Your periodic reminder:

When I tell you white supremacy is built into every single aspect of American law and you cannot have a single effective movement without taking that into account, shit like “it’s illegal to poison a rich white neighborhood but legal to pollute a poor Black neighborhood” is what I mean.

@chefjoseandres.bsky.social speaks plainly: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o... "people of good conscience must now stop the starvation in Gaza. There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine."

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

Any Democrat working against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, was never a Democrat in the first place. They are moderate Republicans who spent years seeking political power by posing as Democrats in a heavily blue area.

New speaker announcement: Joseph Taylor (Harvard University) will present at the Brainclinics TMS Masterclass and Certification Course his latest results and insights titled: From Scalp to Circuit: Evolving TMS Targeting Approaches.

An excellent analysis of the reactionary mind.

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

Zohran Mamdani, who just bested Cuomo in mayoralty primary, wants to bring universal "school-streets" (school-proximate streets closed to cars + trucks) to #NYC. That's made things a whole lot safer, and healthier, for kids in #Paris and #London, but until now, it's been a non-starter in the US.

Rents going up? “Don’t build apartments” Rents going down? “Don’t build apartments”

One thing I’ve decided during this creative & inspiring week in Paris — it’s time to write my 1st book. On cities & better city-building obviously. Might be 2 books actually, since I don’t know which of my 2 ideas to do first. Any advice from authors out there? Like should I get an agent or not?

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

Thank you to everyone in the lab for celebrating my promotion to full professor! I am grateful for all that we have accomplished together and look forward to many more years of discovery 🧪 (plus plenty of cakes 🍰) ahead.

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

U.S. people: Be sure to turn out for No Kings Day protests tomorrow (Sat June 14) afternoon, google the one nearest you. With all that's happening on so many fronts, not least the movements toward authoritarian martial law amidst widespread raids of working people, it matters now more than ever.

💯!!!

Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

If only the pros outweighed the cons.

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

Good to see this awesome work out!

New evidence shows electroconvulsive therapy triggers a brain event called cortical spreading depolarization, challenging previous assumptions about how ECT achieves its therapeutic effects. doi.org/g9mnvt

Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity. The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

The latest issue of Lancet Psychiatry contains a profile of me, in which they describe me as “one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”!!! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

Better Code, Better Science - Introducing a new open-source book project on scientific coding using AI tools russpoldrack.substack.com/p/better-cod...

Staking this claim now: should we be so fortunate as to get another Democratic trifecta, it should be judged a failure if it does not 1) jail the people responsible for this, 2) abolish or in some other way dismantle and disarm ICE

Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens

Engaging article about ADHD and the risks of pathologizing the tail of a normally distributed behavior that then justifies the widespread use of methamphetamines in kids. Particularly impressed by investigators questioning decades of their own work (not easy to do). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

100%! Universities and scientists should not cave, THE PUBLIC IS WITH US! We much FIGHT BACK against efforts to demolish US universities and US science, two things that actually make America great.

This is great, and much needed, but $240K doesn't come close to enabling this group to fill in for a missing CDC.

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

This is not NOAA. This breaks my heart 💔😔

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Over 500 people out today protesting on the village green in Falmouth Ma @50501movement.bsky.social

Three weeks ago, 238 Venezuelan migrants were taken from Texas to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The Trump administration invoked a rarely used WWII law, branding them as terrorists and gang members. Investigations show that most have no criminal records whatsoever. cbsn.ws/42oS14J

A much-needed joint effort from five labs to see which behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice are reliable, and which may be spurious 🐁🍄 @theborislab.bsky.social @mazenkheirbek.bsky.social @indigenerd.bsky.social Vikaas Sohal and Stephan Lammel 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a very important paper That will be discussed for many years

I submitted an RO1 in September, which should have been reviewed in February. That review was cancelled, but rescheduled for this week. I happened to log into the NIH site on Friday, whereupon I discovered that my grant was withdrawn by NIH the day before because it had no "foreign justification"...

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

A brilliant Banksy.

Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊 Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs. Paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.” “A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions