption of Fig. 2: 1927 <-- 1957)

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · Jun 30

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

New personal record of desk rejects 🥳

I am taking a note of journals that take over a month for the desk 📖

It is also a unusual situation where pretty much everything has been already reviewed at eLife on our Neuro paper (click for open reviews), now the sample size is just substantially larger.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jun 26

Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Computer-vision research is hiding its role in creating ‘Big Brother’ technologies

Technologies that can interpret imagery have many potential applications. An innovative study of papers and patents in the field suggests one use case that overrides the others: human surveillance.

www.nature.com

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jun 22

www.science.org/content/arti...

Culture literally changes how we see the world

Where city dwellers see rectangles, people who live in round huts see circles

www.science.org

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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · Jun 19

Les élections au CoNRS sont ouvertes ! Je me présente en section 3 (ex section 7), avec le soutien des associations et sociétés savantes GRETSI, club EEA et SPECIF-Campus. N'oubliez pas de voter !!

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GLITCHERS @glitchers.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you think the future of cognitive health is doing the same old stuff… scroll on. 💤

We’re building a lab in your pocket - powered by games, built with science - shoutout to our amazing partners @hugospiers.bsky.social, @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social + crew!

🧠🎮 GO ON PUT A LAB IN YOUR POCKET:

PUT A LAB IN YOUR POCKET — GLITCHERS - Games for Good

When we launched Sea Hero Quest , scientists had no idea what healthy navigation performance looked like. It was so important to understand, because it’s one of the first things to decline in Alzhei...

www.glitchers.com

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · May 31

Chapter in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

with @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social

We explain the history and current directions of Citizen Science in the cognitive sciences:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · May 29

New #OECS entry on Citizen Science by @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social and @hugospiers.bsky.social oecs.mit.edu/pub/5cdl3f1m...

Citizen Science

oecs.mit.edu

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · May 27

New article out from me and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social

Simple entitled:

'Citizen Science'

In the Open Encyclopedia for Cognitive Science:

oecs.mit.edu/pub/5cdl3f1m...

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · May 23

Psychological impact of biomarker-assisted diagnosis of #Alzheimers disease journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#dementia #mentalhealth #neurology #psychology

Figure 1.

QOL-AD scores. Average scores of quality of life as measured by the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease instrument, with possible scores ranging from 13 to 52. Error bars represent standard deviation. Caregivers scores represent the caregiver's estimation of the patient's quality of life. * Statistically significant difference between these two groups.

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · May 19

#CoNRS #CNRS #ESR

La liste des candidat.e.s par section est maintenant disponible

Vote du 19 au 26 juin 2025

www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/elections/sc...

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Laurel Raffington @laraffington.bsky.social · May 16

Lower socioeconomic status and marginalized race/ethnicity is associated with more accelerated and faster biological aging as measured by epigenetic clocks and there was NO evidence of publication bias - a rare finding for biomarkers 🤯 Meta-analytic dataset will be released soon! 🔖

ywillems.bsky.social @ywillems.bsky.social · May 16

🏡🧬 Our new meta-analysis of 140 studies including ~66,000 people finds that lower socioeconomic status and marginalized race/ethnicity is associated with faster epigenetic biological aging. Find out which epigenetic clocks show the strongest effects 👇
tinyurl.com/metaclocks

Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: Meta-analysis of 140 studies

Social determinants of health are social factors that affect health and survival. Two of the most powerful social determinants are socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity; people with lower SES ...

tinyurl.com

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Steven Heine @stevenheine.bsky.social · Mar 14

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · May 5

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.

When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

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Scilabus @scilabus.bsky.social · May 1

Je n'ai pas accès à l'article mais j'aime ce petit chapô bien écrit. "When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how science has always been fuelled by politics"
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Does science have a future in the US?

When politics and science align, it is easy to think science is apolitical. But the situation in the US today shows how science has always been fuelled by politics, says Annalee Newitz

www.newscientist.com

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · Apr 15

Here's an explainer because this is a good post and I want to explain it 🧵

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