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- Want to edit brain circuits with precision? 🧠 A new toolbox lets researchers erase specific excitatory or inhibitory synapses on demand, using light or chemicals.
- 💡 What if your Bluesky conversations were part of the academic record? Through new support from NLnet, the #preprint discovery platform Sciety will work to connect online conversations to the research they are about, exploring new ways to recognise and discover informal contributions to discovery.
- Preprint peer evaluation already happens here. In posts and in replies. But it’s disconnected from the scholarly record and how science gets credited. With support from NLnet, Sciety is working to recognise the crucial act of community curation 📝 blog.sciety.org/sciety-secur...
- Why do some people leap to help while others hold back? New research traces these choices to how we perceive need, merit, and fairness, patterns that stay surprisingly stable over time.
