WashU responded to the White House's "compact for excellence in higher education" with a defense of core principles that was less public and less clear than it should have been. Baby steps. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... (Requires creating a free account to read.)

Thoughtful essay about the importance of standing up to open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

@fabbs.org wants to hear from you about the recent NSF Graduate Research Fellowship announcement and its impacts on scientists in clinical psychology! Current or past NSF grad fellow in Clinical Psychology? tinyurl.com/36r9znke Current student who hoped to apply? tinyurl.com/yhbz3d5u

New eLife preprint from Tan Nguyen—Pattern-based functional MRI and computational modeling show evidence for multiple signals contributing to updating the brain's representations of events: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Baccarelli was paid $700/hour for his work on a case against Tylenol. I will charge $0/hour to tell courts, FDA, and everyone else that correlations can arise from latent variables in the absence of a direct causal relationship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The @nsf has also decided that clinical psychology is not eligible for NSF. This is a crock of 💩 Clinical psych (actually clinical science) is a RESEARCH degree. Let’s just completely not support research training in mental health then. Bad bad bad bad decision

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

Short videos highlighting the science that is not getting done due to federal science cuts: www.youtube.com/shorts/2J_BW... Share them! (Thanks to Timothy Wilson and his collaborators for making these!)

New preprint from Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social! People use semantic event knowledge and grouping to remember the temporal order of events. osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (@fabbs.org) is searching for a short-term technology policy fellow. Great opportunity for a new PhD interested in policy, maybe before a research postdoc or faculty position: fabbs.org/news/2025/08...

It’s been 5️⃣ years of #BlackInNeuro! 🧠✨ Join the annual #BlackInNeuroRollCall on September 10th and tell us where you were in 2020, and where you are now! New role? New city? New degree? We want to hear it!! Post your video + use #BlackInNeuroRollCall so we can celebrate YOU!! #5YearsOfBIN

I live in rural Missouri, population 480. I travel to DC a few times a year. The President is lying.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/

🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 Our genes/jeans are GREEN tomorrow To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY (tomorrow) to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor #wearthecolor

New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

New update today (on Senate version, House version is worse): 👎 Though overall NSF budget would remain flat, STEM education would still see a 15% cut: $1,172 --> $1,000 million From a bill report out today after the bill passed in committee yesterday: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Another (small) update today: The analogous subcommittee in the House will now meet next Tuesday, July 15, also about NSF/NASA/NOAA budgets (link below). House has recently been more hawkish on $ than Senate, so will be interesting. Here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/subcommittee...

Brenda Milner just turned 107. Happy birthday! On my very first day as a PI at the MNI, she was right in front of me in the cafeteria line. She was already nearly 100, and still coming to work. What a legend.

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

Thoughtful column by @marccoutanche.bsky.social about parallels between the current federal challenges to science and the history of Soviet science: www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

There's one day left to submit a comment on the Trump administration's proposal to reclassify career civil service employees--including at NSF and NIH--as "at-will" political appointees. Read the @fabbs.org comment here and submit your own: fabbs.org/news/2025/06...

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Thanks @davideagleman.bsky.social for bringing me on Inner Cosmos to talk about the cognitive neuroscience of movies!

Chad Freidrichs' documentary, The Cinema Within, got a very nice review in the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/m...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Thoughtful comment by @lkfazio.bsky.social about how to pivot.

In this op-ed, Alondra Nelson provides dramatic new facts about the current federal science crisis and gives a cogent argument for transparent administration of federally mandated science and information institutions and for protecting congressionally mandated procedures:

Bears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law

It’s hard to look my oldest in the eye & tell him his generation can’t have the nearly as many opportunities we had to discover & advance science. www.science.org/content/arti...

🧪 Another round of NSF grant terminations is expected today. But here’s a silver lining: there’s already a webinar for you today at 2 pm ET if you’re in that boat! (Tries to find the dark humor in moments like these…)

@fabbs.org webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations, for those in the behavioral and brain sciences: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Phone-banking opportunity to encourage legislators to sign on to Congressional/Senate letters opposing cuts to indirect recovery costs and FY ‘26 NIH funding: form.laborbase.org/251246245216...

A timely and engaging story about why federal funding for basic science is such a good investment: www.wnycstudios.org/story/the-ag...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Shout out to all the hard working program officers and administration staff holding on at the NSF (and other federal agencies). Your work is appreciated and more meaningful with every passing day.

The Association for Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) has joined @fabbs.org --a strengthened relationship that will benefit all of the behavioral and brain sciences. fabbs.org/news/2025/04...

Anthony Fauci receives the Excellence in Public Policy and Public Affairs from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”

Hey friends! Come say hi to folks from my lab and from @jzacks.bsky.social lab at #CNS2025. We have a bunch of in-progress stuff this time, including a “sketchpad series” by @raynatang.bsky.social. Also, Veronica and June (with @alexbarnett.bsky.social) were undergrads when they did their projects 🙂

Side note: If you are interested in how performance in this task looks like in older adults, please come to my #CNS2025 poster (B44) this morning from 8-10!

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over. Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk. My story:

This Friday's newsletter from @fabbs.org is available at www.fabbs.org, including important updates on the federal science budget and NIH reauthorization. You can subscribe to get the newsletter in your inbox each week.

New preprint from Yining Ding (@liliand.bsky.social)! "Temporal order memory in naturalistic events is scaffolded by semantic knowledge and hierarchical event structure" osf.io/preprints/ps...

The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Turnout at the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social march was incredible! I'm not great at measuring crowds, but this was easily >1k. Wish I could have gotten an elevated view.

Standing up for science is standing up for truth, reason, and wellbeing. So proud of my lab and colleagues for coming out to the march today!