Ruimin Gao 高睿敏

ruimingao.bsky.social

30 July 2026 20:55

How many subjects do you actually need for reliable task fMRI studies? Much larger samples are often recommended—but that depends on how you analyze the data. New preprint with @neuranna.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gavin Buckingham

drgbuckingham.bsky.social

21 July 2026 11:57

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Times Higher Education (THE)

timeshighered.bsky.social

21 July 2026 11:29

Growing pressure on probationary staff to win grants represents ‘material divergence’ from agreed policies, argue UCU leaders. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #research #highered #UCU #academicsky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/research-income-targets-liverpools-new-academics-unfair

Matthias Nau

matthiasnau.bsky.social

24 June 2026 06:54

The massive 7T-fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) has been extended to Neuropixels recordings in macaques! Exciting resource for inter-species comparisons by Li et al. @natneuro.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also nice News & Views by Kay and colleagues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TK (Takashi DY) Kozai

bioniclab.bsky.social

18 June 2026 22:27

🧬 In 1995, Katalin Karikó was demoted at UPenn because her grants weren't landing and her papers weren't cited. The mRNA chemistry she developed over the next 20 years (modifying uridine to pseudouridine) became the COVID-19 vaccines and the 2023 Nobel Prize.