NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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...

Here is some bright news for science, for a change: www.science.org/content/arti...

Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

Philosophical thought experiments can sometimes be addressed empirically through scientific advances. This new paper reminds me of Hume’s “missing shade of blue” problem — it seems to suggests that we cannot through “mere conjuring” generate a new color percept . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biological Psychiatry: Preserving the Promise - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source. If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net

Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!

Less than one percent of the federal budget is dedicated to NIH. We could fire every single person at the NIH right now, and it would barely make a dent in our budget deficit. Yet, somehow, we want to dismantle the very agency that makes us stand out in the world.

‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h... #NIH #chaos #fail

Excited to share our work on a somato-visual biomarker of psychosis at the Conte Thalamus Center this Friday from 1–2:30 PM ET! Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/3858843347... Abstract: conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

What can our brain tell us about chronic pain? @paulgeha.bsky.social and others have found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict the long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #psychiatry

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Great resource! What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

The APLab is looking for a postdoc in high-resolution retinal imaging and video eye-tracking at the University of Rochester. Please share. https://buff.ly/40h8kPY @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social  @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @flaumeye.bsky.social @aplabur.bsky.social

🎉Congrats to Ed Lalor, PhD, who received $2.3 million from NIH to investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments👇 This builds on previous NIH R01 grant that started as seed 💰 from the Del Monte Institute pilot program 👉 urmc.info/1TT

In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

This journalistic piece nicely summarizes some advantages of our functional connectivity biomarker for psychosis. Special thanks to my co-authors in making this work possible (Yonatan Abrham, @mwcole.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social, Boyang Hu, Brent Johnson).

This is leadership

Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by Carrisa Cocuzza: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Many (most?) visual studies of special populations ensure that compared groups have "normal or corrected-to-normal vision", but do not report if the groups are actually matched on acuity within the normal range. Here, we show why this practice is problematic and how it can be remedied...

For #VisionScience people attending VSS, come to our symposium (Friday 17 May, midday) on neurodiversity in visual functioning (with MP Schallmo, Beier Yao, Alice Price, Victor Pokorny and @briankeanelab.bsky.social). www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...