Josh Rodefer
@rodefer.bsky.social
Neuroscientist interested in cognition & pharmacology; BS Denison, PhD Minnesota; dad/husband/Pgh sports, #angret 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
What perfect album came out the year you were 16?
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
What perfect album came out the year you were 16?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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T/L cleanser: @randyrainbow.bsky.social knows a Big Phony Smuck when he sees one! bsky.app/profile/rand...
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
T/L cleanser: @randyrainbow.bsky.social knows a Big Phony Smuck when he sees one! bsky.app/profile/rand...
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Such an important point, from p. 11 of Jim Ryan's letter (link below). Universities, law firms, & NGOs have been inundated w EOs & other demands since Jan. 20th insisting that they cease any behavior inconsistent w the "president's priorities." But the president is not the law, not in this country!
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Such an important point, from p. 11 of Jim Ryan's letter (link below). Universities, law firms, & NGOs have been inundated w EOs & other demands since Jan. 20th insisting that they cease any behavior inconsistent w the "president's priorities." But the president is not the law, not in this country!
I believe you’re referring to Cankles Hand-Bruise Dementia McGee
JD Vance: "I serve under Donald Trump, who is very healthy. If I served under Joe Biden, I'd probably be worried every minute of every day that he was gonna croak and that I'd have to become president."
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I believe you’re referring to Cankles Hand-Bruise Dementia McGee
Friends don’t let friends take jobs in the UT system #SorryNotSorry
“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Friends don’t let friends take jobs in the UT system #SorryNotSorry
What a stupid asshat. 🙄
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What a stupid asshat. 🙄
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Impeach
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Impeach
Sad on so many levels … but inspiring that other countries are stepping up
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sad on so many levels … but inspiring that other countries are stepping up
when your most important ally doesn't trust you, maybe you should rethink some of your actions and behaviors.
Huge. And I am reminded of an excellent paper from years ago by Ashley Deeks on “Peer Constraints” — papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
when your most important ally doesn't trust you, maybe you should rethink some of your actions and behaviors.
Sen AOC?
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sen AOC?
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Brother Warnock lays it plain.
Is Trump ill? He seems like he’s not up for the demands of the job. #SleepyDon
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Is Trump ill? He seems like he’s not up for the demands of the job. #SleepyDon
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And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.
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and there it is. the absolutely massive change in R01s funded multi-year. our perceptions that the new mandate, sorry strong suggestion, has had a dramatic effect on forward funding and therefore success rates is validated.
2025
Here the largest fraction is for R01 awards, followed by RF1s, and R21s.
In most cases, these were R01s that had not particularly reason to be forward funded except that NIH had put itself in a situation when large amounts of funding needed to be committed by the end of the fiscal year
21/25
Here the largest fraction is for R01 awards, followed by RF1s, and R21s.
In most cases, these were R01s that had not particularly reason to be forward funded except that NIH had put itself in a situation when large amounts of funding needed to be committed by the end of the fiscal year
21/25
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
and there it is. the absolutely massive change in R01s funded multi-year. our perceptions that the new mandate, sorry strong suggestion, has had a dramatic effect on forward funding and therefore success rates is validated.
The eternal struggle w admin oversight
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The eternal struggle w admin oversight
Trumps Halloween party while SNAP benefits expired for so many
Video of a woman dancing in a giant glass at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago party.
Some MAGA accounts falsely claimed this didn’t actually happen. They are wrong once again.
Some MAGA accounts falsely claimed this didn’t actually happen. They are wrong once again.
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Trumps Halloween party while SNAP benefits expired for so many
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Not only do the Amish vaccinate, I *think* an Amish related concern currently or at one time had/has a contract to produce/ produced substantial amounts of vaccine for America through chicken eggs.
Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities fullfact.org/health/amish... via @fullfact.org
Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities – Full Fact
Social media claims that autism is less prevalent among Amish people because they don’t get vaccinated aren’t supported by the evidence.
fullfact.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Not only do the Amish vaccinate, I *think* an Amish related concern currently or at one time had/has a contract to produce/ produced substantial amounts of vaccine for America through chicken eggs.
V cool & Interesting 🧵 … without reading the paper and without adequate caffeine yet this strikes me as a gremlin-like effect — not expecting a social furry humanoid thing to speak may elicit the “WTF?!” reaction to novelty which then disrupts normal attention/learning
Only if the Furhat showed no social behavior (face and eyes oriented downwards) they recognized its words. This was Lara's MSc project. She will start her PhD project with me @babylab.bsky.social tomorrow.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... with @davidschlangen.bsky.social
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... with @davidschlangen.bsky.social
ieeexplore.ieee.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
V cool & Interesting 🧵 … without reading the paper and without adequate caffeine yet this strikes me as a gremlin-like effect — not expecting a social furry humanoid thing to speak may elicit the “WTF?!” reaction to novelty which then disrupts normal attention/learning
Avian Halloween 👻 🎃 … love this
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Avian Halloween 👻 🎃 … love this
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
Psychedelics muddy fMRI results: Q&A with Adam Bauer and Jonah Padawer-Curry
The drugs disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help…
www.thetransmitter.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
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This is a really thoughtful piece on the process of closing a college in the most ethical way possible. As the rate of closures is likely to tick up at least a bit, it's well worth leaders' time to read this.
How Closing a University Changes You (opinion)
Nancy H. Blattner looks back on her time as the final president of Fontbonne University.
www.insidehighered.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is a really thoughtful piece on the process of closing a college in the most ethical way possible. As the rate of closures is likely to tick up at least a bit, it's well worth leaders' time to read this.