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Society for Neuroeconomics @socforneuroecon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good news! Early Bird Registration for #SNE2026 has been extended 🎉 Register by September 9 at 11:59 PM PT to take advantage of the discounted Early Bird rate. Join us October 9–11 in Pasadena for the SNE 2026 Annual Meeting! #Neuroeconomics
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Society for Neuroeconomics @socforneuroecon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Early bird registration for #SNE2026 closes August 31! Join us in Pasadena, October 9–11, for three days of neuroeconomics research, discussion and connection. Register: neuroeconomics.org/registration/ Who will we see there? 🧠
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Do you have some cool summer findings on decision-making? Tell everyone about it! The late-breaking abstract deadline for October's Society for Neuroeconomics conference is August 4th: neuroeconomics.org/abstract/
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Society for Neuroeconomics @socforneuroecon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
SNE is pleased to announce the creation of a new Committee for Early Career Researchers. ECRs are invited to help launch the committee & share ideas for programming, mentorship, networking, and advocacy within the Society. Volunteer by July 10, 2026 #SNE2026 #Neuroeconomics #EarlyCareerResearchers
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Ofer Perl @oferperl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I am excited to share our new response letter, just published in Neuropsychopharmacology. We wrote this piece to engage with a recent, highly sophisticated paper by Cisler et al., adding another vital piece to the puzzle of how the hippocampus encodes autobiographical trauma memories in PTSD.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Keep telling the truth. Thank you to Stephen Colbert and everyone at The Late Show.
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Getting rid of Stephen Colbert is a sign of weakness, not of strength.
Why be afraid of the truth? Why be afraid of comedians?
Keep telling the truth.
Find media who tell the truth.
Stay with it
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
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Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California? Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody! neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/
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Society for Neuroeconomics @socforneuroecon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Deadline extended for #SNE2026 abstract submissions to May 11 at 11:59 PM PST. Share your science and research Oct 9-11 in Pasadena. Travel awards close May 11. Society award applications close on May 4. ⏰ #Finance #ConsumerBehavior #Marketing #SocialBehavior
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited to share our latest paper in which we discuss merging theory-and data- driven computational psychiatry in a large transdiagnostic cohort study (N=2400) www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Christopher Pittenger, Godfrey Pearlson @annierhcheng.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social
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Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scale
The rapidly evolving field of computational psychiatry enables quantification of specific cognitive processes, and their underlying mechanisms, in a translational and potentially scalable manner, usin...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
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5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control. Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances. I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone. I need to share with you what I saw.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16/01/2026
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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Xiaosi Gu @xiaosigu.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
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Postgraduate Associate Position in Computational Psychiatry — Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
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Ifat Levy @ifatlevy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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כשהעזתי לפרסם לינקים לתרומות למשפחות בעזה | דעה
בשנה וחצי האחרונות ספגתי הרבה גלי שנאה כשכתבתי על ההרג, ההרעבה, ההרס והעקירה שביצעה מדינת ישראל בעזה. הואשמתי בכל הספקטרום שבין תמימות לבגידה, בין דובר חמאס ליו
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AJ Simon @ayejaysimon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excited to see this paper out in Biological Psychiatry! It highlights that emotional pain and fear represent distinct PTSD dimensions, leading us closer to identifying PTSD subtypes with dissociable biological underpinnings. Congrats on leading the charge on this cool study @zivbenzion.bsky.social
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Dissecting Fear and Emotional Pain in PTSD: From Symptom Networks to Neural Signatures
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a heterogeneous condition with diverse symptom presentations and emotional experiences. While fear is traditio…
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#eNeuro is SfN’s open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes many paper types including replication studies, negative results, novel tools and methods, and Registered Reports, along with reviews, commentaries, and opinions. www.eneuro.org/content/general-info…
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Ifat Levy @ifatlevy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NoKings New Haven
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Full meeting program here (neuroeconomics.org/program/) if you find yourself in the Boston area, please come say hi 😊 #sne2025
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
RFK Jr. put out a document justifying pulling $500M from mRNA research. It was assembled by a dentist, not a virologist. The "science" he refers to was not systematic review of the research. He cited work that CONTRADICTED his views. More reason to oust him. 🧪 🔗 www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...
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Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
“This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.
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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Super excited to share this new work from the lab! We show that oxytocin infusion in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Oxytocin in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation
Prosocial behaviors are crucial for maintaining primates' complex social relationships. As central regions involved in social decision-making, the basolateral amygdala (BLA) processes social salience ...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/08/2025
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Israel to protest against the Netanyahu government’s plan to expand its military operation in the Gaza Strip.
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Protesters in Israel march against Netanyahu’s plan to escalate Gaza war
Families of hostages were among the protesters amid new fears over the 50 remaining captives, with 20 of them thought to be alive, held by Hamas.
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 30/07/2025
The Trump Administration is cracking down on families who are part of our community. It is shameful and cruel🧵(1/4)
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.” This applies to scientific and academic leaders too. 🧪
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#eNeuro offers authors the choice to receive double-anonymous review. The Reviewing Editor & 2 reviewers will consult to reach a consensus on the decision & draft a synthesis of reviewers' comments that are published with each accepted paper. Learn more: vist.ly/3yhqx
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed. For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Do you do research on decision-making? We want to hear it! Late-breaking abstract submission for the Society for Neuroeconomics fall conference in Cambridge MA is *open*. Submit your work and come hang out with us this fall! neuroeconomics.org/abstract/
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Society for Neuroeconomics @socforneuroecon.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#SNE2025 Join us in Boston/Cambridge. Conference registration is now open. Register early for best rates! neuroeconomics.org/registration/
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Over 1100 Israeli academics urge the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to "mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in #Gaza", acknowledging "a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing."
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/05/2025
“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left." — Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP
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Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/04/2025
Here is a link to the full @60minutes.bsky.social segment! 👀 a nice surprise at 5:25 AND one of our very own, Kristin Weinstein makes an appearance at 9 mins. #StandUpforScience #scienceforall #saveourscience www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...
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Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hello #neuroeconomics people - APPLY FOR OUR AWARDS! We have early and mid-career awards, best dissertation and paper of the year. Deadline is May 19th. One of our biggest problems is simply that people fail to apply. We want to give you things! Please help us do this! neuroeconomics.org/awards/
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/04/2025
Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions reut.rs/42Vhp3x
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US academic leaders unite against Trump's higher education policies
Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement on Tuesday opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions, coming together to speak out after Harvard University said the administration was threatening its independence.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/04/2025
Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...
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