A good read by @niniandthebrain.bsky.social Research quietly progresses through self-correction, problem solving. This process came into the glaring spotlight in 2020 in real time. I observed how science was misunderstood. Misinformation was rampant. 🧪 techingitapart.substack.com/p/we-have-a-...

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Protest at the Massachusetts state house. peaceful and energetic. The crowd is in the street. Eyeballing it from my vantage point I'd guess around 1000 people - but tough to say exactly.

Photos from Boston’s ‘ICE Out Everywhere’ protest #news https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/01/31/boston-ice-out-everywhere-protest-photos/

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

Stealing art is one thing, but stealing a generation’s confidence in their own abilities is unbelievable

Folks at @brown.edu, be safe and well. A terrible and terrifying incident - you're in the thoughts of many this week.

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B #StateOfNeuroscience

Can democracy survive without reading?: www.wbur.org/app/playback...

@okaysteve.bsky.social sat down with @franciscorr25.bsky.social to discuss the inspiration behind the book, why he decided to write it partly as a memoir, and what he wants readers to take away from reading it. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...

U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

🌎 New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s442... There is an urgent need to choose behaviours that mitigate climate change, but these are often more effortful. Can we increase pro-environmental motivation? Joint w/ Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta & amazing international team 👇🧵

One of my favorite facts: neurons and skin cells are 'cousins'. Intelligence is a phenomenon that lives at boundaries. The semipermeable cell membrane is where the ball got rolling. I wrote an essay riffing on this idea. yohanjohn.com/axispraxis/f...

Overall, this is pretty well-designed and -executed pre-registered (yay!) study. I don't really care about the self-report measures, but the analyses of the provided results is compelling. That said... (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Can we move towards calling "word-models" motifs and rigorously specified theories models? Maybe explicitly naming motifs vs. models can solidify ontology across fields. Optimistic for Raja's idea that ecological perspectives seem to be coming back. See also the Simons found's decade long collab.

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In 2025, we have thousands of people show up to celebrate books; lectures and discussions made free to all; music, discourse, and community at #bostonbookfestival. Can we make this happen everywhere?

Naturalistic approaches such as Ulanovsky’s open up “potential opportunities to really reveal why the brain is structured in the way it’s structured,” says Iain Couzin. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

I've never seen so many cheery people holding flags 🇺🇸. Estimates on the order of 100,000 people at #nokings on the #Boston commons yesterday (WCVB). Massive cheers for mayor Michelle Wu: "What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible". youtu.be/bkCRkoQGs3Q?...

For the second time this year, protesters gathered for “No Kings” rallies against the Trump administration. See more from the mass protests: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

PBS @pbsnews.org News Hour Classroom Educator Voice: Generative AI has no place in my classroom "This is different. This is dangerous. And I’m finally sounding the alarm." by David Cutler, teacher https://loom.ly/0DPnpBQ

𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 (𝘯.) "the illusion of knowledge that emerges when surface plausibility replaces verification"

There seem to be similar pressures at play as in the "learn to code" and one-device-per-child programs of the previous decade.

Teen Brain Bootcamp is a free newsletter on adolescent brain development from scientific publisher Annual Reviews, geared toward parents, teachers, caregivers. mailchi.mp/annualreview...

For a trainee like myself, Lindsay refreshingly weaves together various topics, methods, factoids, and historical anecdotes. Many of these things one encounters in classes or papers, but the 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 of it all and the coherence of the narrative as she tells it is humanizing and compelling.

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

😢😢😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Successful first CISE poster session at beautiful Brown! #CISE2025 🔭

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

It heartens and inspires to see an individual scientist and citizen as the named plaintiff against these actions. Thank you for providing an example of resistance against censorship of science, discriminatory erasure of data, and illegal withholding of public records.

Democracy Forward & I filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Census Bureau, seeking the release of data from its testing of sexual orientation & gender identity questions in the nation's most important annual demographic survey, key to upholding LGBTQ+ rights. democracyforward.org/updates/sogi... (1/4)

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ? By Tim Requarth #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Lego Science is research driven by modular convenience. When researchers combine methods or concepts, more out of convenience than any deep curiosity in the resulting research question, to create publishable units. "What role does {my favourite construct} play in {task}?"

As scientists we cultivate bodies of knowledge within ourselves by socializing; only our own research is first-hand. We socialize strangely, with skepticism and inquisitiveness, in journals and lectures, but all every one of our products is in some way of joint curiosity and immense trust in others.

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

Imagine the NIH draft was cut off to just shall not "request, collect, or disseminate information..." EO 14168 does not mince words. Page 2: "'Sex' is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of 'gender identity'" This is not a misunderstanding; it's a ban on a word. This is Newspeak.

Ideas from former MIT pres. Rafael Reif: States "have the power to act unilaterally" here; with a good case. Universities "are the only major institutions that do what they do" and "are not the sole nor even the most significant beneficiaries" of their research. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You’re invited to the 2nd Annual CSRP Conference! A free virtual event open to all—hear from leading scientists, clinicians, and community voices. 📅 Sept 9, 2025 | 9AM–2PM EST 💻 Free & virtual 🔗 Register: bit.ly/csrp-2nd-conf

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

How fascinating. In support of the "we must formulate math models", one of my fav stories is the Computation Bestiary. There, word models were metaphors (quote below from Elusive Cures). That's computationally sophisticated field and yet ... /1 fcampelo.github.io/EC-Bestiary/

During any boom in a given sector you'll find groups rushing to make large profits: this is unsurprising, yes? What is surprising and deeply unsettling is that we are being successfully convinced by this sector to deny ourselves the ability to regulate the misuse and misapplication of technology.

The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...