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Miryam Naddaf @MiryamNaddaf

Freelance science reporter with bylines @nature | cover neuroscience, biology, UK/EU sci policy, Africa &the Middle East Email: [email protected] nature.com/search?author=… London Joined August 2022
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2 months ago

Perhaps the most amusing cover @Brain1878 for a long time. Police cordon holding back Beatles fans, illustrating concept of inhibitory restraint around a seizure focus. When GABA release collapses, seizures escape local inhibitory restraint @Newrotrash academic.oup.com/brain/advance-…

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2 months ago

100 years ago, the first EEG recordings in humans were made. Since then, recording neural activity has become more sophisticated In my latest for @Nature, I asked researchers what brain-computer interfaces can teach us about the brain. nature.com/articles/d4158…

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4 months ago

Scientists in Shanghai cloned a rhesus monkey with a slightly different approach to conventional cloning technique used to clone Dolly the sheep ~28 years ago. The monkey has lived into adulthood — surviving for more than 2 years so far. Read more @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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4 months ago

Clinical prediction algorithms fail to accurately predict schizophrenia treatment outcomes when applied to datasets other than the training sample, finds a Science study. “It’s a huge problem that people have not woken up to,” says psychiatrist & study co-author @itschekkers.

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4 months ago

Clinical prediction algorithms fail to accurately predict schizophrenia treatment outcomes when applied to datasets other than the training sample, finds a Science study. “It’s a huge problem that people have not woken up to,” says psychiatrist & study co-author @itschekkers.

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5 months ago

Scientists & engineers with long-term disabilities earn $10,580 less per year than their non-disabled peers, finds a survey of 704,013 people in the US. The salary gap is higher for STEM academics (av $14,360). W/ @BonnieSwenorPhD & @JayDolmage in @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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5 months ago

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis * Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic. @MiryamNaddaf writes @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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5 months ago

Plot twist! (sort of). Those fake scientific data-sets made w/ GPT-4+Python? @jd_wilko found the raw data has flaws! Still: data were superficially plausible, raw data's rarely shared/scoured, & smarter fraud cld avoid errors. by @MiryamNaddaf | @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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6 months ago

Plot twist! (sort of). Those fake scientific data-sets made w/ GPT-4+Python? @jd_wilko found the raw data has flaws! Still: data were superficially plausible, raw data's rarely shared/scoured, & smarter fraud cld avoid errors. by @MiryamNaddaf | @Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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7 months ago

A 'My Octopus Teacher' moment in pharmaceutical innovation: scientists have designed sticky patches inspired by octopus suckers to deliver drugs through the cheek, a potential gamechanger for medications like insulin& Ozempic typically given via injections nature.com/articles/d4158…

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8 months ago

It took 10 years, 500 scientists, and €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. How did it go? go.nature.com/3OKVRhN

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12 months ago

Critical #elections in #Turkey on 14 May; academic freedom index in Turkey - which falls below global average - has been declining & sharpest declines came after a 1980 military coup & the aftermath of a failed coup in 2016 during the latter period of the present #AKP government

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12 months ago

Critical #elections in #Turkey on 14 May; academic freedom index in Turkey - which falls below global average - has been declining & sharpest declines came after a 1980 military coup & the aftermath of a failed coup in 2016 during the latter period of the present #AKP government

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12 months ago

Turkey’s landmark election: researchers urge winner to abolish university council. An excellent piece from @MiryamNaddaf nature.com/articles/d4158…

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a year ago

Wonderful to see our new Centre for Equality Research in Brain Sciences, at @UCLBrainScience, covered by Nature nature.com/articles/d4158… @MiryamNaddaf

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Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd

a year ago

Do you know the story of “Land Day”?

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Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano

a year ago

New study in @PNASNews shows that non-white scientists face stark disparities in academia. Findings show underrepresentation on editorial boards, longer review times, and fewer citations. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #ScienceForAll

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a year ago

The UN water conference starts today in New York. It's the first water-focused UN-summit in 46 years. But will it make a difference? (1/10) nature.com/articles/d4158…

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a year ago

Scientists have generated the first complete map of the brain of a small insect. The map shows all 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses tightly packed in a young fruit fly's brain, which is smaller than a poppy seed go.nature.com/3LuE1j8

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a year ago

Researchers have made eggs from the cells of male mice — and showed that, once fertilized and implanted into female mice, the eggs can develop into seemingly healthy, fertile offspring go.nature.com/3JqTNdi

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a year ago

#InternationalWomensDay

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a year ago

Yesterday, @DrTedros was in NW Syria, the first time a UN principal was in this region for 12y. In today's @Nature editorial, we're urging @WHO to build on its trusted status & urge power brokers to allow immediate and longer-term help: nature.com/articles/d4158… - a mini🧵

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