A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Glad the national audience got to see how good TMac is today. Such a complete receiver—wins at the line of scrimmage (😑), elite catch radius, deep threat ability. My OROY.

12/30 Birthday Team (text version) C:A.J. Pierzynski (23.7 WAR) 1B:Frank Torre (3.9) 2B:Jim Viox (9.6) 3B:Connie Day (1.9) SS:Ed Caskin (4.2) LF:Drew Waters (0.5) CF:Derek Hill (0.8) RF:Dick Porter (7.9) SP:Sandy Koufax (48.9) Others: T.Anderson, G.Balfour, T.Murphy, R.Prim, J.Morales

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Headlines like this make me feel increasingly uncomfortable

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Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher A. Brown, David A. Wolk, et al: Fully individualized models for cross-sectional and longitudinal network-based tau spread doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

trying to get my dataviz class to stop using geom_point() + geom_segment() and instead use geom_pointrange() #rstats

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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This is really, really sad to see. Have come across a lot of international trainees from China in my career and the vast majority were interested in staying in the US in one sector or another (industry or academia), and ALL of them were good people and thoughtful scientists

I think this might be my best one all time ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 972 9/9: Rarity: 11 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ➡️ See my grid: www.sports-reference.com/immaculate-g...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

Leavitt Sr also on record saying his “only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son.” Pretty important for a child’s well-being to spend time with his mother, especially during the holidays, imo

Bolsonaro catching typhus, dengue, hantavirus, and the plague all at once like

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person. All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

So much Bsky discourse is people with strong ideological conception arguing as if the people with weak ideological conception don’t exist

My latest — a survey of fMRI methods for affective scientists

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

Neural Tracking of the Maternal Voice in the Infant Brain www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Used TRF to look at how 7-month-old human infants track maternal vs unfamiliar speech & if this affects simultaneous face processing - maternal speech enhances neural tracking & alter how faces are processed

The Mamdani speech nearly had me in tears. It is beyond relieving to see someone with his profile right now unapologetically support, among other groups, immigrants that came here seeking a better life.

looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia

No words

Man, Rico Dowdle runs like someone has his family locked in a cabin somewhere and will only release them if he has a big game

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

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! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

My wife and I have started the ancient practice of "going to a local brewery on weekends when local sports teams are on and yukking it up with strangers who are clearly there to do the same" and gang it's a fucking balm for the soul

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle. Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

About 120 pages in, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan is a wonderful novel, with a note-perfect integration of near-collapse the backdrop for a compelling literary and historical mystery. I've always loved McEwan at the top of his form.

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

What a treat to listen to Dr. Susan Carey give a guest lecture on the discipline of Psychology, “then and now”, for us here at @uwpsych.bsky.social

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

I think this is one of the more important articles I've written in my career. Draws on lots of research and data. I hope it can be a reference for people and that it will make a positive impact. Goes out to all Strength In Numbers readers tomorrow morning: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

Excited to share my latest preprint, a study from my postdoc days on the social neuroscience of mental representational change! Leveraging two cohorts of first year high schoolers, we used RSA to show that spontaneously evoked mental representations of known others grow more idiosyncratic with time

Finally published: “Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.