🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

To Alice Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything You were a hero to Asian Americans, drag queens and people with disabilities around the world. May you do what you wanna do as your chariot carries you over the rainbow. by Maureen Dowd

RALLY! GET THE 🦆 OUTTA HERE! 📍GWU Lisner Auditorium ⏰Monday, November 17th. Bobby "The Quack" Jr. will be on GW's campus, and so will we! We will be rallying with @christopherstreet.bsky.social outside his fireside chat and standing against his anti-science BS! @50501movement.bsky.social

I’ve been circling around this idea for awhile but didn’t have the skill to summarize what others have now done extremely eloquently: Proposing the concept of misinformation exposure as a social determinant of health. Read on if you’re interested.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

Our randomized, placebo-controlled trial of tirzepatide (Zepbound) for #LongCovid has already enrolled 500 participants of 1000 planned in less than 2 weeks! longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/

Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The news that Lethbridge police got away with stalking, harassing and threatening Phillips because the chance of conviction was too low is an indictment of the entire justice system in Alberta.

I'm pretty comfortable not using a technology that coerces people to commit suicide, actually.

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

This goes so far beyond creepy. “‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”

Not to put too fine a point on it but: f*ck this AI-fueled physiognomy bullshit.

I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult. But not impossible. Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

On our #LongCovid clinical trial launched today! thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w... @julialmv.bsky.social @scripps.edu

Bad news for science today. Rachel Riley moved from HHS, where she gutted NIH and the largest part of US biomedical research, to the office of Naval Research, where she presumably will gut the science funded by ONR. How to stop this? Impeach her boss, the Project 2025 co-head Russell Vought. 🧪

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

'Forever Canadian' petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/28/n...

What if we did a single run and declared victory

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

"Public-school education exists to be a deliberate model of a civil democratic society. It is the primary means by which we draw children and young adults into a sense of community, into a sense that we are all in this together."

New paper out today on hippocampus neuron morphology in homing and feral pigeons. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence #neuroethology #anatomy

👀 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Being able to collaborate with folks in other depts - eg neuroscience - is a plus!

We are hiring a tenure-track professor in Statistics at the University of Lethbridge: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8746

If you don’t know who shadow president Russell Vought is, find out: www.propublica.org/article/russ...

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too! time.com/collections/...

I had a lot of fun writing a commentary on this piece by @neurograce.bsky.social. Check it out!

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do. Just pointing that out. This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

My op-ed just came out discussing how NIH leadership is failing early career researchers and, importantly, how we can push back and take our future into our own hands.

The thing we have learned very clearly about Jay Bhattacharya in the last six months is: He wants to be a podcaster. He seems to have no interest in running NIH or learning about science. He’s the leader of #darkscicomm

This will be increasingly clear for US science too. The decades-long apolitical science enterprise, built on NIH and NSF, is gone. We will have to think about how to rebuild.

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Check out this lovely new paper by the inimitable @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social ! We examine how humans use natural image statistics to judge similarity.

Now Jeanne Marrazzo, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been fired by #RFKJr in retaliation. This administration is corrupt. Matthew Memoli: remember this man's name, MAGA grifter who scored $500M for his research. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Accurate take on Bhattacharya from Reddit: “Look, this guy is a lightweight, at best. Any of the brilliant, productive, long-time physician researchers in NIH intramural would share this with you if they could do so safely and without attribution. To say he is in over his head is obvious...” 1/ 🧪