Izabela Maria Sztuka
Environmental Neuroscience, Cog Comp Neuroscience, AI & BCI | Archeologist & Rose lover | Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
- “Those skills (conflict resolution, accountability) are more important than learning how to spell.” Higher-order socio-cognitive skills are constrained by underlying cognitive capacities, weakening those foundations predictably degrades complex social reasoning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Te...
- 2026 - already called year of analog, as more people choose to "unplug", "unsubscribe" and shift away from tech. Rebellion against subscriptions is just the economic dimension of broader tiredness with current socioeconomic model. #society #unplug #digitaleconomy youtu.be/8AKn-zJMIwY?...
- Interesting longitudinal study on infants about development of representations of natural objects: #neurocience
- 6/7 Our results further highlight the first year of life as a time of intricate brain function. Infants possess the foundations of visual cognition to group the world from very early on. Read more in Nature Neuroscience! 📖🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41....
- Inconceivable, how badly prepared Ireland is for this type of challenges. We have friends who had their entire life wiped-out with little warning. Sheer scale of systemic failures is infuriating. #Ireland #StormChandra news.sky.com/video/storm-...
- Interesting take on dynamics of shifting sands in global economy. www.reuters.com/markets/worl... #economy #EU
- An interesting study on how gaze and gesture jointly support spatial reasoning in architecture. Mechanisms described may also be relevant for clinical conditions involving disrupted eye-hand coordination and visual-symbolic processing of the #environment. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPYTPN...
- Wow, this has also potential to be great tool for teaching!
- The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is a cornerstone of #neuroscience: a standardized, high-resolution map of brain anatomy built to keep experiments comparable across labs. 🧠 Here’s a 3D walk through its anatomical meshes in #syGlass! @alleninstitute.org #3DThursday #DataViz #VR
- Reposted by Izabela Maria SztukaHappy 80th birthday to the iconic Dolly Parton.
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- Great news: Today, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social launched its first mobile MRI lab 🧠🚐 This opens up exciting new possibilities for @cen-mpib.bsky.social to take environmental neuroscience research far beyond the lab into the field. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new... #neuroscience #environment
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- So how is the first 7 days of 2026 going? Let's just hope it is not representative.
- Among all the mockery one could pour on this headline, I feel sorry for his family. It's a grim reminder that disinformation isn't harmless, and can have terrible consequences when left unchallenged. #disinformation wyborcza.pl/7,75399,3249...
- Small 2026 note: I’m stepping away from some social media platforms, namely X, Fb & Insta. I won’t disappear overnight, but over next months those accounts will go quiet. Some already are. I’m still around on LinkedIn and here on Bluesky.
- ❤️🔥"Either we're all Europeans, or none of us are" From 13:40 @warfrontsweekly.bsky.social commentary absolutely nailed it 🔨 when it comes to what has to change in European mindset, for Europe to have future as a project. #Europe #Geopolitics #Ukraine youtu.be/5Qc2ZRV5znQ?... via @YouTube
- The number of armed conflicts worldwide has more than doubled in past 15 years, with around 130 ongoing today. These conflicts trap entire generations in cycles of violence and trauma, resulting in major physical and psychological health burdens at population level. www.icrc.org/en/report/ic...
- ⚡Large-scale genetic study of 14 psychiatric disorders shows many diagnoses share common genetic roots. Comorbidity may reflect shared biology, not just clinical overlap. Authors also point to prenatal and early-life factors shaping how genetic risk becomes disorder. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- It is the worst crisis in history of US-Europe alliance with signals indicating Europe needs to become independent, strategically autonomous and find new global partners. #Europe #democracy #geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-h...
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- Last year in North Sumatra, I witnessed the cascading consequences of rainforest destruction - a crisis no longer limited to ecosystems, but one that directly places local communities in the path of escalating climatic extremes. #environment
- ⚡American commentator Jon Stewart steamrolled global elites using the Epstein example. With the precision of a neurosurgeon, he laid bare the rotten core of a social class whose members share the same interests, even as they stoke political divisions. www.youtube.com/shorts/RRvcE...
- New analysis sends clear warning about short-form videos. Across 98,299 people, higher TikTok/Reels/Shorts use equals worse attention + weaker inhibitory control. The endless scroll isn’t just a habit, it’s linked to measurable declines in core cognitive functions. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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- If confirmed, this breakthrough gene therapy for Huntington’s disease could be a historic step forward in treating previously untreatable neurological disorders. #neuroscience #research youtu.be/bhExSMZt1zs?...
- Almighty Gods of Wisdom & Reason — don’t leave us! When publishers push AI “reading assistants” message is clear: don’t bother reading. On top of don't-bother-writing attitude I see in reviewed papers, my feeling is that we are losing the very essence of #science.
- The most accurate depiction of establishment playing game of deflection these days: #migration
- Language in scientific writing is a mirror of academic culture. This editorial is a timely reminder that careful, precise, and balanced expression strengthens scholarship. Yet too many papers today are framed like product branding rather than contributions to knowledge. #science
- Reposted by Izabela Maria SztukaPhantom feelings in lost limbs present a puzzle for neuroscientists who were taught to believe that once a body part is amputated, another body part will creep into its spot on the brain’s map of the body. A new imaging study undermines that theory. scim.ag/45SInZQ
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- There’s always that one trending paper that makes you pause… 🤔
- Reposted by Izabela Maria Sztuka📑New CEN pre-print by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social, @isdedal.bsky.social and Simone Kühn is out! 'Urban versus Rural Living: Associations with Mental Health, Physical Health, and Psychological Constructs' osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New preprint from @cen-mpib.bsky.social: our 500-study review on how place shapes mind, body, and brain. 🧠 Urban upbringing alters stress-related brain circuits. 🌿 Rural living linked to resilient prefrontal structure. 🌍 Health disparities & gap in global representation. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Be it drugs or alcohol - literally every country in this world experiences this problem. Nobody seems to understand how vicious cycle of poverty and inequality pushes people into the arms of substance addiction. 1/2 youtu.be/auHBNYqbQ2c?...
- Mood this year:
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- Amazing day for Poland! Welcome aboard!🇵🇱 #AxiomMission4 #Science #Nauka #SlawoszUznanskiWisniewski #Badania #ISS #Kosmos #Technologia
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- Deeply worrying developments in regards to Green Claims Directive. EU withdrawal from this initiative will be a disaster that will hit consumers in entire Europe. #environment
- Until 2014, I spent a few years researching what remained of Crimean Tatar cultural heritage. The history of deportations had been censored for long time, and meticulous Soviet erasure of Tatar culture after World War II is still barely recognized as a crime. kyivindependent.com/dutch-parlia...
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- Widzę dziś w komentarzach, że wszyscy chcieliby, żeby wyjaśnienie wyniku wyborów było tak proste, by zmieściło się w darmowym limicie. A tak naprawdę im jest ono krótsze, tym bardziej odbiega od rzeczywistości. #Wybory
- Reposted by Izabela Maria SztukaNature connection matters! A new study finds that frequent nature visits and stronger nature connectedness boost well-being & environmental actions. 🌱🌍🧪 Read the research by I. Alcock, D. Sheffield, P. C. L. White & @findingnature.bsky.social : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Interesting perspectives on our relationship with animals in latest issue of @bpsofficial.bsky.social The Psychologist: More than companions? The shifting focus of human-animal relations research. #psychology www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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- Reposted by Izabela Maria Sztuka🚨We have an opening for a postdoc to use protein design techniques to developing and characterizing binders against intrinsically disordered proteins involved in neuroscience. Experience in protein biochemistry and/or molecular neuroscience preferred. Share: 🙏 mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
- Reposted by Izabela Maria SztukaAnother day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
- It’s a day of mourning for the University of Warsaw community. Yesterday on main campus, student brutally murdered a mother of three and seriously wounded security guard who intervened in her defence. We’re in shock and disbelief at this unimaginable tragedy. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
- Yesterday I read into a thread of comments under YT video of academic influencer discussing "5 unbelievably useful #AI tools for #research in 2025". Several concerns popped up: 🔢
