Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

At #ADAA2026? Friday 8:30a (Sup B) see exciting new results presented by @dalezhou.bsky.social, with @talliezee.bsky.social, Laura Glynn, Elysia Davis, Daniel Stout, Victoria Risbrough & @mikeyassa.bsky.social: "Early-Life Unpredictability and the Neural and Computational Timescales of Integration"

Computational Psychiatry Conference New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)

📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.

Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)

Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)

See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash NIH support for research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...

Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

Interval Timing as a Computational Pathway From Early Life Adversity to Affective Disorders Harhen and Bornstein extend a reinforcement learning model of interval timing to demonstrate that statistically rational adaptation to an unpredictable early life environment can give rise to a varie...

Harhen & Bornstein (2024) dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops...

We also find a novel role for the PVT, and PVT-ACC connectivity, in mediating the role of ELU on evidence integration during decision-making.

Taken together, these findings open up new possibilities for a predictive marker of the effects of ELU on mental health.

Estimating intrinsic neural timescales (from a resting state session) and functional connectivity patterns (during a two-armed bandit task) reveals neural evidence confirming and expanding @noraharhen.bsky.social's 2024 model showing early-life unpredictability should alter temporal integration.

At #ADAA2026? Friday 8:30a (Sup B) see exciting new results presented by @dalezhou.bsky.social, with @talliezee.bsky.social, Laura Glynn, Elysia Davis, Daniel Stout, Victoria Risbrough & @mikeyassa.bsky.social: "Early-Life Unpredictability and the Neural and Computational Timescales of Integration"

DPN Primers DPN Primers are concise, highly accessible articles designed to create a bridge between psychiatry and neuroscience. Each Primer translates a single core ...

Check out our new collection of Primers, which bridge the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience 🌉🌉

Each Primer translates a single concept across disciplines so that these communities can more effectively communicate and interpret findings in a shared language.

www.nature.com/collections/...

The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.

Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

One thing that amazes me is that two of the three American astronauts on board Artemis II graduated from public universities: Christina Koch earned three degrees from NC State, and Victor Glover was a defensive back on the Cal Poly football team.

We are not going anywhere without public education.

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

Opinion | The Hostile Takeover of Higher Education Business interests captured governing boards long before Trump.

“Faculty members & students continue to speak up & organize to oppose the radical reconfiguration of American institutions launched by the Trump administration & its private-sector allies. Frequently, this has included organizing outside the gates.”

— Reinhold Martin & Robert Newton, Columbia AAUP

CU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI deal After announcing a systemwide ChatGPT partnership, CU delayed student access following backlash over governance, academic integrity and transparency.

that's right boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/29/c...

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!

The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU) with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!

Happy to share some of the work done in our lab in this mega-thread of nine (!) papers/preprints (+1 sneak peek) from the last six months. Here goes (in no particular order)! **Please repost** and let me know if you need access to any of the PDFs! #sleeppeeps #sleep #neuroscience 1/12

👋 Science communicator here. One mistake I keep seeing is academics taking the sole L for the decrease in trust. While yes some experts engaged in poor messaging at the start of COVID, the major influence is the large amounts of money being invested into attacking science for political gain.

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought

Opinion by Zhivar Sourati, Alireza S. Ziabari, & Morteza Dehghani (@mdehghani.bsky.social)

Free access before April 30: tinyurl.com/2spm2h97

www.cjcj.org/reports-publ...

A UC professor won criminology’s highest honor. Americans still don’t believe her research UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology.

Brief summary follows below.

Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Proud to share the lab’s first preprint, led by the fantastic @christinamaher.bsky.social! 🎉

Real-world environments are high-dimensional and noisy.
Selective attention is thought to shape the state representations that make reinforcement learning tractable.

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Our paper is out in @commsbio.nature.com! 🧵

We found that hippocampal-prefrontal connectivity acts as a "neural resource" — it predicts both memory performance AND training-related improvement.

More info below 👇

COMMENT 02 February 2026 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.

Nature published another pile of trash

i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields

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