A National Prefrontal Lobotomy: The Costs of Cutting the Social Sciences Issue 158: The long-term impacts of funding cuts threaten "social science for a safer world"

www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/a-national...

For example, consider this excellent 33-post 🧵 from @jeremymberg.bsky.social, who used to lead NIGMS

Written from the perspective of a scientist, it describes the long chain of discoveries needed to produce this week's release of an exciting new, non-opioid pain reliever onto the market

‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer.

TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.

The Hidden Backbone of Research: How a 15% Cap on Indirect Costs Will Devastate Universities So, if we’re serious about keeping research alive, it’s time to push back. Because 15% isn’t just a cut—it’s a death sentence for academic institutions as we know them.

Good blog post on describing why the NIH drop in IDC would have such negative effects. It is clear, non-technical and has things that can be done by everyone www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...

The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...

Awesome—thank you!!! 🙌☺️

Done! Could you add me to the cognitive control one ? Thanks! ☺️🙌

Are you a creativity researcher just starting in Bluesky? Check out the @tsfnc SfNC Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/S5Ce66c

New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Busy bookworm or targeted hunter?
Check out this amazing work on using computational modeling for exploring #curiosity in book selection!

Interview with Daniel MacArthur This is an interview with Daniel MacArthur, whom I first met when he was at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston.

Very interesting interview—the future of sponsored research? goodscience.substack.com/p/interview-...