NicoleCRust

NicoleCRust, 1 month ago to random

I’m sad that NPR is turning into silly. Where are y’all getting your (audio) news?

https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/

brianvastag, 1 month ago to random

My lunch is rice cakes with NuttZo Seven Nut Butter from Costco and you can't stop me.

BayesForDays, 1 month ago to random

so I think I need a moleskine that's like, 14 x 10 or something. I've got an 8.5 x 11 and it's not ENOUGH

Sheril, 1 month ago to random

Welp, it’s official. The dissertation is accepted. 🎉

APBBlue, 1 month ago to random

Someone at my new office was wearing JEANS today!

(I probably won't, but still ... JEANS!)

tdverstynen, 1 month ago to random

It begins!

I, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/boston-dynamics-debuts-humanoid-robot-destined-for-commercialization/

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Got a gel manicure bc I am on vacation and if I talk with my hands normally, we now have like second and third subvoice bc I just love seeing my lil sparklies fly around

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

"Unfortunately we were unable to find any qualified reviewers for your work" --> the soundtrack of my life 😩 we persevere but we are TIRED

cyrilpedia, 1 month ago to random

"Compared to 2021, we now have almost seven times as many editors in Latin America and more than five times as many in Africa. Specifically, while Latin American and African editors combined made up less than 1% of our editorial board in our last report, currently 7% of eLife editors are based in Latin America and 3% are based in Africa (Figure 1). The number of eLife editors in Asia has also grown, at the moment constituting 14% of our editorial board compared to 11% in 2021."

https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e3b5c5c9/elife-latest-2024-update-on-the-diversity-of-our-editorial-community

NicoleCRust, 1 month ago to random

Big news! A townhall will follow the #ccn2024 talk unpacked in the post below. A chance for you to chime in.

The topic of the townhall: The GrandPlan for brain & mind research. What are the challenges? And opportunities? Particularly with regard to the research arc that culminates in new treatments for brain & mental dysfunction. What do we need to know and how will we figure it out?

Leading the discussion: @ivanoransky, Editor in Chief of @thetransmitter, medical doctor, researcher, journalist & founder of @retractionwatch.

With that CV 🤩, Ivan is (somewhat uniquely) perfect to lead this.

https://neuromatch.social/@NicoleCRust/112060313599258663

NicoleCRust, 2 months ago to random

Brainstorming corrections for scientific myopia

I’m convinced that we’ve inadvertently created a scientific culture that disproportionately dissuades high-level, big-picture thinking. How do we rectify that?

A few venues I know. Please add to this list!

We write at a high-level. Venues: perspective pieces of journals, thetransmitter.org, aeon.org, etc

We hold workshops to discuss things, at a high-level. Venues like https://www.tfi.ucsb.edu/ & https://esforum.de/ have interesting models.

We devote some time to this at conferences (I’ll be trying that here: https://2024.ccneuro.org/; let’s see how it goes). Know any other examples?

We write, read and discuss books.

I understand astrophysics does something organized (given shared resources): everyone is polled; plans are discussed; reports are written.

awaisaftab, 2 months ago to random

Mental Causation and Metaphysical Gloss

“Downward causation” is strictly speaking neither “downward” nor “causation.”

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mental-causation-and-metaphysical

jonny, 2 months ago to random

Im going back to visit Boise Idaho, where I grew up. When I left it was a town for aging football dads and uncool teens such as myself, but Boise is apparently Cool Now???? Extremely weird to me

NicoleCRust, 2 months ago to random

Carol Jennings, RIP

Carol Jennings was an amazing woman who letters wrote letters to Alzheimer's researchers about her family. That led to the discovery of the APP gene and, in turn, the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's. (Her family carries a rare form in which mutations to the APP gene cause Alzheimer's with certainty). She devoted the rest of her life to Alzheimer's advocacy. Tragically, she acquired the disorder later in life herself.

Thank you, Carol Jennings. Rest in peace.

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/honouring-couple-dementia-their-contributions-research

annaleen, 2 months ago to random

A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war. I spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States, and it's coming out in early June. Not all the gems I discovered could be crammed into the final manuscript, and I've been dying to share what I found in the archives ... check out my latest newsletter to see some amazing treasures from a history that's rarely told.
https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/how-a-science-fiction-obsession-led-me-to/

sls, 2 months ago to random

me: "Measure it! Get the data!"

David Hubel: "Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations."

NicoleCRust, 2 months ago to random

Ironically, I got to know Prof @kevinbolding here before IRL, despite the fact that his lab is on the same campus (and we might have the same boss? Dunno. Penn is a big, confusing place). In any case, we’ve now rectified that and I can attest: he’s a real person. And he’s great!

APBBlue, 2 months ago to random

So this happened a few blocks from my mom's house, so she can shut up about crime in D.C. now: https://cdapress.com/news/2024/apr/08/cda-man-charged-with-attempting-to-provide-support-resources-to-isis/

brianvastag, 2 months ago to random

The awe and wonder you're seeing around the #eclipse is why I became a science reporter. Nothing's cooler and more humbling than nature.

NicoleCRust, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory?

My new piece in @thetransmitter

https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/what-if-anything-makes-mood-fundamentally-different-from-memory/

You might hear, "Mood disorders are psychological, not biological." What does that even mean? Here I lay out not just this but five different clusters of positions around what mood and mood disorders are (along with a six that you might suspect but no one adopts).

I also asked researchers to chime in on the most effective path forward for mood research. The diversity of opinions is insightful, and telling.

In my own mind, mood is among the most challenging functions that exist. We'll need all hands (and all perspectives) on deck.

Insights from: @awaisaftab, Austin Coley, @eikofried, Steve Hyman, @amygdaloid, Lisa Monteggia, @russpoldrack, Lauren Ross, Robb Rutledge, Maryma Shanechi, Shan Siddiqi, and Eric Turkheimer