Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
08.02.2026 12:47 — 👍 134 🔁 51 💬 6 📌 3
Les commerçants de centre-ville surestiment la part d’automobilistes dans leur clientèle.
👉 Décryptage dans notre graphorama : https://www.altereco.media/nOI
Info utile du jour en #psychiatrie: les 10 erreurs les + fréquentes quand on veut aider quelqu'un en dépression.
Et surtout: avec les alternatives qui aident réellement !
Un thread ⬇️
Post de BFM : "Des milliers de riches ne payeraient pas d'impôts en France"
Imagine, même BFM est obligé de dire que des milliers d'ultra-riches ne paient pas d'impôt sur le revenu, et en même temps le gouvernement essaie de faire passer en force un budget injuste qui ne prévoit rien pour mettre fin à ce scandale.
France, janvier 2026
Distinct roles of the human cuneiform and pedunculopontine nuclei in gait initiation and freezing of gait https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699281v1
14.01.2026 20:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Après 120 heures de silence, un journaliste iranien a réussi à nous transmettre le récit des derniers jours à Téhéran et dans le reste de l’Iran.
Cinq jours de ténèbres et de sang : «Partout où des manifestations se sont formées, les forces de sécurité ont tiré à balles réelles dans la foule.»
What is the status of DBS for epilepsy?
Find out in our new review/metaanalysis spearheaded by @laurenahart.bsky.social & Garance Meyer in JNNP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40666371/
A 🧵 — please RT for reach! 🙏
A Tribute to Mark Hallett, MD (1943-2025): A life that shaped how we understand movement and the brain. Jankovic and Deuschl describe in a moving tribute, published in Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, the life work and lasting impact of Mark Hallett. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
03.01.2026 12:34 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I really liked this paper - data supporting super interesting idea that Alzheimer's disease pathology may have evolved as part of an innate immune defense response to microbial infection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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La Constitution reconnaît le principe d'égalité devant l'impôt, faire croire que la taxe Zucman serait inconstitutionnelle c'est vraiment nous prendre pour des benêts.
Ce serait "confiscatoire" de prendre 2% quand la fortune des milliardaires augmente chaque année d'au moins 6% ? 🤔
Taxe Zucman : "Hors de question" de taxer les biens professionnels, réagit la ministre du budget (Capture d'écran du live PLF du Monde)
Bernard Arnault et Vincent Bolloré approuvent ce message d'Amélie de Montchalin !
Exclure les biens professionnels de la taxe Zucman, c'est la vider totalement de sa substance, car la fortune des milliardaires est composée essentiellement de ces biens professionnels.
"The group aims to amplify and extend the work that is already being done to push back against the co-optation of education by technology companies, and to bring the insights from a generation of critical tech research, advocacy and organizing to bear on this specific struggle."
25.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us”
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“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”
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Toxic truths are emerging. Do you know how everyday chemicals may be fueling the rise of Parkinson’s? A new important paper in Lancet Neurology just dropped. Toxicants are harmful substances in the environment that can damage cells and organs contributing to diseases such as Parkinson’s.
18.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroscience
Si les grandes entreprises avaient le même taux d’imposition que les PME, on pourrait récupérer 14 milliards € de recettes supplémentaires de l'impôt sur les sociétés.
Il est urgent de lutter contre les niches fiscales.
Notre note 👇
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Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.
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Introducing CellTransformer, a new AI tool developed with UCSF that makes it easier to explore massive neuroscience datasets and identify important subregions of the brain. 🧵
07.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link
07.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 967 🔁 318 💬 17 📌 16
La France accueille moins d’étrangers que le reste de l’Europe, relève l’Insee ➡️ bit.ly/3IZdWda
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🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others?
🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age.
nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00962-7
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** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **
Deadline: 2nd December
1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6
2. TUS and TMR in humans:
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Happy to chat to interested applicants.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
These datasets live on OpenNeuro. Shout out to @russpoldrack.org team's vision to build a data-sharing platform that accelerates discovering + maximizes the ROI of painstakingly collected data.
Access these datasets and more at: wbhi.ucsb.edu/researchers/...
Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Glad to share that my PhD's final paper is finally out in
@SpringerNature
Mindfulness.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
7 Tesla fMRI neurofeedback training enhances meditation training and real-world practice for beginners.
Summary (6 points) below~
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
