This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

On behalf of the AAUP, I am so honored to share that today we joined our sister UC unions in a wall-to-wall lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the use of Title VI as a cudgel to bend the University of California in its ideological vision. www.latimes.com/california/s...

TUESDAY 9/16: meet all your colleagues at the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Regents meeting. They will be talking about Trump's latest demands. We will stand up and demand Hands Off Our UC! CUCFA, AAUP, AFT, UAW, CNA, and AFSCME. You want acronyms, we've got all of them! 2pm Sept 16 at UCSF, Join us!

The CUCFA (Council of University of California Faculty Associations) seeks an Operations Director. This position is Remote. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @uc-faculty.bsky.social @aaup.org

Early bird registration for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" conference ends on 30th September! This meeting provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the neural, behavioural and computational mechanisms of foraging across species. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Please share!

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants. My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made. 2/2

My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle! Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change. More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io Please help repost/spread the word!

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

In sum, we believe this is the first direct evidence in humans of systems consolidation theory for specific memories: the hypothesized transformation of memories from hippocampus to cortex over sleep. Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Another reason universities should not settle w/the Trump admin: Far right, private actors who don’t like research topics or findings can use settlement terms to threaten professors. Here, they threaten to “tell on” a professor doing disinfo research @ Brown. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yes. Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social take. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

A group of self-described "nationalists" and "Christian patriots" descend on the GOP convention in support of their controversial, tough-talking, anti-globalist candidate who loves to attack the press and the "radical leftists" in higher ed & the gov't who are destroying America. The year is 1952.

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

A journalist for 24 years, this is probably the most important article I've ever published. We saw the famine in Gaza with our own eyes.Together w Yarden Michaeli @nirhasson.bsky.social @haaretzcom.bsky.social has dropped the paywall on this important piece www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Clinicians across medicine are familiar with an odd feature of descriptive diagnoses: they can bring patients real relief & provide an explanation, even without offering causes. In a new paper, @alanlevinovitz.bsky.social and I call this the Rumpelstiltskin effect. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....

UNLV's MRI facility is close to completion and we are now searching for an MRI Technologist. Please help me spread the word! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNLV-E... #neuroimaging #MRI #neuroscience #psychology

My contacts at U of Oregon have asked to circulate this to-do list + this list of contacts to call and write to speak against the proposed evisceration of several programs (and termination of affiliated tenure-track, tenured, and career faculty). For context: newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

New preprint -- we (me, @klempert.bsky.social, Dave Wolk, and Joe Kable) examined whether characteristic aging-related changes in cognition and personality show up on six online platforms (3 crowdsourcing sites -- MTurk, CloudResearch Toolkit, & Prolific, and 3 panels). osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Closing soon! Abstract submission for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 A multidisciplinary meeting on the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 29

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...

Q&A with Pim Welle on the New York Fed Staff Report on Involuntary Hospitalization “I’ve worked on many things in my life, and I have never once found a problem with such depth and complexity.” @pim-well.bsky.social www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/q-and-a-wi...

As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding, says Vani Pariyadath go.nature.com/4mlvEGo

BREAKING: A San Francisco-based judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of science research grants to UCLA, more than a third of the $584 million in funds the government has cut: www.latimes.com/california/s...

“The reason is the resistance, organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them ... They’ve been chased out" www.latimes.com/california/s...

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

"Any selective admissions process that ignores income, privilege and structural access while targeting race‑based efforts to increase diversity isn’t leveling the playing field. It’s cementing it." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u... (gift link)

Great responses!

Thrilled to announce that I'll be starting in January 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York. The lab will study the thought processes that underlie our decision-making.

"@ucilifted.bsky.social 2025 commencement: 16 students earned degrees ... many won academic honors: 3 summa cum laude and 4 magna cum laude." "Counting John, now six @ucilifted.bsky.social students—some with commuted life sentences like John’s—have come home." lifted.uci.edu/commencement...

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

It's also worth noting: this entire case is only possible due to the bravery of INDIVIDUAL faculty members, not the uni admin. It's a class action suit for UC researchers brought by UC researchers. UCLA senior administrators, on the other hand:

Sign a letter demanding that UC and the state of California refuse to appease the fascists any further: tinyurl.com/ucstandup

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

👏 appeasement 👏 never 👏 works 👏 “[UCLA hoped] the multimillion-dollar settlement ... would buy time. “It backfired,” said one administrator, reflecting the sense of whiplash felt among many interviewed. “Within hours of [settling], the DOJ was on our back.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (University of Birmingham, 3–5 November) A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species: uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis... Deadline: August 17, 2025