Nicolas Clairis

Je crois qu'Age of Empire a déjà répondu à la question en participant à l'éducation à l'histoire de toute une génération à travers le monde!

thanks! Done already! Looking forward!

YouTube video by WIRED Events How video games can help with medical research with Hugo Spiers | WIRED Health

Just discovered (a bit late I admit) this fascinating talk from @hugospiers.bsky.social Now I really want to play that SeaHeroQuest game! Hope it gets available again soon!

New paper from the lab on the predictive role of prefrontal cortex metabolites in motivated effortful behavior in humans. Congrats to Arthur Barakat and @nclairis.bsky.social who led the work & to all our collaborators!

This further hilights the role of the dmPFC/dACC in the motivation to engage with effortful tasks as well as the importance of metabolic components in motivation. A big thanks to @carmensandi10.bsky.social for her supervision in this project and to all collaborators for making it possible! 2/2

Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Neurometabolic predictors of mental effort in the frontal cortex

Arthur's main & final PhD paper is finally out! In it, we show that a few metabolites (mainly glutamate, aspartate and lactate) measured at baseline with 1H-MRS in the dmPFC/dACC allow to predict inter-individual differences in the motivation to engage with cognitively effortful tasks! 1/2

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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"Springer Nature’s group revenue has risen by 6% to €926m (£800m) in the first half of 2025, while adjusted operating profit (AOP) was up by 10% to €241m (£208m)." they could at least say thanks to all of us researchers who made that waste of public money possible 🥲

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

Not a good development

Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited

New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data.

Guardian @theguardian.com coverage:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Paper:
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky

A full list of the journals by Discover, the vast majority of which mimic MDPI titles.

"Discover" currently has 66 journals:

25 have *identical* names to #MDPI journals, 11 are one letter off (Food vs Foods), and 22 more are clear mimics (Chemical Engineering vs. ChemEngineering).

From 2020-2024, #SpringerDiscover opened 61 new journals and grew its output by 🎊 8077% 🎊

Gross! 🤮 3/n

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Totally agreed. Public funding bodies should clearly consider that @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @inserm.fr maybe some interesting ideas to save money for the future #academia #ScientificPublishing

The strain on scientific publishing Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals.

The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky.

This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy.

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tough times for fMRI... The main world providers being US, Russia, Algeria and Qatar

Does ChatGPT store chat logs, even after you've deleted them?

Short answer: Yes.

en même temps il y a de plus en plus d'initiatives indépendantes des US (deepseek en Chine, Lumo développé par Proton en Suisse, Mistral en France, etc etc) donc ça peut aussi servir de boost aux productions non-américaines. Reste à voir ce que chatgpt va devenir

Convention pour le climat : seules 10 % des propositions ont été reprises par le gouvernement Que sont devenues les 149 propositions de la Convention citoyenne, alors que la loi Climat est en cours d’examen à l’Assemblée ? Reporterre a enquêté sur chaque réponse du gouvernement. Résultat : seu...

surtout sur l'écologie reporterre.net/Convention-p...

Interesting system: "Icebox." A way to publish findings and why they've stopped. Maybe the project's completed. Maybe it hit a roadblock, or became underwhelming.

One concern (that could be addressed)...

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Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

@phylogenetrips.bsky.social

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

The quality of evidence in psychology publications has improved substantially over the last two decades, across all subareas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Behavioral, computational and self-reported measures of reward and punishment sensitivity as predictors of mental health characteristics - Nature Mental Health Reinforcement learning task-based behavioral and computational measures displayed low test–retest reliability at the individual level. Also in contrast to self-assessed personality measures, behaviora...

nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00427-1
a challenging paper for computational psychiatry by @stepalminteri.bsky.social @mael-lebreton.bsky.social, but it's luckily not just a black/white picture with possibly state being better captured by behavioral tasks vs trait by self-reported questionnaires

"In the US, the average age at which a scientist becomes “independent” has increased from about 35 in 1980 to 44 in 2020. That’s almost 10 fewer years in which they are most actively and vigorously pursuing their own ideas, and 10 more spent in service to the ideas of the previous generation."

Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model The appropriate form of the drift diffusion model depends on how one wishes to reason about their target with the model. If the goal is to parsimoniously explain the speed-accuracy tradeoff, the appr...

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The million dollar question

And the answer, naturally, is:

1. Cloud providers (offering GPU compute at scale)

2. GPU manufacturers

Because LLMs need a TON of GPU compute!

Public Access > Open Access