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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hey! Just saw this, got on bluesky for the first time in 6 months or so to hear more about the Janelia…event. I’ll zoom back in later but I remember Innocenti (1972?) having shown sharps in Neocortex implying this, as did Helwig. Lemme dig some more.

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity

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Rhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It was wonderful to take a moment to celebrate as Gov McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act today! Thank you everyone! Sharing some photos and nuggets of wisdom from the speakers

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Zero-Noise Lab @zeronoiselab.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 1/5

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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share! alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...

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We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.

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Zero-Noise Lab @zeronoiselab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making

Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A great Bela Julesz (1994) quote I recently learned I’m sharing (imposing?!) whenever I can: psychology without consciousness is like math without infinity. We have ways (imaginary numbers) to get around hard things without giving up on the fact that we need to make them operable. Again, quick take!

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

So, saying death = final failure to fight entropy is also I think super useful, but doesn’t capture why humans care about death. This is different than saying introspection automatically = truth, just that the question *is* crucially in part about conscious perception of our own states.

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hey, I love this discussion. Quick intuition: reductionsitic / mechanistic description of our motivations that stands alone is possible and useful, without need for conceptual level of “emotions”. But that to define away the feelings part is to remove what’s meant by the term emotions.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Here's a provocative proposal for settling the "What is an emotion?" debate - get rid of the concept altogether! From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... /1

the researcher surveyed in this book suggests that the general concept of emotion has no role in any future psychology. It needs to be replaced by at least two more specific concepts.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My quote of the day To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/06/2025

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"

The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Title card for podcast episode with Nicole Rust.

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So psyched for this! Go grab a few copies, you’ll want to give them to friends

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/06/2025

One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated. zurl.co/QUnUU

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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists. I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH. I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/06/2025

"Trumpism may be ascendant, but it is not invincible. What it fears most is solidarity that bridges class, race, and background–solidarity that declares that America is not Donald Trump’s to disfigure or define." We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all. zurl.co/noQrh

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Enlightened Americans should stay and fight, not leave

Declarations from abroad, however poignant, are not substitutes for showing up and standing up for democracy.

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Davi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Listening to & reading mainstream/center-left political media, I don’t get the sense that the generational threat to U.S. science is really on the radar or breaking through.

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I always say that my job when accepting a student is to get them a job, and if I know how to do that when they enter—if I have what they need for that goal—it works. Perhaps that’s a grounding question where the answer is not always Faculty.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Government | Harvard University

Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Press release from Senator Welch about the event... www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...

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Hear from the Health Experts About the Human Harm of HHS’ Mass Terminations | Senator Welch

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Nachum and I are talking. What's holding back progress? Is it oversimplifying the brain? (Yes, we agree!). And/or is it oversimplifying the experiments? (There, we differ - not on the goal, but how to acheive it). Looking forward to reading his book and comparing notes w/ Elusive Cures.

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Rhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Rhode Island friends: stop by the Warwick Central Library Saturday, May 24, from 10-2 and tell us about your favorite banned book! RI #FreedomToRead coalition members will be there to answer your questions and help you find your state reps and write postcards!

A gray and white cat rubs its cheek on a sign reading “what is your favorite banned book?”

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Philadelphia friends! We SO NEED to celebrate science. Let's raise a glass to brains. Join us Wed, 5/21 for Pint of Science. I'll be opening for headliners Dimitris Boufidis, @audreydrotos.bsky.social, & Jacqui Barker. 😊 Tickets (to support the org, $2): pintofscience.us/events/phila...

Pint of Science, Wed May 21st Two Locals Brewing, 7-9:30p

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Marc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tip of the iceberg

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Congrats Katharina! Love that big smile and fighting spirit. You and me and millions of others all here because #sciencesaveslives Let's defeat cancer and let's stop this insane war on science.

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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025

You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I disagree with this “strict” take—I don’t need a full theory of readout to begin to see the connection of a patterns an outcome, and that emulation or disruption has predictable effects. It’s on its way to representation.

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Strongly agree Kevin—and putative is a great word here

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An amazing visit, still getting much + feedback from attendees and students the Monday after

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 24/04/2025

Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t!

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Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A great few days w @nicolecrust.bsky.social now in motion at @carneyinstitute.bsky.social! Brown U folks, 2 pm tmrw for this exciting talk

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Terminated PI grants is a terrible thing. Trainees - that’s another level entirely. They have near zero resources to weather the storm. The rest of us must step us to help.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Despicable: “It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the ACLU. www.propublica.org/article/more...

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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.

Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...

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Amber Maimon @ambermaimon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Can't wait to share our @chi.acm.org #CHI2025 conference paper and demo in Yokohama, Japan next week!! 🌸 Presentation: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... Interactivity demo: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... with @iddowald.bsky.social and Donald Degraen. Interested in what we do? Let's meet :)

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