WOW. He looks like he was listening in on the bats echolocating emissions and knew exactly when the bat would arrive.

Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

USC rejects compact www.latimes.com/california/s...

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

thanks for speaking out @markhisted.org

Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴 Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time. Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!

When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

LLMs are like witnesses, you should not ask them leading questions.

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

www.aft.org/column/why-f... New book by Randi Weingarten President, AFT “They fear what educators do—the teaching of critical thinking, of honest history, of pluralism—because their brand of greed, power and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens.”

Trump wants UCLA to pay $1.2 billion to settle allegations it violated civil rights law. I took a look at the more than 7,300-word proposed UCLA settlement. Here's the detailed breakdown of Trump's plan to remake one of the nation's top public campuses: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Very proud of my Brazilian heritage today. (We went to celebrate at our favorite Brazilian restaurant where some menu items were unavailable because of the 50% tariffs Trump imposed to punish Brazil for prosecuting Bolsonaro). Open access article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Wait, isn’t Anthropic’s motto Helpful, Honest, and Harmless. If you train AIs on pirated books are you teaching AIs to pirate? (Open access article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!

Well this is going to be a tragic natural experiment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Despite Supreme Court win, NIH may not quickly kill again some 900 grants on sensitive topics | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

I think there must be a cognitive bias by which we assume that two scientific mysteries must somehow cancel eachother out (looking at you Dr. Penrose).

"When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish." Quote of @whysharksmatter.bsky.social (David Shiffman) arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Rather than voters picking politicians, politicians picking voters. With the redistricting arms race on, I spoke to @samwang.bsky.social for a big-picture view of gerrymandering.

This does have some good news, but it is unclear what this means for the affected researchers other than delay, uncertainty, and disrupted careers.

Open access article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

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

How can any American with a shred of respect for democracy and/or education continue to defend this kind of blatantly illegal, corrupt, and self-destructive malfeasance?

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It looks like all NSF/NIH grants to UCLA (including mine and all fundamental neuroscience grants) have been suspended. www.science.org/content/arti...

Cutting funding for life-saving research has nothing to do with attacking antisemitism. It has everything to do with attacking science, universities, and California. And sadly, it is our health, our knowledge and our economy that will pay the price.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Critical read: As noted by a colleague, from the examples in this article, it is amazing how quickly German physics collapsed (and US exploded) after 1934. #academicsky, #neuroskyence , is there time and a route to prevent the collapse of research in the US?

Hey, I wrote a thing. I (and others) think that our sense of time and mental well-being are linked. Here are my thoughts on it. Thanks @psyche.co for the invite! psyche.co/guides/how-t...

I don't disagree and I have data (now rather old but I bet still relevant) to support this. loop.nigms.nih.gov/2011/06/prod...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Super fun chat with a fellow time enthusiast, @danfalk.bsky.social (author of In Search of Time). (I gave a shout-out to what I believe to be the most mind blowing of the intrinsically mind blowing time-travel movie genre: Predestination)

This is an excellent statement of scientific values that we should all strive to uphold. 🧪🧠🤖 Sharing from @suryaganguli.bsky.social , who said this is the Stanford Med affirmation that all their PhD grads sign. 1/

Cool paper led by @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social convincingly showing poorer retention when using LLMs for essays. But I wonder if any of the EEG effects can be accounted for by time-on-task? Eg do the effects hold if just the first 5’ (out of the 20’) of EEG are used? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Physicists have a lot to say about time, but so do neuroscientists -- after all, it's the brain which in some sense creates time, and enables our remarkable capacity for "mental time travel." I spoke with neuroscientist @deanbuono.bsky.social for @nautil.us: nautil.us/does-anybody... #science

Thanks to Maryada (@giacomoi.bsky.social lab)! Due to component variability it is hard to set the weights across neuromorphic devices. Using our crosshomeostatic learning rule, that governs all four weight classes, we drove neuromorphic RNNs into balanced E/I regimes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm extremely proud of the work of Maryada, Saray Soldado-Magraner and colleagues, in collaboration with @deanbuono.bsky.social which shows how their #cross-homeostatic #plasticity model enables analog #neuromorphic #circuits to produce stable recurrent dynamics on our chips!!! rdcu.be/euiv2

The main reason I don't consider IIT to be a valid scientific theory, is: 1. IIT is new law of physics-some simple configurations of matter are conscious 2. Physics is an incomplete puzzle, but we cannot make up new laws wo verifying if the new piece fits with the others (I don't think it does).

Thank you for 17 years of fluffy memories. I'll miss you, but never forget you, my friend.

Nice piece by Ken Jennings “But societies are built on facts, as we can see more clearly when institutions built on knowledge teeter. Inaccurate facts make for less informed decisions. Less informed decisions make for bad policy. Garbage in, garbage out.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...