The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Fewer than 1 in 10 of our Congressional races are considered competitive - in a country that's politically more or less 50-50. This is madness. And it doesn't have to be this way.

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Finally out!!

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Shout out to the Chicago local news! @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com @borderlessmag.bsky.social Follow the locals!

Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you want a palate cleanser after yesterday’s autism discussion, listening to Kevin Mitchell is a good place to start…

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

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1: This is a really cool study I was excited to be a part of! I was skeptical that brief unguided single session interventions could be effective in adults with depression as we had two studies in which we found minuscule effects vs weak controls (waiting), one in a large sample, N=828. I was wrong!

I missed the big Alaskan press conference

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

"Small men hide from history's giants" - Gov. Newsom

What I say when I haven't open my fridge in a while #AlienEarth

Danielle Spencer, the actress who played the lovably bratty and witty teenager on the 1970s hit sitcom, “What’s Happening!!,” died on Monday at 60.

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... www.cell.com/neuron/comme...

Let’s do this www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In this Research Highlight, the authors propose that depression relapse occurs when brains can't create a stable "new normal" after recovery, with some patients staying 'stuck' in unstable limbo between illness & recovery www.nature.com/artic...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1

Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

Remember how FOX had to pay almost a billion dollars for promoting lies? Cane sugar is 50% fructose. “High-fructose” corn syrup is 55% fructose. Unless your body is as stupid as Diana Atieh, it does “know what to do” with that 5% & there’s no different effect on the body at all. It’s still sugar.

Despite our grant being terminated, we are doing what we can with modest bridge funding. If you are a PI of a K24, TL1, R25, R38, or T32, you’re eligible! To learn more or enroll, check out our site! Here’s some feedback from our last cohort: “I thought that this training was exceptional…

Will AI revolutionize or undermine mental health care? Today's Deep Dive focuses on opportunities & risks of using large language models in psychiatric care & research. By @skhalsa.bsky.social, @pshrink.bsky.social, @royperlis.bsky.social, @mpwpaulus.bsky.social et al youtu.be/i8RfTa-dCU0?...

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

RIP the great Tom Lehrer and a reminder to all of his excellent songs on the original Electric Company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kftn...

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds - POLITICO share.google/lFiHdiPwKGGw...

Neural dynamics underlying the persistence of perseverative thought in depression and anxiety https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666019v1

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

1/2 Press release @unileiden.bsky.social about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by @bsiepe.bsky.social, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nature research paper: Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies go.nature.com/3IME4aA

van Rooij, I., & Guest, O. (2025). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals. First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals. 1/n

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

Here is a good link to watch the meeting and COMMENT www.fda.gov/news-events/...

Surprise! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Excited to share our latest preprint: "Neurosynth Compose: A Web-Based Platform for Flexible and Reproducible Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis" Here, we cover the why, what, and how of the next generation Neurosynth ecosystem for reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis. osf.io/preprints/os...

Please spread the word about this amazing project from Organization for Autism Research and my postdoc, Dr. Jessica McAleer! researchautism.org/event/youthp...

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent commentary from Haroon & Miller on our REMBRANDT late-life depression study led by Andrew Gerlach (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

House and Senate Republicans played cruel and cynical games with legislation, not realizing (or caring?) that hospitals run on tight but predictable budgets that determine if they stay open or close right now

A science fair of cancelled grants. The research that will be represented at this event (Tuesday) ranges from neuroscience, to astrophysics, to STEM education. The awarding agencies of the now-canceled grants include the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DOD. Open to the public.

The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France www.politico.eu/article/meet...