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Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).

the preprint was published two years before. DMCA would not make sense as the paper was published in Feb 2025. But the paper was not taken down...

The replication crisis wasn’t an accident or an isolated failure. It was the visible symptom of a system that rewards novelty over reliability and significance over approaching truth. Replication exposes the cracks, but the causes lie deeper—in the structure of scientific 🧪 practice itself.
#SciComm

Can you really learn anything about the effect of aging on motor control that we don't know yet with N=8 per age group?

Sigh...

Oh wait...

"rigorous and reliable quantitative benchmarks" 🙄

If the field did an order of magnitude fewer studies total, and instead pooled resources to do more of these, knowledge production would dramatically accelerate.

We learn more from this one paper than from 50 one-offs examining the predictive validity of implicit measures.

An Evaluation of Representational Similarity Analysis for Model Selection and Assessment in Computational Neuroscience An important goal in neuroscience is to determine what types of information are represented across brain regions. Often, a computational model is used to extract stimulus features that are hypothesize...

weird because the paper is here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Cool looking study 😎🧪

A model of the cerebellum generates gait adaptations in a reflex-based neuromusculoskeletal model during split-belt walking

Evidence for corollary discharge projections sent out from motor nuclei in primates! A rare find. The pathway targets cerebellar areas, likely for horizontal eye movement control. Great work @bohlen.bsky.social and Paul May and colleagues!

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

"Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe"

That's the title of this popular YouTuber's latest video, which has had more than 250,000 views in 24 hours. What do you think?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=--83...

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

For the oculomotor nerds out there… we’re excited to share our paired papers on precerebellar circuitry!
These two studies look at how internuclear pathways talk to the cerebellum and what that means for eye movement control. 👀🧠 #neuroskyence #science

Is the blue line not a little bit off?
How much should we trust this line? (on which the main result is based...)

Rule #1 of my presentation skill class: no noise on the slides. Nothing to distract the audience from the main message

This, this and this again again and again

Brain art with colored dots in the gray matter.

Splash of color in the gray matter :)
#brainart

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

Task learning is compositional, so would behavior be!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth,” [the Pope] told the students. “Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.” 💯

Wow! I have to say that this is where the @elife.bsky.social model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!

Problem with cleaning your mailbox is that it creates a positive feedback loop by which you get many new emails...

Exactly...

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Fifteen Years

Beautiful 15 years
xkcd.com/3172/

Speeding up, not slowing down, decreases the metabolic energy needed to stabilize walking in the sagittal plane | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society There is a metabolic cost associated with stabilizing walking, but it remains unclear to what extent stabilizing walking in the sagittal plane contributes to this cost. Furthermore, strategies for sta...

Speeding up, not slowing down, decreases the metabolic energy needed to stabilize walking in the sagittal plane

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

by @friedldegroote.bsky.social and colleagues

It's 2025 and you can still claim an effect with results like this at JAMA Psychiatry. cc @urisohn.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @heinonmatti.bsky.social

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Researchers from the KU Leuven spent between 1.500 en 3.120k€ on APC for Nature Communications since 2015... This is the price for the Nature brand and the cost of "high" impact factor...
Couldn't that money better be invested elsewhere (and this is only one journal and one university...)

Being in a What's App group with mostly genZ people 🤔

Nice thread about why CI won't help to solve the p-value problem

more than I anticipated

would an employee claim ownership of the results of his work in a company?