New paper in Nature Neuroscience! We developed personalized fMRI-based predictive models tracking ongoing spontaneous pain in chronic pain patients—trained on 6+ months of densely sampled data. A true team effort. Deeply grateful to our participants! doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02221-3

Federally funded DEI training programs and grants are disappearing. Meet seven neuroscientists who are filling the gaps. By Paige Miranda #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/dei/we-still...

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions rdcu.be/eRVUk

So proud of @meganspurney.bsky.social and team for this exciting new paper from my lab! Younger adolescents' working memory performance benefits more from reward than older teens and young adults. This occurs even though all ages report similar preferences about reward value and cognitive demand.

My review with @caterinagratton.bsky.social is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

Speaking of early leadership motivations, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out - we establish the emergence of dominance and prestige leadership motivations in adolescence, and further show nomological networks identical to young adults onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For anyone trying to keep up with the grant termination/delay litigation against NIH, the ACLU has a good page with summaries and links. www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

Very happy to share our paper on the "summer slide" in kid's cognitive test scores is out now in @pnas.org! We find a replicable dip in performance across multiple domains of cognition in >23,000 kids across 4 datasets! Check out the 🧵 from @ariellekeller.bsky.social below! 👇

The APS Advocacy Task Force is mobilizing scientists to communicate their stories, their research, and the real-world impact of their work. Learn more about APS's #WhyPsychScience video competition and submit by Jan 12! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky www.psychologicalscience.org/2025-why-psy...

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

Had a great time talking to Maggie Penman about new research on lifespan brain development led by @alexamousley.bsky.social in @duncanastle.bsky.social's group. This is a great summary of the study and a broader discussion of what brain research can teach us about important developmental phases.

I'm so excited to be a Faculty Fellow in the newly formed Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern! iamh.northwestern.edu Learn more about IAMH's mission and research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy... Stay tuned for many exciting opportunities to get involved in 2026!

Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7) rdcu.be/eSwvU

First one out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎉 Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!

2 weeks left to apply!!

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

On the subject of data, here is from an analysis that I did when I was at NIGMS. nigms.nih.gov/loop/2011/06... This showed that there were some quite productive grants with percentile scores at or worse than the 30th percentile. 5/13

🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.

Sign up for our final winter session of Scan Camp!! Looking for teens in the Chicagoland area! 8-10 MRI scans at Northwestern's Feinberg campus. Wear an Oura ring and answer daily surveys. Earn up to $1,360, prizes, and a 3D-print of your brain! northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Delayed thank you to @fluxsociety.bsky.social for a wonderful meeting in Dublin earlier this month! Thank you to everyone who came to my poster on reward-motivated working memory across children, adolescents, and adults

🇺🇸 These dedicated public servants risked their careers to deliver an urgent message. 🚨 While the 1st amendment grants them the right to speak on matters of public concern, their protection is not guaranteed under an administration hostile to free speech. Please take the time to listen and boost 🔥

“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.” - @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence

No 14-year-old should be tried as an adult. None. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

I wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...

So... where to go from here??? CONGRESS 👏 HAS 👏 POWER Laws from Congress can help override this SCOTUS mess. ☎️ So tell your Senator to support Sen Baldwin's amendment to restore terminated NSF grants (or Durbin's for NIH) 🐘 *Especially* if you have a Repub Senator. More context here:

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

Great breakdown of the SCOTUS shadow docket ruling on NIH grants terminations by @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. Even though SCOTUS ruled that the grant recipients would likely succeed, they allowed the NIH to continue terminating the grants for now. My brain hurts from this one.

This SCOTUS decision is not just about what words we can and cannot say in our grants. This ruling will destroy the careers of many scientists, and it will hit trainees and early career researchers the hardest. The future of scientific training and research innovation is at stake.

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

On today’s SCOTUS decision — “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Justice Jackson wrote. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.” — Justice Jackson’s dissent. #NIH #StandUpForScience

Full order is here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... SCOTUS stays (i.e., pauses) Judge Young's order insofar as it vacated (and thus reinstated) NIH grant terminations. SCOTUS left in place the rest of Judge Young's order, which means NIH can't terminate more grants in the same way.

Deadline extended www.instagram.com/p/DNd-PdvyU3F/

👍 An appeals court ruled today to **uphold** an order blocking grant terminations for U of California researchers So good news for UC folks. Could also mean the case will soon end up at the Supreme Court (along with one that’s pending there now for NIH terminations).

This! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Here is the Priorities document (long thread) 1/n