Thought provoking science commentary: "AI models assume that relationships remain stable over time, that training data are representative of future conditions, and that observations are independent. These assumptions are routinely violated in ecological systems." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Drs. Fred Barrett and David Yaden have received a 2026 Johns Hopkins Nexus Award alongside fellow JHU scientists, educators, bioethicists, and economists to advance critical conversations around the future of psychedelic policy. hub.jhu.edu/2026/05/29/j...

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This is seminal work by an outstanding team performing heroic studies that builds a translational bridge that will invariably in treating depression. You could never simulate anything this complex on a chip and it’s foolish to think otherwise.

A healthy, confident society can absorb technological change, pandemics, and political conflict. A society already experiencing declining trust, weakening social bonds, and growing institutional fragility cannot.

A few years back we started a collaboration to try to work out the mechanisms engaged by DBS for depression. Published today we found that it changes functional networks (expected) but also remodels specific white matter tracts (unexpected). Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hope you brought urine!

What music did they play in furniture stores before Khruangbin?

Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This seems very important! Full of surprises, but here's one: " resting-state fMRI connectivity of a site was only weakly correlated with the stimulation-evoked fMRI connectivity" #fmri

Happy 8th birthday to this, from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

On this day 29th May 1953 Tenzing and Hillary and became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest Artist: Frank Humphris (Danger Men, 1970)

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons are crucial for magnetic sensing. The unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) studies how the brain represents & uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy. Learn more at the link below! #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Join us tomorrow afternoon at #APS2026BCN! @psychscience.bsky.social @ninarouhani.bsky.social @camillephaneuf.bsky.social @katieinsel.bsky.social

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We've seen a wave of claims about consciousness in AI and animals. But what empirical evidence actually supports them? In a new Neuron paper, we discuss how basic perceptual or cognitive processes are often confounded with markers taken to index consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

YEP! Wait until you find out how Google was started with a sub $1m NSF grant, GPS was developed with fed funding, we've reduced overdose deaths by 25% with fed funding, and of 354 new medications released between 2010-2019 99.4% of them were started by NIH grants/funded labs.

Our NeuroAI study made it onto the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence ❤️. In it, we demonstrate that a developmentally-inspired visual diet can drastically improve the robustness of ANN-based vision systems. www.nature.com/articles/s42... open access, open code, open weights, open science.

Meet @esfinn.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social. Finn is a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient whose research focuses on individual variability in brain activity and behavior. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Impossibility and Logical Contradictions Can Enhance the Perceived Value of Fictional Theological Propositions: https://osf.io/4fzkc

New research finds coming back to Earth after floating in space leads astronauts’ brains to predict that items will rise, rather than float, if they drop them: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

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Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

How the Premier League table has fluctuated this season - from Matchday 1 to now

Dog legs #Dogs

Zohran Mamdani’s Challenge To FIFA Results In $50 World Cup Tickets

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Cognitive engagement induces area-specific fingerprints of dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin, glutamate and GABA in prefrontal cortex and striatum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.20.726721v1

Nick Cave is in the new Kylie Minogue documentary and he says something like “I was a weird, fucked up, broken man with a contemptuous, pessimistic view of the world but Kylie was this beam of light and I just always liked her” and it’s one of the most relatable things I’ve ever heard.

This paper is extraordinary in its scale and scope. A mountain of work had to go toward putting it altogether. The findings are mostly what you would expect, but the weak link between functional connectivity patterns & electrically determined connectivity is a real puzzle for neuroimagers.

We updated our preprint, "Mapping spatially organized molecular and genetic signatures of schizophrenia across multiple scales in human prefrontal cortex" to now include spatial eQTL and genetic colocalization analyses: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Spontaneous locus coeruleus bursts coincide withtransient global brain state changes similar to thoseelicited by surprise https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.19.726177v1

Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.19.726190v1

New from our group - This longitudinal study shows 🎵 Songmaking in a group 🎵 reduces paranoia in people with schizophrenia, possibly by changing their prior beliefs about volatility osf.io/preprints/ps... huge congrats to first author Deanna Greco - a very talented graduate student - and team

www.nature.com/articles/s44... New research Article by Valentina Elce et al in the journal.

🎶 “All the boys think she’s a spy, she’s got…” 🎶

And today it’s 55 and raining. New England weather is volatile

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Prince William and Kate celebrating Aston Villa’s Europa League triumph.

In 1969, Vegas casino tycoon Bill Harrah asked Ferrari to build a bespoke Ferrari SUV, and they refused. He then bought a Jeep Wagoneer and had a shop graft the nose and engine of his 365GT to it, creating the “Jerrari.” It is now maintained by a museum in Germany.

David Byrne proving he's still got it. And we really should be burning down that House. Apologies but it's a split recording over two posts for you. Because ... you know. Blue Sky. #TheLateShow #StephenColbert 🧵1/2

School closed for the afternoon because it hit 100 degrees and no air conditioning

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1/ New paper out today in Frontiers in Psychology 🧠 "Beyond the reducing valve: a computational neurophenomenology of altered states via deep neural networks" A unified framework for hallucinations, psychedelic experience & ego dissolution 🧵 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Anxiety and depression appear more genetically distinct than previously thought, and much of their apparent genetic overlap may stem from including people who have both conditions in research studies.

Roddy Piper in, They Live (1988) Directed by John Carpenter

Iceman, Drake's new album, mentions psychedelics twice & what better time considering the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum's exhibit, Psychedelics, on June 6. www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh... Your boy was a scientific advisor & got a special shout out here: www.rom.on.ca/sites/defaul...