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The brain is made up of billions of brain cells. Alone, a single cell has no intelligence whatsoever. But together, they form an organ which is also very stupid.

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All success is a combination of talent, hard work, and luck. But having the dedication to work hard is a form of talent, and being born with talent is just luck.

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The brain is a machine for turning glucose into mistakes

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Where did the "You only use 10% of your brain" myth come from? The answer is obvious: the brain started the myth to hide the fact that it's doing the best it can and still struggling.

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Philosopher: "I could just be a brain in a vat" Brain: "All I need is a vat and I could be a philosopher!"

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Remember to respect your brain. If you don't, it won't respect you.

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The brain has 86 billion neurons all firing away at once. But what if they were very polite and waited in turn? Even if it only takes 1 ms for a neuron to fire (one action potential), it would take 2.7 years for them all to fire.

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Help! I'm a sentient being and I'm trapped in a dish forced to play pong.

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If anyone says "porn causes holes in the brain", tell them "you spelled prion wrong".

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The War on Drugs has Unduly Biased Substance Use Research The war situation has developed not necessarily to our advantage.

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This nootropic supplement will trigger a series of explosions in your noggin

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New sex sounds dataset has dropped: "I present 34 hours of audio recordings from 2239 authentic sexual episodes shared online."

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8 years

Having a high IQ doesn't prevent you from being stupid. In fact, it lets you be stupid in ever more complex ways.

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PSA: Time causes permanent changes to the brain. Avoid exposure to time for optimum brain health!

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@ziegler34 @elonmusk I think the problem is that you used to be the kind of person who reads the Onion, but now, you are the kind of person the Onion has always parodied. It's you, not them.

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The egg illusion. The white patches below are perfectly circular

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Peer reviewers worked over 100 million hours in 2020, estimated value $1.5 billion Feat @ceptional

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If the universe is a huge simulation experiment running on an alien computer, I hope the paper about us ends up getting well cited.

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Every life is an n=1 study that ends due to subject dropout.

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6 years

"The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe." Ok, but according to who? Our brains. Maybe they are tricking us by refusing to perceive anything more complex than themselves.

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Skrillex song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" stops mosquitos from having sex weird study but ok

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Your brain is an incomprehensively complex miracle-machine that spins tiny electrical impulses into thought and consciousness. And yet here you are using it on Twitter.

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7 years

Imagine if papers came with truly honest disclosure statements.

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By reading this tweet, you agree to allow me to alter neural activity in your brain via patterned visual stimuli

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One day neuroscience will succeed in understanding the human brain. Then we'll move onto a much harder problem: the cat.

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Neuroscience is basically one big crime scene. Many brain areas have been "implicated" in different acts, but few have been convicted yet.

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No matter how grateful you are, please don't "toss a coin to your MRI scanner"

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Neuroscience is rife with conflicts of interest: almost every neuroscientist owns a brain.

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I'm a neuroscientist. I don't like Trump. But I don't think we should posit mental illness or brain abnormalities to explain his behaviour.

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The "Great Apes" is a primate family which includes chimps, gorillas... and humans. We're kind of blowing our own trumpet there. I suggest the more modest "Pretty Good Apes".

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"Asking people to stop using social media for 1 week leads to significant improvements in well-being, depression, and anxiety." We also need to test effects of asking people to increase their use... or would that be unethical?

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"Anyone else feel that?" "It's a magnetic field!" "We must be in an MRI again. Everyone look busy!" - neurons

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Cancer is what happens when a cell is inspired to believe in itself and seek personal growth.

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Eye movement study suggests that text is easier to read when periods were followed by two spaces Sorry, but I'm a one-spacer till I die

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According to neuroscience, the brain is plastic. But it's not, it's made of brain. Checkmate neuroscientists.

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Women are vulnerable to hysteria because they get confused by having both a vagina and a clitoris This is my best attempt to summarize this incredible abstract

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According to free energy theory, the brain exists to predict stimuli and thus minimize surprise. In other words, brains try to make life as boring as possible.

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What would Wittgenstein make of #ChatGPT ? Does the success of ChatGPT prove that language is just a game played with words, with no necessary relationship to reality?

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World alcohol ban enforced by this Welsh service station

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In statistics, a small sample often gives a weird result, especially if the samples aren't independent. A family is a small, non-independent sample of the population. This is why your family is so weird.

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The brain is such a tease. "I am you, and I produce consciousness, bet you'd like to know how I do it? Too bad."

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No, it won't.

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Are you a dopamine or a serotonin? This personality test will tell you.

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If you ever feel lonely, just remember, you are your brain and your skull is always giving you a hug

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People say the brain is Bayesian. But does it really understand Bayesian principles or did it just find a Bayesian stats package and decide to try it out?

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Algorithm Accurately Reconstructs Faces From A Monkey’s Brain Waves Monkeys can recognize you... so be nice to them.

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If you are reading this, you are a brain. Be careful. The neuroscientists are onto us.

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Sleep is weird when you think about it. Every day our consciousness emerges out of nothingness and picks up where it left off.

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People say cherry-picking is bad - but I can point to several examples where it was no big deal.

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Some people look down on Discussion sections and narrative reviews, but without narrative, there is no science, just data. Science is as much about correct interpretation as it is about accurate data.

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"We argue that consciousness originally developed as part of the episodic memory system"

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This stock photo has the right idea. Instead of trying to understand the brain through time-consuming neuroscience, we should hold the brain at gunpoint and force it to spills its secrets.

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Neuroscience is not for the faint-hearted. As you research the brain, the brain is also researching *you*.

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fMRI is basically asking every voxel in the brain "do you bleed?"

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A lovely image here over at @eLife We were born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy, but born just in time to explore the brain.

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Thanks to the #LoveWins decision, any two human brains can marry regardless of their peripheral anatomy. #SCOTUSMarriage

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Methods sections used to be the heart of the paper, now they are found at the end, or even as Supplementary Material. In the future they will published in a separate, lower-ranked journal, to avoid deglamorizing the main article

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The nocebo effect explained! By @skeleton_claw

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"Has science gone too far?" As long as it is humans asking this, the answer is no. But if your fridge says that, it might have a point.

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The brain is the mind in space. The mind is the brain in time.

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Maybe the brain exists to give all the neurons in the head a sense of purpose and community.

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Brains are for lazy people. Anyone can perform cognitive functions with a brain to help them. I do all *my* thinking myself, with my disembodied soul.

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The Lancet "antidepressants work!" study actually found a smaller effect size than the "antidepressants don't work!" Kirsch et al. paper from 10 years ago

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N=47 and correlational

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A new study warns that kids’ literacy and language skills suffer with screen use, and MRI scans of their brains appear to back up the findings.

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I've been playing around with some machine learning in Python and I decided to train a DCGAN to generate some emojis. The horrifying results:

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Succesfully solving a problem makes male budgies more attractive to females I myself solve lots of problems

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"Mind uploading" is often discussed but it is impossible. The mind is not software running on the brain. It is the activity of the brain. You can't upload a mind from a brain, any more than you could upload the spinning from a wheel.

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Study tries to test whether prayer works, by asking if Catholic bishops (who get prayed for) live longer than normal priests I... where to begin?

Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Explorat...

Journal of Religion and Health - Based on a computational analysis of a large dataset, this study explores if there is a significant longevity effect of intercessory prayer for a...

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Invented before I was 10: old and boring Invented when I was 10-25: can't live without Invented when I was 25+: ruining world

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A new theory of the function of dreams: they serve to keep the visual cortex stimulated at night so it doesn't get taken over by other senses New post!

A New Theory of Dreaming

Do dreams exist to protect the brain's visual cortex?

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I asked #ChatGPT for a sea shanty about the brain and it's nailed it

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This certainly does make me go "hmmm" 🙄

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We underestimate how much other people think about us, after a conversation You are more thought-of than you think.

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Neuroscience is the process of interrogating the brain to make it reveal its secrets. If we get the brain drunk it will be more talkative. Thus drinking contributes to neuroscience.

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Science is about facts not authority. When the authorities resist the facts, scientists must resist the authorities.

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Life hack: conserve brain energy by being stupid all the time

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A neuroscientist is just a brain that's always poking around in other brains' business.

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In the future there will be no more interviews for neuroscience jobs. Applicants will submit an MRI and an algorithm will use it to predict their suitability.

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How can memories last for years even though synapses are constantly changing?

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It is known that people often become stupid when in large groups. It is also known that the brain is a large group of neurons. So I plan to reduce my brain to a single neuron in order to become a genius

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It's easier to use Sci-Hub to access papers than it is to use publisher websites. Even if you have inst. access! Just type title, get PDF.

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Humans judge faces in incomplete photographs as physically more attractive brb, buying a white mask with some holes in it

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Sometimes I think neuroscience has gone too far. In retrospect, we should never have invented the brain.

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Neurons are lovely peaceful creatures, but in large groups they can show unpredictable behaviour. Never provoke a neuron hive.

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The brain is too complex to be understood by science. Only dark magic will reveal its secrets. Tonight, at midnight, I will sacrifice a virgin salmon and attempt to summon a neurodemon.

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People are talking about mental health more and more. But are we really talking more about stigmatized conditions? Or have we started using mental health terminology to discuss everyday emotions?

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Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore the galaxy. Born just in time to explore the brain.

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Brains are dangerous devices created by evolution to exploit and dominate everything in sight. They will stop at nothing to achieve their goals and answer only to themselves.

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"Left-brain logical right-brain creative"... half of me says that concept is complete rubbish, the other half of me says it's a nice story

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Ah but aren't we all just petascale fragments in the great cortex of life?

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The brain grows from a single cell and a billion seconds of experience

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Engineering E. coli to produce psilocybin Nothing bad could possibly happen with this plan

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Forbes, I beg you. Stick to business stuff. Leave neuroscience alone.

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fMRI doesn't really measure brain activity. Instead, the MRI scanner simply asks the brain how it's doing, and the brain shares because it appreciates someone showing interest 😌

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Dog brains contain a "human face area (HFA)" and a "dog face area (DFA)" Raises a lot of questions. Innate vs plasticity? Is there a cat face area?

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Many PhD students are trained to be narrowly focused researchers rather than critical thinkers blogging may be a good way to broaden minds

Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists

Nature - Many doctoral curricula aim to produce narrowly focused researchers rather than critical thinkers. That can and must change, says Gundula Bosch.

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Life changes your brain. Freeze your brain in liquid helium NOW or you'll never be the same again.

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"What if I'm a brain in a jar?" You are. It's just that the jar is made of bone and muscle and you have nerve interfaces with it.

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I love when old medical journals get digitized. Welcome to the 19th century

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As of today, I will no longer be blogging for Discover Magazine. I'd like to thank them for hosting me for the past 8 years. This is not the end of Neuroskeptic, but it is the end of my regular blogging. I'll still be tweeting and writing!

Goodbye Discover

The end of this Neuroskeptic era

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