RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.

A true Hero.

The @nytimes has been climbing this mountain for a while...congrats on getting there, everyone.

"'The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing,' [Claudine] Gay said. 'There is no justification.'" SAY IT AGAIN DEAN GAY. #Harvard www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

Kill the poor? Wow. This is getting really dark really fast.

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

..democracy often erodes slowly at first... But with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading to the demise of democracy.

A randomized trial of for eye care by ophthalmologists with A.I. vs ophthalmologists without A.I. demonstrated much higher accuracy in diagnosis (92 vs 74%) and many other improved outcomes @NatureMedicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement @kiahhardcastle.bsky.social @olveczky.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What do neuroscience labs and the streets of New York City have in common? They are both commonly home to rats, a feature this research team is leveraging to study rat social cognition in the wild. By @martajhill.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/social-cogni...

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

An excellent but devastating piece on the Israeli assassination of the brave and beloved Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o... This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call. Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Happening right here in Boston.

Same same, but different.. 😊

Dog’s reaction to feeling the baby’s kick for the first time.. 😊

Also, check out this cool write-up in Harvard Gazette on this work! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Proud to be associated with this work led by Kiah Hardcastle and Jesse Marshall. It parses the role of the basal ganglia in the control of learned and innate behaviors, showing that they are essential for one but not the other. Then digs deeper to find the neural basis for this difference. Congrats!

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

In all God’s creation, is there a big enough hot dog costume for Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School

Devastating and cruel barbarity brought to you by morally bankrupt US politicians who supported and bankrolled this all the way. Biden and his Jake Sullivans started it, Trump and his henchmen keep it going. The worst atrocity of my lifetime made possible with the help of my tax dollars.

A true visionary, Roberts Wilson put his mark on theatre and opera like few others. His collaborations with Tom Waits, Philipp Glass and others were truly original and inspiring. Also a nice guy according to my mom who worked with him on Peer Gynt. RIP! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

This is brave and correct. Like my colleague, I wrote to President Garber. The crux of my message:

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen. Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Yet in the US, including at revered places of learning and scholarship, our main worry is not that our government funds and supports genocide, but that young people of conscience are speaking up against it. I hope that will change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀 Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

Past as prologue: those who attacked the French parliament on Feb 6 1934...

One thing to emphasize strongly is that funding to science is like oxygen to the brain. Temporarily restricting oxygen flow for ten minutes (while you figure your shit out) is going to have the same outcome as shutting oxygen off permanently. We are close to the ten minute mark.

Well-researched and utterly devastating piece on the complicity of the US in the Gaza war. nymag.com/intelligence...

Yes, we all have outrage fatigue, but we must not get complacent about these horrific and cynical murders, which continue to claim the lives of innocent starving people. A total horror show that barely registers anymore in US media.

Listen to this!

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

If a foreign government conspired to decimate US science and technology in a manner akin to what Project 2025 architects purport to do, we would go to war. Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.

It’s magic.. 😂

To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

Just amazing. How dumb we are. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Not a fan of David Brooks, but this is spot on. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose to war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

A Message from Bruce Springsteen