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...
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www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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Reading Between the Lines on Compact Responses
Universities that rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education emphasized merit in their responses and highlighted core values in turning it down.
www.insidehighered.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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...
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www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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Thoughtful essay about the importance of standing up to open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
Current or past NSF grad fellow in Clinical Psychology? tinyurl.com/36r9znke
Current student who hoped to apply? tinyurl.com/yhbz3d5u
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has finally released the solicitation for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for fiscal year 2026. The new solicitation includes two significant chan...
tinyurl.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@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
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...
Multiple event segmentation mechanisms in the human brain
elifesciences.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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...
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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...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...
www.thecrimson.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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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
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
September 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
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
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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 &👇
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 &👇
A neural network with episodic memory learns causal relationships between narrative events
Humans reflect on past memories to make sense of an ongoing event. Past work has shown that people retrieve causally related past events during comprehension, but the exact process by which this causa...
www.biorxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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 &👇
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!)
www.youtube.com/shorts/2J_BW...
Share them!
(Thanks to Timothy Wilson and his collaborators for making these!)
Preventing Misinformation @science
YouTube video by What We'll Never Know
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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!)
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...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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...
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...
fabbs.org/news/2025/08...
We’re Hiring: Technology Policy Fellow – FABBS
Location: Washington, D.C. (hybrid) Salary: Approximately $7,000 per month Start Date: September 15, 2025 Duration: 3 months, with potential for longer Position
fabbs.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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...
fabbs.org/news/2025/08...
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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
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
August 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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
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
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I live in rural Missouri, population 480. I travel to DC a few times a year.
The President is lying.
The President is lying.
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I live in rural Missouri, population 480. I travel to DC a few times a year.
The President is lying.
The President is lying.
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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/
It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.
We must speak up now.
1/
Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH
The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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/
It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.
We must speak up now.
1/
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🚨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
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
a man in a green lantern costume is standing in a hanger with a helicopter in the background .
Alt: Ryan Reynolds suiting up as Green Lantern. While better known for his role as Deadpool, Ryan will always be Green Lantern to us. Sorry not sorry, Ryan. This will haunt you forever.
media.tenor.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🚨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
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New review paper with Maverick Smith on improving memory for stuff people actually want to remember:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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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...
👎 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...
July 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
👎 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...
Reposted by Jeff Zacks
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...
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...
Subcommittee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Bill
appropriations.house.gov
July 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Jeff Zacks
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.
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.
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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.
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...
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
Postdoc Fellows
The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…
ctcn.wustl.edu
July 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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...
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...
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Marc Coutanche: The president and DOGE repeat the Soviet's big mistake
America went to the moon. The USSR starved. The difference was that America promoted science over politics.
Getting to the moon remains one of the greatest...
www.post-gazette.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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...
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...
FABBS Responds to Proposed ‘Schedule F’ Rule – FABBS
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently proposed a new rule which claims to “increase career employment accountability.” FABBS previously reported on
fabbs.org
June 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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...
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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!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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!
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!
Why are brains so easily pulled into the unreal world of movies? What does film teach us about the brain's approach to making sense of the world? Join me on Inner Cosmos to discover the strange relationship between neuroscience and the silver screen.
eagleman.com/podcast/106
#brain #movies
eagleman.com/podcast/106
#brain #movies
May 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/m...
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Chad Freidrichs' documentary, The Cinema Within, got a very nice review in the @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/m...
Reposted by Jeff Zacks
🚨 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
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
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 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
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