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/ Bonnielin Swenor PhD & Jay Dolmage in nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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.

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…

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…

Perhaps the most amusing cover Brain 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 Dimitri Kullmann academic.oup.com/brain/advance-…

Egypt is preparing to open one of the world’s largest museums & conservation research centres. Designed by Western architects, funded by Japan & run by Egypt’s military, will it bring Egyptology back to Egypt? Report: Miryam Naddaf. Photos: Rehab Eldalil. nature.com/immersive/d415…

Now is the time when many neuroscientists interested in the human brain gather for OHBM or FENS, so we at @nature thought it would be a good time to feature human neuroscience in this issue. Here's a taste of the content, starting with our editorial 🧵nature.com/articles/d4158…

400 editors and production staff at Nature/Springer are going on strike today over pay and conditions. Springer Nature staff to take unprecedented strike action - Advanced Science News advancedsciencenews.com/springer-natur…

#SpringerNatureStrike #NUJ picket line still going strong - and will be back for more. Fair Pay now! ⁦Springer Nature⁩

#ABSWawards 🏆 Winner, Newcomer of the Year Miryam Naddaf Retained Correspondent nature 📍“She shows an ability to write gripping stories regardless of length, with a clear commitment to elevating underrepresented voices in her work.”

Grateful for the recognition of my stories in nature by ABSW, esp. my reporting on the aftermaths of the Syrian-Turkish earthquake last year, & for the heartfelt support from Syrian communities.

#ABSWawards 🏆 Newcomer of the Year Miryam Naddaf Retained Correspondent nature 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158… 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158… 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158… All winners here 👉 absw.org.uk/pages/absw-awa…

Lebanese photojournalist Chrisتينا Assi, wounded in Israeli strike in southern #Lebanon, carries The Olympic Games torch to honor journalists “For me, justice comes the day I can stand up again, hold my camera, and get back to work" w/Lujain Jo | لُجين ج for The Associated Press apnews.com/article/paris-…

We've long known about the placebo effect, but its biological mechanisms remained a mystery. Now, researchers unravel how it spurs the brain to activate its natural painkillers. The answer is unexpected: a neuronal pathway in the cerebellum & brainstem. nature.com/articles/d4158…

A study of 768 retractions by Springer & Wiley between 2010 &2020 from the Retraction Watch database, shows improvement in how clearly worded & accessible retraction notices are, but they still lack disclosure of institutional investigations. Read nature. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nature interviewed 12 female wildlife researchers who say they were harassed while working at conservation organizations in India. Why does the country’s sexual-harassment law sometimes fail to safeguard women? go.nature.com/4d4v774

Three years ago, a Taliban spokesman is reported to have said: “We are going to allow women to work and study … Women will be very active in society, but within the framework of Islam.” (1/4)

Today marks 3 years since the Taliban seized power of Kabul. In this report, we show there's little evidence that the Taliban will allow women &girls to access education anytime soon. Still, Afghan women continue to show remarkable resilience. Read nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Exclusive: our analysis for nature of the papers that most heavily cite retracted work, and why they do so. Fascinating gathering author and publisher reactions for this story, w Miryam Naddaf Uses data from Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ Feet of Clay detector. nature.com/articles/d4158…

🗞️ Just out: ‘The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies’ by Miryam Naddaf Richard Van Noorden nature.com/articles/d4158…, a companion paper to my Comment: ‘Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature’ nature.com/articles/d4158… feat. PPS Feet of Clay.