Andrew Reid

Ironic that the party of Ronald Reagan would end up reconstituting the USSR in America.

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Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.

Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Understanding the increasing market share of the academic publisher “Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute” in the publication output of Central and Eastern European countries: a case study o... As the open access movement has gained widespread popularity in the scientific community, academic publishers have gradually adapted to the new environment. The pioneer open access journals have turne...

Hmm, what's the motivation for that, do you think? 🤔

This article suggests it is the fast turn-around time...?

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

So the question is: how do we establish prestige in not-for-profit publishing models?

The @elife.bsky.social model is imo the current best approach. There are less prestige-heavy versions like @plos.org and @peercommunityin.bsky.social as well.

This is the accepted currency of academia, and is still used (I believe) as the main criterion for hiring, funding, and promotion.

Removing prestige as a factor for academic success is unlikely (possibly also undesirable as it serves a function).

But the larger problem is perceived prestige.

Researchers want to know their work is being recognized and appreciated; and ultimately, that it is of a high enough quality to be accepted at a competitive journal.

"aims to avoid that by restricting submissions to authors funded by the Wellcome Trust"... restricting access to researchers with current funding is the problem.

There are better ways to vet submissions, like funding a full-time editorial staff and/or engaging voluntary handling editors.

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨

25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains

I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest

In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Evaluating the link between hearing loss and Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology: A systematic review and meta-analysis Hearing loss has been linked with cognitive decline and increased dementia risk. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying this relationship are not c…

🧠👂 Dr Avi Chandra’s latest research links hearing loss—especially central— to Alzheimer’s pathology including increased Aβ and tau burden.

❓ But what is the underpinning relationship between these factors?

Watch this space!🧬🧩

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Resilient cortical maps - Nature Neuroscience Despite the loss of neurons during aging and the early stages of neurodegenerative disease, many cortical brain functions remain remarkably intact. Although this resilience is traditionally attributed...

Homeostasis can keep population-level responses stable in the face of neural drift and "vanishing neurons"

Nice write up of a paper I'm looking forward to reading but that seems to add more wood to the "populations are more than the sum of their neurons" fire

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(More) Utterly gorgeous developmental neuroimaging from @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social and team. Congrats all!

Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨Funded PhD studentship co-supervised by me and @matthewwself.bsky.social. Using neuropixels, behaviour, viral tracing and optogenetics you’ll study how visual areas enhance target representations vs background to support goal-oriented actions.

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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

Are you a registered healthcare professional searching for a PhD position?

Using Zenbud #ultrasound #vagusnerve stimulation, the PhD position with me and Ben Marson is about 'Reducing pain reactivity for children in Emergency Departments'

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Dumpster labeled “EARTH BORING.”

alien graffiti can be pretty hurtful 😔

shitty situations inspire brilliant solutions

Seems we now have a fertile ground to develop some brilliant solutions.

the time of man is over

That's also fine, they will eventually peter out. Unless... they are publicized strongly to the general community and peddled to politicians who use them as support for their populist agendas.

Then this wait-and-see approach is problematic.

Absolutely. For science practiced in a vacuum, it's fine to wait for results to self-replicate. But many times, they don't replicate; either the same lab can't reproduce them or another lab cannot and moves on. These failures are mumbled about but aren't typically published: the file drawer problem.

Just saw him give a talk and what amazing research! 🦇🧠

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Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence

But these do not disqualify them as valid objects for the study of psychology 😄

These concepts may need to be creatively operationalized in order to be studied by psychologists. There are different angles from which to observe these phenomena, which are more or less helpful for "understanding ourselves".

I'm amused by the authority with which concepts that "play an important in human social activities" are declared to have "no role in psychology". Spirituality is a high-order mental phenomenon that is prevalent in humans, so it is obviously within the realm of psychology.

Our @pci-regreports.bsky.social recommended study is now out in Cortex! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Is this the U.S.? Because it has been illegal since the 80's.

siteman.wustl.edu/glossary/cdr...

With the current leadership of HHS, I would expect that to change in the near future, though...

Or do you mean, it is an estimate of its value loss over a fixed period? 🤔