Coincidentally this is how many reviewers get through grant reviews

When does using AI to produce research slip into fraud? And why does so much AI-for-science 'optimism' actually rest on a deeply pessimistic view of scientific agency? 🤔

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Making Working Memory Work: The Multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Patricia Goldman-Rakic You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been placed, and then obscured your visual field. It is up to you, my goo...

Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic would have been 89 years old today. Her work in the 1970s showed us on a molecular level how working memory functions through loop firing and local suppression. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 at just 66 years old.

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#WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠

They’re not wrong

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Drinking Culture Hi, My name is Georgia Kash and I am an 8th grader at dukeschool in durham which is a project based school, and for my final project I am studying the effect of mocktails on the society. A part of th...

My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free:

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The most deranged thing I ever almost believed while on a deadline was that if I wore compression socks the blood would get squeezed back up to my head and I would write faster. Did I try it? Of course I tried it.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

This is single handedly the funniest scene from any Star Trek

Thanks to The Pitt season 2 finale, I’ve learned that in You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette says “Does she speak eloquently”, not “Does she speak Gaelic like me” - but I kind of like my version better.

This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

Schrodinger’s Strait of Hormuz

You are an *excellent* emailer

A young friend was interviewing me about what skills I have that have helped me be successful in academia. I think she was a little disappointed by #2.

1. Curiosity about people and an interest in understanding how they work.

2. Good at email.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

This is the crux of it.

I spent much of today fixing something a collaborator vibecoded. It did something that could never work, and repeated that code 4 times in slightly different ways, so I had to hunt them all down, figure out what they meant to do, and redirect them to a working function.

I know at least 5 peeps w/NIH grants that have scored 1-4% who are not being funded.

My hopes are those who are funded are using their resources to help others, particularly junior faculty. Sharing resources, personnel, time, etc…

If we don’t all pull together, science and the country suffers.

Dr. Anila D'Mello — Stories of WiN studies language and cognition, and how the underlying brain circuits are altered in neurodevelopmental disorders

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my view on the last day of class

This is a small painting I made several years ago after visiting Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario
Algonquin Sunset
12x12 acrylic on canvas

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and their daughter Rosemary

Compassion isn't a department learning outcome per se but I've just added it because it can be a good outcome for people who pursue speech, language, and hearing sciences for a career, and also people who don't (my class of 50 is split).

(Also I think the person who said no just doesn't like me 🤷‍♂️)

Pie chart titled "Did SLPA 1101 help you become a more compassionate human being?". 97% of respondents said yes.

As we approach the end of teaching for many of us, might I humbly suggest including a custom survey in your classes to complement whatever your university makes you do. It lets you ask your own questions and also have easier access to the data (for example if you want to plot it yourself).

Adding Basil Ganglia to my list of novel characters

🚀 CBH Institute Day 2026 is almost here!
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