"This is the amygdala, part of our lizard brain"

If you calculate how much money is spent in man hours for updating your official documents, it costs somewhere within your salary because it’s what you’re paid to do.

You know what's worse than mandatory web-based trainings? Mandatory web-based trainings when the voice acting is so clearly AI.

Secondary data analysis of studies I've worked on for years really spikes my anxiety. Like, what do you mean the data is processed and cleaned?? And I can just do my tests and be done??

Drugs are cool and all, but have you ever experienced the absolute high of spending two hours in the most anxious state of your life, wondering if you solved some minor problem from three years ago that definitely would kill your data/study, only to find out you did - in fact - solve that problem?

In this perspective, a mother recounts her son’s struggle with severe childhood mental illness, marked by shifting diagnoses/medications & persisting symptoms, despite expert care; she calls for more rigor in diagnosing & treating pediatric mental illness

A handy translation guide for non-academic speakers.

Is the ventral visual stream important in chronic PTSD? Maybe! We replicate and extend earlier findings from recent trauma survivors in the large (n=~2000) ENIGMA-PTSD sample showing covariance of this circuit is related to PTSD severity. Now out in BP:CNNI. 1/ authors.elsevier.com/a/1m4uJ8jVtv...

Sauron was a complicated being. True, he waged a genocide against the race of men and sought to plunge middle earth into an age of darkness. But! He was also a champion of diversity (he had easterlings in his armies :)).

>agree to review paper >looks inside >pg 1 of 143

lol. lmao, even. sbgi.net/join-sinclai...

A scholar talking about minority stress uses "caucasian."

Left for vacation and came back to absolutely zero mission critical email, fires, or tedious requests so I no longer have any sense of purpose.

Our NASEM Committee Report on the mental, emotional, and behavioral health impacts of school active shooter drills is now out. A big thanks to the National Academies, the Department of Education, and the stellar committee that got this done. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2910...

Real glad everyone remembered to say thank you to those senators for writing a gentle letter to the guy who wrote the authoritarian playbook and who they confirmed to do the authoritarian things.

The look my therapist gives me every week when I tell her I can't figure out why I'm so tired when I haven't been able to do anything productive.

Get ready.

“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.

Now is a great time to unsubscribe and never read the New York Times.

highest ranked reader pick comment lmao

Just realized I took a hardline position on a topic in front of an entire room of journalists during a talk lol

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Fundamentally, American media culture places more prestige on being wrong cleverly than being right simply. They’ll spend 50,000 words sucking off a Nazi with a polysyllabic vocabulary before they interview the nice lady who volunteers at the animal shelter because she likes dogs.

Another day, another example of the mainstreaming of scientific racism. A book just published by Cambridge University Press states definitively that Philippe Rushton’s work has “taken root in psychology”, though lamenting that “unfortunately” his work on race has not been taken seriously enough

"You can use AI to do so much! Summarize meetings! Make presentations! Just dont put any real data in and remember its usually wrong. Since this will make you more productive, we've added fourteen more admin tasks for you to complete each week."

When the wild hypothesis is correct and independently replicates

So, NDA terminates my access to ABCD because my RAS has a linked gmail for the past ever. Delete it, then can't log in, have to use the helpdesk. They finally fix it today, the same day they revoke the ability to request access to ABCD. So, my disdain for the NDA is alive and well.

Live reaction of me doing the work I trained for years to do because I said wanted to do this type of work:

They wrote this shit with ChatGPT didn't they.

Finally getting to post the thread on this, and excited to force you all to read some of the new work from our group on trying to understand if traumatic stress might impact reactivity to basic stimuli. Or, honestly, where we asked “what if we just flash a checkerboard at trauma survivors?” 1/🧵

Again, found this out thanks to @jeremymberg.bsky.social which has saved me more than a few headaches trying to pivot to parent R01......

🆕 in DPN from our EB member @nateurneuro.bsky.social, @brainstorm12.bsky.social & @irosso.bsky.social et al: Traumatic stress alters neural reactivity to visual stimulation www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Jeremy is out here doing the Lord's work and I for one appreciate every post.

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

"You should preprint your work. You're not being trustworthy if you dont." "You shouldn't preprint your work. You're not being trustworthy if you do." ECRs:

Harvard has launched their lawsuit. It’s a good one. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

There you have it. Lead TERF Maya Forstater says trans men - who they consider women - aren’t allowed in women’s spaces either. It was never about protecting women, just the most sexist, patriarchy-defined version of one. Good luck to all women who don’t meet the “feminine” brief.

Do not let James Lindsay (or Richard Hanania) into our tent. They are not new allies, they haven't changed their ways, they are committed Nazis who see the tide turning and want to take the uniform off so they can hide among the winners.

As a wider note, the idea that there would need to not only cluster hires but cluster *admissions* purely on ideological grounds is fucking unhinged.

Chris, it’s not that people can’t hold these two ideas; it’s that the idea you can equivocate students shouting down Richard Spencer with a transparent, decades long attempt to force the academy into ideological submission from the right is patently absurd.

Opening up a new "ReviewResponse.docx"

This is a great example of why centrists’ positions are often silly. It attempts to distill genuine criticism as something benign and argue both sides do it (“be annoying”), while ignoring the fact that these people are at best very wrong and at worst unabashedly racist.

I don’t know what UMAP is either.

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

Frankly, I'm most upset about my new levels of cynicism around scientific institutions.

I wrote a new lecture on Vision Language Models in radiology (lecture is @ USC on Wed if you want to come). We'll cover: 🔥 visual question answering in radiology 🔥 text encoders, joint image-text embedding (word2vec, BERT, CLIP, BiomedCLIP, SentenceBERT) ...

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.