And, for completeness’ sake, Dan Ariely asking to add Jeffrey Epstein to his professional network on LinkedIn bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Nature's Impact Factor is in the Epstein Files. Really.

Man is it hot in Sunny Ego today! 75 feels like 80. Maybe I cold adapted after a week at #WCBR2026?

I swear ski conferences are sadistic experiments cooked up by motor and rehabilitation neuroscientists to remind mid-life academics that motor plasticity is a finite resource. #wcbr2026

I wrote again to Director Bhattacharya about the "Reclaiming Science" monstrosity from yesterday. 1/3

What an undertaking this was. So proud of the collection @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social , @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social , @cbaunez.bsky.social and I collected for the “Stress, Trauma and Cannabinoids” special issue in @psychopharmacology.bsky.social Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I assume a lot of people are going to claim to have been working undercover to expose nefarious goings-on

With 8 person chairlifts the odds of getting at least one debate over whether gummis or smoking a joint are better snowboarding preparation approaches unity, right? #WCBR2026

CBD reduces oxycodone self-administration in a manner that is unrelated to alleviating pain. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

NGL the prospect of #ACNP2027 in Sunny Ego sandwiched between #ACNP2026 and #ACNP2028 in the Bahamas generates some imposter syndrome.

Lab member: can I show you some data? Me, 9am: YES Me, 8pm: YES Me, 3am: YES Me, while undergoing surgery: YES

Spotted in the Bahamas during #ACNP2026, great reminder of the legendary career of Sidney Poitier.

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Pacific Beach offers an opinion on matters political.

E-cigarette vaping remains high in adolescent populations tlneuro.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/e...

We can't work with foreign collaborators, but they can send money to a foreign PI to conduct an ethically questionable study in a vulnerable population in another foreign country? This is what corruption looks like.

Vaping has remained constant in this population, at 15-16%. monitoringthefuture.org/data/bx-by/d...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci🛟 🫁💊 Nicotine pouch use (last 30 days) in 12th graders has tripled in the last two years, from 1.1% to 4.4%, according to new Monitoring The Future data. monitoringthefuture.org/data/bx-by/d...

Sneaky!

Never expected to have to call @repscottpeters.bsky.social office about the fact pirating oil tankers and ginning up fake war pretexts is bad but here we are. Call your Congress Critter, friends.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

Good news, frustrated profs! Finally someone will read the syllabus.

Nothing enhances academic morale quite as much as announcing a search for another Ass Dean right after informing the faculty that they plan to whack tens of thousands of dollars off their retirement income level.

Absolutely baddie running around everywhere to get shit done, useless man lurching back and forth while everyone else struggles to protect him from the consequences of his actions. Name a more iconic couple.

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo arstechnica.com/information-...

hmmm somehow there's some subtle difference in tone or shading, you might say, that exempts musk himself from this concern about foreign-born people taking part in american democracy

“I love the smell of gaslighting in the morning!” -Dean

Hahah Darrel Issa is now “threatening” to carpetbag off to Texas to try to stay in Congress? Ahahahahaa.

This is Judge William Young who also ruled that NIH grant terminations were illegal and also called out the racism even though it was not an issue raised in the case. It is satisfying when judges call out clearly what is presented to them.

I've heard horror stories from friends and colleagues in the Humanities about this. Thankfully it was never a thing in STEM

6-methyl nicotine is appearing in e-cigarette products in an attempt to evade federal and state regulation of nicotine products. Our initial study is now published. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If white santa lady isn't trying to excuse the behavior, why is she saying this? What purpose does it serve to try to say these girls "would look legal"? and barf "legal". come the fuck on Megyn.

The New Innovators fo 2025? They are not up on the usual website, but here they are: reporter.nih.gov/search/bjtc8...

On July 4th, I emailed Bhattacharya to save him the trouble of figuring this out since we had created the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2) in 2007 which provides relatively generous funding for 5 years for innovative early stage investigators. (Featured in "50 Shades of Jay") 3/7

Also bears noting now that he's being talked about that it was Bill De Blasio who brought universal school lunches to NYC in addition to universal pre-K. Say what you will about his tenure, but these were transformative policies that are now taken for granted. Put some respect on the man's name.

Trump and Republicans: We really really want people to go hungry while we build our ballroom.

Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators" Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024? (Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)

Oh, was that discouraging to talented young scientists?

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Well, we do have JD Vance to worry about. Think of the children.

Interesting academic news.

Is this like when white women who were raised Republican realize they are a feminist?

My best friend told me: "I had heard Mamdani was a Socialist. Then I listened to him in an interview. That's when I realized, 'Damn, I'm a Socialist, too'. Who knew?"

The problem is not what some percentage of people “think”. The problem is that President Trump *is* a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.

Hoagie truther alert. 🙄

It is unwise to poke the bear.

Mikie, mikie, mikie. My dude. Republicans are already a permanent minority. You only keep political power by gerrymandering, theft of SCOTUS seats and by the rich buying elections.