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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 6h

My two cents on that AI tool to format papers: I do not think anyone should be using AI to format anything but, most importantly, the website doesn't show who owns it or how it is done and it says "hehe we pwomise we won't store your dwata hehe". Do with that what you may 🧪

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 6h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · 14h

'Induction of plasticity and metaplasticity using noninvasive brain stimulation'

by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Ghazaleh Darmani, Kaviraja Udupa, Jean-François Nankoo, Mandy Yi Rong Ding & Robert Chen

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 17h

when people "show you who they are, believe them" -- M. Angelou www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 18h

I've been screaming this for years. Glad it's getting traction!

Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 18h

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function

The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s disease illustrates how this perspective might reframe traditional psychologically centered perspectives on neurological health.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 1d

I think that if most young people really knew how much non-science work a scientific career requires, most would not persue it. And I say that as someone with zero teaching and only grant and paper related admin.

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals

www.nature.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d

Tachykinin 1-expressing neurons in the lateral habenula signal negative reward prediction error https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.680558v1

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Flybyz1 @flybyz1.bsky.social · 2d

FYI…New York announced $10M in state funds for brain research. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo...

Governor Hochul Announces Launch of SUNY Brain Institute With $10 Million Investment to Fuel SUNY Excellence in Life-Saving Research

Governor Hochul announced a $10 million investment to launch the SUNY Brain Institute; a multi-campus initiative focused on expanding SUNY’s groundbreaking neuroscience research.

www.governor.ny.gov

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Debby Silver @debbysilver.bsky.social · 4d

I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 4d

The authors of a Comment article discuss how scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices. They outline recommendations for an approach to handle software better. #Academicsky 🧪

Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

go.nature.com

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Amy Gleichman @amygleichman.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled to share this work from my postdoc with Tom Carmichael, available online @ Neuron! Long story short: we find even more evidence that all reactive astrocytes are not equal, and we can take advantage of those differences to improve repair after stroke.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Regionally mapped astrocytic responses to cortical and white matter stroke show differential roles in astrocyte-induced vascular remodeling

Stroke is a major cause of disability. Astrocytes respond to stroke in a gradated manner, but details of that response and its consequences for tissue…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 4d

An idea of the PIs I've been reading for drafting a proposal.

Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting question! I know of a PI who got approval to resubmit only because they stressed the fact that 2 reviewers admitted they weren't experts in a specific topic. However, having read their reviews, I completely agreed with them over this PI. Things like that stay with you.

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 5d

Question for the hive mind: Is this less or more likely if reviews and rebuttal are public?

Rebuttals currently aim primarily to sway one person (the editor). But if they are increasingly context for readers to judge the merits of criticism (eLife-type process), will they differ?

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 5d

What I abhor is the swamp of text in rebuttal (pages and pages on nothing) that does not address my query, but goes endlessly around it, to go to why 'I didn't do this because I can't care less about checking, about making my science accurate as I possibly can' 3/n

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 5d

Question for the hive mind: Is this less or more likely if reviews and rebuttal are public?

Rebuttals currently aim primarily to sway one person (the editor). But if they are increasingly context for readers to judge the merits of criticism (eLife-type process), will they differ?

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 5d

What I abhor is the swamp of text in rebuttal (pages and pages on nothing) that does not address my query, but goes endlessly around it, to go to why 'I didn't do this because I can't care less about checking, about making my science accurate as I possibly can' 3/n

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these structures are breathtaking!

Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 6d

"...Yaghi’s research group has harvested water from the desert air of Arizona. During the night, their #MOF #material captured water vapour from the air. When dawn came and the sun heated the material, they were able to collect the water."
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

Metagraph: the new search engine that can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories

go.nature.com/48lM8Kh

‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

Scientists have used low-error genome-sequencing methods in normal tissues from large cohorts of individuals to scan for mutations that set the stage for cancer

go.nature.com/42vakWS

Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer

Scientists have used low-error genome-sequencing methods in normal tissues from large cohorts of individuals to scan for mutations that set the stage for cancer.

go.nature.com

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 7d

"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!"

- Jacob Hanna

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