List of references in We Didn't Start the Fire - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This is really a worthwhile read, for a summary of what has happened and what we as individuals can do

Europe to burned American scientists: We’ll take you in The EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars.

American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Map of North Carolina, entirely covered in red dots

If you live in #NorthCarolina and you voted in the Nov 24 election, odds are you or someone you know is at risk of having your ballot thrown out.
Check thegriffinlist.com to find out what to do.

Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ice

Via @bedford.bsky.social

In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images

- Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T
- Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins

PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

HEY @washingtonpost.com AND @nytimes.com, DO YOU THINK IT'S NEWSWORTHY THAT THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS WALKING AROUND THE GOVERNMENT "DELETING" CHUNKS OF IT AT HIS WHIM? DO YOU THINK THIS MIGHT DESERVE A LITTLE BIT OF ALARM

Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"Academics from poorer backgrounds are both more likely to not publish and to have outstanding publication records. Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition" 👀

Inside Trump’s purge at the agency that saves millions of lives USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.

If you want context on the strategy the current administration is using, with USAID and in general - pull funding (illegally), pull people, instill fear, overwhelm.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

University of Chicago is asking researchers to halt purchases, starting new experiments, and travel in light of the federal pause on grants

Madrid's metro system in 1994 - diagram of metro lines

Madrid's metro system after 2007 - diagram of metro lines.

Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years, faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world.

Left: in 1994
Right: after 2007

Cost per mile: £64–91 million

(around 7x cheaper than London's Jubilee & Northern line expansions & 14x cheaper than Toronto's Ontario line)

Capybara By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44254293

We've been saying "See you later, Alligator" for decades, when "Sayonara, Capybara" was right there.

A horizontal bar chart titled "Number of lives saved by childhood vaccinations since 1974" shows the impact of various vaccines. Measles vaccination leads with 94 million lives saved, shown in orange. Following in blue bars are Tetanus (28 million), Whooping cough (13 million), and Tuberculosis (11 million). Smaller impacts are shown for diseases like Haemophilus influenzae type B (2.8 million), Streptococcus pneumoniae and Polio (both 1.6 million). The chart continues with progressively smaller numbers for Yellow fever (550,000), Hepatitis B (460,000), down to Neisseria meningitidis A (2,000). The data source is attributed to Shattock et al. (2024) and published by OurWorldInData.org under CC BY license.

One cannot highlight this often enough.

Chart by @scientificdiscovery.dev / @ourworldindata.org, more details at: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

⚠️Urgent public service announcement for anyone using Microsoft Office: by default Office will scrape your documents, unless you opt out, as described below:

Red panda Moshu with a leaf on his head

Beleaf in yourself

📷 Katie Emberley

Ah yes, love to live in a state where the city and the state are basically in a race to see who can destroy the place first while attempting to pin it on the other guy. 🫠

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Obsessed with the casualness of the abstract

A geometrical solution underlies general neural principle for serial ordering - Nature Communications How the brain sequentially encodes knowledge is not fully understood. Here authors propose a geometric framework for the elusive neural principles of serial reasoning and sequence encoding. Neural rep...

A geometrical solution underlies general neural principle for serial ordering
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience

New HHS rules can’t address the primary reason for research misconduct Today’s research environment incentivizes the very misconduct institutions want to stop.

"In this context, most research misconduct looks like what chronically overwhelmed people do when striving to meet unrealistic production quotas: They start cutting corners."

www.statnews.com/2024/09/23/r...

My latest book carving! “The Facts on File: Visual Dictionary!” More pics at juliastrand.com

Ever been confused how to relate 3 variables (like Age, Brain and Cognition) via linear statistical models? See this gentle primer (with @rogierk.bsky.social) for structural equation modelling, including concepts like mediation, moderation and measurement invariance: github.com/MRC-CBU/misc...

Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you at #sfn2023! I'll have a poster on Tuesday afternoon at UU13 if anyone wants to stop by

Applications are now open for the Carney Institute’s spring 2024 season of the BrainExPo (external postdoc) seminar series!

If you are an advanced postdoc in brain science, apply to visit Brown + give a guest talk! Logistical info at linked page. Deadline is Dec. 1.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

New preprint makes five recommendations for promoting civility in open science:

(1) Critique the science, not the scientist

(2) Be humble

(3) Have empathy

(4) Engage privately before publicly

(5) Hold people accountable who act uncivilly

osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧪 #AcademicSky #Psychology