Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis www.cell.com/trends/cogni... #neuroscience

this is something white people will never understand.

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.? #Chicago

study emotion? sections of this are a v worthwhile read. no paywall. useful reminder that not everyone falls neatly into BET v constructionism buckets researchgate.net/publication/255522683_The_duration_of_affective_phenomena_or_emotions_sentiments_and_passions

Ruin a band with law: Defense Mode

Feel free to use language from the National Postdoc Association's statement in your comments. www.nationalpostdoc.org/resource/res...

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

APA is offering paid editorial fellowships for early-career researchers. 🧪 I was the editorial fellow at Journal of Comparative Psychology last year and I can highly recommend it! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Useful reminders

Portland declares ICE facility out of compliance, demands its clearance. www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

I'm more sympathetic to a "diverse intelligences" viewpoint, where different umwelts and ecological niches require different inductive biases that lead to different patterns of skill acquisition efficiency. Each is efficient over a particular distribution of skills.

New from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/2

please make a point of commenting on this proposed change. it's important. it's also quick and easy. <3 minutes end-to-end.

Me on my way to start some bullshit

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

Hearing from someone in NIH program: “Our final Task Order for $6.2M went out today. Every obstacle DOGE put up to keep us from funding new TOs and extending others was overcome. My fired contract officers were rehired. It was a lot of work, but we did it. For now.”

The NSF posted an announcement on Sept 8th with “full solicitation coming” and no indication of the changes- consistent with a chaotic process occurring to make these decisions. At least they delayed the deadlines and have now provided reference letter deadline (earlier than application deadline).

War-ravaged Portland

The University of Chicago won’t admit students in 19 of its doctoral programs in the 2026-27 academic year, in part due to “ongoing uncertainty in the federal landscape.”

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. - Assata Shakur Pic of the day #photography

“Doing research is a choice, and unless you’re involved in some urgent project—curing a disease or winning a war or righting some injustice or raising living standards or whatever—or some interesting project—baseball statistics or the theory of random walks or whatever—you shouldn’t do it.”

Looks like NSF has changed eligibility for its prestigious graduate fellowship, limiting now to 1st year PhD students Previously 2nd year could apply Not a small shift, especially with no advance warning (Screen shots of eligibility guidelines, then and now)

Please consider signing this letter in support of the NSF graduate fellowship program. It is an important program for training scientists, particularly for disciplines that are not well-supported by research grants.

Promises to be excellent!

Morning walk

Just came across this face image database that lists different databases from A-Z libguides.princeton.edu/facedatabases A very nice collection, thanks to @mtesterman.bsky.social

I have been taking surfing lessons. Still in the beginner kook trenches, but celebrating my last time on a foam board 😎 Graduating to a hard top next session. It’s fun to learn new things! Even if you look like a goober at the beginning. 🏄🏽‍♀️

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!

Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...

Submit comments to protect international undergraduate education in the USA (and all of the scientific progress and economic prosperity tied to this). www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...

1/n. #GET-BRAIN-DEPRESSION-KOOLAID. 1/n. Was excited to skim this new paper that popped yesterday. But! So many minor intellectual crimes in this report that detract from the actual finding. Like reading first-gen imaging (corr in 8 Ss =

Soft Drink Consumption and Depression Mediated by Gut Microbiome Alterations url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social ! We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Future DSM Biomarkers and Biological Factors Subcommittee with the American Psychiatric Assoc. is surveying the field to learn about potential candidate biomarkers and other biological factors involved in psychiatric disorders. Please provide input: tinyurl.com/3n7etr5h

This evening's lecture...

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

Honestly incredible that any IC was able to push through to the point. Major kudos to every GMS and other staff who made this possible.

mentally ill implies the existence of womenshorty healthy

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

@uwpsych.bsky.social is proud to be ranked #19 overall and #8 among public universities in the 2025-2026 U.S. News and World Report’s Best Psychology Undergraduate Programs. This Top 20 ranking underscores our reputation as a leader in teaching and research. #OnWisconsin go.wisc.edu/z344q1

Goebbles or Miller?

Shame on you @aaas.org

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing *1-yr term; $1,000 USD www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

Updated funding curve (with two weeks to go in the fiscal year) (Posted on jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... )

cool - if you will be in Pitt - www.dans.pitt.edu DANS 2025!

will be interesting to see if it's replicable and generalizable link.springer.com/article/10.1...