1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

We’re currently running an online study on aging and attention! If you’re interested in participating or know someone who might be, here is the link with more information: brocku.ca/lifespan-dev...

What really happens in the brain when we make a decision? 🤔🧠 New research from PBS Professor Tom James challenges theories of decision-making. Read the story at the link in our bio. #research #psychology #decisionmaking

📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A handy action guide open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

New analysis of patients awaiting surgery with intracranial recording in Neuron: Rapid strengthening and reversal of hippocampal-neocortical interplay mediates human memory formation www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

The democratic socialists of America have a higher favorability rating than the democrat party. Among dem voters that is. Love how specific this poll was. It literally called out Dsa, not just democratic socialism. #socialism #dsa #winning

🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture

We have a new Cognitive Control Collaborative website: www.cognitivecontrol.net Six labs, more than 20 trainees, six years of collaboration (and counting). Consider joining us, many of us are looking for new grad students in the fall!

When a respected and very well-liked dean is removed to become a "special advisor", you know big changes that said dean does not support are in the wind...

I’m excited to present my poster today on longitudinal changes in the control energy of brain state transitions in older adults at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Come say hi! Poster #2160 Wed 17th, 13:45–14:45 & Thu 18th, 14:45–15:45 #OHBM2026

#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L

Openly shared implementation of TMS targeting is still rare, so we are pleased to make ours freely available for research use: github.com/ThomasYeoLab... Let us know if you have any issue running it!

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]

Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034). Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it! 5calls.org/issue/federa...

A reasonable hire in the CSR? grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

One year after 300+ NIH staff signed the #BethesdaDeclaration, the #NIH has descended into hell. Jay Bhattacharya gaslights as Russ Vought dismantles the NIH, little by little, disrupts funding, replaces valuable non-partisan expertise w/ political ideology. Detailed 🧵 🧪 archive.today/5Yb1j

Are you attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social next week? If so, please visit our posters to say 👋🏽 and learn about our latest findings from the Brain Health at Midlife & Menopause (BHAMM) Study! #womensbrainhealth @bheamlab.bsky.social @rosannaolsen.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social

Jessica Adams, an IU lecturer in the school of social work, was investigated last year after displaying a graphic on white supremacy in class. Now, she won't be reappointed. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-06...

ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

My alma mater is the focus of a whole episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight! New College was the canary in the coalmine for the current assault on academia. Watch how we went from the most dynamic, independent schools in the US to a bland Republican failure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMc...

Wonderfully informative article by fellow neuropsychologist, Karen Sullivan, regarding the current trend in AD blood-based biomarker collection. Please read if you (or your loved ones) are considering undergoing blood biomarker testing for Alzheimer's related changes. 🧪 abpp.org/newsletter-p...

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

From the Queen of TMS Meta-analyses, @lysiannebeynel.bsky.social, evidence that psychotherapy paired with rTMS is clinically effective over sham Better results w/ non-concurrent pairing, a welcome finding for those of us with voices softer than a TMS machine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New target for TMS interventions in AD...Cerebellum! www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

New preprint from down under: Can acute TMS effects on dynamic brain states predict subsequent symptom change during treatment for depression? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #restinstateEEG #TMS #Depression #HMM #longitudinal

Upset about the unlawful Vought/OMB proposed rule? Don’t think we should kiss peer review goodbye & let politicians fund science based on patronage & whims? Beyond commenting & calling congress, you can also add your voice to the call to remove Russell Vought. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

Nice to see it has 100 citations on Google Scholar since 2023. Review articles are stressful. The moment they appear they are already outdated and there is this fear that one missed some important paper. (There is a good chance we did). academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

How long can humans live? "If anti-ageing research worked, even a little, it would be obvious. An eight-year reduction in biological age would halve the risk of death. It would not need marketing." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our new review with @mfarjo.bsky.social on what we know about the functional and evolutionary consequences of virus-virus interactions within viral populations, out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Hope you like it!

Another thoughtful piece by Michael (of @colemanlab.bsky.social)…

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jacob Maaz, Arnaud Rey, et al: Non-specific increase in alpha power during a neurofeedback session targeting its downregulation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Love to see Dana Spiotta in print, especially for an inspiring review of a book on the Weather Underground 😃✊️ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

🧵(1) Here's my statement: I'm a private citizen who cares about federally funded research. Political appointee approval of grants is nonsense. Medical research is because medical conditions do not discriminate. One's political affiliation does not determine whether a person develops cancer or

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Stopping Vought’s proposed rule will be critical to save science and future cures. @standupforscience.net created an action center to help you comment and contact Congress. Time to get loud! fight2win.standupforscience.net

Chenonceau: mesoscopic MRI deep phenotyping of a post-mortem human brain at 7 and 11.7 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.726838v1

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

AS PROMISED: Stop Vought. Save Science. The @standupforscience.net action center is live: fight2win.standupforscience.net REGISTER for our Emergency Science Meeting (6/2, 4pm et), Call and email Congress, and leave your public comment all in one place! #standupforscience #TakeActionNow

Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social

Save a lot of $ by returning all deans, ass deans, and ass provosts to faculty positions and administer by faculty governance instead of letting the lawyer from Jurassic park run the show

I spent 22 years as an NIH Program Officer. When I read the "evaluation strategy" in NIH's Gold Standard Science implementation plan, I laughed out loud. Here's the case for why it was never a real plan. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/evaluation...

Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Glad to finally have this paper out and wrapped up -- our last "edgy" paper before NSF grant expired The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction Work led by @h-merritt.bsky.social with @mandymejia.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence