📋 Great papers in the queue for a special collection on the Neurobiology of Associative Learning! It’s not too late to contribute- the submission deadline is June 15. Get in touch with me or @kurtfraser.bsky.social💡✅ academic.oup.com/oons/pages/c...
John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes
Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.
www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
Super excited for this paper to be out soon! Keep an eye out for the final version.
Thank you for your service!
thrilled that i got this madonna song title into @science.org. the song is so true and the music video has the best cinematography.
Officially out today! Long-running project, many thanks to give - in particular to my mentors & collaborators, the postbacs who worked so hard on each experiment, and the reviewers. If you love the amygdala, give it a read.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
is this like a math thing
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
Great to see all of this together, looks amazing. Congrats to the team!!
New preprint from my lab! We study how reinforcement learning & selective attention interact. To do so, we built a set of models describing different ways that value & reward prediction error can modulate top-down attention. We compare model outcomes to monkey data from a color value learning task
Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1
Really cool!
The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 mission in the foreground approaching the earth for reentry
This view as Artemis 2 approached reentry so incredible (and stressful) to get to watch this happen live
Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.
Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Welcome back, moon poets
Child in a space suit costume cheers with arms outstretched amidst a crowd watching the return of the astronauts to Earth
“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.”
Photo by Sandy Huffaker
New paper alert: @nicglewwe.bsky.social connects the explore exploit tradeoff to cognitive flexibility!!
A fun paradox: Female mice in our lab do "better" at this cognitive flexibility task because they commit to exploit behavior sooner
In @npp-journal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you're on signal & haven't already, maybe go to
Settings → Notifications → Content → Name Only or No Name or Content
Because apparently phone forensics can scrape msgs from notifications storage.
Not just a signal problem, btw. Any encrypted messaging service w/ a "msg preview" type of setting
Yes!!
It is so cool how science-forward this mission is. NASA broadcast constantly referring to the science goals and centering it with official science officers in the Mission Control room. And the science officers are such great communicators!
View of the Orion spacecraft with a darkening moon and sliver of earth in the distance
Artemis II going behind the moon with a crescent earth in the distance
A woman standing at a speaker lectern beside a projection screen
A desk decorated with colorful streamers and balloons, with a hand made sign celebrating a PHD defense
Huge congratulations to Dr. Megan Brickner!!!! She completed a stellar dissertation defense yesterday. We are so proud!
#TWiNPP
Dick et al. demonstrate that NMDA receptor knockdown during adolescence drives dynamic, compensatory synaptic remodeling, providing insight into prefrontal cortical circuit adaptations relevant to schizophrenia
@nicolagrissom.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Took you long enough given there are only 2 brain cells
A human hand holds a plastic object that is a sort of prism or rectangular plastic object the size of a USB thumb drive. It has blue and red lines that meet in the middle, but sort of cross at each end, producing an extended "X". CREDIT: EMULATE
Let's learn about some medical research that just left Earth on Artemis II, bound for the silver sphere in the sky.
It's AVATAR, but it doesn't involve blue aliens.
It stands for "A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response" & it looks like this USB drive-sized device.
View from earth orbit from a camera mounted on the Artemis II spacecraft. The curvature of the earth is visible in the background.
Yes I'm still watching almost time for the apogee raise burn
View from low earth orbit from a rocket mounted camera on the Artemis II launch. The earth's atmosphere is visible in the background.
Never not the coolest thing ever
