To all employees at @unileiden, the university elections will be held next week! Once again, LAG (Leiden Academic Community) has formed a wonderful team of 13 candidates running for a seat on the university council. See our LinkedIn for more info: linkedin.com/company/103397…

Medewerkers van @unileiden, volgende week zijn de universitaire verkiezingen! LAG heeft weer een mooie lijst met 13 kandidaten voor de universiteitsraad Universiteitsraad Leiden . Zie onze LinkedIn voor meer info: linkedin.com/company/103397…

Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai, #11 on our candidate list for the Universiteitsraad Leiden elections 2024, wrote an excellent article with @clarekelly.bsky.social on the need of rethinking our priorities and goals in academia. We highly recommend all to read this & consider its implications for social & ecological sustainability

Towards a #donut #university ? 🍩 Neuroscientists Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai and @clarekelly.bsky.social argue that the mentality of constant growth that's still prevalent at universities, obstructs us in resolving complex societal problems such as the climate crisis 🌏 universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Fantastic piece by Marten Scheffer on the forgotten half of thinking:

'.. taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking ..'

pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

I MOVED TO THE US AND I STARTED MY POSTDOC! 🇺🇸✨
It's been six months since I moved to Boston, and I've been working with Eve Marder on the most exciting project I could have ever imagined: studying the impact of climate change on the nervous system!🌎🌡

New AXA call: 'Navigating misinformation and trust erosion in the digital age' for 2-year postdoc (PhD <5 years ago). Internal deadline for expressing interest: 3 April.

Want to study misinformation & climate in Leiden? Email Ili Ma universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmemb... for more info!

'If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell [scientists] they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they already know what they are going to discover.' - David Graeber

Still 3 days to save ScienceGuide ! We need bold, independent journalism in the Dutch academic space. We signed up to keep them going - will you?

How Competition for Funding Impacts Scientific Practice - 'Predictable, fashionable, short-sighted, and overpromising science.' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38349578/

New PI thinking about the best way to build an equitable, fair, and sustainable lab culture? Join us at the beautiful (albeit pixelated) Palazzone di Cortona in Tuscany for SAFE Labs: a meeting for new PIs to foster change in research culture. Details:

shorturl.at/uG046

Not all lapses are random errors! We show that lapses in decision-making can arise systematically and predictably from trial-history biases. 👀Check out our new paper about this 👀 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Zeer goed en belangrijk stuk van Niels Debonne over academische vrijheid. Niet alles wat (politiek) onwelgevallig of ongemakkelijk is, is ook activistisch.

Nieuwe inzichten zijn juist vaak ongemakkelijk voordat ze worden omarmt.

parool.nl/columns-opinie…

📣 There are still some spot left for our school “Learning and Plasticity in Neuronal Networks”!

Deadline to apply: January 28th, 2024

IBENS Université PSL Athena Akrami Boris Barbour (@[email protected]) Kishore Kuchibhotla Alexandre Mourot Laetitia Mony @[email protected] srdjan ostojic Rochefort_lab Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org), just opened applications! Come join us: 16-25th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2024

Incredibly proud of Anne Urai - @neuromatch.social/@anneurai, who is one of the Dutch nominees for the International Science Council frontiersplanetprize.org/the-challenge for our work!
Leiden University's endorsement of #DoughnutAcademia signals a shift in values & movement toward an academic enterprise that works better for people & the planet! 👏

We are launching another #climatechange megastudy in the united states led by the Danielle Goldwert Sara Constantino and Prof. Madalina Vlasceanu! You can submit any intervention you want to see tested against some really interesting DVs!

📢I'm hiring! Two postdoc jobs on how a #4dayweek changes mind, brain & body 🧑‍💼🧠🫀
1) MRI-focused
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/771a64ef-f…
2) Psychology-focused
jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/addc07ab-3…
Closing: 9 Feb
Do get in touch with any enquiries! 😀

Nominations for our Green Neuroscience and Credibility prizes are now open!

If you want to make a nomination, visit bna.org.uk/about/our-priz… by 31 January 2024

#GreenNeuroscience #CredibilityInNeuroscience

Ever notice how nearly every climate denial argument fall into just one of FIVE categories?

But here's the twist: they all share ONE goal - preventing action.

So don't be distracted: debunk briefly, then pivot immediately to positive, constructive solutions for a better world.