lmao, get ready to learn Thunder Bay, buddy

fortune.com/2026/05/16/n... Important info for my NY friends

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

We are hiring a half time (20 hrs/wk) Research Assistant to record single neurons in the hospital at UCLA (working with epilepsy patients) to study memory. Ideal job for someone looking to gain clinical/neuroscience experience for med/grad school. Apply at the link below:

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 😣

📞 Before May 22, the NIH RFI deadline is May 16. Even 2-3 sentences on one topic you care about contributes to the permanent record. Pre-drafted points by priority: bioniclab.org/news/request-for-information-nih #NIHFunding #ScienceAdvocacy

Dems just aren’t prepared for the moment. And yet they blame whatever boogeyman they can come up with for why they’re not winning elections chasing imaginary flip voters. When they could be riling up a young, upset base eager to vote for a left populist agenda

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

i don’t think you know what “muted” means @wsj.com?

there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

New Annual Review with @nathanieldaw.bsky.social: “Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is.” We argue that the brain's 'planning' machinery is mostly used for learning from simulated experience, and that thinking prospectively at decision time is just one special case of this process.

🚨Excited to share my first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🚨 with the amazing Smith lab, @jbarbosa.org and Albert Compte who made this work possible. We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵

Good on The Strokes for not being shy at Coachella

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

how you know zohran mamdani is doing well. the billionaires and capitalist class fucking us all over are scared

No one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.

What do you want Democrats to do? There's nothing they can do. However, it's very important you continue to vote for them and give them money, as they continue to do nothing.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This one is a no brainer for me

very normal country

Washington state passed a tax on millionaires. A lot of the usual suspects have been screaming & tearing their hair out & warning of apocalypse. But the actual rich people of Washington? Turns out they are mostly Democrats & they mostly support it!

Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team www.cell.com/current-biol...

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

Note the names lol. Second article is from last year:

Last year: We need a Joe Rogan of the left! This year: No not like that! I need them to sound like Kamala!

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

Abolish TSA

🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu) "Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks" We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context. How might this work...? 🧵1/8

Sanders: People can't afford health care. People can't afford childcare. And this guy, in addition to giving tax breaks to billionaires, now wants to spend another $200 billion on a war that should never have been fought.

How do MTL theta oscillations relate to eye & body movements during navigation? @suthanalab.bsky.social &co show that #theta power increases during #saccades under memory demands, linking exploratory gaze & planning to memory‑related dynamics during #navigation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dwJhR8

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

We also see a shift in CA1 recruitment during learning. Neurons active before the threat, when the animal is simply exploring the context, are excluded from the engram. This suggests that the hippocampus updates which neurons will store the memory as the experience unfolds. bsky.app/profile/clem...

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

"Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign!" My sibling in Christ, she spent a million dollars putting her face on the Vegas sphere.

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

This is exactly what Hegseth meant when he bragged that we “don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

How does the brain generalize past experiences without confusing memories? 🧠 Our lab's newest preprint reveals a fundamental division of labor between the cortex and cerebellum that solves this problem. (Check out the cortex-cerebellum video below! 👇) 🧵

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Actively upsetting to find this in my fortune cookie

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.