'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.
Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
This provides strong support that the COVID mRNA vaccines prevented premature deaths from COVID with no evidence of any increase in premature deaths from other causes.
29M people followed for almost 4 years.
3/3
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8
Day 2 tomorrow bit.ly/alexmartinsymposium
First day of ‘Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience’ in honor of Alex Martin
Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
RE: https://aus.social/@crk5/116339097768615985
I work with the intricacies of drones and software and automation quite a bit. Even with some insider knowledge, seeing these drone lightshows always feels like magic. Really incredible stuff.
NEW: A year after major DOGE cuts, GSA plans to rehire hundreds of employees.
Because nothing says full, determined dismantling of the federal government like admitting you were so very wrong.
“My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it.”
Our Institute was well-represented at #ASNR2026 last week! Dr. Rachana Gangwani chaired a symposium on cognitive contributions to Motor Performance & presented a poster w/ Dr. Laurel Buxbaum examining the neural substrates of arm non-use in individuals after stroke.
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Because You Are On Mute
Download PDF 止 Article Open access Published: 26 February 2026 Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine Valentin Lu Rohner, Sebastiano Curreli, Paul J. _amothe-Molina Zacharoula Kagiampaki, Andrew G. Yee, Chiara Nardin, Lena Eschholz, Alexander Dieter, Georgios Foustoukos, Paola Milanese, Lila Banterle, Thomas Childs, Annika Canziani, Jan Dernic, Luca Ravotto, Musadiq A. Bhat, Latife Sönmez, Laura Moreno Wasielewski, Tim Ziebarth, Marton Istan Molnar, Gaoyang Huang, Olivia Andrea Masseck, Bruno Weber, Andreas Reiner, Anita Lüthi, Christopher P. Ford, J. Simon Wiegert, Sarah Ruediger, Tommaso Fellin & Tommaso Patriarchi - Show fewer authors
Congrats to the people who did this, including @ruedigersarah.bsky.social, @tpatriarchi.bsky.social and (my former collaborator) Tommaso Fellin. Very cool work.
While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....
good lord www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much!
doi.org/10.64898/202...
arxiv.org/html/2603.07...
Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!
Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Graphical abstract showing four panels. Panel 1: a person in an MRI scanner with blue cognitive thought bubbles drifting from their head and pink body thought bubbles from their torso, with organs glowing inside. Panel 2: blue bubbles for cognitive items (Self, Words, Focus, Images, Future, Past) are larger than pink bubbles for body items (Breathing, Movement, Stomach, Heart, Skin, Bladder), with arrows showing body thoughts link to more negative and less positive emotion. Panel 3: physiological traces (EGG, ECG, respiratory) show higher arousal with body-wandering; a bar chart shows cognitive items (Past, Future, Repetitive, Vivid) correlate with more ADHD and depression symptoms while body items (Breath, Stomach, Skin, Heart) correlate with fewer. Panel 4: medial brain with thalamus, somatomotor cortex, and interoceptive regions highlighted, plus a chord diagram showing connectivity between these three regions.
New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123
Elizabeth Banks
Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run.
In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.
Picture of Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health
The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
Speakers
@samaudrain.bsky.social
@fmri-today.bsky.social
Michael Beauchamp
Alfonso Caramazza
Avniel Ghuman
@action-brain.bsky.social
Brad Mahon
Michal Ramot
Mick Rugg
W Kyle Simmons
@thaliawheatley.bsky.social
Cheri Wiggs
Questions: @cibaker.bsky.social
@shrutijapee.bsky.social
@sjgotts.bsky.social
🧠 This absolutely feels like it needs to be a viral thread. I'll start:
"I've been a neuroscientist for 20 years. I keep my brain strong and healthy by avoiding..."
1) Hallmark movies
2) Midwestern "salads"
3) A skin care routine
4) Fox news
5) Twitter/X
6) Self-help listicles
Here are federal employee responses, sorted by dept/agency, to the question about whether their organization's political leaders "maintain high standards of integrity."
Results are abysmal. In no agency do even 20% of respondents say their top leaders have integrity
Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social.
For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet.
Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force
the last time *just gas* got this out of control, i had to do napkin math to see at what price i had to drop out of college because i couldn’t afford the commute. if it had gotten a dime higher, that was it. no degree for emily.
these people have never met a normal person.
