Christopher Moore
@cimoore444.bsky.social
themoorelab.org
Brown University
The Carney Institute for Brain Research
Brown University
The Carney Institute for Brain Research
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A work break haiku, my daughter and I composed, sitting at cafe:
Procrastination
(teddy bear wedged, frozen tree)
has 5 syllables
Procrastination
(teddy bear wedged, frozen tree)
has 5 syllables
Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity
"I always feel that I'm a student," says Neurophotonics' Anna Wang Roe. Tune in to Chris Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social fantastic interview with Anna and hear her story of the illusory contours and bridging the disciplines and continents!
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#Neurophotonics
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#Neurophotonics
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity
Long may your run, to and from
Over a decade after reading it, I think about this Neil Young profile at least 1-2x/mo. especially this quote.
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/m...
www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/m...
August 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Long may your run, to and from
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It was wonderful to take a moment to celebrate as Gov McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act today! Thank you everyone! Sharing some photos and nuggets of wisdom from the speakers
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It was wonderful to take a moment to celebrate as Gov McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act today! Thank you everyone! Sharing some photos and nuggets of wisdom from the speakers
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What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation.
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More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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July 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Jobs
We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.
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July 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share!
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making
Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour.
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time:
'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.'
Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Here's a provocative proposal for settling the "What is an emotion?" debate - get rid of the concept altogether!
From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997).
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From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997).
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Here's a provocative proposal for settling the "What is an emotion?" debate - get rid of the concept altogether!
From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997).
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997).
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Great at so many levels.
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Great at so many levels.
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My quote of the day
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
June 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My quote of the day
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
www.motherjones.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...
Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...
Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump
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Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
So psyched for this! Go grab a few copies, you’ll want to give them to friends
It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts).
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
June 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
So psyched for this! Go grab a few copies, you’ll want to give them to friends
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LIVE feed of Senate Appropriations Committee ready to hold #Bhattacharya accountable to stand - or not - with his heroic #NIH staff.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#SaveNIH
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#SaveNIH
June 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
LIVE feed of Senate Appropriations Committee ready to hold #Bhattacharya accountable to stand - or not - with his heroic #NIH staff.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#SaveNIH
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#SaveNIH
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One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
zurl.co/QUnUU
Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
zurl.co
June 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.
zurl.co/QUnUU
zurl.co/QUnUU
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Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists.
I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH.
I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.
I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH.
I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.
June 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists.
I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH.
I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.
I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH.
I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.
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"Trumpism may be ascendant, but it is not invincible. What it fears most is solidarity that bridges class, race, and background–solidarity that declares that America is not Donald Trump’s to disfigure or define."
We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all.
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We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all.
zurl.co/noQrh
Enlightened Americans should stay and fight, not leave
Declarations from abroad, however poignant, are not substitutes for showing up and standing up for democracy.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Trumpism may be ascendant, but it is not invincible. What it fears most is solidarity that bridges class, race, and background–solidarity that declares that America is not Donald Trump’s to disfigure or define."
We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all.
zurl.co/noQrh
We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all.
zurl.co/noQrh
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Listening to & reading mainstream/center-left political media, I don’t get the sense that the generational threat to U.S. science is really on the radar or breaking through.
June 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Listening to & reading mainstream/center-left political media, I don’t get the sense that the generational threat to U.S. science is really on the radar or breaking through.
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The cortical critical power law balances energy and information in an optimal fashion
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#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The cortical critical power law balances energy and information in an optimal fashion
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.
I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".
They even asked me my Gender.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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Nachum and I are talking. What's holding back progress? Is it oversimplifying the brain? (Yes, we agree!). And/or is it oversimplifying the experiments? (There, we differ - not on the goal, but how to acheive it). Looking forward to reading his book and comparing notes w/ Elusive Cures.
Just finished Natural Neuroscience – a book I think will become an instant classic. This book can do for neuroscience what Schrodinger’s ‘What is Life’ did to usher in the golden age of molecular biology. Nachum Ulanovsky has given us a compelling call to arms to truly understand the brain.
May 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Nachum and I are talking. What's holding back progress? Is it oversimplifying the brain? (Yes, we agree!). And/or is it oversimplifying the experiments? (There, we differ - not on the goal, but how to acheive it). Looking forward to reading his book and comparing notes w/ Elusive Cures.
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Rhode Island friends: stop by the Warwick Central Library Saturday, May 24, from 10-2 and tell us about your favorite banned book! RI #FreedomToRead coalition members will be there to answer your questions and help you find your state reps and write postcards!
May 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Rhode Island friends: stop by the Warwick Central Library Saturday, May 24, from 10-2 and tell us about your favorite banned book! RI #FreedomToRead coalition members will be there to answer your questions and help you find your state reps and write postcards!