Coming out. Alcohol dependence. Grief.
Subjects that affect so many, but which academia struggles to discuss.
Immensely proud of this podcast series for @nature.com 🧪
🎧 www.nature.com/collections/...
Or search "Working Scientist" wherever you get your pods
People expect 'greens' to be talking about climate - 'of course they'd say that, they're an environmentalist'
But when people who aren't the usual suspects talk about it, it turns it from a niche concern to a mainstream concern
'Everyday influencers' are vital for reaching social tipping points
the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.
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Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄♂️🏊♂️
Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
Am especially concerned when they seem to come from students that don't have English as their first language and who may genuinely not know how to approach professors to further their career.
23.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I've gotten a few of these now for applications to my lab. Atm I normally respond by saying 'please see the lab website for more info on joining', but I also feel like I should point out that this is not OK.
Have you found a good way to push back on these AI-generated emails without being impolite?
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com
Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠
Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...
It's odd that 20-something year old seem to need permission/encouragement to chat with each other before the lecture; some students ignore all comments and do not say anything during the whole class. Advice appreciated..
09.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trying to question the new norm of students staring at their laptops + me having to shout to get them to pay attention to me.
This worked wonders - will add to every new lecture
Geweldige column van Hieke Huistra.
www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/u...
HOPE, FOR ME, COMES FROM THE PAST’ BY ESSAYIST REBECCA SOLNIT ‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters? People tend to think hope is fluffy and frail, but it’s the force that has kept people going in the worst circumstances, the commitment to pursue the possibilities even when they seem remote. There are so many things hope is not: it is not optimism, which assumes that the future will be fine, and which requires nothing of us, any more than cynicism, despair, defeatism and doomerism do. It is not a prophesy of the future, since it arises in part from recognising that we make the future in the present and that it will be shaped by countless factors, visible and invisible, including our own participation. It is not an upbeat feeling or a feeling at all, since people in the worst circumstances have hoped that their efforts to free themselves might be met with success, that their bleakcondition might not be permanent or that their children might live to see a better time. second half of text with second post/photo
‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON
famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?
The Dutch Scientific Climate Council @klimaatraad.bsky.social @heleendeconinck.bsky.social published their report "Kiezen of verliezen" on NL industry this week. Its main take-aways:
📌 current #climate policy is not sufficient to reach climate targets
📌 it's impossible to "have it all" in a...
Eerlijkheid gebiedt te zeggen dat ik dit niet had verwacht. Wel heel blij mee. Alle bezuinigingen op het onderwijs worden teruggedraaid! #WOinActie
www.nu.nl/formatie/638...
8/ Daybreak is an excellent game for school pupils, students, honestly, all of us!
These co-operative games make compounding visible: they reward cooperation and foresight, and punish siloed or short-term thinking. Exactly the skills we need to defeat both the far right & the #ClimateCrisis
This evening (29 Jan) at 20:00 CET, I will host a @scientists4future.nl webinar by Jeroen Oomen, to discuss his new book Captured Futures - the drama of environmental politics.
Join us tonight scientists4future.nl/en/events (recording will be shared on YouTube after)!
If you want to create smart groups, you need to incentive contributions to the collective rather than mere individual success!
Far too often, we focus on individual incentives and ignore the power of collective incentives.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Love this! Do you have a library of STL files for those? I am not that good with autodesk...
27.01.2026 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So, I agreed to teach a group of 4-6 year olds something cool about the brain... in 10 minutes.
Any suggestions for a fail-proof activity?
I love these ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisp... but the cutting/pasting will be too hard for kindergarten I think.
Join us @scientistrebellion.nl @anne-urai.bsky.social for a webinar on Thursday, 20:00 CET! Jeroen Oomen will discuss environmental olitics, with his book Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics (written with @maartenhajer.bsky.social) as a starting point.
26.01.2026 17:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2I also start each lab meeting with a roundtable of how everyone is doing, and we try to go for lunch afterwards so that it's also a social activity
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safelabs.info also has nice suggestions for more zooming out topics once or twice a year
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I learned two types of JCs from Anne Churchland that I like:
- literature blitz: every shares 1 slide on a paper they liked and recently read. good for keeping track of literature
- in-depth JC: one paper, everyone/duos prepare each figure. makes discussion more collab instead of 1 person monologue
University of Groningen: ⭐ no more big-tech by 2030 ⭐ Google Workplace 🚫 Windows 🚫 MS Office 🚫 ChatGPT 🚫 A huge challenge! Meeting culture won't get us there. Dedication and focus will. 💪🚀 Let's get to work.
ukrant.nl/magazine/we-... @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #science
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Drop me an email! :)
06.01.2026 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pressures in academia driving apart goal of science and goal of individual, making it important to recommit to principles in order to make circles overlap and enhance intrinsic motivation to work in the benefit of science and society.
Academia wouldn't be as good a place without you
@eikofried.bsky.social, having friends like you is my antidote to cynicism creep. All go read Eiko's blog on what keeps him going despite problems in science. I am biased and privileged, but #openscience about it. eiko-fried.com/antidotes-to...
And tagging @annaveer.bsky.social too of course!
06.01.2026 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unfortunately, Nature Human Behavior could not liberate this piece from beyond their paywall. Here is a link to read the pdf. We hope that they will consider more flexible (green) OA arrangements in the future.
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Want to change research culture in your scientific community - to change open science practices, rigour, societal engagement, or inclusion?
As part of this ‘How To’ series, we describe how participatory workshops can be used to engage people and be a powerful way to start culture change.
