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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nature.com | Viktoria Cologna |Niels G. Mede |Sebastian Berger |Marina Joubert |Edward Maibach |Sabina Mihelj | +96 more
AbstractScience is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Robert Ross
I'm a 101-year-old who just published my 9th book—here are my 8 best lessons for a long, happy lifeThere's an idea in our culture that's so wrong: that life is over when you get to be a certain age. But your golden years, like mine, can be the best …
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Robert Ross
In the world of Audio components, all-in-one systems—intended to eliminate clutter—are abundant today. The problem is that few of these are as attractive as they are intelligently engineered. Cambridge Audio, founded in Cambridge, England in 1968, has always been keen on good design. It’s a British audio tradition going back to the original Quad gear of the 1960s, benchmarks of coolness, just like an Eames lounge chair was the choice of pipe-smoking architects.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Robert Ross
Selective and predominant degeneration of the limbic system has been associated with an older age, predominant and circumscribed episodic memory impairment and slow clinical course.1-5 Various underlying aetiologies are known to cause degeneration of the limbic system, the most frequent being limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC), which first involves the amygdala, followed by the hippocampus, and then the middle frontal gyrus,1,6-9 and is...
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
nature.com | Hans Ijzerman |Ivan Ropovik |Sandra J. Diller |Jaye L Derrick |Robert Ross |Zoe Francis | +23 more
AbstractMindfulness witnessed a substantial popularity surge in the past decade, especially as digitally self-administered interventions became available at relatively low costs. Yet, it is uncertain whether they effectively help reduce stress.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams
Senior reporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Neurodevelopment, Animal models, Cellular neuroscience, Circuits, forebrain, Sensory perception Some questions about neurons, such as how they give rise to behavior, are tricky to answer when those cells are embedded within their natural milieu. “Is residence in a nervous system sufficient to allow synapses to form?” says Kristin Baldwin, professor of genetics and development at Columbia University.
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May 16, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams
Ph.D. candidateMacquarie University Research fellowMacquarie University Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Theory of mind Recently, one of us attended an academic talk about whether nonhuman animals have “theory of mind,” or the capacity to attribute thoughts and feelings to others. While introducing the topic, the presenter described theory of mind as the capacity that autistic people lack. This comment was unsurprising, yet unsettling.
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May 15, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Megan Peters |Angie Voyles Askham |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross
Associate professor of cognitive sciences University of California, Irvine Megan Peters is associate professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, a fellow in the Brain, Mind and Consciousness program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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May 13, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Calli McMurray |Jill Adams
Research fellow Macquarie University Robert M. Ross is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. His primary research interests are belief formation, reasoning and metascience. Spectrum By , The widely used measure of “theory of mind” needs to be re-examined, along with the long-standing claim that autism is linked to a lack of this ability.
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May 3, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Grace Lindsay |Wendy Higgins |Robert Ross |Jill Adams
It is a well-known irony of academia that the job of a principal investigator (PI) requires skills professors are traditionally not trained for. From teaching and mentoring to project managing and budgeting, PIs are required to know many things that don’t come up during the pure research they do as Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.
