A win for academic freedom. Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

This is Ferdowsi Sq central Tehran. People on the ground say the bombing campaign is beyond anything they have seen and seemingly indiscriminate. Increasingly, Israel and the US appear to be following the Gaza playbook, having failed to achieve a quick regime implosion.

Go Sam!!

Our new work is out in Science Advances. We show that neural activity in the striatum reflects not just cortical inputs, but also often-underappreciated thalamic inputs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ta-Nehisi Coates is brilliant as always. archive.fo/202601261911...

Feels like a pivotal moment. The president is screening a movie about his third wife and crying about a lawsuit challenging his guilded ballroom, while good-hearted Americans looking out for their neighbor are getting murdered by state police. Will Americans finally wake up?

I look forward to @nytimes.com headlines tomorrow that read, "Video appears to show snow falling from sky." "Video appears to show that sky is blue."

Board of Peace - Season 1

Goodbye, my friend. Miss you!

Remembering Adam Kampff, a dear friend, inspirational teacher, and a remarkable human being. He dedicated his life to broadening scientific education and demystifying modern technology to young people around the world. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

Well said, Rui. Adam was one of a kind. Gentle, warm, funny, genuine, and smart. His ability to cut through bullshit and see the big picture catalyzed great science wherever he went. He loved life and shared his joy generously. A huge inspiration. Thanks for all the beautiful memories, my friend!

Great opportunity!

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!