Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer. Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

a message; a word.

cool & fun to live in an era that constantly promises magical scientific solutions to every problem, and then when there actually ARE magical scientific solutions (mRNA vaccines, renewables) they're like lol no fuck you

"Any selective admissions process that ignores income, privilege and structural access while targeting race‑based efforts to increase diversity isn’t leveling the playing field. It’s cementing it." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u... (gift link)

Friends who vote in New Jersey, can you please fill out this short 1-minute survey for GGCNJ? tinyurl.com/NJvoters2025 (feel free to share this link too)

Another great #RLDM conference! Thank you @coolscontrol.bsky.social (general chair), Anne Collins and Stefano Albrecht (program chairs -- a TON of work!), @clairegillan.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social (local chairs -- a gazillion amount of work) and all others who made this happen!

Congratulations to Dr. Jungsun Yoo (@jungsuy.bsky.social) on her successful PhD defense! We're sad that her time with us is past, but excited to see how her future research trajectory unfolds working with @yaelniv.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

Thrilled to have received the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my work on understanding mental health through digital behavior! Thank you to the institute, and so grateful to my amazing advisors @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social for their unwavering support!

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/os...

Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.

This is just not true. The majority view among researchers at this point is that work requirements do not work. There is a reason they do not cite a single study here.

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026! I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory! RT appreciated! (1/5)

Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!

Applying computational models of reinforcement learning can help to improve psychotherapeutic interventions by helping to identify the therapeutic mechanisms of change and identifying for whom therapies will be most effective. @yaelniv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

what’s happening in Gaza keeps me up at night

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Insult to injury: no new funding announcements this Friday, AND early expiration of HEAL initiative to "develop clinical-grade prototype devices..for safe, effective, non-addictive diagnostics/ treatments for pain/ opioid use disorder.' NOT making America Healthy 🙃 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

With no trial or charges in either country. In this case, it is human trafficking. By the U.S. government.

With no trial or charges in either country. In this case, it is human trafficking. By the USA government.

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

I know Mohsen as well. He's a peace activist who opposes all forms of violence and has been outspoken against antisemitism *in the protests* at Columbia. It seems ICE sent him a fake naturalization interview invitation to trap him and detain him. This is cruel, unjust, and illegal. #freeMohsen

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

More videos of parents mourning dead children. This does not make anyone safe.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

This whole going after green card holders thing is absolutely trying to soften going after naturalized citizens. They want a White America. That means pushing Black & brown people out of all high ranking positions & getting rid of immigrants who make up American diversity.

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Furious to report that the US deported Dr. Alawieh despite a judge's order that either came too late or was ignored. Her cousin has filed a complaint in MA district court. If there are ways to support going forward, I'll do a fresh post. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Overjoyed to share that I have received an NOA for my F32 NRSA fellowship with @kennethanorman.bsky.social and @yaelniv.bsky.social! I honestly don't know how it got funded this week, but I'm so thankful to everyone who supported me in this.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

I’m voting no because Trump and Musk don’t want just a shutdown. They want us to stand down in our fight to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and the social safety net.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?

Free Mahmoud. Free Palestine. Fuck fascism.

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Did you know that in the late '70s, >50% of the NIMH budget supported community mental health centers? That rapidly changed in the '80s w/ Regan (with unfortnate consequences). It's not directly analogous to now, but the parallels are worth knowing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_...

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.