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Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

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3 science stories from the last week that you might have missed 🧪: 😖 Chronic stress inhibits brain circuits that promote flexible decision making while boosting circuits for inflexible habits 🏔️ Mountain ranges could be treasure trove of natural hydrogen 🧠 Gut microbiome linked to MS

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New #openaccess sleep research! "Path analysis showed cognitive fusion, lack of present moment awareness and experiential avoidance, mediated by pre-sleep cognitive and somatic arousal, explained 49% of the variance in sleep quality" doi.org/10.1111/papt... #olgatennisonautismresearchcentre

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Neurons spend as much energy on molecular turnover as on spiking! 🌟 Energy-saving strategies dictate molecule localization & count. #NeuroScienceRevolution PMID:39915472, Nat Commun 2025, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56640-0 🧪

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“Science education against the rise of fascist and authoritarian movements: towards the development of a pedagogy for democracy” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Averaging brain responses is not a great idea... #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do you need expert technical knowledge and policy insight on drones, spatial data, GIS humanitarian aid, and privacy protection? I can help with that. I'm seeking work outside of the United States, as well as fully remote positions. Open to consulting, part-time, and full time work.

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Listening to Beyond the Headlines and realizing how unprepared everyone is for LLMs... - Ahem, sorry "AI". You can't teach students to more "accurately prompt" them. You can't run a tool to identify AI generated writing. They're probability based! Grade A bullsh*tters. We are so screwed.

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New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Proud of my part in helping this happen as a Bluesky Elder. 🧪 🐡 #scicomm

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New from @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social: Meta is planning to cut 5% of staff based on performance In total, Meta plans to cut headcount by 10% by the end of the performance cycle. That means thousands of jobs globally.

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Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic cognitive process Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy go.nature.com/4jgZ5Id

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Please remember that alt text is ESPECIALLY critical on emergency information.

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One of the best to EVER do it.

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Personal update: I was just appointed Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal of Statistics by the new Editors-in-Chiefs, Alexandra Carpentier and Arnak Dalalyan. imstat.org/journals-and...

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Fascinating RNA-mediated changes in memory!

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Reasoning AI models require training on human reasoning. One of the real gaps in pushing forward these models is going to be the old problem of how to figure out how to get experts to explain what they do. AI keeps bumping up against our limited knowledge of how expertise works

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I’m usually very philosophical about getting blocked, but it does kinda bum me out I appear to be on some automated “block everyone who follows over X number of people” accounts-feels like it’d be pretty easy to tell who’s follow-hacking and who’s organically following over the course of 2 years.

submitted 55 days ago • 114 comments

1/ Dataset alert 📊 I've posted the bank-level data (share of state ownership and 🌍 share of foreign ownership) used in my recent paper published in the Journal of Banking & Finance: "Bank ownership around the world". Thanks to Thorsen Beck for being a great editor 🧵

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Corporate organizations are distributed systems! My new blog post somewhere between tautology, cause of course they are, and hot take. But I think I might have stumbled over a helpful framing to manage risk & velocity when shipping software in larger teams www.industrialempathy.com/posts/organi...

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Refreshing my syllabus on regional and international security dynamics of MENA. Looking for reccos on good articles, papers, think-tank projects, book chapters or books written in the past two years on: Russian in MENA; China in MENA; Iran's challenges; the Kurds; 1/2

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If you're interested in self-control, check out this interesting collection of short & up-to-date reviews. Most are available for free (some of my favorites are not, unfortunately). Various issues are addressed, incl. the self-control/habit relationship, effortless control, & cultural differences.

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It’s ok if today didn’t go quite the way you planned it. The sun rises and we try again. Image by: Wonder Doodles #DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealth #Hope

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A summary of a lot of late-nights and weekends work. Communicating science is so cool and, still, so underrated. It's a pity that we cannot make it (at least formally) part of our academic activities.

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This @natrevpsych.bsky.social paper on self-control by @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social is one of the papers that had the biggest impact on my thinking this year. Will's call for going beyond the individual level (e.g., willpower) & considering environmental/societal factors is critically important.

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NIH funded research made important breakthroughs in 2024. Another reminder of why sustained funding for science and research is so vital. Of note 3 NIH funded scientists were recognized with the nobel prize. 5 top health related research highlights here 👇🏾 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

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“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion." - Thomas Sowell

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Bluesky's added a ton of essential features over the last year. A few that I'd still like to see... Most importantly, the ability to take accounts private. A developer recently indicated it was possible. Very much hope they implement it asap. Critical if they're not banning folks like Singal.

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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

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Done!! #DonateToWikipedia

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#ElonMusk has urged his followers not to donate to Wikipedia, which he branded "Wokepedia," until "they restore balance to their editing authority." www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Damn. I don't have trending :/

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Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

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@why.bsky.team ngl I really love the Discover feed I know some people want less posts from following but for me it's an easy way to catch up on stuff from all the people I follow Show more is also helping me get lots of science content too looking forward to more official feeds or better models

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