This is arbitrary and seems intentionally cruel to announce this late in the cycle, especially without grandfathering in last year's cohort. Maybe they will change it back? In the meantime, spread the word.

What does it mean for objects to be a color? Turns out it’s a super hard question to answer! In my TEDx talk, I discuss the science (and wonder!!) of color perception, including bird vision, #TheDress, and how there aren’t “right” answers about what we perceive. youtu.be/gc9ydhNgt6U?...

I had a preprint approved recently* AND I am happy to have joined the moderation team! *I did not approve my own preprint

These people are very brave and deserve our support.

Important, sobering thread.

Checked off the ESSENTIAL first step before wading back into some fMRI data analysis

I gave a talk in 2009 about feature-based attention and a famous vision scientist asked how top down signals from PFC could possibly target the right sensory neurons. The best I could do was "uh, dunno". sunyoungp.bsky.social has a much more thoughtful answer journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I am pleased to report that my first day as a postdoc (yesterday) STILL had excellent "first day of school energy."

New preprint for the SCIMaP project: we show how accounting for commuter flows reveals the broad extent of economic losses that will result from NIH funding cuts

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?

I got to use this book as the teaching assistant for grad stats (while working for @brialong.bsky.social !!). SUCH an awesome resource.

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature: "Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."

#workingmemory researchers! It's time to nominate all of our brilliant and wonderful female colleagues for the 2025 #WomWoM research fairy award! 🧚‍♀️🪄 Please share widely -- deadline 2nd August! bit.ly/2025womwomfa...

Mass deportation IS family separation. With colleagues @jordancfoster.bsky.social and @profdfhesq.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

just had someone flag my writing for "chatGPT style" because i use m-dashes, and for the way i use commas. y'all, i've been using m-dashes since i was in like 5th grade and i have the 1995 word docs to prove it. see also: oxford commas and why you should use them.

Washington post continues its slide into state run media with this framing. It was millions not thousands. They don't deserve your money, instead find an independent source.

San Diego is full of dancing and amazing signs and families. Huge diverse coalition has come together for this. So much love and protection energy for our border community is here

San Diego SHOWED UP! I’ve been here for 30 years and have NEVER seen anything like this! #NOKINGS

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

My spouse winds down after a stressful day by watching math-related YouTube videos. This is what I mean when I say that I’m (somehow) the *less* nerdy one in the relationship.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Letters from a Birmingham jail. MLK Jr

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

I had such a wonderful time defending my thesis yesterday—so thankful for my advisor @serences.bsky.social, committee, labmates, friends, and family.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer! Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers! 20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

This is absolutely infuriating to read. These fools have no idea how scientific research works.

Just kissed my dissertation goodbye and shipped it off to my committee. One step closer! And, in the meantime, I'm reminding myself that a good dissertation is a complete dissertation

I had so much fun presenting!! Thanks #VSS2025

Come chat with me about visual working memory and sensory recruitment this Tuesday! Work with the fabulous @kirsten-adam.bsky.social and @serences.bsky.social #VSS2025

The @serenceslab-ucsd.bsky.social is at VSS 2025! See the thread to see our research!

🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

It’s after 9:30 pm, and I’m walking through campus to my car with a slice of pizza in each bare hand and a dazed look. It’s dissertation crunch time folks—let’s get this PhD!!!

Our lab is hiring a research technician! Please share this wonderful opportunity! 🧠

it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service. I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

And here is the preprint for the aforementioned Stage 2 Registered Report with the fabulous @naseemdh.com, @violetsarebrown.bsky.social, and @juliafstrand.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... THREAD BELOW 1/

During April 2020 (aka the toilet paper and Tiger King era of lockdown), @naseemdh.com, @violetsarebrown.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social, and I decided to submit a registered report for an in-person project. 5 years and 1 in-principle acceptance later, we have submitted Stage 2!!

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

Nice to see some Canadian universities stepping up with special programs. It won’t solve everything, but it will help at least a few scholars.

Was very proud to see my alma mater @carleton.edu among the signatories! And hoping UC San Diego will join them soon.

Hi friends, the Spark Society's NSF funding has been terminated. We are dedicated to continuing our work and hope we can rely on you for support.

I think my feed needs a picture of our happy beagle at daycare. Worst research assistant but best dog.

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

After 5.5 years of deleting emails about dissertation formatting webinars, I *finally* got to register for one. Yes, I absolutely feel like a little kid that is finally tall enough to ride a rollercoaster.

Inspired by @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece about the importance of science funding in my education for my hometown newspaper. www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...

Taught a modified version of @analog-ashley.bsky.social's lesson on biomedical research funding to my introductory psychology class yesterday. Thanks so much for this helpful resource, Ashley! www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...