Support Sam Wang for Congress. We need a doctor in the House. Well, better ones.
www.samfornj.org

The date of when cherry blossoms in Kyoto bloom has been tracked for 1200 years. Certainly one of the most beautiful data points confirming global warming.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/c...

The Poetics, Philosophy, and Neuroscience of Memory Nate DiMeo of "The Memory Palace" performs stories and converses about memory with UCLA Faculty Pamela Hieronymi and Dean Buonomano

Los Angeles! I'm doing a cool event at UCLA this Thursday. Telling a few stories, signing my new paperback, and having an on-stage conversation about memory with neuroscientist @deanbuono.bsky.social and the philosopher, Pamela Hieronymi. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-poetic...

Sex and Stress Govern the Function and Innervation of a Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/GABA-Expressing Projection Motivated behaviors are executed by refined brain circuits. Early-life adversity (ELA) is a risk for human affective disorders involving dysregulated reward behaviors. In mice, ELA causes anhedonia-li...

A new paper from @ladenardo.bsky.social
helps explain how males and females in the way that reward circuits are re-wired after early life stress. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

Single-panel cartoon by Paul Noth. Two armies carrying swords and spears are lined up facing each other. Both armies are waving big flags depicting the rabbit-duck illusion, an ambiguous figure that is famous in philosophy for highlighting distinctions between perception and interpretation. The leader of the first army is rallying his troops with the words "There can be no peace until they renounce their Rabbit God and accept our Duck God".

While we're on the subject:

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed.

The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg
www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

Goddness, there's lots to say about this. Good to see the case pro laid out in detail. I wonder if Nature will be publishing the counter-argument too?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why I'm running for Congress Congress today is deeply polarized, ignores the priorities of voters, and fails to check the other two branches of government. But neither party, Democrats nor Republicans, is meeting our moment of ne...

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Your Brain is a Time Machine with Dean Buonomano - StarTalk Special Edition Is time fundamental or a human construct? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly explore our brain as a time machine w/ Dean Buonomano.

It was stimulating to chat about time, clocks, pendulums, death, physics, AI, the brain, movies, Kung fu and squirrels with @neildegrassetyson.com, @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, and @garyoreilly.bsky.social

startalkmedia.com/show/your-br...

The brain holds no exclusive rights on how to create intelligence Many of the recent developments underlying the explosive success of artificial intelligence have diverged from using neuroscience as a source of inspiration—and the trend is likely to continue.

Hi Dan ... if you're interested I discuss why LLMs can't "experience" or even tell time here: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

Rankings are always problematic, but it is telling that in this productivity ranking, of the top 20 Universities 2 are American, and 16 Chinese.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Your Brain is a Time Machine with Dean Buonomano - StarTalk Special Edition Is time fundamental or a human construct? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly explore our brain as a time machine w/ Dean Buonomano.

It was stimulating to chat about time, clocks, pendulums, death, physics, AI, the brain, movies, Kung fu and squirrels with @neildegrassetyson.com, @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, and @garyoreilly.bsky.social

startalkmedia.com/show/your-br...

South Park called it, and it’s hilarious.

One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.

ChatGPT is hilariously bad at this letter swap task. Claude got it wrong, and Gemini 3.0 does it perfectly:

Reproduce this very sentence, exchanging all uses of the letter "h" for the letter "t", and all uses of "t" for the letter "h".

Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.

pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

ChatGPT is hilariously bad at this letter swap task. Claude got it wrong, and Gemini 3.0 does it perfectly:

Reproduce this very sentence, exchanging all uses of the letter "h" for the letter "t", and all uses of "t" for the letter "h".

Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allows antisemitism on campus

#AcademicSky
Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California

Can synapses learn to tell time?
If your at #SfN25 on Sun morning checkout Jamie McDowell’s poster (PSTR059.01).

Don't skip this. It's masterfully done, and many of the key points are GENERAL and apply to many other fields.

"there can sometimes just be lots of smoke"

I discuss the general case here: labrigger.com/blog/2025/11...

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

WOW. He looks like he was listening in on the bats echolocating emissions and knew exactly when the bat would arrive.

Hippocampal sequences represent working memory and implicit timing Working memory (WM) and timing are considered distinct cognitive functions, yet the neural signatures underlying both can be similar. To address the h…

Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hippocampal sequences represent working memory and implicit timing Working memory (WM) and timing are considered distinct cognitive functions, yet the neural signatures underlying both can be similar. To address the h…

Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

USC rejects compact www.latimes.com/california/s...

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Principles for proper peer review

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience