Embattled Harvard honesty professor Francesca Gino accused of plagiarism science.org/content/articl… This is all a simple misunderstanding. She thought she was professor of dishonesty!

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Who would you say is the most under-rated historical neuroscientist or psychologist? (Historical = not alive)

Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 I have a playlist for songs with neuropsichiatric themes. Lots of neurotransmitters too if you are interested open.spotify.com/playlist/22Mga…

'A distinguishing feature of the brain is the shallowness of its architecture' - what if the brain is not deep after all? nature.com/articles/s4158… The neural puddle model.

Here's a partial compliation of all the music albums that have been titled 'Dopamine'.

Dopamine is the celebrity of neurotransmitters, but don't forget GABA and glutamate are doing most of the real work.

Is anyone familar with Stephen Grossberg's 'Adaptive Resonance Theory' of mind and consciousness? link.springer.com/article/10.375… It reminds me of Friston's model somewhat, but with key differences e.g. no prediction errors

This is fascinating - by looking at its internal activations, you can measure whether a language model 'believes' a certain statement is true arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734 Until they're smart enough to read papers like this and modify their own activations to fool us

Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 george davey smith Preprint here by Zoe Reed and others, exploring the problem of using genetic variants 'for' a behavioural exposure in MR analyses... medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

'Findings demonstrate a significant causal link between skipping breakfast and an increased risk of ADHD' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38566068/ Has Mendelian Randomization gone too far? Is this a valid application of the method Marcus Munafò 🤔

The rise of 'popcorn brain' forbes.com/sites/traversm… I don't relate to this - I'd be more likely to spend all day worrying about the cat.

I'd like to reassure everyone that I did not pay for a blue tick, it was assigned to me automatically. Is there any way to disable it?

The interview extracts in this paper give some vivid insights into how the academic sausage is made.

Questionable Research Practices as 'Academic Survival Strategies' link.springer.com/article/10.100… I've always said this. P-hacking doesn't just happen; it is a selfish but rational response to incentives

Kording —-& Lab 🦖 Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 We tried to summarize and reflect on some related aspects in our latest article in the Annual Reviews of Vision Science (in press). Also soon to come is a study assessing exactly your question w.r.t to scene context processing in primates (stay tuned 😊)

arxiv.org/abs/2312.05956

Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 Not yet. And we might need tools to actually make sense of it because of its complexity. To take a horse beaten to death: How many people in the world truly understand the mapping of a central processing unit nowadays? Almost no one, too complex. But some can, with help of tools.

Neuroscientists: suppose we magically gained access to a 100% accurate digital model of the human brain, allowing us to measure and manipulate whatever we want. Would we be able to understand how that model worked?

Are monkeys still a better model of the visual system of humans than neural networks?

Commitment, Cold War, and the battles of the self: Thomas Schelling on behavior control pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38557921/