Pierre Mégevand
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandDuring a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4
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Great opportunity for important work and training! I hope to collaborate closely with Nina and Pierre on this innovative cog sci/ cog neuro project. #neuroskyence - Reposted by Pierre Mégevand16/25 Voyons maintenant les 843 résultats expérimentaux au bout de 2 ans d'expérience. Les meilleurs représentants de la discipline, des sourciers qui avaient tous validé le protocole expérimental, forts de leur expérience... ne font pas mieux que s'ils tiraient au hasard les positions prédites.
- What did they say about negotiating with bullies? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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- Is there any blog by an experienced emergency physician who is not immensely sour about, like, everything?
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- New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.
- Reposted by Pierre Mégevandit's easy to create custom feeds for bluesky based on regular expressions, here's an attempt for rhythms in the brain: bsky.app/profile/did:... feeds with a curated user list amplify often the same high-profile posters, I feel this maybe has a better chance of catching more obscure content.
- "The Human Insula Reimagined: Single Neurons Respond to Simple Sounds during Passive Listening" Single neuron activity in the insula #iEEG in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4...
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- Reposted by Pierre MégevandLes réac' masculinistes de 2026 : "ouais, une femme chevalier dans un jeu vidéo qui se passe au Moyen Âge, pff, n'importe quoi, c'est pas réaliste, wokisme, scandale, indignation" Les chansons de geste et romans chevaleresques du Moyen Âge : hold my beer.
- Connaissez-vous Yde ? Héroïne d'une chanson de geste de la fin du XIIIe siècle, c'est une princesse-chevaleresse qui épouse une autre femme... Un fil ! #histoire #medievalists #medievalsky
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandHow many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵
- Methodological Flexibility in the Iowa Gambling Task Undermines Interpretability: A Meta-method Review: osf.io/4g3vr
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- Today's autocorrect pearl (in a medical report): "EEG monitoring disclosed an ictal intrarectal continuum" #neurology #EEG #damnyouautocorrect #ictalinterictalcontinuum
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandNew results! Faster parietal alpha frequency tightens, and slower alpha widens, the temporal window for vision–touch integration for the sense of one’s own body. Causal and computational evidence. Nature Communications news.ki.se/how-brain-wa...
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandI am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- "Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding" by the Chang lab @changlabucsf.bsky.social, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #iEEG #ECOG
- Really cool stuff! "Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms" by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
- The prize of the best reviewer comment for 2025: "You should change the abbreviation for acute symptomatic seizures. Anything but ASS."
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- Reposted by Pierre MégevandDOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website theonion.com/doj-removes-all-men…
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- www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u... Why organ donation is a national resource that cannot be left to a private entity.
- Wait, you mean there's an alternate lyric sheet?
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- Reposted by Pierre MégevandSalient auditory stimuli evoke spatially segregated phasic and sustained neural responses in the human brain biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- Catching up on The Pitt. That neurologist is SPOT ON!! #ItTakesOneToSeeOne
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- Eh oui. Pas toute la médecine moderne est inutile...
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandExcited to present our recent work on how sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal–cortical circuit. #SFN2025 Board NN12 Nov 19 8 AM–12 PM #sleep #memory #HumanSingleNeuron Schreiner Lab x Mormann Lab
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandIf you're at #Sfn2025, stop by the 8am poster session Nov. 16 on Oral Motor and Speech and say hi! We're presenting two posters on the separate circuits for phonetic and prosodic control in speech production.
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- Reposted by Pierre Mégevandperiodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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- This would be hilarious if it were fictional.
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandSuch a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandWhat happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandDelighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandWow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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- Reposted by Pierre MégevandGet ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss. 🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici... 💰Early bird fee ends November 9th! #ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
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- À l'interne d'obstétrique qui a tapé les réflexes de mon épouse avec la tranche de son natel : je t'ai vu. Je ne t'oublierai pas.
- Reposted by Pierre MégevandEverything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG
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- Reposted by Pierre MégevandToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
