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Detta är samma sak som när barn i orten idoliserar gängbrottslingar.

eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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Avslag på Cancerfonden igår men positivt utfall på ALF idag. Ömsom vin ömsom vatten som forskare

Applications for ERC Synergy Grants 2026: Facts and figures The ERC Synergy Grants 2026 call closed for applications on 5 November 2025. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals:

957 proposals were submitted in the latest round of ERC Synergy applications. They expect to fund 50 which means around 5% success rate. This is really not sustainable and a lot of people are likely avoiding doing this knowing how poor the chances are.
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Cover of book titled The Tree of Life: solving science's greatest puzzle.

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.

Available as book, on kindle and as audio.

I would be really grateful for reposts.

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Hittar inte en enda grusleverantör som har erbjudande på singel idag på singles-day.

Jag är inte arg, jag är besviken.

I'm participating in an "Open Science Exploratory Roundtable" in the Max Planck Society later this week, so bumping my grumpy thoughts about open science again. I'm as curious as everyone else to see what a club of competitive narcissists who succeeded under the status quo (the MPG) can manage!

Immunostaining for NeuN (white) and GFAP (green) of astrocytes and neurons co-cultured in vitro

For #FluorescenceFriday - one of my favorites from the archives of a neuron ⚪ and astrocyte 🟢 co-culture. Image credit to Stephanie Page and former research assistant Beth Pattie 🧠🔬🧪

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.

Our 2017 @nationalacademies.org report on “Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance" (www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/hum...) was designed to prevent exactly this kind of rogue science. One of the many reasons why we need industry-independent regulatory frameworks for emerging tech …

Är på ikea, inte ensam direkt. Sara tycker det är lite pinsamt att jag åker runt med en lastvagn som en sjökapten i självplocket

Fick ett rekommendationsbrev för ett pris igår som jag fick skissa på först. Det som han (min gamle professor) ändrade var bl.a. att det stod att jag inte bara var excellent utan även ödmjuk

Cover of this week's Nature showing a brain rendering Cover caption from the journal: Brain development: Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events that take place during brain development could reveal not only the mechanisms that give rise to this diversity but also shed light on how this process might go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In this week’s issue, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) builds on its previous work creating atlases of cell types in the adult mouse, non-human primate (NHP) and human brains to present cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse and NHP brains. Across a suite of papers, nine of which are published in Nature, the researchers uncover the complex programs through which cell types emerge during brain development in humans and animals, revealing both the shared and unique features of the human brain. The latest work, along with future research directions, is summed up in a Perspective article by Tomasz Nowakowski and colleagues

New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬

An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!

🧠 Immersive feature:
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

🧠 Perspective:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Clonidine prevents radiation-induced cell death in human brain organoids - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Clonidine prevents radiation-induced cell death in human brain organoids

New paper where we helped out www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jag har en doktorandtjänst ute (som jag dock redan har en intern kandidat för) och som jag inte vill sprida allt för mycket. Tråkigt att se så många dåliga ansökningar skrivna med AI.

A lot of creativity out there with powerful messages.

Om förmågan att ta hand om varandra Magnus Lind skriver om den viktiga omvårdnaden och stödet – oavsett om det handlar om ett sexårigt barn eller en 85-årig före detta kirurg.

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Det blir alltid livat!

Menar alltså barnens kusiner för det är dem man pratar om nu för tiden

Födelsedagsmiddag med hela familjen inklusive 9 kusiner som alla var friska!

Monster Chicken

Koreansk kyckling vid Skanstull

Hon låter mig inte åka.

Kul att se många kollegor få anslag från vetenskapsrådet idag! Själv behöver jag inte söka än.

😢

Hmm är det ångest, halsbränna eller förkylning? Eller bara livet efter 40.

The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.

Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.

#neuroskyence

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Frihetens fundamentalister Libertarianerna i USA drömmer om den absoluta friheten. Deras husgud är Elon Musk och Donald Trump är deras allierade. På en ö i Honduras samlas många av rörelsens yngre fantaster för att experimenter...

Töntigt www.svtplay.se/video/KRozgP...

ERC

För ERV ska man skicka in båda även om de eventuellt bara läser den korta A-delen.