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Jared Nielsen

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Neuroscientist, Brigham Young University brain.byu.edu

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Ben Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very excited to share our new preprint. We identify the basolateral amygdala dopamine system as an important interface between dynamic shifts in the environment and decisions to engage in vigorous drug use. Really challenging studies led brilliantly by Dr. Megan Brickner.
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The basolateral amygdala dopamine system shapes dynamic drug seeking states
Drug-associated sensory cues and contexts exert powerful influence over drug seeking motivation, but in vivo brain mechanisms governing this process remain unclear. Here, we recorded and manipulated d...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22h
BRAIN PEOPLE! 🧠 Activating my network! My unbelievably excellent postdoc, @aliekhlasi.bsky.social will finish with me next August (grant runs out). He's a brilliant expert in all things neuroimaging & computational analysis, ...
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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 22h
The brain represents expected sensory information before it arrives. Activity predicting upcoming visual or tactile input appeared even in early subcortical sensory regions, suggesting prediction is built into sensory processing from its earliest stages. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Modality-specific reactive and predictive responses in the human superior colliculus - Nature Neuroscience
Chen et al. use 7-Tesla fMRI to show that the human superior colliculus has modality-specific, depth-dependent activity prior to visual or somatosensory events, resembling its response to actual stimu...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 23h
𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643 #neuroskyence
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/10/2026
Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 02/10/2026
This Man City scandal gets worse by the day. They altered *world* football by hiding £100mil+ annually Forcing them to the National League and the owners to sell should be the minimal punishment. Any player/coach who took side payments should receive a lifetime ban
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Billionaires are pouring millions of dollars into our state to buy this senate seat. Big Money is powerful, but it’s nothing compared to People Power. Sign up to knock doors during our Weekend of Action: www.mobilize.us/texasdemocra...
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Dave Root @neuronroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our department seeks a teaching professor for neuroscience courses. If interested apply here jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Assistant Teaching Professor – Psychology and Neuroscience
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 30/09/2026
To my fellow dudes: Listen to this. Read through this thread. Read through other threads like this one. The world makes it easy for us to close our eyes. But don't think that doing so doesn't come at a cost.
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging @natprot.nature.com ⤵️
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience - Nature Protocols
This is a Perspective covering a Python toolbox for neuroscience research that enables users to fetch datasets, construct networks and null models, estimate graph metrics, fit statistical models and v...
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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
📣 Assistant Professor of Teaching in Neuroscience at UCLA! ☀️ 🧠 Apply before Nov 9th recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11315
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Assistant Professor of Teaching in Neuroscience in the UCLA Department of Psychology and Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Next AFNI Bootcamp: Oct 20-22, 2026! Classes cover: FMRI visualization, full subject-level processing, alignment, regression modeling, and quality control. Registration is free & open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. Registration+details: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp Please share widely.
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AFNI Bootcamp: October 20th - 22nd, 2026 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984
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Nature @nature.com · 21/09/2026
A scientist in training seeks help in finding a new adviser without damaging existing working relationships go.nature.com/4rtbuxy
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How do I change labs gracefully during my PhD?
A scientist in training seeks help in finding a new adviser without damaging existing working relationships.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Who teaches (early) undergraduate courses on emotions, moods and such? I'm just gearing up to do this and I'd love to ask a few quick questions (textbook, approach). Please DM! Thank you. #affectivescience
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/09/2026
Tonight, Jewish New Yorkers mark the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It is the peak of the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, and an opportunity for profound reflection.
 
For those fasting — tzom kal, may your fast be easy and meaningful. 
 
And to all who observe, G'mar chatimah tovah. May you be sealed in the Book of Life for a good year to come.
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Insipid Twaddle @insipidtwaddle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're a mere century and a half removed from 30% of children in North America dying before adulthood. And that number was a triumph of medicine, given that it hovered around 50% pre-Victorian era. Those that got to live a life of desperation and toil with no hope of advancement got the good ending!
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More shit coming down:: "The White House has begun drafting a new executive order that could further cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants and expand the administration’s pressure campaign against elite universities." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excited to share a new discovery from @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social about the effects of neurostimulation on brain activity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... With our colleagues at the University of Iowa, we explored how intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) changes neural excitability. A 🧵
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iTBS induces a suppression-rebound pattern in human cortical excitability
Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a widely used form of brain stimulation, developed on the premise that it promotes long-term potentiation (LTP) and neural excitation. However, this is n...
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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Ian Shih @shihyyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our SORDINO paper is available @natneuro.nature.com. I hope it will prove useful to the fMRI community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our earlier digest: bsky.app/profile/shih... News & Views by @shemesh-lab.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Use SORDINO in your lab: camri.org/SORDINO
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jerrytang.bsky.social @jerrytang.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our new study on cross-participant cortical mapping (with @alexanderhuth.bsky.social) is out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! direct.mit.edu/imag/article... 1/7
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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...
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Samantha Butler @samanthabutler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please spread the news - the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA is hiring. This is an open rank search for all and any amazing neuroscientists! Please apply here by Nov 15th, first review end of October : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11296
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Open-rank tenure-track faculty position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No USA metro has swung blue more over the past 20 years than Provo-Orem-Lehi (Utah County UT): D +34 2020-2024: Every State House District trended left of the USA. Every one. Now the @utcountydems.bsky.social chair @darinself.com has recruited a historic 13 candidates in 15 Utah HD races.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/09/2026
Nationwide, it's clear ICE doesn't care about the health of the people they detain. The lack of accountability is unacceptable. At Delaney Hall and other facilities, people are suffering without proper medical care. They deserve so much better – that's what I'm fighting for.
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
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Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sitting in a talk by Lois Smith who developed treatments for retinopathy of prematurity, and I’m wondering how many kids and now adults are running around with normal vision who would have been blind, and don’t know about the science and people who made it possible for them to see normally.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey! Quick question! If data centers aren't destroying our air quality, water quality, and quality of life, then why would they be exempt from disclosing pollution? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn
Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution
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Anne Billot, PhD @annebillot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 New study out today! We show that the brain's language network stays remarkably stable with age — same topography, lateralization, selectivity and connectivity as in younger adults — while the domain-general multiple demand network showed altered activity patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that aging affects brain networks differently, with neural changes mirroring the preservation or decline of the cognitive functions they support. The multiple demand network exh...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 23/08/2026
Tariffs are set to cost the average American family over $2,500 this year.
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are hiring a full professor for "Intelligence in biological and artificial systems". If you don't know about the German system yet, let me tell you a little bit about working as a professor at the institute. Thread 👇
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
END CITIZENS UNITED.......
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/08/2026
I was at a conference recently and saw several talks using slides clearly generated by Claude (sometimes mixed in with their older non-Claude slides). In one case it seemed that the entire talk was AI-generated and the speaker was often just reading Claude output. Is that a thing now?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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practiCal fMRI @practicalfmri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you think Siemens, GE or Philips will ever offer a 5 T for advanced neuro? While they might reduce their 7 T sales a bit, surely many research orgs would upgrade from premiere 3 T scanners if the price & specs were right.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...
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Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excited to share our lab's recent paper showing that direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala enhances recognition memory for objects but not scenes. The article is open-access, and we'd love to hear your thoughts! Please share! TY to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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