Dr. Matt Colborn argues that, by denying the objective reality of what appears to us as the physical world out there, materialist cognitive science renders its own metaphysical assumptions untenable. www.essentiafoundation.org/post-materia...

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

Neat that my review of Zhang et al.'s "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI" was quoted in this Research Briefing. It was one of my favorite papers I reviewed in 2024! rdcu.be/eOlTT by Jiahe Zhang, @lisafeldmanbarrett.com and others

I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence. What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀

Turkey season. The time is nigh.

Our latest collaboration with @rongfan8.bsky.social, spatial triomics to investigate myelin and cortical brain development, and demyelination, spearheaded by Leslie Kirby in our lab @ki.se and Di Zhang in Rong's lab! Check it out @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

We live in a tumultuous world. But I take solace in the fact that the 2010 University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey intro video remains the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen.

There’s nothing given or innate to humans about our ability to read and write so we should preserve the conditions for learning these things, like universities…

Super useful. We've had VIF coded to output from our nilearn modeling pipelines for a while now, so the code made available here can be easily swapped in to better guide modeling decisions!

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...

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

A noninvasive, CSF-specific MRI technique that enables detailed in vivo measurement of CSF mobility in humans, down to the level of perivascular spaces located around penetrating vessels www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watch out for Antonietta! She's going to be doing some incredible things over the next couple of years! 🎉🎊🎉

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our Current Biology Primer written with Dr. Audrey Chagnot in the Brain-Body Interactions special issue! We discuss how the BBB works, what happens when it breaks down, and why this matters for brain and body health. @ukdri.ac.uk @thebhf.bsky.social shorturl.at/NNc57

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This looks super cool; by @jtheriault.bsky.social By the way congrats really!

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience

To say people make a rational assessment of the threat environment around Covid… is just not true. Most people refuse to talk about or read anything about Covid. Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common childhood illness, and it’s rarely spoken of. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.

Bees aside, there are a bunch of gems in here about modeling… 1) “The model is a useful and indeed unescapable tool of thought - it enables us to think about the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar. There are, however, dangers in its use: it is the function of criticism to disclose these dangers.”

Yes! Well, kind of, IMO. The brain is for allostasis first - the maintenance of bodily states within a viable range. But one means of such control is through behavior. And a good way to figure out what to do is through cognition. (And a good way to do cognition is to do it consciously... 😊)

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 2,1946

ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time ALSO ME:

We started our RL debate series! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0A0...

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 This short book by Moreno and Pereto' looks very interesting. One more on the understanding of biological agency. And it's open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

And we can see, in creatures that developed nervous systems especially, that they can act *for reasons*, based on the meaning of neural patterns. Living systems literally incorporate knowledge about the world to guide their behavior adaptively. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"i just use it to generate ideas"

If neuroscience needs behavior, then it also needs control theory ... but that's not the only reason: check out the workshop at #Bernsteinconference bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

Very cool!

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

I'm bumping this job announcement up again, for folks who might have missed it last time!

Just to press on this a bit more, because I'm bummed this never got a response: It's useful because it shows what negative evidence implies for different claims. FP->heart no (~) heart therefore (∴) ~FP. (obviously) For FFA, it would mean: FP->FFA ~FFA ∴ ~FP, which I think most would accept. 1/2

Great to see that people are reading Danziger! I increasingly started to get interested in questions about cultural specificty of psychological kinds toward the end of my book as well. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Wherever a researcher comes down on natural kinds, constructs & Operationalization, I agree it would be great for more to realize it’s a thing to think through it all wrt “What are we doing here?” This book (especially the Intro start) is good to get the gist. api.pageplace.de/preview/DT04...

A Journal Club by Rodrigues and Sobrinho on our recent paper "Evidence for control of cerebral neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults" in @jphysiol.bsky.social physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It was amazing to me that the report I heard on this *only* mentioned effects on tech. Especially given the war(s) on universities, and on immigrants, being so visible on other fronts.

This paper presents an interesting account of the 1700s parsing of the mind by Kant and others into knowing(=cognition)/feeling(=affection)/willing(=contation). It also laments that "knowing" somehow took over everything else, which I'm sympathetic to 😉. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11608381/

Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25 youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...

Carnivale.