Renewing one's faith in the American people:

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Thrilled to share our latest work highlighting Bergmann glial development in the human cerebellum. @neurodevkathy.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Almost all of the scientists were previously at US institutions go.nature.com/4qMlrUR

Very cool work from my friends and colleagues @actlab.bsky.social and Damon Clark - I am lucky to get to hang out with them at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 "Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology" is going to the top of the list! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence

New research out in @nature.com delineates two replicable axes of human white matter development ft. @audreycluo.bsky.social & @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social (Psych) @chopresearch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wrote an perspectives piece relevant to the structural atlasing endeavors. Structural atlases are not the end of the story. This perspective calls for models that take into account the flexible functional organization within this fixed architecture. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Using 7T fMRI, our team found a representation of the probability of the next event in human dlPFC —and it’s highly non-monotonic. Confidence signals, in contrast, were mostly monotonic. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧠🟦🧠🤖

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Daniel Haenelt, Robert Trampel, et al: Decoding of columnar-level organization across cortical depth using BOLD- and CBV-fMRI at 7 T doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The big questions facing psychedelic science: 1. What’s the biology of psychedelic experiences? 2. Is the experience necessary for clinical benefit? 3. How do we solve expectancy+unblinding in trials? We synthesize what we know and the big Qs in a Nature Med Review: nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m very excited about this new work describing the specific cortical-striatal circuits that are altered in Parkinson’s Disease and that should be targeted for optimal PD treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Minneapolis City Council allocated $1 million to help residents pay rent as part of an effort to help immigrants who have lost income amid the federal immigration crackdown.

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ayumu Yamashita, Okito Yamashita, et al: Extraction of robust functional connectivity patterns across psychiatric disorders using principal component analysis-based feature selection doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Posting more from the @sanders.senate.gov HELP committee report, this time on the clinical center, which has been devastated. www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

It’s time to rethink Parkinson’s disease. Our work reframes PD as a disorder of the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), and shows that normalizing SCAN connectivity represents a shared mechanism across diverse effective therapies. rdcu.be/e2n4t @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social

Social “envirotyping” the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes New paper from former BNBL-er and current postdoc at Northeastern University, London @h-merritt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/scan...

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Excited to share a new preprint, led by the inimitable @colleenhughes.bsky.social! Individualized Mapping of Functional Brain Networks in Older Adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵 1/

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Luppi et al. identify transcriptomic and connectomic controllers of information integration and its breakdown induced by anaesthesia across species

The 2024 US societal cost of #Schizophrenia was $366.8 billion, with unpaid caregiving, lost wages, and reduced quality of life accounting for over 75% of total costs. ja.ma/3ZI3YBB

👀 Did you miss me? Making the most of digital phenotyping data by imputing missingness with point process models | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

Thousands filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest federal immigration enforcement for the second Friday in a row. 📷️: Carlos Gonzalez and Alex Kormann

Important update: a federal judge has ruled that Russ Vought & OMB were breaking the law & must tell the public exactly how they are spending (or not spending) funds appropriated by Congress. I wrote this law years ago to ensure transparency and accountability.

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

HEAL Initiative, BRAIN initiative, Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, all now leaderless with Walter Koroshetz gone...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....

New: Just how furious are Americans about ICE? Sewing influencers, bourbon vloggers and the mod of r/catbongos are all taking a political stand. "I refuse to wake up in five or 10 years and look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘You had a platform and did nothing,'" a golf YouTuber told me

one of the least-appreciated own-goals happening right now is the deliberate sabotage of our knowledge/research sector www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year? My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive. www.science.org/content/arti...

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."

“At 14 research agencies Science examined in detail, departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s. “ www.science.org/content/arti...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Brook and Salo et al. describe the study protocol and initial release of an open dataset of behavioral and neuroimaging measures in youth: doi.org/10.52294/001... @juliettebrook.bsky.social @tsalo.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

So happy to see this new, growing open data resource out -- all credit to the amazing @juliettebrook.bsky.social + @tsalo.bsky.social + a superb team!!!! NOTE: @juliettebrook.bsky.social is currently applying to clinical psych PhD programs -- great opportunity to recruit a ⭐TOTAL ⭐ STAR ⭐

Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0... @RobbRutledge @xiaosigu @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey @ACNPorg @YaleMed

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 26, 2026

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

Trump has even lost Rasmussen now