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those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least

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Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum . Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I do not, necessarily, agree with the sweeping title of this article. But the fundamental point stands, we have benefitted from US defense for decades and were woefully unprepared for this eventuality.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 10 days ago • 231 comments

Ukraine did not "go into this war“. They were attacked.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

"Beavers always know best" 🦫💪 Land right disputes were delaying construciton of dam to protect downstream nature. Beavers moved in and built the dam in a couple of nights saving the government £1 million. #Biodiversity #Conservation #Rewilding english.radio.cz/beavers-buil...

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico

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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 31 days ago • 4411 comments

This is a great article. AI is absolutely destroying students' ability to think and problem solve, and this is a huge issue in education.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

WRITER OF 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS': And then we end on wishing them a happy new year, and that's the song 😊 FIGGY PUDDING MARKETING DEPARTMENT: Great! Just one minor suggestion

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

Possibly my favourite thing about LLMs to date

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

BOOM! Re-upping our Pain Research Starter Pack since so many people have joined this glorious place in the past week. If you are not on the list and want to be added, let me know and I will add you... I have been doing my best to keep this updated. #painresearch go.bsky.app/KboKNhg

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

submitted 94 days ago • 51 comments

Just published from our group- a method that successfully thresholds the Thermal Grill Illusion. Lovely to have this out and seriously impressive work by everyone involved (especially Camila as lead on this)

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I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

submitted 101 days ago • 15 comments

During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.

submitted 110 days ago • 32 comments

Really seems that being a singularly worthless man is still a major advantage over being an exceptionally impressive woman.

submitted 110 days ago • 77 comments

Keir Starmer has talked a lot about choices. His Government has chosen to increase public transport fares. Keeping the £2 bus fare cap in England would cost £300m, according to the New Economics Foundation. The fuel duty freeze? £3bn. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

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What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

Is our sensitivity to pain influenced by signals coming from our blood vessels? This could explain why when we raise the arm on which a capsaicin patch is applied, the pain becomes much worse, a phenomenon we describe and probe in our latest paper doi.org/10.1002/ejp.... A 🧵

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

The research and publications we do as academics is largely unpaid. Now, it is being sold, with none of that money going to us, to train a system that makes our work as mentors of new scholars even harder. (Ok, a ranty thread)

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Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

submitted 259 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Citizens of the EU 🇪🇺 Vote. Vote vote vote vote. Just do it. One day, you might not be able to anymore. Sincerely, A Brit. 🇬🇧

submitted 263 days ago • 0 comments

For many of us that are concerned about voting for the Climate, but also pretty damn desperate to get the Tories out at the next UK General Election, Vote Climate is a very easy to use tool that can tell you exactly who you should vote for in your constituency. voteclimate.uk

submitted 272 days ago • 1 comment

Behind the paper: Why does cold sometimes feel warm? Using what we see to understand how we feel go.nature.com/3wzHGHx Our blog post, describing the importance of our recent publication in Communications Psychology is now live! @francescafardo.bsky.social & @micahgallen.com

submitted 277 days ago • 1 comment

Saw today's @xkcd.com comic, realized it worked equally well for us, too! #neuroskyence #neuroscience Original: xkcd.com/2933/

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This pre-print has now been published & is available online here: doi.org/10.1038/s442... Feels great to have my first publication in thermosensation & pain finalised and out 😁

submitted 305 days ago • 1 comment

Elated to bring you our lab's latest paper - led by the peerless @ninitronic.bsky.social - Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #psychology #interoception

submitted 313 days ago • 1 comment

A third (and perhaps final!) paper from my PhD has just been accepted for publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In this paper we found that smooth pursuit training (optokinetic stimulation) produces a directional bias in the proprioceptive signal from the eye-muscles 👀

submitted 318 days ago • 1 comment

Another pre-print from our lab! This time we show that thermosensory expecations alter our experience of pain during the Thermal Grill Illusion ❄️🔥 (perceived pain during simultaenous stimulation of innocous warm and cold) in n=273!

submitted 328 days ago • 1 comment

Our group has a new pre-print out! We developed, tested and validated a 2D psychophysical model that can be used to estimate temperatures that induce the thermal grill illusion - an illusory experience of heat/pain from innocuous cold and warm 🔥❄️ #neuro #neuroskyence 🧪🧠

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