Now that we have Hidden Markov Models do we still need correlation matrices?? 😀 For example, this looks cool. (I'm aware that HMMs are not new, I played with them in grad school...) doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #neuroskyence

for all the lil gremlins (affectionate) — but not the gremlins (derogatory) — you might like to hear it read out by a wonderful person who randomly just did this (if you read this: thank you!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO...

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵

🚨 UNC Psych & Neuro is hiring TWO Teaching Assistant Professors (one Psych, one Neuro) starting July 2026! If you love creating engaging classroom experiences and mentoring undergrads, please consider applying or sharing widely. Check it out + apply by Jan 14 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

"Gorsuch followed up with a straightforward query: 'Could the president impose a 50 percent tariff on gas-powered cars and autoparts to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat from abroad of climate change?' " 😲😲😲 slate.com/news-and-pol...

Talairach Lecture - huge thanks to OHBM for putting this (very nervous) lecture online! youtube.com/watch?v=3iWp... OHBM 2025 Keynote Lecture Speaker: Paul Thompson Title: Talairach Lecture: Worldwide Collaboration & Artificial Intelligence in the Global Quest to Map Human Brain Diseases. 👇

AAUP: IU is not MAGA University! Faculty and students speak against the Trump Compact and abuses by the IU upper administration. Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support. Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...

Lovely write-up of our postdoc Maxi Becker's magical work on insight and it's role in memory. www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-bra...

Needs to be updated with 2 more novels and an amazing bookstore in the state that needs it most. @legroff.bsky.social @thelynxbooks.bsky.social

You can read both the manifesto and the report here: www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148... and some coverage in e.g. the @foliacivitatis.bsky.social here www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

What is the representation underlying cognition? Formal models rely on multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments to derive the representation. In this preprint with @mdlbayes.bsky.social, we take an alternative approach; we build Bayesian generative models for three cognitive tasks. /1

Here it is: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

Day of the Dead funeral for The Rule of Law at the Bloomington farmer's market.

Happy Halloween from the Indiana Psych Department!

A reminder that today at 12 PM, the IMPACT Collaboratory will host its informational webinar about the #ADRD demonstration project grants. Please use the link to register.

I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲

Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates *and* uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results. Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks. 🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

AAUP member Deborah Cohn's overview of IU's censorship and disinvestment in the IDS, one of Bloomington's most important sources for local news and journalism medium.com/@dncohn/ius-...

IU’s decision to suspend the print publication of its student newspaper is costing the institution: Alumni are pulling donations in protest. The university ended the IDS’s print edition after firing the paper’s adviser.

Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7

Our department is looking to hire faculty teaching undergraduates in our pioneering bachelor's in clinical science: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/31053 Come be my colleague (if you have good vibes)

Do you know that the Memory Palace publishes research not only in English but also in Spanish? Check out this post from Sarah Robins to know more about this initiative! thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/fiesta-en-...

If any wavering trustee needed a sign that no self-respecting school should sign on to Trump’s protection racket, this is it.

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning? In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

"It's past time to recognize that university administrators aren't going to lead the way out of this, [setting] the stage for leadership... from faculty, staff, & students, [where] most if not all progress in higher ed over the past 100 yrs has occurred." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AcademicSky

Say it isn’t so!? @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social

One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).

Fluctuations in #AlphaOscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how? @joeyzhou.bsky.social @haegenslab.bsky.social &co show that alpha associated with the #visual system modulate sensitivity, while #sensorimotor alpha affects decision criteria @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ho3ecR

⭐ My lab is recruiting a grad student for fall 2026! ⭐ 🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab

If you want to know the latest on the government's 'compact' (i.e. extortion) offer to universities, you can use this tracker. Feel free to suggest edits as well. #academia docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

“These are programs that provide value and growth to the state in various ways, so this really is about not just the university as an institution and our students and faculty, but the Nebraska community as a whole,” Kelsy Burke, a sociology professor and AAUP member, said. @aaup.org

You probably already know this, but today was the first full missed pay check for most of your friends, colleagues, POs and SROs at the NIH. Stay strong out there folks. If you need help, ask for it. As always, try to be kind.

📖 Editor Spotlight: APA features PBS Associate Chair Jonathon Crystal for his research on animal learning and cognition. 🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio. #iub #iubloomington #psychology #research #faculty

When I moved to BCM, an extremely talented movement disorders neurologist, Nora Vanegas Arroyave, reached out to discuss brain circuits responsible for non-motor deficits in Parkinson's Disease. I have learned so much from her and from this collaboration. One paper out, more to come!

A couple of computational neuroscience positions at UT Dallas. This is an emerging program with great collaboration potential. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30394

Are you looking to do independent research related to machine learning and/or data science? Want to get some teaching experience too? Apply to be a faculty fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University! Positions are for two years. apply.interfolio.com/174686

I grew up hearing my dad, a historian, talk about the civil rights history of my hometown. But recently he told me a mind-blowing story I had never heard before: how Martin Luther King, Jr. was very nearly killed by a local crank in 1964. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-t...

Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | arxiv.org/abs/2510.16327