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Brain Rot and Your IQ: What Science Actually Says About Screen Time, Social Media, and Intelligence

Henry David Thoreau coined “brain rot” in 1854 in Walden, writing about society’s preference for simple ideas over complex thought. The complaint maps remarkably well onto algorithmic content feeds 170 years later.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/brain-rot-and-your-iq

#brainrot #iqscore #science #socialmedia #screentime #brain #society #adhd #health #tiktok #neuroscientist #pisa #student #digitaldetox #iqtest

Is Gen Z Getting Dumber? What the IQ Data Actually Shows About the First Generation to Score Lower Than Their Parents

The Gen Z IQ story is not a story about a broken generation. It is a story about what happens when environments change faster than our understanding of what those environments are doing to cognition.

https://iqcertificate.org/blog/is-gen-z-getting-dumber

#genz #dumb #dumber #generation #iqscore #neuroscientist #health #science #data #flynneffect #brain #brainrot #medical #research #adult

This is likely the most influential interview (30m) that you will hear in your life.
Alex is a #physics and #neuroscientist professor.
As far from #woowoo as you can get...

He rationally critiques the ossified #materialistic #science and offers an opportunity for humans to expand its myopic and destructive obsession with a very narrow perspectives if the hard problem of #consciousness

He touches on #AI and the toxic ideology of #broligarchy , #transhumanism

#alexgomezmartin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OHF4mJvKY

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares a simple, science-backed technique to stop hiccups

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-simple-science-backed-technique-to-stop-the-hiccups

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares a simple, science-backed technique to stop hiccups

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-simple-science-backed-technique-to-stop-the-hiccups

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares a simple, science-backed technique to stop hiccups

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-simple-science-backed-technique-to-stop-the-hiccups

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares a simple, science-backed technique to stop hiccups

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-simple-science-backed-technique-to-stop-the-hiccups

#Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares 'really weird' trick to fall #asleep in five minutes

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-really-weird-trick-to-fall-asleep-in-five-minutes-ex1

#Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares 'really weird' trick to fall #asleep in five minutes

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-really-weird-trick-to-fall-asleep-in-five-minutes-ex1

#Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares 'really weird' trick to fall #asleep in five minutes

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-really-weird-trick-to-fall-asleep-in-five-minutes-ex1

#Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares 'really weird' trick to fall #asleep in five minutes

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-really-weird-trick-to-fall-asleep-in-five-minutes-ex1

#Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman shares 'really weird' trick to fall #asleep in five minutes

https://www.upworthy.com/neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-shares-really-weird-trick-to-fall-asleep-in-five-minutes-ex1

Understanding #Quantum #Fingerprints : Medium

A #Neuroscientist’s #Advice on #NewYear’s #Resolutions : Time

Can #Ultraprocessed #Foods Be #Addictive? A #Neuroscientist Weighs In : Sci Am

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

✨ Consciousness – the government spokesperson 📢 of our brain 🧠

In our #Zoomposium, #neuroscientist #GerhardRoth describes #consciousness as a kind of government spokesperson: it interprets and legitimizes #actions whose actual reasons lie in unconscious neural processes – processes to which we have no direct access.

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfMind #BrainResearch #SelfAwareness #SelfModel

How did human consciousness evolve? Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin traces our sophisticated brains back to the first complex cells – Live Science

1. Health Mind Neuroscience

The evolution of life on Earth ‘almost predictably’ led to human intelligence, neuroscientist says

Interview, By Nicoletta Lanese, published 2 days ago

Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved.

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“Consciousness,” although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one’s surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track your internal bodily states via interactions between your cells. These data streams collide to give rise to your personal perception of the world, your place within it, and your motivations for moving through it.

An enduring question about consciousness is how this state of awareness comes about. Is consciousness simply the result of a bunch of chemical reactions? Or is there some extra “secret ingredient”?

In the book “One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind” (Prometheus/Swift Press, 2025), New York University neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin explores these questions. To do so, he traces the evolutionary history of human consciousness from the formation of Earth’s first DNA molecules to present-day Homo sapiens. Kukushkin studies memory in non-brain biological systems, such as human kidney cells, as well as in simple organisms such as sea slugs. He also considers himself a “molecular philosopher.”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: How did human consciousness evolve? Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin traces our sophisticated brains back to the first complex cells | Live Science

#book #brains #complexCells #consciousness #humanConsciousness #humanIntelligence #liveScience #neuroscientist #newYorkUniversity #nicolettaLanese #nikolayKukushkin #nyu #oneHandClapping #prometheus #swiftPress #unravelingTheMysteryOfTheHumanMind

I want to read the #book The #Ideological #Brain, by #neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod: https://tinyurl.com/2nxpbjkv. Here's an interview of her by The New York Times: https://tinyurl.com/4wc6xdyc

#Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired

In her new book, “The #Ideological Brain,” the #neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid #thinking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/science/ideology-neuroscience-politics-zmigord.html

The Game of Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW41pghKsRQ

#christianity #deconstructingchristianity #fundamentalism

''Here, we discuss Kelly Clancy's book called Playing With #Reality. Clancy is a #neuroscientist and physicist who talks about the gamification of #society. I use this concept to explain how I think Christianity is set up as a game.''

The Game of Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW41pghKsRQ

#christianity #deconstructingchristianity #fundamentalism

''Here, we discuss Kelly Clancy's book called Playing With #Reality. Clancy is a #neuroscientist and physicist who talks about the gamification of #society. I use this concept to explain how I think Christianity is set up as a game.''

The Game of Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW41pghKsRQ

#christianity #deconstructingchristianity #fundamentalism

''Here, we discuss Kelly Clancy's book called Playing With #Reality. Clancy is a #neuroscientist and physicist who talks about the gamification of #society. I use this concept to explain how I think Christianity is set up as a game.''

The Game of Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW41pghKsRQ

#christianity #deconstructingchristianity #fundamentalism

''Here, we discuss Kelly Clancy's book called Playing With #Reality. Clancy is a #neuroscientist and physicist who talks about the gamification of #society. I use this concept to explain how I think Christianity is set up as a game.''

The Game of Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW41pghKsRQ

#christianity #deconstructingchristianity #fundamentalism

''Here, we discuss Kelly Clancy's book called Playing With #Reality. Clancy is a #neuroscientist and physicist who talks about the gamification of #society. I use this concept to explain how I think Christianity is set up as a game.''

Can #SpicyFoods Cure #Colds? A #Neuroscientist Reveals the Encouraging Truth

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-spicy-foods-cure-colds-a-neuroscientist-reveals-the-encouraging-truth

On 7 March, the Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center will open at Erasmus MC! 🎉

I’m honoured to be speaking alongside neuroscientist Stéphanie Dijkhuizen, where we’ll introduce the SCANNER project—an initiative tackling 1 of the most critical questions in autism research:

✨ (why) are there more men than women with autism? ✨

#Neurodiversity #AutismResearch #SCANNER #WomenInScience #ErasmusMC #Autism #ClosingTheGap #NeuroScience #Neuroscientist #ActuallyAutistic #womeninstem

#Filmmaker brings into focus life of #pioneering #transgender, #womensrights #neuroscientist #BenBarres.

"The #movie is about #data, incredible #science and this person who loved science and would do anything in the #community," Green said. "No matter what, he would have your back."

#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/07/11/stanford-ben-barres-film-ask-the-question-annexon.html

The #biology of our best and worst #selves |

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORthzIOEf30

How can #humans be so #compassionate and #altruistic -- and also so #brutal and #violent?

To understand why we do what we do, #neuroscientist #RobertSapolsky looks at extreme context, examining actions on timescales from seconds to millions of years before they occurred. In this fascinating talk, he shares his #cuttingedge research into the biology that drives our worst and best #behaviors.

Please welcome the great @aheadofthenerve to Mastodon / the Fediverse! So nice to have another #PlaceCell #Neuroscientist on here 😁 (and also a #CalciumImaging expert)!

#Hippocampus #NeuroRats

From: @aheadofthenerve
https://neuromatch.social/@aheadofthenerve/111767478048631695

How a #neuroscientist beats #winter #depression

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0LnBvc3R0di5jb20vaXR1bmVzL3Bvc3QtcmVwb3J0cy54bWw/episode/NjU3MzhmMGJkNjAxODAwMDBhYmQyNTY4?sa=X&ved=0CK8CEM-BB2oXChMI8PrguquCgwMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAE

Each year, millions of people experience #seasonalaffectivedisorder or #SAD. Today we talk to neuroscientist-turned-#journalist Richard Sima about how to get ready for the change in #season and beat the #winterdepression.

Here are a few of my favourites from my twitter-detached archive :

1- Types of #PlaceCell papers...

https://elduvelle.github.io/ElDuvelle/status/1388075267453857792/

#Neuroscience #Neuroscientist #Hippocampus #NeuroPapers

1/x

When I was a kid, my dream was to be:
1. #Neuroscientist
2. #Neurosurgeon
3. #Astronaut

But living in the #Philippines in the 80s and 90s didn't give me those opportunities.

A little summary of #Neuroscience-related hashtags?
(Please add any you think of in answer and I’ll edit the list)

.#NeuroArt
.#Neuroscientist / #Neuroscientists
.#NeuroRat (yep, I’m pretty much the only one using this one)

.#NeuroJobs

The cell types:
.#PlaceCells / #GridCells / #HeadDirectionCells / #SplitterCells … (give me more)

And then we have the brain regions:

.#Hippocampus / #Striatum / #RetrosplenialCortex / #Cortex / #Cerebellum / …

Bonus:
.# NeuroBuzz: once a post takes off, anyone can add it as an answer and then the author can edit it in the original post (but don’t add it when writing the original post, that’s cheating)

A little summary of #Neuroscience-related hashtags?
(Please add any you think of in answer and I’ll edit the list)

.#NeuroArt
.#Neuroscientist / #Neuroscientists
.#NeuroRat (yep, I’m pretty much the only one using this one)

.#NeuroJobs

The cell types:
.#PlaceCells / #GridCells / #HeadDirectionCells / #SplitterCells … (give me more)

And then we have the brain regions:

.#Hippocampus / #Striatum / #RetrosplenialCortex / #Cortex / #Cerebellum / …

Bonus:
.# NeuroBuzz: once a post takes off, anyone can add it as an answer and then the author can edit it in the original post (but don’t add it when writing the original post, that’s cheating)

A little summary of #Neuroscience-related hashtags?
(Please add any you think of in answer and I’ll edit the list)

.#NeuroArt
.#Neuroscientist / #Neuroscientists
.#NeuroRat (yep, I’m pretty much the only one using this one)

.#NeuroJobs

The cell types:
.#PlaceCells / #GridCells / #HeadDirectionCells / #SplitterCells … (give me more)

And then we have the brain regions:

.#Hippocampus / #Striatum / #RetrosplenialCortex / #Cortex / #Cerebellum / …

Bonus:
.# NeuroBuzz: once a post takes off, anyone can add it as an answer and then the author can edit it in the original post (but don’t add it when writing the original post, that’s cheating)

A little summary of #Neuroscience-related hashtags?
(Please add any you think of in answer and I’ll edit the list)

.#NeuroArt
.#Neuroscientist / #Neuroscientists
.#NeuroRat (yep, I’m pretty much the only one using this one).

.#NeuroJobs

The cell types:
.#PlaceCells / #GridCells / #HeadDirectionCells / #SplitterCells .

And then we have the brain regions:
.#Hippocampus / #Striatum / #RetrosplenialCortex / #Cortex / #Cerebellum / …

Bonus:

NeuroBuzz: once a post takes of, anyone can add it (but don’t add it in the original post, that’s cheating)

(Edit: trying to ensure that my IceCube app formats this post properly)

A little summary of #Neuroscience-related hashtags?
(Please add any you think of in answer and I’ll edit the list)

.#NeuroArt
.#Neuroscientist / #Neuroscientists
.#NeuroRat (yep, I’m pretty much the only one using this one)

.#NeuroJobs

The cell types:
.#PlaceCells / #GridCells / #HeadDirectionCells / #SplitterCells … (give me more)

And then we have the brain regions:

.#Hippocampus / #Striatum / #RetrosplenialCortex / #Cortex / #Cerebellum / …

Bonus:
.# NeuroBuzz: once a post takes off, anyone can add it as an answer and then the author can edit it in the original post (but don’t add it when writing the original post, that’s cheating)

@ShadSterling
...to #AGI/ #LLM machines of the next generation and the #IoT into our #3D (#4D if you count time in) into the world.

There is a whole school of #German systems theoretics who applied the concept of #autopoiesis, discovered by the #Nobel #laureates, biologists, #neuroscientist and #pholosophers, Humberto R. #Maturana und Francisco J. #Varela, to the new field of #SociologicalSystemsTheory:
#NiklasLuhmann,...

@simon @annaleen @BBCWorld

@elduvelle We are a #neuroscience lab and I consider myself a #neuroscientist. We do both #Ephys and #CalciumImaging in the lab, but I don't do it myself personally–I wish. At least I do some of the software programming, which I enjoy immensely.

Hi! If you’re a #Neuroscientist who does #Ephys or #CalciumImaging can you make yourself known? I’ll add you to my list. 🧠​⚡​📃​

(Unfortunately lists are not public here but I’ll happily share it, maybe once it’s grown a bit)

Edit: Please boost if you have relevant followers!

I just saw an advert for #flowheadset if there’s any chance it works I’d happily pay for it. Are there any #neuroscientist who could explain to me how it would potentially work and if it’s likely it actually does? I’m surprised that beyond a headline stat I can’t see any study linked on their site. #MentalHealthMatters #takemymoney #SuspiciousMinds

Hello world! #introduction #twittermigration

I am a #neuroscientist interested in how signals flow through neural circuits to generate behavior. I study #motorcontrol in adult #Drosophila where powerful tools are letting us move steadily toward a mechanistic understanding of #computation in neural circuits.

I spent my PhD doing EM and X-ray #connectomics (#FANC) and I'm now doing in vivo activity recordings for my #postdoc. After this, I hope to start my own lab.

And my Mastodon era begins!

#introduction

Hi,

I am a #physicist and #neuroscientist who tries to bring both fields together in #neuroimaging.

I direct the Dept of Neurophysics at the #MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en). Our main tools are #MRI, #histology and #biophysical #modeling for in-vivo histology (#hMRI) and ultra-high resolution #fMRI.

Excited to see #MastodonScience growing so quickly 😀

This is my personal account and my posts/toots are just my personal views.

#introduction

I'm a #developmental #cognitive #neuroscientist with a focus on #visual and social/affective #cognition in #infancy 🧠 👶

How do infants come to understand complex visual objects, such as for social/affective communication - e.g. #faces?

How do infants' #brains learn to represent & interpret the visual, social/affective world? 👀

To answer these, I use #neuroimaging (#EEG/#fNIRS), #behavior, & #computational tools 🧠 🤖

➡️ Prospective #PhD? Apply at https://t.co/3qdWSPEKyB by Dec 1

Hi folks! Here is my #introductionpost. I am a #neuroscientist & #psychiatrist based in NYC. I started a lab at Columbia in 2021 focused on how #stress disrupts the #brain #circuits that govern social, cognitive & reward seeking #behavior. We use #electrophysiology & #optogenetics in freely moving mice to study how dynamic #neural activity, eg, #oscillations yield insight into #susceptibility #resilience #anhedonia & new treatments. I also post about #cooking. #twitterMigration #NeuroMastodons

Figured I'd do another #introduction since I changed servers and lost all my posts :(

I'm a #neuroscientist with an interest in #striatum, #movementDisorders and #substanceUse. #electropgysiologist currently teaching #neuroscience and #biology to undergrads and #psychology to grad students.

Hobbies include #gaming (digital like #leagueOfLegends and #DarkSouls ) but also tabletop rpgs and #boardgames

Hi all! Looking to find more #neuro folks to share interesting discoveries and recent pubs.

Well this is exciting... my #introduction: I am a #psychiatrist and #neuroscientist at #UCL studying #psychosis and #schizophrenia mainly - I use #computationalpsychiatry methods to try to infer neurobiological changes from brain imaging data, and also to understand how cognitive processes going awry could lead to symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. I'm also interested in so-called #functionalsymptoms, #AI, #OCD, #machinelearning, #activeinference and lots of arty stuff too...

A #Neuroscientist Found Out What Happens To The Brain When We Die - Then Realized That Star Trek (#TNG) Figured It Out First! 😂 👍 #StarTrek #iflscience #Trekkies #sciencefiction #Scifi

Video: https://bit.ly/3hFhJ18

#TashaYar is severely injured. Back at sickbay, the crew watch over Yar as she slowly dies. Just like the scientific research explains, #Crusher notes that there is still hope 2 revitalize Yar, even though there is technically no brain activity.
Article: https://bit.ly/3tDMA16

#introduction
I'm an #earlycareer #sleep #neuroscientist aiming to understand why everything looks so much better in the morning.

Currently a #postdoc with Matt Walker at #UC #berkeley working on the intersection of sleep with #aging & #mentalhealth.

Finished my #phd a year ago in #Faculty of #Medicine, #Tel-Aviv #university with Yuval Nir.
Worked on #sensory #perception during sleep, sleep & #memory and how it goes wrong in #Alzheimer.
#tau #amyloid #tvns #EEG, #psg #fMRI, #python #MNE

#introduction
I'm a #neuroscientist at #Oxford and my group investigates neural circuits relating to spatial #memory, especially in the #thalamus.
Previous research includes defining #GABAergic #neurons in the #hippocampus and medial septum by recording and labelling them in vivo.
We also want to understand the earliest changes in the human #brain that lead to the build up of pathological #Tau proteins, which correlate with #cognitive decline.
Nice to have joined Mastodon

Time for an #introduction:
I am an associate professor at the #MoffittCancerCenter in Florida. My group #CancerEvo and I are interested in #CancerEvolution and #CancerEcology and how those impact the #evolution of #cancer #resistance to #treatment. We do that by working very closely with cancer #biologists and clinicians using #math #mathonco models.

I am also married to the lovely @pbiwan. A #neuroscientist and #scicomm professional whom I help with the #2Scientist podcast

#introduction

Hi,

I am a #physicist and #neuroscientist who tries to bring both fields together in #neuroimaging.

I direct the Dept of Neurophysics at the #MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (https://www.cbs.mpg.de). Our main tools are #MRI, #histology and #biophysical #modeling for in-vivo histology (#hMRI) and ultra-high resolution #fMRI.

Excited to see #MastodonScience growing so quickly 😀

This is my personal account and my posts/toots are just my personal views.