I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

New preprint! Work led by Doug Hardman on the Barkley Marathons. This was a lot of fun, reading lots of rich qualitative data from interviews and reports. Navigating the Barkley Marathons #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪

Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, Thread below👇

A new research Article in the journal by Sherry Dongqi Bao and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @sherrydongqi.bsky.social @weijima.bsky.social

So this happened today. A theory paper I am reviewing for a top tier journal, citing a paper written by me, that doesn’t exist - this just seems lazy - I have actually written A TONNE of papers that make the point. Why rely on gen AI?

LC influences OFC probablistic learning www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

england and france in the third place match… we call that the 20th century

They could measure the ratio of the lengths of soldiers fingers - that relates to testosterone - right?

England exceeded my expectations, and delivered some moments of real joy - particularly at the Azteca. I think defending a 1-0 lead against Argentina was perhaps a tactical error. But they will be back.

I would love it if Spain won 17 - 0 against Argentina on Sunday

🚨 Now out in @jamapsychiatry.com 🚨 Are people with depression less responsive to rewards on social media, just like in the lab? Actually…quite the opposite! 🧵 📄 Read the paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great goal from Gordon

Flexible predictive control in human interception under visual occlusion and altered gravity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737249v1

America is now #1 in military spending, guns, and diarrhea

Interesting new results on OFC-mediated noradrenergic learning rate adaptation 📈

You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin!

You do not know what to read? 📖🤔 Below is a quick digest of this year's papers from the HRL team. The range is a little unusual: from reinforcement learning in rats, to the philosophy of AI, by way of eye-tracking and social-media behaviour. Seven papers, each with a short teaser 👇

20 years ago we used to have Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs and now we have Johnny Diarrhea, Bob Diarrhea and Steve Diarrhea.

NOA issued for our R01 on the circuit mechanisms of delusions. A minor miracle in today’s economy. We are still in the game.

🚨Postdoc position available in computational/theoretical neuroscience at NIMH! The intramural NIH research community is great (amazing collaborators, no worrying about grants, lots of opportunities for professional development). Please repost! www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pd-0931...

A flapping-wing robot that can both swim underwater and fly through the air is helping scientists rethink how diving birds manage life in two radically different worlds. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4vpwG7C

My son sees me post on BlueSky sometimes. He thinks it’s called butterfly because of the logo. This morning he asked if when I post it’s called a ‘Flap’. I think he’s right. We are all ‘Flapping’.

Watching the mind build a world: Lucid dreaming as a model for generative perception www.thetransmitter.org/perception/w... - super interesting piece by @magdalena-p.bsky.social!

Evolutionary biologists finally admit that high intelligence does not require making friends. A new octopus study completely dismantles the idea that big brains only evolve for social networking, proving that solitary sea creatures get incredibly smart just by navigating complicated neighborhoods.

Psychedelic documentary that charts John C. Lilly’s early scientific explorations of isolation & invention of the isolation tank, his move into dolphin communication, & eventual cosmic psychosis. Examines Lilly with a curious & critical eye. boxd.it/KkEm

Last fall, SFI's John Krakauer was named director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology (CRN) at Lisbon's Champalimaud Foundation, a center he helped create. Krakauer has been connected to Champalimaud for more than a decade, first as a visiting scientist at its Centre for the Unknown.

Are you a senior postdoc with a complete scientific story to tell? Apply for our Yale Molecular Psychiatry MAPS program and tell us about your work at our weekly neuroscience seminar series. PLEASE REPOST!

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

I see this often among my grantees. Uncertainty about maintaining funding on a grant (even thought it has been found meritorious in peer review, high priority in programmatic review, and was already awarded) makes conducting the science extremely challenging. substack.com/@27unihted/n...

Never has so much blood (or ink) been spilled at such low stakes. I love my job. But not this part of it. Not at all.

Envy is poison to the workplace. The university employees most likely to be targeted with exclusion & sabotage are the highest performers, and the driving emotion is envy. High performers who were identified with their work group got targeted far less open.substack.com/pub/toddkash...

‘Academic politics is, in meaningful part, a continuation of middle school by people who served at the lower rungs of the social hierarchy.’

Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737794v1

Top-down influences on neural music processing: preference, enjoyment and familiarity influence neural tracking and brain rhythms differently https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737714v1

Motor signals modulate cortical but not subcortical processing of self-initiated sounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737812v1

Psychologists should found “participant island,” where we strand a large representative sample of people who must complete our tasks to earn airdrops of food and water. If you’re really good you get to temporarily board the Neuroimaging yacht

My teenage daughter just interviewed cognitive scientist Phil Corlett (@philcorlett.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6r...

Categories groups things into meaningful concepts. This review looks at how rodents do this. What they can and can’t learn, which brain circuits are involved, and how studying them could reveal the basic neural mechanisms. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #neuroscience

And for our own contribution to the theme issue: Oliver Warrington and I show that the dentate gyrus encodes prediction errors during learning of perceptual predictions. This finding complements our previous work showing a transition from errors to predictions during learning (Aitken & Kok 2022). 🧠🟦

An artificial neural network built into a computer memory chip reconstructs the human cortex with high accuracy in real time. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/4wkiVrK

I was interviewed for this Science Magazine piece on industry funding, philosophy of AI, and conflict of interest disclosures. www.science.org/content/arti...

If you think sophisticated behavioural design > cutting edge techniques for understanding the brain, you might enjoy my journal club article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Here I discuss Clayton & Dickinson's demonstration of episodic-like memories in scrub jays: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Happy to see this paper finally out in @plosbiology.org ! "Sequential neural dynamics underlie unconscious integration and conscious perception of visual stimuli" with Michael Herzog and @davidpascucci.bsky.social #neuroimaging #EEG #consci doi.org/10.1371/jour...

BlueSky tonight

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Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world #WomensArt #Monday

Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

One of the greatest examples of foreshadowing in a movie 🦈🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema