Magdalena Sabat

Reminds me of @theshiftproject.bsky.social

screenshot from an article: However, as soon as social pressure relaxes, if the person is not attracted to the group, public agreement will tend to disappear and private acceptance will not take place. These ideas have been verified by Berkowitz (1954), Deutsch and Gerard (1955), Thibaut and Strickland (1956), Raven (1959), in fact, by most scholars who have worked in the field. Their findings are indisputable, and there is no need to come back to them.

While Serge Moscovici writes "Their findings are indisputable, and there is no need to come back to them.” (Moscovici, 1980, p. 212) after listing FOUR studies that support his claim 🤔

The replication crisis in the social, behavioural and life sciences has spurred a reform movement aimed at increasing the credibility of scientific studies. Many of these credibility-enhancing reforms focus, appropriately, on specific research and publication practices. A less often mentioned aspect of credibility is the need for intellectual humility or being transparent about and owning the limitations of our work. Although intellectual humility is presented as a widely accepted scientific norm, we argue that current research practice does not incentivize intellectual humility. We provide a set of recommendations on how to increase intellectual humility in research articles and highlight the central role peer reviewers can play in incentivizing authors to foreground the flaws and uncertainty in their work, thus enabling full and transparent evaluation of the validity of research.

"Although intellectual humility is presented as a widely accepted scientific norm, we argue that current research practice does not incentivize intellectual humility."

Hoekstra & Vazire (2021): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The representation of omitted sounds in the mouse auditory cortex
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Work done between ENS Paris, University of Rochester, and Oregon Hearing Research Centre.

Our paper is now published in Current Biology! Through 3 experiments we’re showing that auditory cortex is predominantly integrating over short periods with little contextual effects beyond ~150ms

🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946

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

Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...

Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.

“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said.
Hold our EEGs!

@dreamteamicm.bsky.social is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne!

We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea!

@institutducerveau.bsky.social

Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way.

We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:

This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA

It’s quite the opposite!

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My latest: with @fdabl.bsky.social and JW Bolderdijk we argue that environmental psychology needs formal theory to make progress and increase real-world impact

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Part of special issue Behavioral Science for Climate Change by @madalina.bsky.social & @neurograce.bsky.social

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award!

I'm not at #SfN so I did my best to take a photo of the trophy I received (fun to snap a picture of the text' shadows).

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence

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How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems Slowing change may be our last line of defense

When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip

Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits

The latest #ComplexityThoughts:

👉 manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern...

🎧 on Spotify and Apple

#ComplexSystems #Resilience

@ricardsole.bsky.social

schematic of fetal OPM-MEG

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi! Are you willing to share the poster? ( I missed the conference)

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Safer Internet Day: are you managing cookies? In 2023, slightly above one third (36%) of people in the EU aged 16 to 74 who used the internet in the 3 months prior to the survey reported that they had changed their internet browser settings to pr...

Actually Europeans are quite aware of what cookies are and how to limit tracking, obviously younger people more than older generations, with notable differences between countries. Still, more than I.e. Americans ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Infographic: How Europeans Deal With Cookie Controls This chart shows the share of respondents who have ever prevented/restricted cookies on their devices using browser settings.

I actually really religiously do not accept cookies:) and so do quite an impressive proportion of Europeans www.statista.com/chart/amp/31...

A screen shot of a bullet list containing the following items: Teasley, S., & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292(5525), 2254-2255. Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research policy, 37(5), 875-887. Vogel, A. L., Hall, K. L., Fiore, S. M., Klein, J. T., Bennett, L. M., Gadlin, H., ... & Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. (2013). The team science toolkit: enhancing research collaboration through online knowledge sharing. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(6), 787-789. Yao, B. (2021). International research collaboration: Challenges and opportunities. Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 37(2), 107-108. Coles, N. A., Hamlin, J. K., Sullivan, L. L., Parker, T. H., & Altschul, D. (2022). Build up big-team science. Nature, 601(7894), 505-507. Baumgartner, H. A., Alessandroni, N., Byers-Heinlein, K., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Soderstrom, M., ... & Coles, N. A. (2023). How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230235. Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E. J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of bi

I'm putting together a short bibliography of recent papers about #BigTeamScience, with emphasis on challenges and solutions for large social science projects. Am I missing any important papers? I'm in particular looking for any tools or checklists to use when […]

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Reflections on the ‘Science for Social Good’ Satellite Event at CCN 2025 by Georgia Turner The day before the CCN 2025 conference kicked off in Amsterdam, attendees from career stages ranging from pre-PhD students to keynote speakers gathered together for an event focus…

@anne-urai.bsky.social , @weijima.bsky.social , Ili Ma and @tsonj.bsky.social organised an amazing workshop on 'Science for Social Good' at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

We wrote a blog reflecting on it:

anneurai.net/2025/08/14/r...

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Seems not exactly opposite, in scenario 2 you’re both rich and others think you are rich