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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now”

Saw Hadestown tonight and this line is still echoing in my mind.
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Goodbye Jane! You were such an inspiration..❤️https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share&nbsp;<br>Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has diedi
Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Judge Young: "[T]his Court finds by clear and convincing evidence that [] Kristi Noem and [] Marco Rubio ... deliberately and with purposeful aforethought" took actions "intentionally to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble of the non-citizen plaintiff[s]."
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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This is far from over, but it is good to see the Senate Committee’s appropriate response to the President’s budget proposal
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Sign of the day…
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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History will not be kind to these depraved sycophants. I can already imagine the bottom-right photo in the textbooks of years to come as emblematic of our current era of politics devoid of empathy or compassion.
April 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Harvard’s response is hot!
April 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great sign!
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Want to learn more about smartphone-based studies on memory? Check out our #CNS2025 press release "How Dreams, Novelty, and Emotions Can Shape Memories: Lessons from Smartphone Studies," featuring the work of @evgoldfarb.bsky.social @barense.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social:
How Dreams, Novelty, and Emotions Can Shape Memories: Lessons from Smartphone Studies
At CNS 2025, researchers will share smartphone-based studies about how a range of actions can build stronger, more detailed memories.
www.cogneurosociety.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Grateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share:
Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye
Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social
Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Trump is attacking Science. Look around you and imaging a world without:

SOAP
REFRIGERATORS
EYEGLASSES
COMPUTERS
PHONES
ANTIBIOTICS
CLEAN WATER

All made possible with SCIENCE.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I had the pleasure of being a guest on Science of Perception Box, an all-new video podcast from Unlikely Collaborators. New episodes drop every Thursday.

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Science of Perception Box
Join renowned scientists Dr. Heather Berlin and Dr. Christof Koch on the Science of Perception Box, where they delve into the Perception Box—a groundbreaking concept developed by Elizabeth R. Koch, th...
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March 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Spread the word. Power to the people.
February 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Spot on.
February 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is who is trying to take over America right now. This is called oligarchy. Time to prepare for the fight.
January 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s going to be ok, right?
January 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.
January 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Now out in Nature Mental Health!
@natureportfolio.bsky.social Are memory impairments in schizophrenia linked to delusions? Yes, if we test mnemonic discrimination of similar items. See the paper for hipp function, med effect etc. With amazing @liladavachi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🎈New paper🎈 Led by the inimitable @asieh.bsky.social Hippocampal dysfunction in medication naive patients with schizophrenia during a memory task resolves with drug treatment. Incredible team effort! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Impaired hippocampal circuitry and memory dysfunction in schizophrenia
Nature Mental Health - Dysfunction in the hippocampal circuitry in individuals with first-episode schizophrenia and delusions is linked to deficits in behavioral pattern separation and recognition...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM