Article in Nature about mass editorial resignations at journals:
nature.com/articles/d4158…
If you are a disgruntled cognitive science editor, reach out to me and Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT). We run Open Mind (direct.mit.edu/opmi). Free to publish, free to read.

Postdoc position to join my new group Oxford Psychiatry and Big Data Institute. UKRI funded 'CHECKPOINT: Finding immune & metabolic pathways to SMI' led by Ed Bullmore, direct supervision from Mary-Ellen Lynall collaborating with Andrew McIntosh . my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

It’s a story of how academia goes wrong. And how it self-corrects.

A must read for everyone:

2020 - A discovery of room-temperature superconductivity is published in Nature by Ranga Dias

2023 - The second RT superconductor is reported by Dias in Nature

2024 - The first paper…

I am so proud of this paper, as it reflects the immense efforts of so many people over the last decade to develop something that might seem boring (a way to organize data) but has been transformative for data sharing in neuroimaging.

What drives fMRI signals to go up or down? Beyond conventional “neurovascular coupling”, our latest work Nature Communications reveals critical factors in the striatum by controlling and measuring key cell types and circuits across scales, modalities, and species: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to see our GWAS meta-analysis of NMR metabolic biomarkers in 136,000 participants from 33 datasets out in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158… after years of work by many people, esp. Savita Karthikeyan Clare Oliver-Williams Elias Allara Prof M Ala-Korpela Johannes Kettunen & Minna Karjalainen

Genetic architecture of the structural connectome. Congratulations, Shreejoy Tripathy and Michael Wainberg Really amazing work!!
nature.com/articles/s4146…

In this new blog, I write about:
1. All that's wrong in academia—including bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, and precarious contracts.
2. How important it is *not* to become a cynic.
3. And my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.

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A month to go! Delighted to unbox this beauty, with thanks to Rich Shailer for the beautiful artwork (made with hand-cut card!) and the rest of the team at Transworld Books. Looking forward to sharing more leading up to its release on April 4th, but you can pre-order now!

📢 #PhD Job Alert 📢- Please RT 🙏

For my new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics I am recruiting 2 PhD students 🎓. If you are into layerfMRI at 9.4T, high-level cognition and machine learning, get in touch! Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience TübingenNeuroCampus Universität Tübingen
For more details: kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/729399/join-th…

Check out our Psychoneuroendocrinology article presenting a novel, multi-protein-derived measure of #inflammation in #depression !

Available open access 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Golam Khandaker Chloe Slaney Muzaffer Kaser MRC IEU University of Bristol BRistol Medical School (BRMS) Research Karolinska Institutet The Mental Elf

In 1992 @SciAM article, Carla Shatz summarized Hebb’s theory as “Neurons that fire together wire together”. Today, inspired by Carla's phrase, we bring you “Neurons that fire together shower together”. Why do we sleep? Why to we emit waves? Li-Feng Jiang-Xie attempted to answer…

📢Come join a really exciting project on cerebellar development!🧠

Brain-body health please: new research supports integrated physical and mental health care
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Athina Aruldass Athina Aruldass finds that management of serious neuropsychiatric disorders should target restoration of both brain and body function.

I've written about race, genetic ancestry, analyses of large biobanks, and human history

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I'll summarize the key points here 🧵:

🔥 Do immune pathways causally affect psychiatric conditions? 🔥 Could they be new treatment targets?

Check out our most extensive proteo-genomic study to date of 735 immune related proteins & 7 conditions (SCZ, BPD, MDD, ANX, ADHD, Autism, Alzheimers).

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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New multi-ancestry #depression #genetics paper from KarolineKuchenbäcker Xiangrui Meng and PGC Consortium MDD working group.
Analysis of African, South/East Asian + Hispanic groups with 53 new loci.
Limited transferrability of loci from Eur to other groups
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Out today in Nature Biotechnology! PhD students & postdocs: there's a trick – overlooked and underused – for having new ideas in the creative process. Talk science 1 on 1 with a science buddy that you trust and think of it as an improvisation. nature.com/articles/s4158……
Martin Lercher

✨ #ImmuneDictionary ✨is out today in nature!

Paper nature.com/articles/s4158…
Software immune-dictionary.org

We created scRNA-seq dictionary of 17+ immune cell types responding to 86 cytokines in vivo, discovered the immune system is far more complex than previously known 1/