One might be forgiven for believing that nature's anger at today's political news is manifesting in the fierce thunderstorms in the sky tonight above Indiana.

In a new preprint, I review findings of gray matter microstructural aging, as assessed by diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) — a technique that has historically been limited to studying aging of white matter microstructure: osf.io/e5u49_v1

No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

Saw this chart and had a thought so I ran some numbers… r=0.85

This NYT article on VNS devices is a little too dismissive of their potential. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Excited to be giving a talk at #VSS2026 tomorrow! Come by the multisensory session at 11am, Room 1. I'll be presenting our recent fMRI study examining how the human hippocampus combines visual and auditory information. preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.01.708855

One thing I wish we talked about more explicitly with #earlycareer faculty is how gradually the pool of people who'll write their tenure letters develops. Impressions form slowly over the pre-tenure years, which makes visibility much easier to build over time than to manufacture later.

Memorability as an Emergent Property: How Representational Structure Creates Apparent Intrinsic Effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

Senator Schiff wants a former hedge fund manager (NSF nominee Jim O’Neill) to award grants for “AI Literacy” programs that will promote the views of tech bros. Meanwhile, NSF has been decimated: only 903 awards in FY2026, a mere 25% of FY21-24 cc: @jacquelyngill.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Our new paper on aging and temporal order memory (with @jzacks.bsky.social) is now out in Psych & Aging! Using a narrative paradigm, we found that older adults have preserved event-based memory organization and show greater knowledge-related benefits in temporal memory than younger adults. 🌟

“The message, very clearly, they’re sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, you’re going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." — Roger Innes, IU AAUP member

Totally wired to share this: TMS affects memory representations in MCI! Parietal TMS is emerging as an intervention for AD, but relies on a systems explanation (connectivity w/ hippocampus) Here's data for a complimentary view: these benefits emerge due to boosting memory representations

Coordinated human prefrontal dynamics sustain task-state representations during learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

Giving at talk tomorrow at Women in Neuroscience. Stoked to share all the cool things BRAIN has been supporting. Also peep the very old, but still my favorite, headshot by @bwjones.bsky.social neurowomen.org

Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietalmemory modulation in Mild Cognitive Impairment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723648v1

Commentary by Chen, Rosen & Polimeni in the same issue: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Indiana's "intellectual diversity" law is a fundamental assault on core principles of academic freedom & institutional autonomy that has created a climate of fear & political survailance. "I now have to constantly look over my shoulder & figure out if I have followed a law I do not understand."

Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

Please don’t forget that the story about the hack broke widely on MONDAY. And instead of preparing campus contingencies, administrators kept it quiet. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

This is some pretty tone-deaf shit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Learn more about the BRAIN Initiative Research Roadmap, and the BRAIN Directors vision of the future of neuroscience! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

sometimes I am asked which is the best book/resource for starting out with EEG/MEG. I think my pick would be this one! 'MEG-EEG primer' academic.oup.com/book/46874 beautiful illustrations throughout & the side-by-side discussion of EEG & MEG makes a lot of sense.

The final typeset version of this paper is online now! Check out the new analysis approach that Narjes developed to track changes in event structure at multiple timescales, allowing us to see how event dynamics in a film clip change with repeated viewing

New paper looking at age differences in the neural correlates of attentional selection & distractor suppression, led by @retorresh.bsky.social with @emrich.bsky.social 🧵 #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr

“Red states are trying to outdo one another on who can create the most undemocratic, antifaculty legislation.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

🆘 🗞️ of the Day Yesterday, we started bargaining on AI & Ed Technology issues. With cases like Arizona State likely to proliferate, it is critical that we get a contract that protects our intellectual property. https://loom.ly/IbUlFZ4

The Emotion & Cognition lab is recruiting for a full-time project assistant. If you know of any graduating seniors looking for a research position, please let them know! usc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/ExternalUSCC...

Also receiving a NAS award was Ilya Sutskever, cofounder of OpenAI whose new company Safe Superintelligence (currently just a webpage) is valued at $32 billion. The current budget of NSF is $9 billion; Trump wants to cut to $4 billion. Make this math make sense. >>

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

Indiana University is in great financial health, according to a recent independent analysis. The report says administrative costs have grown significantly while instruction and faculty pay lagged. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

I also want to address the use of the word "clean," which implies that grants that use "misaligned" words like "minority," "gender," "latinx," "equity," "lived experience," or "social determinants of health" are dirty. This kind of language matters. Grants that address these issues are not dirty.

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

📢‼️🧠 The Duke School of Medicine is searching for a new Chair of Neurology. Letter of Interest and CV due May 22. Come join us in beautiful North Carolina! medschool.duke.edu/about-us/lea...

I'm looking for a post-bac research assistant to help run our studies on the impact of psychedelics on memory! Preferably with an interest in cognitive neuroscience (not just psychedelics or clinical research) and knowledge of coding/data analysis. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory www.eneuro.org/content/13/4... More evidence for a (not-inhibitory) role for oscillatory dynamics in the low beta band in the encoding of priority in WM

I don't play favorites, but one of my favorite new papers from our lab. 99% of credit goes to Dr. Patrick Laing: Effects of novelty and reward-based fear extinction on memory generalization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719913v1

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Washington Hilton, where Trump will soon be arriving for the White House correspondents’ dinner. End the cover-up.