My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

Unlike Pirlo or Modric, it doesn't feel like de Bruyne is going to age well as a midfielder maestro. #WorldCup

It's really hard to like #Uruguay (the only time it was remotely possible was when Diego Forlán was in peak form), and Bielsa "sitting-on-the-watercooler" act is such a stupid affectation. Go #CapeVerde!

Weston is terrific, but you never feel like Brenden is ever threatening to score (4 goals from 42 appearances for Leeds last season). Lovely guy obviously, but... #WorldCup #USMNT

Our paper on olfactory evidence accumulation is now officially published with the final clean version! With @luxorboero.bsky.social, Hao Wu, @josephdzak.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, Farhad Pashakhanloo, @siddjakes.bsky.social, @btolooshams.bsky.social & Demba Ba.

This desire to ALWAYS play out from the back (thanks Pep) will continue to crush mediocre teams. #Scotland #WordCup

"Fondue is better than Poutine" - sign from a fan walking to the #Canada - #Switzerland match! #WorldCup

If you do theoretical or adjacent neuroscience, RUN to sign up to work with Jacob! Congratulations on this exciting and deserved next step, Jacob!

Ok, I don't get all the comments blaming #Senegal's porous defense, while their offense has been dreadfully timid - all sideways & backwards passing, terrified to take on players & non-existent penetrating runs/passes. Oh & Nicolas Jackson playing striker 🤣. #Norway fully deserves a win. #WorldCup

Check out the new preprint by a @harvard.edu team that includes three Kempner researchers: Richard Hakim, Venki Murthy & Demba Ba! @neurovenki.bsky.social #NeuroAI #neuroscience #ML #AI

Let's retire smooth "homunculi" (as an olfactory scientist, mosaic representations warm my heart :-)

Sarpreet Singh of New Zealand - first Desi to start in a #WorldCup match?!

OMG - this is sheer magic and joy, that Cape Verde goal!!! #WorldCup

This Curacao goalie, my word!!! Eloy Room. #WorldCup

Linda Caicedo >>> Moisés Caicedo (but she makes about 1/17th of what he makes)

It's bordering on magical that a nation of 158,000 people can be at a World Cup final! #Curacao #WorldCup

Heartbreak for Cote d'Ivoire, but well played though! (I'm compelled to support #Germany, after the #USMNT, to keep domestic harmony :-) #worldcup

Germany has an excellent team, but the attack simply does not have the ruthless efficiency of Klose, Ballack, Reus, Schweinsteiger, Muller and even Ozil. #WorldCup

The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

I mean, who in Sweden said "we are doing poorly, let's get Graham Potter to come coach us"? #worldcup

I am a neurodivergent neuroscientist. My bipolar brain brings struggle but it also helps me think off-the-map ideas. To help others who are similarly different, I co-founded the Neurodiversity Innovation Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (niceinneuro.org) with Leah Blankenship and Lila Kaye.

Our new paper sets the stage for the biggest practical use case of model interpretability: stress testing and dataset development. All you need is interpretable linear features and simple geometry.

Playing in top European leagues is clearly a necessity for soccering well... literally everyone except Ream and Freese (the former returning only recently) #USMNT

Yes yes, own goal and all, but the #USMNT look really slick (I am happily surprised!).

Somehow I've missed that Matt Freese is a @harvard.edu man! Go #USMNT - let's get this done!

Really neat essay! "Interpretability is in the business of mistaking a probability distribution for a reasoning soul."

A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating.

Today's Featured Poem: "The Last Sea Cow's Testimony" by Brandon Kilbourne from Natural History published by Graywolf Press Read here: poems.com/poem/the-las...

Reykjavik harbor. Fortunate to be here for a few days!

In 712 Harvard courses last year, every undergrad got an A. The Crimson analyzed a decade of confidential grading data to map where the grading cap — set to take effect in Fall 2027 — will hit hardest. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Autumn, a poem by the Czech poet Václav Hrabě, translated by C.E. Janecek, in the June 2026 issue of #Poetry magazine from @poetry.foundation. "Trembling poplar bare as a sentence"

How the brain encodes social isolation and the need to be together, a wonderful update on the latest neuroscience by @inkfish.bsky.social

The Gig just won the JJA Jazz Award for Blog of the Year! Here’s how I’m unpacking that news, with plenty of kudos to go around.

It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... via @statnews.com I wrote a thing (also hi, I’m alive!).

Sad about the Champions League loss, but can't defend the way #Arsenal played and can't say we deserved to win. Hope there's more positive play next year.

Sunset in Boston Harbor from Boston Light! Thanks Boston National Historical Park!

Nice piece in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social about our @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social! I say a few things in it.

Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social

Not getting out of the group stage, and Poch is gone (justifiably, I think) right after that. Back to square one, sigh. #USMNT

A Shared Milestone: Julia Fannon, Audrie Cortes Puentes, and Che Lomonte-Gardiner Earn Harvard Master’s Degrees While Working Full-Time in MCB #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @chelg44.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu

Sonny spent two years on that bridge, and came back not sounding like Coltrane, or like Ornette, but sounding *even more like* Sonny Rollins. That’s his genius.

Colossus, they called him. Sonny Rollins is no more. May you rest in some sunny paradise like St. Thomas.

Premier League Champions again!! #Arsenal

A shame #Arsenal lost to THIS Lyon, sigh. #Barcelona were incredible in that second half, though. #UEFA #ChampionsLeague

Among the many essays and posts on Arsenal's EPL win, loved reading this one! "I am happy for Nicolas Jover. While the world bitched and whinged and moaned and whined about…goals being scored from corners, he got his head down and wrung every single drop of moisture from a marginal gain." #Arsenal

Grading cap (for "A"s) at @harvard.edu

Good day, after a 22 year wait! #Arsenal

Not sure why I kept this around, but finding it made me happy. #iPod

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

An unrelated search of my hard drive reminded me of this climate change-related piece that @josephdzak.bsky.social and @jenellewallace.bsky.social wrote almost exactly 6 years ago for @natrevneuro.nature.com. How quickly things have darkened in such a short time that this feels so innocent. Sigh.