Such an important effort!

Is space & time coding in entorhinal cortex interchangeable? Cells switching between space & time as needed by task? For some cells yes, and other no: Spatial and temporal representations are organized along a stable coding gradient in the medial entorhinal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A recent paper by Fengling Ma et al. in JCD: "Testing a Pragmatic Account of Young Children’s Waiting in Delay of Gratification Tasks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Got to say I’m hoping for Argentina today, just because of this story— thehill.com/policy/sport...

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. She discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle. #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect

Agree, except asking for directions often backfired for me. People tell you stuff that’s vague or wrong. My preference— paper maps!

Terracotta vase in the form of a mouse Mid-5th century BC. The mouse crouches with its front paws under its chin and its tail curled up beneath itself. The mouth of the vessel, in the centre of the back, is flanked in front and back by a pair of string holes Museum of Fine Arts Boston #History

Undergraduate columnist! Proposed rule could gut American science, Penn researcher warns share.inquirer.com/viRoPc

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

You can help stop the Project 2025 attack on science - but you need to act *today*. Tune in to Fixing Bugs in Democracy. Veteran science policymaker Elizabeth Ginexi will help us make an effective public comment & get Congress to act. Join us today 3pm Eastern: samwang.substack.com/p/fixing-bug...

Hello memory folk! Two dates for your calendar: Symposium submissions open 1st September 2026 Open abstract submissions open 1st November 2026 Start thinking about interesting symposiums and talks now so you're ready to submit your proposals/abstracts when the time comes!

To stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...

Are you a savvy storyteller wanting a boost in covering the intersection of science and tech-based growth, industrial policy, and the workforce/education? Apply to our new Future of Work Reporting Fellowship by July 24! www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

Trials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Jessica (@cantlonlab.bsky.social) lost her funding because she dared to include gender as a relevant variable in studying how people learn math. Only the enemies of truth seek to suppress the search for it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

A long and winding road …. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/

"The winter siege confirmed that the more meaningful divide in the party is between those who comprehend the authoritarian challenge and are actively opposing it, and those who seem incapable of fully grasping, or adequately adapting to, the threat."

If you have ever wondered how pallial circuits of other vertebrates beyond cortex in mammals are functionally organized, please check out this new paper from the Yaksi lab! By studying other species, we get closer to understanding the general principle of brain circuits and computations 🐟🧠

Just a reminder that there's only about a week left to leave comments on the OMB proposal that will cripple federally funded research. Here's my attempt to convince you that you should, along with info on how to do so effectively.

A kick-ass chart by Matt McLean in @sondreus.bsky.social's fantastic retrospective of 250 years of American power www.economist.com/interactive/...

I found this article fascinating and kind of inspiring. A Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball pros current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/nobe...

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN... Due in 2 weeks but just posted?!

Today, renowned evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin (@neilshubin.bsky.social) takes office as NAS President. "I look forward to building upon the Academy's storied history, and to further its enduring mission to serve the nation." www.nationalacademies.org/news/new-nas... 📷@christophermichel.com

Here’s a data thread with bad news, on the latest form of addiction

I love data, and charts, and this thread even has some good news😊

🚨OMB Director Russell Vought is about to testify before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services & General Government! 🚨 We'll be live skeeting the hearing - follow along below!! 🧵:

WE ARE SOOOOOOO close to 10k comments on the @standupforscience.net OMB rule proposal portal...I bet we could get there today. DO ITTTTTT fight2win.standupforscience.net

"Prolactin loss had a negative effect on human neurons left vulnerable by stress from the abnormal protein alpha-synuclein, suggesting that prolactin may serve a protective role in Parkinson’s." hms.harvard.edu/news/new-too...

I've been told my discussion with NPR about US academics/scientists moving overseas will be on NPR later today on All Things Considered! Live broadcast 4-6pm Eastern. Don’t know when my segment will be within this, but tune in! Huge thanks to @npr.org for the opportunity to share my perspective.

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What if sixth graders studied neuroscience as part of the school day? One Texas program shows how early health #ScienceEducation can build #HealthLiteracy, spark curiosity, and introduce students to future careers. Learn more in Issues in Science and Technology: https://ow.ly/VRgo50ZhFv7

This is bar none the best essay I have read in a long time. The whole thing is brilliant— I sobbed at the end. But this paragraph? It stopped me utterly, completely in my tracks.

Mike Males always has high quality data on hand to support his case - here he uses CDC data to illustrate why caregiver mental health to be included in any conversation we have about increasing rates of teen mental health problems. open.substack.com/pub/mikemale...

(1/n) Thrilled to share my first paper at Meta FAIR! "EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking Cross-Modal Learning from Naturalistic Egocentric Video Data" 👶 Human infants learn language from sparse, noisy multimodal input. Today's VLMs can't. We built a benchmark + challenge to close that gap. 🧵

An obituary looks back on the life of Avis H. Cohen, who bridged the disciplines of neuroscience, math and engineering to decode lamprey locomotion. By @sarahthau.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/locomotion/r...

In 2025, Sen Tina Smith, a leading advocate for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Northern Minnesota, introduced the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act to put permanent protections in place, in this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/zTV2XIks7z0?...

I'm starting a lab at the University of Notre Dame! 🎉🍀🧠 Doors open Jan 2027. I'm most excited to meet my future students (recruiting psych grad students for 2027!), help grow a budding neuroscience area, and head home to the midwest after many years away. Please reach out! @notredame.bsky.social

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/cov... Fascinating, scary....and an example of the real-world relevance of cognitive neuroscience.

It’s 112 years since Edward Thomas took a journey during which his train came to an unexpected halt. (Four days later Archduke Franz Ferdinand met his own unscheduled stop, which, one way and another, also brought a premature end to Edward Thomas)

I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

Celebrating Edith Clarke--the first female electrical engineer in the US--on International Women in Engineering Day. She invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems, a precursor to modern smart grid technology. Patented, 1925. #WomenInSTEM #WomeninEngineering (1/2)

Very excited to share this paper, led by @ajhaskins.bsky.social ! We find that how people look around the world is stable and idiosyncratic — and that these gaze patterns are shaped in part by the conceptual priorities each person brings to a scene. 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for #InfantNeuroAI The project will investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world, by combining awake infant neuroimaging (fMRI and OPM-MEG) with computational models from AI.

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

Presenting *NEW* work on 🟠 Geometric Reasoning 🔵 at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference tomorrow @ 10:45am in Talk Room 5 @ the University of Padua! If you happen to be there, let's connect! #MCLS2026 #Padua🇮🇹 #GeometricReasoning