Illusions of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Brains Emerge From Fragile Methods and Overlooked Confounds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642245v1

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

20 Days until applications are due for the @danafoundation.bsky.social funded SPAN ITRC and Mentorship programs! Visit our website for full details on how to apply!

This looks awesome. One of my fondest academic memories is of participating in a summer school at @uqam.ca on the evolution and function of consciousness. Excited to read about the latest science and thinking on this topic.

It’s time to rethink Parkinson’s disease. Our work reframes PD as a disorder of the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), and shows that normalizing SCAN connectivity represents a shared mechanism across diverse effective therapies. rdcu.be/e2n4t @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position, so Democratic leadership has courageously decided that their demand will be… “No masked agents, except sometimes masks are okay.” “Masked agents” sounds like a grievance from the Declaration of Independence, and they can’t even get behind that. JFC.

City Map Poster Generator can create printable minimalist map posters for any city in the world. [kottke.org]

New @pnas.org paper out 🎉 “Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning” 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... What drives representational drift in neural populations? Here’s the short version. 👇 🧪🧠 1/5

Excited to share a new preprint, led by the inimitable @colleenhughes.bsky.social! Individualized Mapping of Functional Brain Networks in Older Adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵 1/

Hey fellow Californians: There's a proposed state senate bill which would authorize a $23 billion bond for the November 2026 ballot to fund scientific research in California. Contact your representatives and encourage them to support it! sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁/𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 So we model the dynamics. Version of record of our paper is available. #neuroskyence elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Toward model-based design of causal manipulations of brain circuits with high spatiotemporal precision doi.org/10.1016/j.co... #neuroscience

Musicians Action Group playing all the anti-fascist hits for the good people gathered to protest on 4th street in Berkeley (in front of the Tesla dealership).

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/7ufx50Y6heU For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/6Egj50Y6heV.

🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

Why doesn’t looking at a bright light during the day disrupt our #CircadianClock? Specialized cells in the #retina seem to play a major role. In PNAS Journal Club: https://ow.ly/QShi50Y5y4K#CircadianClock?#retina#CircadianRhythms #SuprachiasmaticNucleus

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Can’t count how many times in the past few days I’ve listened to this new song by Theo Katzman and Cory Wong (both of Vulfpeck). So good. youtu.be/hwOwJNmiswo?...

Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Thanks to the Allen Institute for the write-up of our recent work! 👏 Paper is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Block that acetylcholine and just doesn't feel worth it any more... Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Attention Neuroimagers!📣 We are asking for community input on how ✨analysis pipelines are chosen in neuroimaging research✨ If you are a student/staff/faculty engaged in neuroimaging research, please complete our SUPER SHORT SURVEY! Thank you!🙏🏻 forms.gle/w7hStCqcJKCJ...

Love this. “Spontaneous” has always really meant “we don’t know why X is happening”, a perspective tied to the dominance of structured task paradigms for studying cognition, behavior, and brain activity.

Now Accepting Applications! The Center is now accepting applications for our 10th annual Pittsburgh Summer Program aimed at promoting Philosophy of Science to undergraduate students! Read more about the program and learn how to apply using the below link: https://ow.ly/ijEk50UbWnh

This is a fantastic program. Spend two weeks learning new things, building skills, collaborating on cool projects, and making new friends. Open to people from a wide range of backgrounds, career stages, and levels of coding expertise.

So happy to see this new, growing open data resource out -- all credit to the amazing @juliettebrook.bsky.social + @tsalo.bsky.social + a superb team!!!! NOTE: @juliettebrook.bsky.social is currently applying to clinical psych PhD programs -- great opportunity to recruit a ⭐TOTAL ⭐ STAR ⭐

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how Rx Inspector has helped patients, doctors and researchers so far.

Don’t come here for a conference. Don’t host a conference here. Don’t come here on vacation. Don’t normalize fascism for one minute.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

The OHBM OSSIG has been operating since 2016, hosting and promoting open science education for the OHBM community and beyond. SIGs must be renewed every 5 years. Please sign the following petition by Mon, Jan 26 to help us continue operating. Thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Postdoc position to work on neuroimaging methods with @fmri-today.bsky.social (and me) fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...

An open fMRI resource for studying human brain function and covert consciousness under anesthesia | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@deviantollam.bsky.social Cool video on “North America’s Elevator Problem” which may be of interest: youtu.be/Or1_qVdekYM?...

U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/

#Hemispherotomy is a surgical treatment for #epilepsy by disconnecting a portion of the #cortex. Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, @anilseth.bsky.social, Marcello Massimini &co show that the isolated cortex has #EEG patterns resembling deep #sleep or #anesthesia @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3J9ci8X

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

New in draft with Susan Schneider, David Sahner, Robert Lawrence Kuhn & Mark Bailey - a primer on central ideas and concepts in the AI consciousness debate. If you're looking for a toehold in the sea of jargon, this might help. philpapers.org/rec/SCHIAC-22

The Motion Sensitivity and Predictive Utility of Different Estimates of Inter-regional Functional Coupling in Resting-state Functional MRI. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.13.664614v1

Functional network architecture and dynamics of the somato-cognitive action network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.660604v1

We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see: #psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience tstbl.co/820-917

Had a dream last night where we were living in a fascist sci-fi future with flying cars and laser blasters, but you got a K Award if you were an effective enough member of the resistance against the secret police. I feel like my sleeping brain needs to work on the subtlety of my dream metaphors.

Hey NYC friends! If you haven't yet voted in the Democratic mayoral primary: 1) Go vote today! 2) Remember not to rank Cuomo! nypost.com/2025/06/21/u... (Excellent Mermaid Parade costume made by a friend.)

Our new paper is out in Science. We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change. Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.660394v1

The Open Science room is an important part of the OHBM meeting experience, and not just for people who identify as part of the open science community. Unfortunately, the future of the Open Science room is at risk. Read more here and sign the petition to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social leadership.

Passed this the other day while out and about but didn't realize what it was. Awesome to see. More of this in my backyard, yes please.

We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤 If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then? Scientists know actually very little about this private moment. We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible! Here is the link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds