Biljana Gjoneska works as a researcher at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, exploring social psychology/neuroscience. She also writes songs, essays & short stories (in her native language), has won a couple of short story awards and has been included in several anthologies.

Teaser:

"The recurring Matrix revolutions bloomed into a renewed human evolution. Or so Neo thought at first.

But it all started with the red pill.

One hundred years after the red pill, Neo was popping pills of all kinds."

Thanks for this! Couldn't agree more! 😁

The author: @lauragschw.bsky.social is a PhD student in the @scanunit.bsky.social @univie.ac.at and investigates the underlying mechanisms of depressive symptoms using computational models, (gamified) behavioral tasks, and fMRI transdiagnostically.

Teaser: "Not much has happened at all lately, but then again, not much good has happened either. Is that why she feels so empty? She pushes aside the thought that the spark between her and Phillip may simply have gone out and starts applying mascara."

@sophiebarton.bsky.social is a PhD student in the Hecht Lab of @harvard.edu. She studies brain-behavior evolution in dogs and Russian domesticated foxes. In her free time, she enjoys doing activities with her dog, like trail running and scent detection.

Teaser: "The large, unfamiliar shape gives the young porpoise pause. It is only then that she hears the frantic clicks of her mother urging her to return to her side. The tiny vaquita produces a short series of clicks of her own to aid her mother in locating her."