Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc... Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!

New book on navigation (open access). The result of the Ernst Strüngemann Forum 2024. Was great to be there and discuss for a week with 50+ wonderful colleagues. Many thanks to the organizers, Julia Lupp + ESF team, the editors @noranewcombe.bsky.social, Ken Cheng link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

1 mo. left to submit an abstract for the Conference for Research and Education in Navigation! We have a stellar lineup of speakers and submitted talks and posters already! @aliprestonphd.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @russellepstein.bsky.social @tammyish.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social

This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Quote and headline are quite misleading IMO. Click on the link for better understanding of the state of play.

One incentive for being a study section member for NIH is “continuous submission.” Or the ability to get extra time for submitting grants when you are a peer reviewer. NIH is terminating this in August.

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

A developmental psychology Onion headline! 🤣

amazing

#NoKings3 in Ardmore PA

Excited to announce THREE new publications in the last couple weeks.

Alexandra Buckle. Bluebell Memories. #Linocut

My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If you cannot go Saturday, I know of this online option! Run by @standupforscience.net

Rare piece of good news in this morning’s reading. San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

⚠️New review straight out of the oven! "Spatial navigation in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: A review" arxiv.org/abs/2603.23082 We focus on spatial navigation as a sensitive cognitive marker in preclinical AD, compiling evidence from cognitively unimpaired individuals with positive AD biomarkers.

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the internat'l standard (1952) & remains the gold standard for TB testing today. #WorldTuberculosisDay #WomenInSTEM

Is mental imagery a single process? Our meta-analysis of 46 fMRI studies suggests not. We find a key divide between object imagery (visualizing an object in rich detail) and spatial imagery (mentally transforming objects). This split mirrors the ventral and dorsal streams of vision

Celebrating Dr. Marthe Gautier on World Down Syndrome Day. In May 1958, she discovered the extra 47th chromosome. Jérôme Lejeune took her slides, claimed the discovery as his own & robbed her of credit for 50 years. Today, we recognize the true pioneer of #Trisomy21. #WomenInSTEM #MatildaEffect

Harvard's statement on today's lawsuit ends: "We... will defend the University against this lawsuit, which represents yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusing to turn over control of Harvard to the federal government." www.harvard.edu/media-relati...

"Recognizing pain as a temporally structured brain state has important implications." Beggs & Frankland, in overview of 2 fascinating articles in Science www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏

Would a similar approach work for sorting all sorts of psychological constructs?

BREAKING: @delauro.house.gov announces at a House Oversight hearing with NIH director Jay Bhattacharya that OMB approved the agency's apportionment last night. That means the agency should have access to its appropriated funds — 42 days after its spending bill passed.

This news was welcome in a sea of horrible news. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What does it mean for culture to 'shape' cognition? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41807136/ "Culture can (i) privilege some cognitive processes, while leaving alternative processes intact; (ii) prune unused alternative processes (iii) produce new cognitive processes; or (iv) have no effect"

Happy to announce that the RR for ManyNumbers 3 was accepted (in principle) at Developmental Science today. This project will investigate the socio-demographic correlates of preschool numeracy in US sites participating in ManyNumbers 1. If you're interested, it's not too late to join these projects.

🧠 The DEN Lab (@UIowa) is hiring a Lab Coordinator! A wonderful opportunity for recent grads preparing for grad school. Come do meaningful developmental cog neuro research with us in Iowa City, a vibrant college town with rich intellectual and cultural life! jobs.uiowa.edu/research/vie...

Determinants of individual navigation ability Review by Emre Yavuz & Hugo J. Spiers go.nature.com/4sHHH3A

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#StandUpForScience Philly division

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

🚨🚨New paper day!🚨🚨 Wonderful work from the longitudinal arm of our cannabis-users study showing how brain reward-system function changes over 12 months in regular users. 🧵⬇️ #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This #InternationalWomensDay, we are proud to share a spotlight on Professor @annavignoles.bsky.social, the first woman to be appointed Director of the Leverhulme Trust. In this @expeditions.bsky.social video, she shares why we need to recognise research as a collective endeavour.

This Women’s History Month, we recognize the women leading ISR, the major centers and initiatives at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Their leadership drives research that informs policy and strengthens communities worldwide!

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist. It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

#ResistanceRoots Alice Hamilton was born on this day in 1869 in New York City. She was a physician, research scientist and humanitarian who is considered the “Mother of Industrial Medicine.” Her rigorous research led to the creation of the Occupation Safety and Health Administration in 1971. /1

Register now! This webinar is limited to 1,000 guests and will not be recorded. We'll take a close look at how research and grants work at Harvard and why the cuts from the Trump administration are so detrimental to the Harvard community. More details/registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and @maureenritchey.bsky.social on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here: academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

From @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social's lab: Deep learning approaches to map individual differences in macroscopic neural structure with variations in spatial navigation behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Before Marion Downs, childhood hearing loss wasn’t caught until age 3+. #WorldHearingDay The 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 advocated for early detection/intervention & established the first large-scale newborn screening program (1963), proving early intervention is the key to language. #WomenInSTEM