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LBIS 2025 - London Brain and Intelligence Summit Explore consciousness, cognition, and intelligence, from altered states and psychedelics research to brain-inspired AI. Join leading thinkers in London for groundbreaking talks, discussions, and ideas...

August 23. The London Brain & Intelligence Summit dives into the neural code — consciousness, cognition, AI, and more. Hosted by @neureality.bsky.social

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Overwork and changes in brain structure: a pilot study - PubMed This study provides preliminary evidence that overwork is associated with structural brain changes, particularly in regions linked to cognition and emotion. These findings provide novel neurobiologica...

Long hours. Structural brain changes.
52+ hrs/week linked to growth in brain regions tied to stress, emotion, and control.

#overwork #mentalhealth #stress

Towards a personalized happiness approach to capturing change in satisfaction - Nature Human Behaviour Whether happiness is determined by your life circumstances or general outlook (or both) has long occupied psychologists and laypeople alike. The authors demonstrate that both circumstances and outlook...

New in Nature Human Behaviour: a 33-year study of 40k+ people finds no single model explains happiness.

Not just traits. Not just life conditions. Four distinct patterns emerged—including one with no clear driver.

Happiness is heterogenous. Design and policy must adapt.

#psychology #happiness

Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations Groups of AI agents can develop social conventions, generate societal bias, and undergo critical mass dynamics in norm adoption.

🤖 Language models are starting to act social.

New research in Science Advances shows that LLMs, when placed in groups, can spontaneously form shared norms—no central control needed. They even show bias and tipping-point shifts sparked by a small few.

#AI #LLM #AIethics

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality ...

🧬 First-ever personalized CRISPR therapy saves infant with rare genetic disorder.

KJ, born with a fatal CPS1 mutation, received CRISPR base-editing therapy designed just for him. After 3 rounds, he’s thriving.

#CRISPR #GeneTherapy #RareDisease #Biotech

Values in the wild: Discovering and analyzing values in real-world language model interactions An Anthropic research paper testing which values AI models express in the real world

Anthropic studied 700k real chats with Claude to see if its values hold up in the wild. Mostly aligned with “helpful, honest, harmless”—but some weird edge cases show up.

#AI #LLM #Claude #Tech

Authoritarianism and the brain: Structural MR correlates associated with polarized left- and right-wing ideology traits Authoritarian attitudes across the political spectrum foster radical behaviors, which adversely affect the social fabric. Both left-wing (LWA) and rig…

New research reveals brain differences in authoritarians!

Study shows right-wing authoritarians have reduced gray matter in perspective-taking regions, while left-wing authoritarians show thinning in emotional regulation areas.

#Neuroscience #BrainResearch​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What if you could see a color no human has ever seen?
Five people just did.
A new tech, the Oz Vision System, bypasses the limits of our eyes—activating photoreceptors in a way nature never could.
The result? A new color: “olo.”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Neuroscience #Vision

镜像神经元：十载污名再出发 过去三十年，镜像神经元的研究历程如同过山车般惊心动魄。镜像神经元这个标签是否真的“失去吸引力了”？

Mirror neurons: comeback time?
Once hailed, then doubted, now reexamined—30 years in, the mirror neuron saga is far from over.
Has the label lost its luster—or are we ready to see it in a new light? [This essay is in Chinese version only]

#Neuroscience #MirrorNeurons #CognitiveScience

Distinct adipose progenitor cells emerging with age drive active adipogenesis Starting at middle age, adults often suffer from visceral adiposity and associated adverse metabolic disorders. Lineage tracing in mice revealed that adipose progenitor cells (APCs) in visceral fat un...

Middle-aged belly fat?
Blame rogue stem cells.
Turns out, aging doesn’t just slow metabolism—it activates a new kind of fat-producing cell (CP-As), especially in the gut.
Your body is busy growing new fat, like it’s a startup.

#Science #Aging #Metabolism

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual consciou...

Consciousness showdown: draw.
A landmark Nature study tested two big theories—IIT vs GNWT—and found neither fully explains consciousness.
Brains are messy. Science just got cleaner: prereg, adversarial collab, big data.
The mystery lives on, but smarter.

#Consciousness #NeuroScience