Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...

Here’s a data thread with bad news, on the latest form of addiction

New lab paper ! "Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons" led by @xinyuanyan.bsky.social. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is brain circuit targeted TMS better than standard clinical TMS for treating depression? New study led by Joe Taylor @braincircuits.bsky.social out today in @jamapsychiatry.com says yes! Connectivity- vs Scalp-Based Targeting of Accelerated TMS for Depression jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ComCat: Combating Covariate Effects in Brain Analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.18.733200v1

Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...

I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This eliminates public access to (checks notes) all tables and cross-tabs from the 2020 census Post from Cornell Prof John Abowd, who spent much of his career expanding access to government data www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a...

Trump admin eliminating access to many microdata sets that economists use Probably not intentional, just the bumbling fumbles of unqualified appointees Effect is the same

RA position open at @BCBL_eu (San Sebastian, Spain)! Work on decoded neurofeedback, fMRI/fNIRS/EEG, and ML to study how subjective experience can be shaped. 2-yr contract, starts Sept. 2026. Deadline: June 30. Apply here shorturl.at/Xw4pn Please RT! @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.

The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Today's post explores two fun facts: 1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!) 2. Even so, stocks rose on the news. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...

The authors of the latest PSPI provide an overview on the latest in fraud research. They also strive to highlight the urgency of fraud’s impact. @sdukehan.bsky.social

In “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling“ journalist Danny Funt explores the fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to enact sports betting laws.

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New MEG preprint out! Huge congrats to postdoc Rohit Yadav. We (among other things…) decoded explore-exploit decisions in the human brain, revealing the lateral frontopolar cortex kicks off the shift to exploration hundreds of milliseconds before the choice itself. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al: Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Glad to highlight a chapter from our lab in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions: “Maladaptive Decision-Making in Older Adults: Confirmation Bias and Financial Exploitation,” led by @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Update: the book is now officially out! Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is available from Springer here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Huge thanks again to @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social, and all of the contributors.

New work from the lab! With @jameswyngaarden.bsky.social

The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

Check out our new review titled "Contributions of default mode network to subjective valuation and maladaptive decision making" now out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science! @dfareri.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8Js8MqMi...

The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery @nature.com The first multi-agent system capable of fully automating both hypothesis generation and data analysis for experimental biology.

My first first author preprint is out! Couldn’t be done without @jenyangyi.bsky.social, @dvsmith.bsky.social, Chelsea Helion, plus stellar support from Daniel Sazhin, Cooper Sharp, and Avi Dachs.

🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🚨🚨 The Social Learning and Decisions Lab is hiring! 🚨🚨 We're looking for a postbacc project coordinator/research assistant to join our team this summer. More details about the position and how to apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ySeA... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

Cortex is rhythmic: Brain rhythms coordinate over large distances. The strongest phase organization spans up to 8–16 cm of cortex. The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience

Effects of 40-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation on cognition and neural markers in Alzheimer’s disease: a randomized, sham-controlled trial link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New preprint from the lab led by Shenghan Wang! 🚨

Interesting suggestion: "rather than flat fees, a journal could offer a substantial prize for the most constructive review in a given period, preserving the social motivation while adding a material incentive." Problem: could only apply to submissions that get *accepted* for pubn. 🧪🗃️

Related to the posts on reduced NIH Fellowship numbers, I note that I'm seeing graduate school admissions offers for one program that are at roughly 25-40% of the number of offers in the years just prior to 2025. How have your programs been responding to the chaos? Any change in offer numbers?

🧠 What makes threat memories so hard to forget? 🐍😱 Using focused ultrasound we provide causal evidence that the human amygdala drives rapid threat learning 🐍⚡ and determines how resistant those memories become to subsequent extinction 🐍🚫 🆕📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

"Neighborhood street connectivity and hippocampus volume in older adults" Impressive study linking hippocampal volume in later life and street connectivity: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‼️ We are on track for a staggering 98% reduction in posted NIH funding opportunities this year relative to historical norms. Political review and red tape are blocking approval of funding announcements across the board. See Elizabeth Ginexi’s analysis: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...

Our book chapter on intertemporal choice in Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions is now available. We review individual differences, dopamine, and methodological approaches from model-agnostic analyses to integrated discounting drift-diffusion models. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

📣 New publication 📣 Very excited to share our new paper "A neural signature of adaptive mentalization" out now in Nature Neuroscience (the project started all the way back in 2018!); with @niklasbuergi.bsky.social @drgokhanaydogan.bsky.social @christianruff.bsky.social (1/4)

NeuroBrain is now open source! Real-time AI pipeline that filters Bluesky's firehose into a curated neuroscience feed using a local LLM. Includes a step-by-step guide for building your own AI-curated feed on any topic. github.com/micahgallen/bsky_neurobrain

Excited to share our new preprint on how feedback improves pain assessment accuracy when people learn from nonverbal reactions! See @yilizhao.bsky.social thread below.

A recent paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com raised concerns about the lesion network mapping method. Our team of 16 coauthors analyzed >1000 lesions and 34 symptoms and found that "The methodological foundations of lesion network mapping remain sound" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI. "The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves." www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

NIH is “…the largest government-funded biomedical research agency in the world, and until recently was the envy of scientists across the globe. The president’s attacks on this legacy have been relentless and all-encompassing…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...