Also, it is so cringe to force prostrate authors to cite your papers. Don't do that!

I'm pretty comfortable not using a technology that coerces people to commit suicide, actually.

One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go

In short: Shitty parties should get to enact shitty policies. An electorate that elects a shitty party should have to suffer the shitty consequences. And a party that enacts shitty policies should have to suffer the electoral consequences. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Born enslaved in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Oberlin in 1887 & a PhD from the Sorbonne. She observed, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling? They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns. What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Well, well, well. L - October 27 R - Today

New layer-fMRI preprint using deep sampling to track face information across layers in FFA. 50 times 15 min scanning with whole brain VASO and BOLD fMRI. By Kenshu Koiso et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

JUST IN: Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy,' charged with chucking a sub at law enforcement during President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital.

Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait? Wrong. Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

In Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to colleagues: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough celebrating the shooting of an American citizen, it speaks to a irredeemable organizational culture. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends: “I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

AND If you’re interested in language-related aspects of individual differences for blindness or deafness, you can also already apply through neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission

I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

"Separation of powers" - mmm: might it also apply to actions like firing federal employees, impoundments, eliminating of agencies? Or just taxes.

We’ve come to accept the 45-minute data dump: a PI sprinting through dozens of studies to prove how much they’ve done. I’d rather hear one clear question followed to its end than a career retrospective pretending to be a talk.

the condescending smugness of NYT opinion, like— Hey Zohran, so yeah, we did our best to slime you, son & to keep you out & the shittiest & corrupts in control, but ok, you get one shot now, so listen close boy, here’s how & how not to do your thing y'hear seriously www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Looking at the Federal Register this morning, DHS is moving up the effective date on a June rule that expanded its authority to charge people for certain criminal conduct around federal buildings. It was originally set to go into effect on January 1. It will now go into effect TOMORROW.

Holy shit

Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻 www.bu.edu/bucld/

“There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…" Common threads of this administration: an effort to destroy science, and a willingness to break the law to do so. That’s possible because the Roberts Court is letting them break the law.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

-Sep 30: USDA releases guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse -Oct 23: USDA deletes guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund -Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds -Nov 1: no funds go out

I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.

We hiked to the Meeting Tree, a 670 year-old White Oak, located at Westminster Ponds Conservation Area, London Ontario earlier this week. The tree was a safe meeting place for slaves leaving America and traveling up north to Canada via the Underground Railroad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Eleven stained glass action potentials available now! (One rainbow brain still in the shop too). www.brainedglass.com

And there it is... Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week They haven't voted since mid-September

societal suicide www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents www.cell.com/trends/neuro... #neuroscience

OPINION by Jack Criss, air traffic controller: “After my shift, I don’t go home to rest. I clock into DoorDash, trying to make ends meet for my daughter and me.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others now live on military bases. Read The Atlantic’s reporting on how Generals’ Row became MAGA Avenue: https://theatln.tc/vj8DMBoz

15 Republican senators have now joined all 47 members of the Democratic caucus on legislation to extend SNAP benefits during the shutdown. In all, 62 senators are on this bill. I say to Majority Leader Thune: Don't let kids go hungry in America. Call a vote on this bill NOW!

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates *and* uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results. Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks. 🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...