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Inserting hidden messages into papers to game LLM reviews, but "“If peer review worked in the way it’s supposed to, then this wouldn’t be an issue, because AI prompts — hidden or not — would be irrelevant to the outcome,” she says." nature.com/articles/d4158…

New paper led by @jay_neuro: Repetition of musical themes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind reactivates memories of earlier scenes, and this neural reactivation correlates with subsequent memory for those scenes! Check out Jamal's thread below 👇

"Exercise helps the immune system to fight tumours by stimulating microbes in the gut to make a compound known as formate, studies in mice have shown1." nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Take time to understand who your technician colleagues are, and what they bring to your research, says Kelly Vere" nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Now, I pride myself not just on academic and research successes, but also on celebrating my kids’ milestones, showing up for playdates, being present for tantrums and bedtime stories." science.org/content/articl…

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Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System nature.com/articles/d4158…

"Some European governments are rethinking the use of English in universities, exposing tensions between internationalization and national priorities." nature.com/articles/d4158…

"I look forward to the day when Israeli scientists can freely collaborate with scientists in Iran and do good for the region and for humanity. I wish the same for scientists in Gaza and throughout the Middle East." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...) nature.com/articles/d4158…

Exactly how I feel, and not just for young scientists: "If young scientists take shortcuts by using LLMs, that could, for example, undermine their learning processes, says Stevens. “I feel we’re outsourcing a lot of our thought process,”" nature.com/articles/d4158…

Protect Iran’s scientists from attacks nature.com/articles/d4158…

Postdoctoral Research Position, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium The Learning and Cognitive Control Laboratory  is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to apply a control-theoretic approach to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive effort. ugent.be/en/work/scient…

"Emotional influence isn’t a glitch. It’s a core feature of LLMs. If we celebrate their ability to comfort or advise, we must also confront their capacity to mislead or manipulate." nature.com/articles/d4158…

For this special occasion also on Twitter: tomorrow is the deadline for the 2026 imbizo.africa. Come to the most special place in the world to the most special computational neuroscience. @isiCNI #neuro in #africa.

Postdoctoral Research Position #2, Ghent University, Belgium The successful candidate will train recurrent neural networks to learn the generative structure of existing behavioral, EEG and MEG data sets. ugent.be/en/work/scient…

A creative new method for grant reviews: make participants review other applicants (with proper measures to avoid cheating) nature.com/articles/d4158…

"The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths." nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is so scary: arrests of scientists over smuggled samples add to US border anxiety nature.com/articles/d4158…

NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know nature.com/articles/d4158…