"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here

Nature research paper: Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity go.nature.com/46W2lFl

🧠 Education boosts memory levels but not brain aging resistance A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

He just announced the 90 day pause.

💥🧠🧬Finally out!! Our new paper on the overlapping genetic basis of brain structures and psychiatric disorders has been published in Nature Mental Health. The full list of shared genetic loci is also available online. Thank you so much, Aaron and all co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Big data won't solve anything if it's crappy data. 😒 We need to 1) train people to inspect datasets before using them and 2) ensure that openly shared data is good data. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/poo...

A cross-species study captured an emotional brain state characterized by lingering brain activity in higher-order areas. “It’s one of those moments where you’re getting a first glimpse at a vast and complex landscape,” says @deisseroth.bsky.social. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/3U33raF

Work by Tara Arbab, Ingo Willuhn et al. on neural biomarkers in OCD was published in Nature Mental Health.🗨️Arbab about the study: "It's unique that we were able to measure deep brain activity with very high spatial and temporal precision.” @willuhnlab.bsky.social www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...

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ICYMI: New online! Brain–computer interface restores naturalistic speech to a man with ALS

Pleased to say that our story of how a theory of self-supervised learning in cortical layers accounts for several experimental observations is now out 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I defended my PhD! You can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/OCfqTtPy1KM?...

David Leeftink's first PhD thesis work is now available on arXiv! Probabilistic Pontryagin's Maximum Principle for Continuous-Time Model-Based Reinforcement Learning, check it out!

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

New online! Influence of sleep and chronotypes: are we adapted to today’s society?

Congratulations @Saige to a wonderful PhD Defense!

Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits. @takamitsuw.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠💊New preprint differentiating antipsychotic medication vs. illness effects on cortical thickness in people w/ psychosis. Finding: People receiving placebo show prominent cortical thinning over 1st year of illness, whereas those receiving antipsychotics do not. 1/3 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest open data release. n=240, most with a dsm-5 dx with extensive phenotying (~100 scales/subscale), rest and task functional imaging. See @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social's thread below for deets and links 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Congratulations to Milin Kim for the acceptance of her paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Widespread cofluctuations in the low-frequency range between resting-state global fMRI signals, EEG activity, and a host of peripheral autonomic signals spanning cardiovascular, pulmonary, exocrine and smooth muscle systems 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bilateral integration in somatosensory cortex is controlled by behavioral relevance 🧠🧪 @scottrpluta.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FYI, if you want to be prepared to apply for the next ABCD Study data release, prepare for these new NIST security requirements 🧠: @ohbmofficial.bsky.social abcdstudy.org/scientists/d...

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080

Introducing FEMA-Long for high-dimensional large-scale mixed-effects modelling! Includes modelling unstructured covariance, non-linear effects using splines, time-dependent effects with spline interactions, and longitudinal GWAS with time-dependent genetic effects! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paige Howell, Sanne Kikkert, et al: Distinguishing the activity of adjacent somatosensory nuclei within the brainstem using 3T fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Looking for automated brain extraction tools that are: - Quick and easy to install. - Without "ugly" dependencies (big toolboxes, containers, matlab, etc). - Easy to use. - Quick to run (1/2 minutes). - Not ROBEX, SynthStrip or FSL's BET (we already tested those). Bluesky, do your magic! Thanks!

I look forward to presenting and discussing this work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... in the Soft Matter and Biophysics Seminar of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences! More info and link to join here: english.itp.cas.cn/activities/T...

Very happy to see Eurovision Song Contest. Too bad that Sweden did not win, they kept up the good old tradition, w.r.t. ESC songs, and on top sang about “Saunas”. Miss the fjord Saunas in Oslo, albeit not in Sweden, a great start to the day! youtu.be/WSh7U3m9KgA

Nature research paper: Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness. https://go.nature.com/3Ylq4d6

🎇 This is your opportunity to be part of something groundbreaking: join the newly established @ellisfinland.bsky.social 🇫🇮 as a Principal Investigator. Applications are encouraged in all areas of #MachineLearning, #AI, and related disciplines. www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

There is no space for racism in the EU. No one should be denied a job, home, or opportunity because of their race or ethnic background. On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and every day, the EU stands united against racism, for a #UnionOfEquality.

Have been lazy on social media. For this occasion, I would like to congratulate @beingsaige.bsky.social for this fantastic PhD thesis! I am sure, it will influence much research in future and I have seen first hand how hard you have worked for this Saige - it is a great product and inspiring work!

My Ph.D. thesis is now online (www.publicatie-online.nl/files/9017/4...), the books are printed, and my defense is scheduled for June 17th. What a surreal feeling! #PhDone

Thank you @emilyjacobs.bsky.social for the invite to talk today about the intersection of computational psychiatry and algorithmic fairness. There are more open questions than answers in this space, and we need diverse people + ideas to make progress!

Will post here now, looking forward to connecting!