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Arizona bioscience is at an inflection point—funding is shifting, but momentum is real. As Founding Dean @asumedicine.bsky.social and a member of the Flinn Foundation Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee, I’m excited for what’s ahead. Join the April 8 webinar: www.flinn.org/webinar2026

The Kentucky Senate passed a bill that would allow colleges to lay off tenured faculty with 30 days of notice if program enrollments are determined to be low, going well beyond the norm of discontinuing the program in order to do layoffs.

What are the downstream implications of censoring high motion volumes in fMRI? Two new preprints find that aggressive censoring leads to noisier FC, more attenuated and variable BWAS, and worse personalized TMS targets. arxiv.org/html/2603.07... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

artefacts in MEG: here, the participant forgot to remove a belt with a metal buckle. the buckle moves when breathing, introducing low frequency artefacts. taking off the belt solves resolves this. 🙂

ICYMI at #CNS2026, we have a new mentorship program! Learn more and sign up NOW to be a mentee or mentor: www.cogneurosociety.org/new-cns-ment... #neuroscience

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

The is a Really Bad Sign www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

We introduce MCMRSimulator. You can simulate many aspects of tissue (restriction, permeability, relaxation, susceptibility, magnetisation transfer). Importantly, you can generate signals for arbitrary MR sequences, giving you different views of the same tissue.

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought Opinion by Zhivar Sourati, Alireza S. Ziabari, & Morteza Dehghani (@mdehghani.bsky.social) Free access before April 30: tinyurl.com/2spm2h97

We are still hiring for our computational focus lab coordinator position! If you have a computational / software engineering background and are looking for more research experience before applying to graduate school, this would be a great fit. Read more about our lab here! www.vislearnlab.org

We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow as part of a recently funded R01 on memory and dementia. Please circulate widely: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Last night in Bloomington, Michael "General Zod" Shannon finished his national tour of playing in an R.E.M. cover band. He sounds eerily like Michael Stipe. Mike Mills made a surprise appearance for "Cuyahoga", and "Don't Fall on Me". Absolutely epic.

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

New review/theory paper out with Julie Bugg, Chris Nuno, and Changrun Huang. The upshot is that we don’t know for certain why it’s so hard to get people to engage proactive control from trial to trial (but it’s fun to think about it and speculate!).

New paper! 🚨 ~1.8K Mooney images from THINGS + ~1K participants to study visual ambiguity resolution. Results suggest the visual system shifts from a top-down guess to bottom-up matching after disambiguation, and a U-shaped link between info gain and identification. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‼️ We are on track for a staggering 98% reduction in posted NIH funding opportunities this year relative to historical norms. Political review and red tape are blocking approval of funding announcements across the board. See Elizabeth Ginexi’s analysis: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...

We believe visual neuroscience is undergoing a paradigm shift — and the Beyond Binding exchange in @TrendsCogSci makes it visible. Five papers, excellent critics, and a discussion that sharpened and nuanced our argument. Thread 👇

New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏

CNS abstracts will soon post in the Proceedings of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Soc., hosted as a dedicated partition of @jocnforum.bsky.social , and authors can then append their posters (or graphical abstract) as a “reply” to the abstract. E.g.s already viewable at …

This is a great point. Attendance for CNS in Vancouver was down, owing to stresses like this. Science slows when we don't keep abreast of new tools and findings. I encourage everyone presenting to post your posters online (blusky, lab websites, whatev) so we can keep our sense of community going!

PI Humility

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

So maybe rest isn’t a privileged window into intrinsic organization after all. Functional architecture may be revealed most clearly when the brain is actively engaged. Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Curious to hear what people think! 8/8

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

Conferences are for science, but they are also for catching up with old friends. Nice to see these and so many others at #CNS2026

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging, schemas and episodic memory, check out Sophie O'Reilly's poster tomorrow 8-10am (D71)

Come see our posters #CNS2026. All three are on session D Monday morning. Fantastic works from Xuan Zhang with @brianlevine.bsky.social, Dr. Erik Wing with @drjenryan.bsky.social and Dr. Lei Zhang with Dr. Claude Alain.

If you're at #CNS2026 and interested in aging & memory, come see @emilyedavis.bsky.social's poster on implicit associative memory tomorrow at 8am (#63)

Check this 👇🏽 out if you’re interested in brain resilience & aging. #cns2026 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Hey #CNS2026, a fun set of posters for you to check out from the Mnemology Lab! Kicking it off Saturday morning is Maxi Becker's Datablitz (how German!): Neural mechanisms of insight: nonlinear cortical representational change This won her the CNS Postdoc Fellowship Award! (also Poster A67)

Why is @cnsmtg.bsky.social STILL posting on twitter?

attending @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026? Check out these posters from @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows: Adithya Anil, Indian Institute of Technology "Toward Translational Mechanisms of Learned Helplessness: Linking Behavior, Computation, and Neural Modulation" D123 Mon am

🚨Another new one from the lab! Cascades and convergence: Dynamic signal flow in a synapse-level brain network We simulate sensory cascades in a bona fide biological neural network. With Caio Seguin, Maria Grazia Puxeddu, and @misicbata.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/complexsyste...

🚨 New Paper: Controlling the Human Connectome with Spatially Diffuse Input Signals Now in press at Communications Biology! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

Inter- and intra-individual variability in structure-function coupling in human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707886v1

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Important editorial on the proliferation of accelerated TMS schedules www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

📣New preprint out on False Memory With coauthors: Safak Erener, Simon W Davis, Roberto Cabeza When knowledge interferes with perception: Neural mechanisms of the semantic amplification of visual false memory Preprint at: doi.org/10.64898/202... @woodforbrains.bsky.social @synecphory.bsky.social

🧠 Our fun new study in @currentbiology.bsky.social, where @pbogdan.bsky.social used fMRI & LLM embeddings from a schema encoding dataset to show that relational semantics have distinct patterns of representation from concept semantics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... w/@synecphory.bsky.social

New paper from the lab now out online! @changrun-huang.bsky.social asked whether people use informative pre-cues to up-regulate cognitive control in the spatial Stroop task. Surprisingly, they do not, and we rule out some possible reasons why. Enjoy!

Good to see journalists scrutinizing “The Edge Network,” an intellectual circle of academic men who think that women are inherently inferior to men. (and great interview by @laurenaulet.bsky.social) 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Currently recruiting 2 postdoc fellows, 1 Ph.D student and 1 research assistant to work on research projects about the EEG/fMRI mechanisms underlying temporal cognition and their modulations using VR. DM if interested!

It was so much fun to join @jsirven.bsky.social on WJCT’s "What’s Health Got to Do With It?". At @asumedicine.bsky.social, we’re preparing doctors for the next era of medicine which must be predictive, preventive, and scalable. news.wjct.org/show/whats-h...