But the truth will always out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Here is the full article from Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser. This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.

Is the “standard workflow” holding back fMRI analysis? Mass-univariate analysis is still the bread-and-butter: intuitive, fast… and chronically overfitted. Add harsh multiple-comparison penalties, and we patch the workflow with statistical band-aids. No wonder the stringency debates never die.

Our lab has 2 new papers in the current issue of @painthejournal.bsky.social: The first study, by Georgia Hadjis, shows that motivational conflict, rather than resource competition, determines priority assignment when pain is concurrent to competing demands. journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Going to #SFN2025. Check out the Costa Lab posters on Sunday and Monday afternoon!

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

Looks like we may finally be going back to work tomorrow (but still no SFN 😢), so this is your last chance to order a custom brain, an action potential, or the USE YOUR BRAIN - FUND SCIENCE / SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH stickers available at my website. Www.brainedglass.com

Looks like we may finally be going back to work tomorrow (but still no SFN 😢), so this is your last chance to order a custom brain, an action potential, or the USE YOUR BRAIN - FUND SCIENCE / SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH stickers available at my website. Www.brainedglass.com

I realize that these timelines are absurd and wanting to take on one of these important positions under the present circumstances is problematic, but NIH needs qualified applicants to apply. Please consider applying, even if you are not sure you would accept the position if offered. 3/3

the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Fogarty International Center (FIC), and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Applications for NIMH are due by Friday. The remaining 5 (NIGMS, NICHD, NICDR, NHGRI, and NLM are due by 11/21 2/3

More new NIH institute and center director positions posted with a closing date of 11/26/25. hr.nih.gov/careers/open... These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ... 1/3

Limited slots for custom brains now available at www.brainedglass.com/product/cust...

Limited slots for custom brains now available at www.brainedglass.com/product/cust...

All the artists showing work at #SfN25, now with pictures! #sciart

Looks like the shutdown is nearing an end, but I might squeeze in one more batch of brains. I’m thinking of offering a limited number of custom orders where you pick the color scheme. DM if you’d be interested.

Call for Poster Abstracts Join us in Philadelphia for an unforgettable experience of learning, sharing, and networking. This is your opportunity to share your groundbreaking research and insights with the pain research community! Deadline: Friday, December 5th at 11:59 pm EST

Join us for this talk by @janhaaker.bsky.social on "A functional view on how we respond to others’ pain: Empathy, threat learning and neuropeptides" 11 November, 1pm CET tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

tell any interested in UCSD neuro/cogsci/psych to email [email protected] and I'll link them up as best I can!

The real bummer about no one from NIH being able to attend SfN is all the postbacs that would be applying to graduate school this year won’t have the opportunity to network with potential faculty mentors at their posters or attend the graduate school fair.

Beautiful “action potential” stained glass made by @laurenatlas.bsky.social Picked 🔵 because it reminds me of our #ChR2 optotagging experiments 🤓🧪

It’s so nice to see pieces in their final homes. Just six of these left in the shop! www.brainedglass.com

Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Thanks to everyone who snagged a stained glass action potential yesterday! Will drop them at the post office today. One of each color still left in the shop! www.brainedglass.com

Eleven stained glass action potentials available now! (One rainbow brain still in the shop too). www.brainedglass.com

Will be posting stained glass action potentials on my website at 1pm EST today! Www.brainedglass.com

Sadly, looks like I’ll definitely be missing SFN. Too late to get travel approved even if the government reopens, and too late to attend in my Brained Glass capacity as part of Art of Neuro. What a year this has been….

A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...

If you’re interested in knowing when the next set of brained glass is available, the best thing to do is follow Brained Glass on instagram. Stay tuned for action potentials.

I will be reviewing graduate student applications in the Social Psychology Area at Miami University for the 2025–2026 application cycle (Ph.D. start date: Fall 2026). Learn more about the Affective Science & Psychophysiology Lab and how to apply on the “Join Us” tab at www.darwinguevarra.com

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

Sold out! Thanks for the love - I’ll be sure to post here too next time I have a release. (there are a few rainbow brains left in the shop from the last drop btw!)

Thanks to everyone who got in there fast!!! There are only two dichroic brains left!

Since I can’t work my day job, I’m back to my side gig. 7 handmade dichroic stained glass brains up for grabs tonight at 7pm EST at www.brainedglass.com

🚨 Please RT! We’re recruiting a motivated postdoc to dissect the neurocircuits of affective pain. Expertise in behavioral models of pain/SUDs, stereotaxy, microscopy, opto/chemogenetics, or fiber photometry encouraged. Apply 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10647 #Neuroscience #Postdoc

JOB! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in Psychology at GMU. Focus on computational cognitive/AI, to be part of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program in Psych. @martinwiener.bsky.social is chair of the search, but I'm happy to answer more general questions about GMU/dept

HUGE opportunity at Rutgers: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675694/d.... They already have such a dynamic pain group there, and such a great history... really an amazing opportunity.

🎤 Calling Multi-Echo fMRI Researchers 🎤 Preparing for OHBM? Get expert feedback before the deadline! 🌟 Tedana devs will possibly host a multi-echo meeting on Dec 8th to make sure your abstract is perfect for submission. Interested? DM me or other tedana devs! #neuroskyence #neuroimaging

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

When I was an undergrad, I saw a talk by Oliver Sacks about music. During the Q&A, someone asked Sacks if he thought science would reveal the deepest mysteries of art. Sacks (a rare humanist among scientists) said that he doubted it, at which Eric Kandel (the host) leaped up and grabbed the mic.

Speaking of which - a few brains are left in the shop! More soon, based on however long this shutdown lasts (sigh grumble sigh) www.brainedglass.com

Checking in with those who are Feds. Another week is beginning. Don’t be afraid to seek help if you need it. Check in on your friends and coworkers.

Sad - it's starting to feel unlikely that we will be able to go to SFN this year since it seems like there's no end in sight to this shutdown. And travel was being canceled left & right pre-shutdown anyway. 😔 (I'm ok but feeling for junior trainees, tenure tracks, etc. who are stuck in this limbo).

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social is looking for an accomplished scientist to serve as the Director of the new Rutgers Center on Research in Pain and Pain Therapeutics. Feel free re-post and/or reach out to me if you have any questions jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225...

I mean, technically, it also impacts rocket science, brain surgery, and solving the climate crisis...

More NIH chaos. NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

I was wondering how my feed had nothing about the shutdown. You guys know this means no grants, study sections, etc….

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

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/...