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This is truly shameful. Even China and Iran abstained. The US has put itself in the company of some of the worst states in the world - Russia, Belarus, North Korea. Hungary showing its true colours as Russia's Trojan horse in the EU as well.

submitted 16 days ago • 68 comments

OMG, Frank Bidart:

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 30 days ago • 406 comments

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

submitted 123 days ago • 56 comments

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

submitted 53 days ago • 112 comments

Every time I talk to a layperson about Jonathan Haidt: "what a great thinker, amazing research!" Every time I talk to a scientist: "this is all gibberish, he gets everything wrong"

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a horse that solves crimes

submitted 117 days ago • 69 comments

Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Absoluter Wucher! Halber #Psychotherapie-Kassensitz für 120.000€. Zumal sehr viele, die jetzt verkaufen, nach dem PsychThG 1999 ohne Kosten einen Sitz erhalten haben...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits across phyla (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

When social media sites tell you moderation has limits I want you to know there was a time when you could only find the worst people on obscure forums created for being offensive because everywhere else moderated them into those corners.

submitted 89 days ago • 120 comments

I've written about what dying typically looks like - not as a 'pro' or 'anti' AD piece, but in the spirit of confronting a taboo. We've lost the easy familiarity with the patterns of dying that existed when death typically occurred in people’s own homes. Let's talk about it 🙏 @newstatesman.com

submitted 99 days ago • 62 comments

Bluesky has made it. I can once again explain very online things to my not very online wife and have her stare at me, bewildered. We’re back baby!!!!

submitted 106 days ago • 253 comments

Hier ein Pre-Print zu den ersten Outcome-Ergebnissen der DPG-Praxisstudie. Es ist ein erster Entwurf. Wir freuen uns über konstruktives Feedback. osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

Somebody’s definitely going to hell here, and for once it’s definitely not me.

submitted 110 days ago • 5 comments

We were actually "unknown" for it, but for years @neuroshea.bsky.social and I ran the bsdneuro account, which now rests in a grave befitting Bob (and his cortex).

submitted 117 days ago • 29 comments

Immer wieder lese ich von einer Zweijahressperre nach Abschluss einer Psychotherapie, bevor eine neue bewilligt werden kann. Aber gibt es die eigentlich wirklich? #Therapiewissen Die kurze Antwort ist, es geht trotzdem, ist nur mehr Arbeit für die Beantragenden, die lange findet ihr im Thread. ⤵️

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Our #OpenScope collaboration with the @alleninstitute.bsky.social is now up in J Neurosci! #neuroskyence #brains tl;dr: the responses to violations of a pattern in sequences of images evolve differently in apical dendrites and somata of V1 pyramidal neurons: www.jneurosci.org/content/44/5...

submitted 406 days ago • 1 comment

You saw the headline, now look at what happened when scientists actually evaluate the headline

submitted 409 days ago • 39 comments

Interesting! A bordering-on-mainstream hobby that is a development of murder mysteries, combining deeper elements of larping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dl...

submitted 410 days ago • 1 comment

1/6: Published today in Clinical Psychology Review… We examined validity reporting practices for the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) across 1461 studies, which revealed serious concerns about the validity of test scores in this voluminous literature. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 420 days ago • 5 comments

A very interesting first-person account of living with schizophrenia by philosopher Michael Dickson: doi.org/10.1093/schb...

submitted 421 days ago • 6 comments

Nice study on the long-term outcomes of chronically depressed patients after cognitive-behavioral analysis (CBASP) or supportive therapy. The researchers found that only 16% of patients achieved stable long-term remission, another 37% had mild residual symptoms.

submitted 432 days ago • 1 comment

Für die @tazgezwitscher.bsky.social durfte ich einen großen Essay schreiben. Ein Rückblick auf dieses Jahr, das für mich ein besonderes war. Das jedoch auch deutlich gemacht hat, wie sehr diese Gesellschaft nach rechts gerutscht ist und was das für 2024 bedeutet. taz.de/Schweigen-ue...

submitted 438 days ago • 14 comments

Ist Wasser nass? orf.at/stories/3344...

submitted 439 days ago • 1 comment

What are your top 4 favorite illustrations from this year?

submitted 444 days ago • 3 comments

Our meta-analysis (Cristina de la Malla & Aster Joostens) of 36 studies suggests that the contrast sensitivity deficit in schizophrenia is due to medication (osf.io/preprints/ps...)

submitted 447 days ago • 1 comment

This is wild. Polish rail equipment manufacturer effectively making their equipment pretend to be broken when it goes in for its maintenance window. Hackers working for the vendor running the repair concession figured it out.

submitted 460 days ago • 5 comments

Impactful quote from Kahneman in NYT Gino vs Bloggers article. In "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (2011) he wrote: "When I describe priming studies to audiences, the reaction is often disbelief. [...] The idea you should focus on, however, is that disbelief is not an option." Now it's the default.

submitted 527 days ago • 3 comments

For every like I will make the researcher more tired

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Endlich ist es soweit - das neue Alterswissensvideo ist da! Diesmal in 2 Teilen - es geht um ein wichtiges Thema - psychische Gesundheit und Psychotherapie im Alter! Teil 1 ist hier zu finden: t.co/CzRwhmO3gb Und der 2. Hier t.co/RyB2agtZV0

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This absolutely beautiful blog post describes the author receiving an “alien in a can” at age 8 and was told to never open it lest the alien dies. He compares his experimentations to efforts in psych science to draw inferences about psych states. www.davis-stober.com/post/alien-i...

submitted 487 days ago • 4 comments

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

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Further evidence that universal school-based mindfulness lessons are not effective for improving adolescents' mental health (in this case anhedonia and emotional distress) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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