Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

This provides strong support that the COVID mRNA vaccines prevented premature deaths from COVID with no evidence of any increase in premature deaths from other causes. 29M people followed for almost 4 years. 3/3

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Day 2 tomorrow bit.ly/alexmartinsymposium

First day of ‘Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience’ in honor of Alex Martin

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

RE: https://aus.social/@crk5/116339097768615985 I work with the intricacies of drones and software and automation quite a bit. Even with some insider knowledge, seeing these drone lightshows always feels like magic. Really incredible stuff.

NEW: A year after major DOGE cuts, GSA plans to rehire hundreds of employees. Because nothing says full, determined dismantling of the federal government like admitting you were so very wrong.

“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”

Our Institute was well-represented at #ASNR2026 last week! Dr. Rachana Gangwani chaired a symposium on cognitive contributions to Motor Performance & presented a poster w/ Dr. Laurel Buxbaum examining the neural substrates of arm non-use in individuals after stroke.

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Because You Are On Mute

Congrats to the people who did this, including @ruedigersarah.bsky.social, @tpatriarchi.bsky.social and (my former collaborator) Tommaso Fellin. Very cool work.

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

good lord www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much! doi.org/10.64898/202... arxiv.org/html/2603.07... Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!

Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

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Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Speakers @samaudrain.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social Michael Beauchamp Alfonso Caramazza Avniel Ghuman @action-brain.bsky.social Brad Mahon Michal Ramot Mick Rugg W Kyle Simmons @thaliawheatley.bsky.social Cheri Wiggs Questions: @cibaker.bsky.social @shrutijapee.bsky.social @sjgotts.bsky.social

🧠 This absolutely feels like it needs to be a viral thread. I'll start: "I've been a neuroscientist for 20 years. I keep my brain strong and healthy by avoiding..." 1) Hallmark movies 2) Midwestern "salads" 3) A skin care routine 4) Fox news 5) Twitter/X 6) Self-help listicles

Here are federal employee responses, sorted by dept/agency, to the question about whether their organization's political leaders "maintain high standards of integrity." Results are abysmal. In no agency do even 20% of respondents say their top leaders have integrity

Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet. Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force

the last time *just gas* got this out of control, i had to do napkin math to see at what price i had to drop out of college because i couldn’t afford the commute. if it had gotten a dime higher, that was it. no degree for emily. these people have never met a normal person.

@saveamericamvmt.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social and @27unihted.bsky.social are co-sponsoring an event covering this lecture with the first NIH Freedom From Science lecture with scientists who have actually worked to find evidence and unravel the origin of COVID-19 #NIHFFS 2/3

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

The people developing the treatment for your cancer diagnosis in 25 years are not ok. American Science is not ok...and Republicans are letting it happen. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

Please circulate widely! Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) sites.google.com/site/visionl... How to Apply: forms.gle/vWa1PwUrcpWf... Deadline : March 31 2026

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

Butterfly Effect 🦋 @notus.com www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Narrative “twist” shifts within-individual neural representations of dissociable story features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Cool work from @csavasegal.bsky.social @esfinn.bsky.social & Clare Grall! #neuroskyence

To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22. Please repost.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, warned Trump striking Iran could prompt it to close the Strait of Hormuz with mines, drones & missiles. Trump acknowledged the risk but assumed Tehran would capitulate and the military could handle it if it didn’t. (WSJ) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

“Fascism does not, generally speaking, believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace...War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it.” The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932.

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

Fox should send Kilmeade as a special correspondent to report live from the ship. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.