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Nora Newcombe
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Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Thorough response to Bhattacharya and Memoli's nonsense from @jeremyfaust.bsky.social and @angierasmussen.bsky.social

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A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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denisejcai.bsky.social
Congrats @sjo09.bsky.social! Your trailblazing engram discoveries are unforgettable. So happy that the Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize is honoring YOUR Era's tour @sfn.org.
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
Nice article by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @boryslaw.bsky.social: 'violations of measurement invariance imply that there are potentially interesting differences in the measurement process between the groups, which could warrant explanations in their own right.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally
Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measur…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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umpamdk.bsky.social
Good news that National Science Foundation (NSF) is staying in Alexandria and hopefully the move not as disruptive www.alexandriava.gov/news-citywid...
Alexandria Retains National Science Foundation Headquarters
Visit alexandriava.gov for more information.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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veenadubal.bsky.social
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dedre Gentner!
news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...
Dedre Gentner awarded 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal
Professor recognized for ‘elucidating the unique power of human thought’
news.northwestern.edu
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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kakape.bsky.social
“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.”
🧪 #IDsky
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‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial
As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it
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November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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drjuliamoser.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
And yet another reason to fund NIH. Beautiful writing but very sad.
Cancer Patients Like Me Are Casualties of MAHA’s Hypocrisy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
Yet another reason to fund NIH—
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Triggering cell death in metastatic melanoma may pave the way for new cancer treatments | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A Harvard Chan School study offers new ways to understand cancer and its vulnerabilities, and suggests that certain protein inhibitors could potentially be effective treatments for the disease.
hsph.harvard.edu
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
Fascinating thread and in the middle, I found this paper. Nice! But what about non primate species that also see well?
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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bmhdeen.bsky.social
Thrilled that this work is (finally) out! We argue that the human brain contains parallel systems for understanding people and places.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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valeriejsydnor.bsky.social
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
A literally beautiful argument for not messing with NSF
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How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution
Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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moritzdaum.bsky.social
Next Friday, 14/11/2025, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, laureate of the 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, will open the symposium “Impactful Science: From Research to Policy and Practice in Child Development and Learning.”

A few seats remain! Full programme here: www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch/de/events/wo...
Jacobs Foundation and Jacobs Center Symposium “Impactful Science: From Research to Policy and Practice in Child Development and Learning”
www.jacobscenter.uzh.ch
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
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.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
Save the dates for Glasgow in late August — the SC series continues!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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adekstreme.bsky.social
what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg

elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Newly trained navigation and verbal memory skills in humans elicit changes in task-related networks but not brain structure
Learning new navigation or memory skills engages flexible brain network dynamics without altering gray matter, white matter, or hippocampal structure.
elifesciences.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.
hannahrsnyder.bsky.social Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · Aug 27
As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky
Screen shot of the signature menu in Apple Mail showing signatures with frequently needed responses to student emails.
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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mikeypasek.bsky.social
So much for the thoughts and prayers party.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Completely agree—
gershbrain.bsky.social Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 9d
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?

Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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maxplanck.de
Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨
Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
noranewcombe.bsky.social
Shameful
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10d
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Fri, 11/07/25
Judge: ‘The use of force shocks the conscience’
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November 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 11d
We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM