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Hand clapping sounds don't directly come from the hands but from a Helmholtz resonance of expelled air 🤯 journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

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meet the scientists suing the Trump administration to reinstate terminated grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Most of us have probably tried it: You’ve delivered a solid performance. But you still hear a voice in the back of your mind whispering that you were just lucky. It is the impostor syndrome, and @sucharit.bsky.social talks about it here: uniavisen.dk/en/you-did-w... @smfleming.bsky.social

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"If the NSF budget were to be enacted as is, it “would spell the end of any pretence that the US leads the world in science and technology, handing that position to China”, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious disease research and international collaborations. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Coping with the passing of an academic supervisor www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Have you wondered what an artificial neural network really does (and how it might just be regression all the way down)? Well I have a new AJE Classroom paper on the basics of how neural networks work academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

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ACTION ALERT via SaveNSF🚨 The Committee on Science, Space & Technology Democratic Staff is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancellation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20 2025 please fill out this brief survey forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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#EduSky A must-read esp. if you use AI tools, are being made to "just try them" at school, or are having your students use them.

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"Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement...Reddit’s lawsuit makes it the first Big Tech company to legally challenge an AI model provider over its training data practices," techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/r...

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🚀 Turn your mental health research into real-world impact. 📲 We help researchers share evidence through social media, podcasts, videos, webinars and more. ⏰ Time for some #ElfHelp? www.nationalelfservice.net/disseminate-...

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Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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I'm looking for a new Lab Manager to join me, my amazing incoming PhD students @isabellafavalos.bsky.social and @maceygrisso.bsky.social, and our fantastic undergraduate RAs in the Emotional Lives Lab at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated! jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35754189

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"At 34 weeks after randomisation, the MBCT plus treatment as usual group had significantly lower levels of depression symptomatology than the treatment as usual alone group (adjusted between-group difference" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Scary stuff: "Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and science laboratory leaders are reeling after an announcement last week that the US government will revoke visas for Chinese students — and they are contacting lawyers." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

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This is still open for another week or so! Please apply :)

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Despite court orders, none of the 278 men sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador have returned to US soil. Gift article:

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So for foundation models in neuroscience: if training on large multimodal neural & behavioral data is the first component, what would serve as the reward signals for the RL component? www.mechanize.work/blog/how-to-... 🧠🤖

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What I take away from the recent #EACLIPT conference that I attended: substack.com/@mkvanvugt/p... substack.com/@mkvanvugt/p...

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Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"every time we accept unpaid external work, we reinforce a broken norm. We teach organizations that academic insight is free. We lower the bar for what counts as professional respect. " www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Can't make it to Amsterdam for CCN2025? Join a local meetup! Watch the livestream with colleagues at institutions worldwide. On our website we host a map with existing meetups near you & you can also register to host your own! 📍 View meetups & register: 2025.ccneuro.org/local-meetups/

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Not travelling to Amsterdam this August, but still want to catch up with the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social community? Host a local meetup! Simply book a nice room and invite your colleagues to watch together. So much more fun and interesting than watching a livestream alone in your office. See 👇

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Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.

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This is pretty incredible!

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🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

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“Palantir’s selection as a chief vendor for the project was driven by Elon Musk’s DOGE, according to government officials. At least 3 DOGE members formerly worked at Palantir, while 2 others had worked at companies funded by Peter Thiel, investor/founder of Palantir.” Is this “draining the swamp?”

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One follow-up on this: Part of my belief is that science (and scientists) must resist the urge to try and put everything on science's plate. I think we can understand meaning - through art. Let's not have science stray into those areas where it falls flat and art excels. 🧪

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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Excellent point by @jpeelle.bsky.social

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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That was it. Thanks @eaclipt.bsky.social Goodbye Frankfurt!

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Christoph Flueckiger showed how psychotherapy is actually quite effective and there are not too many differences between approaches

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Today I also got to give a talk about our work on mind-wandering and rumination with @mariejosevantol.bsky.social Hang Yang Marlijn Besten and many others (thanks to Yifan Huang for the picture)

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Great @eaclipt.bsky.social presentation by Claudi Bokting on how preventative cognitive therapy can prevent relapse, but also her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities of AI

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Wolfgang Lutz presents the Trier treatment navigator as another trans-theoretical approach, including the idea that many processes interact in treatment

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Afternoon discussion at @eaclipt.bsky.social about transtheoretical understanding of the therapeutic process such as here by Winfried Rief

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‘Scienticide’ in Argentina sparks huge protest by researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Cool work by Vicky Yotsidi at @eaclipt.bsky.social showing that secure attachment mediates the positive effect of self-compassion on reducing suicidality

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When research is done by AI instead of actual human scientists...

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Deadlines for PhD and Postdoc vacancies coming up: applications open until Monday June 2!

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Cool @eaclipt.bsky.social talk by Elayne Ahem showing there are different depression trajectories over time in the general population and these depend on demographics, sleep and cognition

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Interesting work by Catalina Nunez at @eaclipt.bsky.social arguing that concentration problems are a key factor in depression

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