Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

Somewhat related - if you ever wanted to talk to someone doing neuro-related work on the faculty of a business school, I have a whole list of them here: sites.google.com/view/ukarma/...

5 alarm fire at the NIH Mark pulls the alarm— its wake-up time www.linkedin.com/posts/markhi...

JL found that OFC neurons are tuned to uncertainty (probabilistic outcomes) during learning and M2 neurons signal certainty instead. Miniscope imaging in rats 🐀 and causal chemogenetic experiments tell the same story. DREADDs experiments by amazing RA @alexyeghikian.bsky.social

We are grateful 🙏🏽 to have our NIDA and NIMH funds unfrozen at UCLA! These grants support this ongoing work and exciting new directions.

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is now strong, converging evidence that OFC neurons signal expected uncertainty. We manipulated probabilistic outcomes, and Zhang & Zhou changed reward delay and magnitude, finding OFC neurons dynamically modulate outcome-coding sensitivity based on variance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our new preprint from my graduate work, a collaboration between the Brown lab and @srirams433.bsky.social and others in the Kolodkin lab! Our study investigated how patterned excitatory connectivity is generated in the development of the cerebral cortex (1/7)

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

If you're interested in moving to Montreal for a postdoc in #NeuroAI or related topics, check out this scholarship opportunity at @fasudem.bsky.social : fas.umontreal.ca/postdoctoral... And let me know if you'd like to chat about it.

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Joined #BaltimorePride50 last week to celebrate #PrideMonth and the idea that everyone must be free to be who they are and love who they love. I stand with the LGBTQ community in face of attacks from Trump and his cronies. Bullies only succeed when others retreat. We will not.

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org

Great opportunity here-check it!

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus. Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Canada PM had enough of Trump blabbering bullshit and just cut short the press conference. I don’t blame him.

“The university is totally keeping us on life support,” said Dr. Daniela Matei, a Northwestern oncologist. “The big question is for how long they can do this.” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The Court is troubled by the implication inherent in Defendants’ argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion."

Intro👩🏻‍🔬 I’m a cognitive computational neuroscienctist 🧠 & AI researcher. I combine RL, NN, ML w behavioral & neuro methods to study: 1-how brains learn models of env to plan & remember 2-collective cognition 3-evolution of learning & 4-build & evaluate AI inspired by 1-3 New: Ecological intelligence🌍

US senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya at a hearing today about how his professed support for science squares with unprecedented grant terminations at the agency and enormous cuts that have been proposed for its 2026 budget. https://go.nature.com/3FWM2wN

These clowns are exhausting… The rescinded the rescission… Within 24 hours… www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/n...

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

This is worse than many appreciate because it is not merely a delay. Many institutions such as mine are TERMINATING these otherwise active grants if the NoA is delayed by more than a month because they cannot afford to keep the grant supported personnel on payroll

I listened to Bhattacharya testify at the hearing today, parts of this meandering interview with Huberman, and read his response to the Bethesda Declaration Collectively, they reminded of this Andrew Carnegie quote: as I get older, I pay less attention to what men say; I just watch what they do

Democrats on a key Senate spending committee today provided a less than warm welcome to the National Institutes of Health director, who was called in to testify about the agency’s 2026 budget proposal.

The US National Science Foundation could lose more than half its budget https://go.nature.com/4dMdIAZ

These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.

The quick answer is No! Can the US afford to lose its 1.1 million international students? International students contributed $43.8bn to the US economy last year and created 378,175 jobs nationwide. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

“American institutions and the innovators within them have succeeded based on a contract between the federal government and U.S. research universities. The result of major funding for research created the country we know today” www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

The NIH has not issued a single new call for proposals since the end of January.

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... Stand up for Science - Bethesda Declaration

More of this, please: a class action lawsuit by UC Berkeley researchers to restore illegally cut federal grants. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

What makes a science superpower? Funding, freedom, and the world’s brightest minds. You can’t lead the world in science while banning immigrants and defunding discovery. The Trump admin is sabatoging the future of U.S. science. zurl.co/7P2av

I finally read that NYT article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Seems bad www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

If you are wondering why recently departed senior NIH officials are not speaking out more, there is a legal 1-year cooling off period for matters related to NIH. Their silence should not be interpreted as complicity or cowardice, but rather respect for the rule of law.

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another RL in rodents paper. This one shows synchronized responses in cerebellum and SNr during learning - definitely feels like the whole-brain aspect of RL needs more exploration like this! www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... #neuroscience 🧪

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

"We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower: The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status." ⚛️ 🧪 @maxboot.bsky.social wapo.st/43Fqdd4

Every level of higher education under total destructive assault. And yet our leaders remain almost entirely absent from the public square.

Thank you @johnmoralestv.bsky.social for Standing Up for Science!

We’re excited to host the second Communicating Research for Impact workshop! Hear how Clement Chow, PhD; Bryan Jones, PhD; and Kristen Kwan, PhD use social media to share their work and grow their impact. Register today! lu.ma/4imwl2jv

(They did this at the beginning of COVID too. That was more than 5 years ago and the university still hasn’t recovered from that)