"What I take from Aaron is that the best way to be truly productive on the margin, is to try to build for other people and connect them together."

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

📢 @markkho.bsky.social & I are recruiting a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & mental health 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Apps are reviewed on a rolling basis 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

Current NIH worker seeking formers NIH workers and community allies. 👀👋🏻

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social with Zaid Zada, @vanderlab.bsky.social, and Uri Hasson titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Biden is reportedly planning to endorse Cuomo in the Democratic primary today.

NIH is soliciting public comments on the very thorny challenges Generative AI poses to data sharing initiatives. I hope the Open Science community will weigh in. Comments are due by July 15th.

Merchant et al. perform a meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive systems involved in real-time social interaction doi.org/10.52294/001... @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

We don’t always know what questions will change the world. But public science has a way of answering them anyway. Federal science funding isn’t just lines in a budget. It’s a vote for progress, for possibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

I’ve an essay out today on the importance of moving beyond perpetual debates about what free speech means to instead confront—in an age of billionaire control over media and universities—what free speech discourse does. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Ice has arrest Mayor Baraka, a candidate for NJ governor. We have moved into the phase where they are testing whether they can arrest political opponents. If you wondered when you should speak up, it's now. Definitely now. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

Once again, the country owes a debt of gratitude to those brave folks within NIH who are helping us understand the machinations behind the scenes at NIH. /fin

Alert! Developmentalists & all who care about young children - the next few weeks are a critical period for federal budget development - this is an ideal time to get your voice out there on behalf of children. I have a template you can use to write a local op-ed. It's easy - I just sent mine in.

Judge Young: A couple requests going forward: - Please provide a list of grants actually affected (I HAVE THIS!!!) - To HHS lawyer, "I understand gov't is against DEI. But this is about healthcare for all Americans. "Respectfully, I just don't know what [DEI] means" here. I need a definition.

We took a broad look at social trust in America today. With a survey of almost 37,000 people we were able to look at levels of trust across the states and even in metro areas. Check out our new report here www.pewresearch.org/SocialTrust

3/ A sweeping Israeli Channel 13 investigation has exposed the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s 19-month war on Gaza. Nine top Biden officials acknowledged avoiding real pressure on Israel—even as the death toll surpassed 30,000.

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB

#neuroskyence #neuroimaging

Should statistics respect science more? Our third speaker Gang Chen (@gangchen6.bsky.social) argues that strict adherence to statistical conventions may obscure rather than clarify, and suggest ways in which rethink about how we model our data and report our results:

Pre-registration of Multiverse Analyses walkthrough @johnflournoy.science johnflournoy.science/multiverse-p...

Dr. Paul Bloom's Interactive multiverse analysis explorer! pbloom.shinyapps.io/amygdala_mpf...

Cosme Lab Specification curve analysis (SCA) tutorial dcosme.github.io/2019/06/28/s...

Just attended the Best Practices in Methods session at #SANS2025 so many practical takeaways! From Dr. Clelland and Dr. Cosme's push for SCA (links below), to Dr. Chen’s approach to voxel activation reporting, and Dr. Burns guidance on motion exclusion for hyperscanning—super useful insights!

For those who think more data just means more headcount, here’s a quirky twist: the number of data points per individual actually matters--a lot. If you're into a bit of rigor, this article highlights a factor that’s often overlooked. Thanks for the shoutout! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

It has quotes from Senators talking about the value of research. 2/n

I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers. 1/n .

NIH employees writing to Republican senators, quoting the senators' own statements about the value of NIH research, begging Congress to stop the reckless cuts that are killing biomedical research and simply allow the flow of $ that Congress has already appropriated for NIH.

Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I left my favorite scarf in a meeting room and when I returned today it was lovingly folded up waiting for me. Then I walked home and arrived just in time to help my neighbor unload a bunch of plants from her car. May we remember we can still do small things for one another, despite everything ❤️

Some institutions are not standing on the sidelines--thank you University of Maryland

🧵This is so damn cool!!! And, of course, NIH $$$ were used in this study

My congressional district is projected to lose $182M annually in economic activity due to federal funding cuts to the NIH. This is a massive loss not only for health researchers & those that directly benefit from advancements, but also for our community as a whole. Cc @repdwightevans.bsky.social

“It’s like, what if we took this digital community that exists, and what if we made it in real life?” Meet the "TheoBros" who are building community offline.

If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.

Former journalist here. This is IMPORTANT. When you're telling people about your protest plans, include your local media!

the way in which the US economic system seems to kill people who can't cope with it is a genuine public health emergency, but the rate at which it seems to kill people who are by any reasonable criterion succeeding is also a serious policy issue

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Really important work!

Do you like genes and estimating heritability? Then @gangchen6.bsky.social and D. Moraczewski have important news for you. Conventional estimation methods ignore measurement error, leading to a bias. Don't worry: hierarchical modeling to the rescue! www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:

This banner is showing up on NIH data repositories. If you use data from these archives you may want to consider what you need access to in the near and far term for your research

They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Sexuality and race data from the @altcdc.altgov.info’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, backed up and parsed by @dingobuck.bsky.social 🙌🏻🤘