New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

🚨Please join us today (Monday 11/17) at 4pm in Room 4 to #AskAnything to Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social Dr. Sabine Kastner about scientific publishing and our board! Early career researchers are especially welcome! @sfn.org #Sfn2025 #SfN25

🎉 Dr. Linden Parkes, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at @rwjms.bsky.social and Core Faculty Member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute, has been named one of The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025! @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

What does brain criticality have to do with cognitive effort and cognitive flexibility? Come check out work by Dr. Li Xin Lim - postdoc in the lab - on Monday from 8 to 12 at (Board OO6) to find out. Here we come #SfN2025!

Another new policy from the geniuses in NIH leadership. Apparently, ~70% of grant applications for most mechanisms will not be "triaged", i.e. not discussed at study section. This is an increase from the ~50% level that has been in place for many years. I don't know the rationale for this 1/13

Come check out my SFN nano talk @ 4:15 on Sunday, especially if you’re interested in: - spicy debates in task switching - using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!

Going to SfN this year? Come share your science journey with @investnscience.bsky.social — from the questions that drive your work to the breakthroughs that inspire you. We are a group of scientists highlighting how science benefits everyone. DM me to sign up or with any questions!

Don’t you hate when you buy something from a vending machine and it gets stuck? Dopamine tells your brain that the outcome wasn’t what you expected. You've probably heard about dopamine as the "feel-good hormone", but it does so much more!

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

#MeaslesIsADangerousVirus www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

How does drinking alcohol shape the aging brain? @neuronikki.bsky.social studies how heavy drinking impacts neurons as we age. Research has shown that alcohol use disorder (AUD) in middle age increases the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia - but how?

I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested! Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...

An earlier piece by @teorth.bsky.social about the US scientific ecosystem.

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Proud to talk about defending the Constitution in front of the Capitol this week. We are seeing the greatest assault on our freedoms of our lifetimes. The shredding of the Constitution must stop. The lawlessness must stop. And Congress can and must stop it.

The fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣📣📣 CALL TO ACTION - 🚨 🚨🚨 A thread on how you can join a growing chorus of federal workers and members of the public pressuring Congress to embrace its power and end the authoritarian takeover #FightingCR

Not all treatments for depression work: Mel studies promising alternative drug pathways. #depression #depressionTreatment #novelTheraputics #investNscience #neurosky

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Delighted to share our latest review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience! We examine the growing evidence that vascular dysfunction plays a key role in cognitive decline in ageing and dementia, and argue that preserving/restoring CBF should be central to future therapies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can the way we sense and detect pain change? Julia's work aims to help people with chronic pain. #neuroscience #pain #chornicpain #neurosky #neurobiology #academicsky #investNscience

What causes cerebral palsy? Connor studies how strokes early in life can change brain architecture. #cerebralpalsy #neuroscience #neurosky #academicsky #healthyfuture #investNscience

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

Apply for the opportunity to serve on JNeurosci’s Early Career Researcher Advisory Board to get more involved in scientific publishing and advocate as an early career researcher. Learn more and submit your application by July 25, 2025, 5pm ET: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-board-applications

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Could there be a better treatment for IBD? @srudas.bsky.social studies treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease using therapies to regrow gut lining - addressing the root cause of the disease and using the body to heal itself. #academicsky #researchsky #IBD #IBDtreatments #investnscience

Could a simple blood test help diagnose Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease? Allison studies how neurodegenerative diseases develop with an eye towards tools for earlier detection. #neurosky #academicsky #parkinsons #alzheimers #dementia #earlydetection #diagnosis

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.” Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪

South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social

Anxiety helps us stay alert, but too much can interfere with daily life. Camila studies how trauma and stress can change the brain and make anxiety spiral out of control. #anxiety #stress #trauma #amygdala #neuroskyence #investinscience

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

CAHBIR at Rutgers University is looking for a Lead Research MRI Technologist. CAHBIR is a research-only facility that focuses on neuroimaging, and other MR imaging projects. If you are interested, see the information flier linked, and apply online! go.rutgers.edu/mri-tech

*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! *** How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis? The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

May we become a nation worthy of Rumeysa Ozturk's faith.

Over the past weeks I've had 2 major grants terminated, from EPA and NSF. Over $1 million of funding for human-enviro geography research lost. These terminations have negative impacts for myself, my graduate students, my university, community partners, and society. #withoutNSF #geosky 1/9 🧪

Sign up for our *free* online Science Communication Workshop on May 5&7! Tinyurl.com/scicomins Featuring our incredible workshop instructor @choano.bsky.social and our amazing social media science communication panel: @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social, @danmirea.bsky.social, and @moadlc.bsky.social.

Excited to share the first major piece of work and preprint from my lab! Led by Jason Kim! 🥳🎉🤘 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to SUNY Faculty Senate for passing their mutual defense resolution! It's linked below. That makes 14 university/college senates nationwide: Rutgers Nebraska Indiana Michigan State Michigan Ohio State Washington Maryland Minnesota UMass Hunter City College Hostos SUNY

The brain keeps count: concussions and drinking in our teenage years may increase risk for demetia. @drvita.bsky.social researches this relationship. #academicsky #neurosky #concussion #adolescence #dementia #investinscience