Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDan Oh (DongWon) | 오동원 @ohdanieldw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley. Interests: • continuous person perception in interactive contexts • impression management and its biases • social perception in digital spaces Get in touch if there's overlap. Very excited for this next chapter! 12514
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJenny Crawford @jlcrawford.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I will be recruiting a lab manager to start in fall 2026 and will be accepting applications for Ph.D. students to start in fall 2027. For more information (& contact info), please reach out through my website: jlcrawford.netlify.appjlcrawford.netlify.appJennifer L. CrawfordPostdoctoral Fellow 177
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJesse Rissman @rissman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu) "Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks" We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context. How might this work...? 🧵1/8 13814
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonCorinna Schulz @corcerebrum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Your stomach called – your striatum picked up! But does this actually happen in humans? Using simultaneous dopamine PET/fMRI, we show that the gut hormone ghrelin helps the brain adjust motivation to current metabolic need. Here’s what we found👇 Preprint: shorturl.at/pq4A3 #neuroskyence #🩺 26024
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonKate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 03/11/2025We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968 12724
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonShawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 22/10/2025📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZrdcu.beNeurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and othersNature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,... 24831
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/10/2025@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"nature.comScaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talentNature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases... 6271173
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDebbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠 Link here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgNeurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive controlHuman motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ... 04419
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonSam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another. 912474
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4media.tenor.coma man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . 6254108
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonKianté @kiante.bsky.social · 15/08/2025New preprint🔊🧓: Why do we trust our friends more? We show that people are more efficient at evaluating information when making trust decisions about friends. This is preserved across the adult life span. W/ @jjfcastrellon.bsky.social . Feedback welcome: osf.io/tkpmv_v1 2277
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDavid G. Kamper @dgkamper.bsky.social · 14/05/2025How do children figure out what other people believe, especially when those beliefs are wrong? And what kinds of mental effort does it take to get that right? New paper out now: 163
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonBilly Mitchell @wj-mitchell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I updated my NIH D-SPAN repo (github.com/wj-mitchell/...) to reflect the current state of the mechanism, which - like other diversity awards - is not good. It made my day the handful of times folks reached out to share how it helped. I'm leaving it otherwise unaltered in memoriam.github.comGitHub - wj-mitchell/DSPAN_Details: Information and Materials Related to My NIH DSPAN F99/K00 AwardInformation and Materials Related to My NIH DSPAN F99/K00 Award - wj-mitchell/DSPAN_Details 021
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonScience Magazine @science.org · 09/04/2025Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1scim.agNIH freezes all research grants to Columbia UniversityAmid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million 82728465
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonBlack In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025It’s here! It’s here! Our Black In Neuro Annual Report for FY23-24 (July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024) 🎉 We would like to thank our BIN team, Daniela Franco for preparing this report, and Ni-ka Ford for the beautiful cover art 😍 static1.squarespace.com/static/5f022... 🧵 1/8 111837
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 04/04/2025New work by Mercedes Munoz with @yarrowdunham.bsky.social @olsonista.bsky.social Kristin Pauker & May Ling Halim! White kids are above chance in ingroup biases in attitudes, resource allocation & interpersonal distance; results vary for Black, Latine, & Asian kids online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...online.ucpress.eduChildren’s Use of Race in Their Social Judgments: A Multi-Site, Multi-Racial Group ComparisonStudies assessing children’s use of race in social judgment have often focused on White participants and usually include targets of only one or two racial backgrounds. They have also employed a wide r... 0115
Reposted by Jaime Castrellonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025every person involved in this needs to be in prison 11265949715764
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonClara E. Haeffner @cehaeffner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I’m at SAS! Come check out my poster during tomorrow’s session if you want to hear about my undergrad thesis work! 062
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is a fucking shitty ass day but at some point STEM faculty have to recognize that what we are seeing happen with federal funding of biomedical research through the NIH and NSF is being used and manipulated to punish and defund higher education institutions. 418645
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated 592104675229
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Los Angeles people: join us 12pm March 7 for a rally for science at the Federal Building in Westwood, and please spread the word to any pro-science folks you know. @standupforscience.bsky.social @latimes.com @ktla.com @abc7.bsky.social @kcrw.com @laist.com @crooked.com @nbcla.com @foxla.bsky.social 121681
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free! Abstract submissions open until 7th July w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!sites.google.comCISE 202530th September - 1st October 2025 Brown University, Rhode Island 13622
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonKate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEvnature.comA dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - NatureAdaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path... 2724487
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget. 9541551592
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n 8799395
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The damage today (actually yesterday) to the intramural program appears to especially bad. It also appears (although I need more confirmation) that most or all of the tenure track investigators in their first 2 years in several, and perhaps all, institutes were terminated. 7/n 316755
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence 11243139
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJosh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 6133391140
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOUmedia.tenor.coma picture of a cartoon character with the words call me on itALT: a picture of a cartoon character with the words call me on it 0124141
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonMiriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be. 16154042847
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come. 40846427
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world. 921586511
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonBríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 06/02/2025The NIH 6 months ago, vs the NIH now. 🧵 Video 👇🏼 NIH 6 months ago. A hallway full of colorful posters profiling women and POC researchers. Shared by @amritalaxshmy.bsky.social on the bird site. 🧪 11299134
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25470014079
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonDarby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652769415654
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources. 7252147
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJoy Franco, PhD @engineeringjoy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025To my fellow diversity scholars: this is not about merit. They know we’ve had to do more with less. It’s about blocking socioeconomic mobility. You EARNED your awards. You were awarded because of your excellence. Keep your heads up friends. We will get through this. #DSPAN #NSF 1537
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonMaureen M Sampson PhD @maureenbiologies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Keep in touch with NINDS #DSPANscholars here 🧠 Reply or DM to be added! go.bsky.app/TQdWJr3go.bsky.appNINDS DSPAN ScholarsJoin the conversation 1139
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonJeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I was a Ford Foundation graduate fellowship recipient I had an NIA Diversity Supplement as a postdoc My NIA Diversity Supplement transitioned into a faculty award for my first year as a new PI I was a 2022 Senior Ford Foundation Fellow I am a scientist BECAUSE of these programs 312716
Reposted by Jaime CastrellonRob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 23/01/2025My NIH DSPAN application was scheduled for study section today & tomorrow It’s a grant geared towards supporting the early careers of underrepresented PhD trainees in neuroscience B/c it’s a diversity-focused research grant, this likely means it will be killed before it even gets reviewed 85217
Jaime Castrellon @jjfcastrellon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Just wrapped up my 1st quarter teaching as a new prof @UCLA and want to share some highlights from a new course we offered now that we have an official Social & Affective Neuroscience (SAN) area! In the SAN Lab course, students (n=21) learned about & applied psych methods to SAN research questions 1122