My mom at Yale circa 1971 next to Erik Erikson. Huey P Newton is at the table too

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social: The Deliberation Taboo Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are SO excited for #CNS2026 in Vancouver in less than 2 weeks! If you want sneak previews of our award & keynote talks, check out our meeting blog: www.cogneurosociety.org/cns-blog/ Conversations w/ @actlab.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social & more! #scicomm #neuroscience

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Out today from @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and our lab: cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.... Exploring the relationship between win-switching behavior and metacognition. Richer self-reported strategy buffers the link between win-switching and paranoia…

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

Here is the preprint of @kjedlovszky.bsky.social work in the lab: osf.io/preprints/ps...: experiencing a volatile task (both social and non-social) increases social hallucinations of chasing in moving dots - filling in the mechanistic gaps of how volatility beliefs influence perception

Last few hours to get your submission for #NCMKobe26 in! Deadline is 23:59 PST tonight, February 10. Learn more about the submission process, guidelines, and access the submission software - ncm-society.org/subm...

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

Very cool work from my friends and colleagues @actlab.bsky.social and Damon Clark - I am lucky to get to hang out with them at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social

Very proud that this is finally out! Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..

we just updated this preprint, now with a new experiment showing no speech adaptation when sensory errors are simply observed without a preceding motor plan --> www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Cerebellum! radiolab.org/podcast/song...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Bob weir 😔 RIP Come wash the nighttime clean Come grow this scorched ground green

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...

Happy New Year, everyone! Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social. Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Founded in 2021, @yale.edu's Wu Tsai Institute 🏢 is advancing human neuroscience research by connecting cutting-edge neuroimaging, computation, and behavioral science to uncover how brain networks give rise to cognition 🧠 Read More 👇 news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/w...

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI? ➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/eWVmA

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his #CNS2026 YIA talk: www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio... @actlab.bsky.social

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued. Now the reviews are being reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026

New paper out on @openmindjournal.bsky.social * I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

The Journal of Neuroscience has updated its policy on supplemental material. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

people are saying that Zekun Sun's research is awesome. (people are right.) learn more about Zekun and her work here! zekun-sun.github.io

New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :) Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun This was my lab's first foray into event cognition gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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11.17 | 1-5p | PSTR226 + PSTR226.05 Taylor McClure Reaching Control: Movement Psychophysics and Neurophysiology + Selective attention in motor working memory Chat with her at #Booth3724 on Tuesday from 2-3p to learn more about her work. #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #SfN25 @actlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest Sensorimotor Superlab Journal Club. Juliana Trach joins us to discuss her latest paper with @actlab.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations. youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo

MLMC2025 is tomorrow! For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting: harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964... Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST. Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc! motor-conference.org/openconf.php

heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

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🚨📡 Official MLMC program now posted! See you in San Diego (or hybrid if you can't make it!) Register NOW!!! ---> motor-conference.org/openconf.php

Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1. Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...#NCMKobe26!

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲