Instead of analyzing the IBL dataset, use your computational skills to analyze this dataset and your results will be 1,000 times more translationally relevant

Seems like someone could test the “everything is everywhere” hypothesis w these data? But probably won’t bc I imagine they won’t support that hypothesis?

This.

This. is. amazing.

Also for people who bemoan "tenure doesn't make people bolder"...

I think it's that tenure doesn't make people bold.

But IME tenure (and the promotion to full and the promotion to a chair, etc etc) makes the already bold even bolder.

sentence from a paper draft with a block of black text over the author's name in a citation and the note "retracting the names of scientists who maintained a relationship with Epstein after his SA convictions - release the files, justice for victims, stop increasing the h-indices of people with no moral compass)."

We'll see how this flies with the editor...

the Jülich maps are beautiful. we find HUGE variation in these boundaries in 🐒 and my guess based on what human data are available is that the variation exists in people too.

we are testing MRI -> histology area boundaries so will be able to say more about this sometime - but it's slow going.

I'm curious howyou account for individual dif in those boundaries?

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While this is true, immigration should not be solely a story of exceptionalism.

Not on my 2026 BINGO card: checking authors' names in the Epstein files before I cite their work in scientific papers.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

How dare 2026 follow 2025, as well.

No breaks for ages

LMFAO as I teach a partially async online class...

In this case, I picked the topic (neuroscience of wellbeing) based on a symposium talk I gave at SfN in 2024. We have students from biopsych (neuro and animal behavior), developmental, and cognitive, and the complement of skills and interests is perfect.

I am so thankful that I am teaching an *amazing* grad class this term. I learned from @baleslab.bsky.social that one way to teach a grad seminar was pick a topic and write a publishable paper as a team. It's been a lot of fun and we've all learned a lot. Highly recommend!

Related:

bsky.app/profile/mari...

This is a catastrophic unforced error.

It was quite something to hear @ohsunews.bsky.social President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ.

“Teammates” don’t support rivals.

Just gonna leave this here so hopefully people can connect the dots from reducing the numbers, type, and quality of nonhuman animals available for ethical biomedical research to what comes next...

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-exp...

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There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.

Thanks! I did get a sitter for this morning and went to my office and got two things off of my to do list from last fall. Only 10 more to go!

Ugh. Solidarity. I’ve been behind - even way behind - before, but this is something else.

It's really a mindf*ck to be a generally "on top of it" person and be so swamped with unpredictable work and work chaos that I am so far behind on everything - including commitments to collaborators - that I am honestly not sure I can dig out and catch up.

We're about to start a new circuit manip experiment and I'm deep in the chemo/optogenetics lit.

I can't stop thinking about whether money related to child SA and the explotation of women funded the development of that tech.

Recognizing that there are a lot of ways to be in the Epstein files that are totally benign (e.g., cited in a paper sent to him), there is a lot of evidence in the files that high profile scientists were engaged morally questionable (at best) behavior.

Universities really need to take a stand.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"No, really, I am certain. They do not throw poop."

Would love to see MIT take the same sort of action vis a vis high profile players in the Epstein files (beyond the Media Lab situation)

“Nerd tunnel vision” apparently includes narcissism, misogyny, and a defunct moral compass.

This behavior just scratches the surface of want (most? many?) women in science deal with on a daily basis.

The Venn diagram of “psychologists & neuroscientists that women said were creeps” & “psych and neuro dudes in the Epstein files” isn’t a perfect overlapping circle. The latter is nested within the former. We’ve been screaming this for ages & there more out there.

For the love of god, trust women.