Darek Asanowicz

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

If you have tenure consider publishing less... doi.org/10.1038/d415...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 "𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲" (𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝘀)?
Via Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics
Excellent short review.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
#neuroskyence

Traveling waves across scales: Different mechanisms but same canonical computation? The review proposes a novel mechanistic distinction between first- and second-order traveling waves that subserves a same canonical computation by ordering neuronal processing to impose a computationa...

🚨New publication!
I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves!

@erc.europa.eu
@upcite.bsky.social

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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

❗"So it was not a case of them stealing the King's group's data and then, voila, those data gave them the structure of DNA. Instead, they solved the structure through their own iterative approach and then used the King's data — without permission
- to confirm it."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

❗"So it was not a case of them stealing the King's group's data and then, voila, those data gave them the structure of DNA. Instead, they solved the structure through their own iterative approach and then used the King's data — without permission
- to confirm it."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

"Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration"
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(i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). 1/

From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...

Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural Underpinnings of Proactive and Preemptive Adjustments of Action Control Abstract. This study aimed to trace the neural basis of proactive and preemptive adjustments of executive control and their effects on online processing of response conflict. In two EEG experiments, p...

In our EEG study on proactive control we did find (anticipated)conflict-related increase of theta-band phase synchrony (i.e. The synchrony was stronger after cue signaling conflict)
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Neural Underpinnings of Proactive and Preemptive Adjustments of Action Control Abstract. This study aimed to trace the neural basis of proactive and preemptive adjustments of executive control and their effects on online processing of response conflict. In two EEG experiments, p...

Very interesting results. Your study nicely corroborates our EEG findings on the modulation of midfrontal and lateral frontal theta activity related to proactive control
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Attention- and action-related oscillatory dynamics in a visuomotor network Abstract. A network model of a “selection-for-action” system was proposed with the primary idea that the functions of stimulus and response selection are c

Attention- and action-related oscillatory dynamics in a visuomotor network
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization Abstract. Stimulus–response (S-R) bindings, which integrate sensory stimuli and motor responses into event files, are transient yet essential for adaptive behavior. This study investigated the EEG osc...

Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization. Our EEG study out now and open access in @jocn.bsky.social.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Principles for proper peer review

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org
A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

After a couple of years in the making, we are thrilled to launch the new home for #EEGManyLabs: eegmanylabs.org

@amiyake.bsky.social some of these might be relevant

Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task - Nature Communications Here, the authors show the brain uses multiple activation patterns to perform the same task. Even the default mode network, which is often inactive during focus, plays a role.

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸/𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?
Some papers suggesting that it can.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first step to publishing null results is to learn about equivalence testing, so that you can design studies that statistically support the conclusion that there is no meaningful effect. lakens.github.io/statistical_.... If you are a statistics teacher, include this into 2nd year courses.

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highl...

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention
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#neuroscience

What a great way to wrap up a busy academic year! I was honoured to speak on observational learning, pain, and placebo at the 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology — in a fantastic symposium chaired by @ccorradi.bsky.social & Federica Meconi, alongside Alessio Avenanti. Thank you! 🙌🧠✨ #IOP2025

Thrilled to have organized and presented at the “Coping with Sleepiness” symposium at #IOP2025 in Krakow! A fantastic experience sharing the stage with @d-manasova.bsky.social, @jtegelbeckers.bsky.social and A. Domagalik — insightful talks and great discussions! 🧠💤✨

Jasper speaking in a microphone below a large screen displaying an introductory slide to the symposium "Early Insights into the replicability of influential EEG experiments" in the Aula Maximum of the Jagiellonian University

Enjoying #IOP2025 and it was my honour to chair this symposium and present our progress with the #EEGManyLabs replications. Learned a lot from the talks by Martin Constant, Peter Clayson, Aleya Marzuki and Katharina Paul

Proactive control CAN be updated on a trial-by-trial basis

jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/d448vzo9...

Low frequency oscillations – neural correlates of stability and flexibility in cognition - Nature Communications How the brain balances the flexibility and stability needed to both encode and maintain information during cognition remains poorly understood. Using MEG data and in-silico simulations, the authors sh...

Low frequency oscillations – neural correlates of stability and flexibility in cognition
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠 Interested in EEG (and fNIRS) correlates of action control? Join our symposium and let's talk brains and bindings! 📅 Friday, 10:30–12:00 @pug2025.bsky.social #PuG2025

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

"Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness." Some cogitations on the #COGITATE adversarial collaboration, the first results from which appeared yesterday in @nature.com nautil.us/inside-the-b...

Interesting that most dramatic differences between humans in chimpanzees are in temporal cortex and parietal cortex. Very little in prefrontal cortex 😮 (consistent with lots of other studies).
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

Francis Crick called it “impossible” in 1979. Now it’s real.
A 1 mm cube of mouse brain, 200k cells, 500M synapses, all mapped alongside neuronal activity.

This new MICrONS dataset maps brain structure and function in a way that we've never seen🧪
🔗 www.microns-explorer.org
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Scientists hail ‘avalanche of discoveries’ from Euclid space telescope Data from European Space Agency’s mission has allowed researchers to create detailed catalogue of 380,000 galaxies

Space does my head in. "The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has captured images of 26 million galaxies, covering 10bn years of cosmic history." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...