Mārtiņš M. Gataviņš (they/them)

This Viewpoint by @martingtvi, Ashley Cooper, and @Ran_BarziLab discusses the benefits of incorporating the incorporating the "exposome" framework into pediatric research and care. ja.ma/3ZlY0pn

Now out in Nature Communications! 😊🧠nature.com/articles/s4146… So grateful to the team, @pineurosci @SheilaShanmugan @valerieJsydnor @zaixucui @max_bertolero @Ran_BarziLab @Aaron_A_B @Andrew_AChen @chrisdav66 @EricFeczko @bart_larsen @oscar_m_d_mex @DrDamienFair @sattertt & more!

This explains the "I do my own research" crowd Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science. This is based on four large surveys, spanning 30 years in Europe and the United States and does not rely on self-reporting or peer comparison. Be wary of overconfident people who know just enough to think they are experts, but not enough to understand the limitations of their own knowledge. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Also tomorrow -- phenom @martingtvi is presenting their awesome work w/ @ArielleKeller @ally_mackey .

New preprint! Our brains don’t develop in a vacuum, but enmeshed in a complex web of experiences+environments. How can we characterize the interconnected and co-occurring features of a child’s environment to better understand cognitive neurodevelopment? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

Politicians and the corporate media won't discuss it much but over the past 30 years the wealth of the top 1% has gone up by $22.65 trillion, while the wealth of the bottom 50% has gone down by $776 billion. This growing wealth inequality is a moral obscenity.