I don't want a new pair of Uggs this year, just donate to DF in my name.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yifan Yu, Thomas E. Nichols, et al: CBMR: Coordinate-based meta-regression for group and covariate inference doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

The BOLD signal may not be what we thought it was. BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Talking live on Substack tonight with @corbintrent.bsky.social at 7pm EST, tune in: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

“Rather than lying low and hoping to fly under the radar, we are proposing a strategy of strength in numbers. It is all the more urgent now to work in solidarity to safeguard higher education in this country.” #defendhighered #academicsky

Just provisionally accepted -- preprint updated | The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honestly, I couldn't say -- I'm hardly an expert in pre-whitening. Luckily, Mandy Mejia is a co-author on the paper (and also wrote this awesome blogpost, like, 10 years ago). We basically followed her approach as close as possible. mandymejia.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/h...

Frustrated Trump Struggling To Find Any Infrastructure Left In Indiana To Destroy https://theonion.com/frustrated-trump-struggling-to-find-any-infrastructure-left-in-indiana-to-destroy/

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by S. Rezvan Farahibozorg, Stephen M. Smith, et al: Multiscale modes of functional brain connectivity doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

ICYMI: Here's a recording of today's talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ae... @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @kendraseaman.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @cvlneuro.bsky.social

It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Why do some things stick in memory while others fade? Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in @motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/ Join us! (link below)

Something is getting lost in a lot of applications of "semantic" LLMs to brain data: LLMs mix taxonomic and non-taxonomic features. "Is a cat" vs "has a tail". This is a problem because taxonomic features are by nature generalizable, unspecified. Informative, but dilute specificity.

Low-key devastating to look at all of the great funding announcements posted on the NIA website, as see that the majority of them are "expired" before their planned expiry date. www.nia.nih.gov/research/gra... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

1/ Our new paper is out in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 We validated in-vivo MRI–based axon radius mapping by comparison to large-scale human brain histology (> 46 M axons & 35 CC-ROIs). Title: “MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation”

Banner flying over Indianapolis today, in advance of the BIG10 face-off.

Multilayer network science: theory, methods, and applications arxiv.org/abs/2511.23371

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day 🎉

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Hey look, Notice on Implementation of Common Forms Biosketch and Other Support for Due Dates on/after Jan 25, 2026. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Exciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends! Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New lab paper: "Emotional learning selectively distorts the temporal organization of memory: A quantitative synthesis." Across 17 different studies, fear conditioning consistently distorted temporal source memory for information encoded before and after. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education's new policy is threatening shared governance and academic freedom. "This policy is the latest effort by Indiana's politicians to take power away from faculty & cheapen the education students have access to in Indiana." - @iubaaup.bsky.social

What is the burden in the US of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases? Spoiler alert: there are surges beyond the pure numbers and we need to raise awareness for the increases in both disability and burden. Parkinson disease has shown the largest growth in burden on society. cutt.ly/xtyUtS0D

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀? Do they even exist...? Join @lucinauddin.bsky.social who will present, followed by discussion in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. Open to all. Date: Dec 9, 12pm EST-US Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (you need a zoom account which is free) #neuroskyence

It’s time to roll back New College's 1975 merger agreement and turn the school over to the alumni who love her and continue to fight for her. www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinio...

I do think formal and informal faculty groups need to be thinking about their boards, how they are constituted, and what routes to change exist. The time of assuming that faculty no-confidence votes mean anything has passed.

We're thrilled to announce the publication of our newest paper in @plosone.org 🎉 "Aging and episodic memory specificity: Evidence challenging a domain-general pattern separation decline" Read Dr. Youm's full paper here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @melaniecohn.bsky.social #Memory #Psychology #Aging

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

We launched a PAC! “This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

“This is yet another rollback of academic freedom & shared governance. It’s not the place of a state—it’s not the place of politicians—to tell faculty such things & it opens a door for political reprisal, for other ways to limit academic freedom.” - Noor O'Neill, President AAUP Indiana Conference

4 days ago, the deadline for signing The Compact passed, no takers. We should celebrate the courage of those universities that rejected it outright. The Indiana govt is unsatisfied with that lack of state control, every new major gets a civics litmus test. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots. My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt

New paper from my lab showing evidence that the retrieval state is engaged following rather than preceding stimulus onset. This suggests that the retrieval state reflects internal attention recruited once an attentional target has been specified. longtermmemorylab.com/wp-content/u...

"Competitive but not discussed" really bringing me back to my single years

Patients who took a daily semaglutide pill for 2yrs did not demonstrate a significant difference from those given placebo on a commonly used Alzheimer’s disease (CDR-SB) rating scale despite improving AD- biomarkers. Betting on MOA is > than chance. endpoints.news/novo-nordisk...

Babe wake up, new Cortazar reissue www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

The Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication conference conference will take place May 6-9 at Washington University in St. Louis. (This conference combines the highly successful Aging and Speech Communication and CHSCOM conferences.) Looks fantastic! sites.wustl.edu/casc/

"Indiana University, one of the great American public universities, is currently melting down with a speed and violence unprecedented in the history of higher education." utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...

Excellent opinion piece about the "compact" from a legal perspective. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti... 1/7

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark: Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Merenstein et al show structural brain connectivity, measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved predictions of age-related alterations in brain function and cognitive performance, relative to standard spatial resolution buff.ly/0IOgtRX @jmerenstein.bsky.social @nba-eic.bsky.social

Garrett Stanley and I are leading the recruitment of a senior faculty position in BME at Georgia Tech and Emory, focused on Neural Engineering. Come talk to us, we're looking for a leader in research and training, in areas with neurotranslation potential. More details here: lnkd.in/eusCqCSR

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