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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please stop telling high school students to cold email university professors. Really, just stop. If you are a high school student looking for research opportunities, search and apply to the myriad of formal training programs that cater specifically to your education level.

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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme. Join us in London! 🎓 World-class neuroscience training 💰 Fully funded 4-year programme 🖥️Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social Apply by 9 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surya Ganguli kicking off the meeting for this collaboration today, presenting slides (from Lenka Zdeborova) showing the trajectory of how society gains technology before having a full scientific understanding of how it works. Watchable here: simonsfoundation.zoom.us/j/9679556946...

Steam engine prototypes started in 1670s, Steam Engine itself in 1760s, full understanding not until late 19th c. AI still doesn't have full understanding.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone know of any good short videos or visualizations that cover how modern AI is built and trained in a way that is suitable for a college gen ed class? It can lean a bit technical. The stuff I've surveyed so far on this has been...bleak.

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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣 2027 Cohort Applications are OPEN NOW! AGU's Local Science Partners program offers skills training for scientists looking to make an impact in science policy and work with their legislators Join our team and apply by 18 October to make an impact: www.agu.org/honors/local...

Make an Impact with AGU's Local Science Partners

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them

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Grace @gracekind.net · 19/09/2026

Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What is the disease that journal website designers have where they must make the thing I want most (the actual text of the paper) the smallest part of the page

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about using AI to 'clean up' your ideas when writing a paper review is that the review still reads as AI-written. And that makes it very hard for the author to be motivated to respond to it imo

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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're interested in the discussions around the merits of NeuroAI for understanding the mind & brain, check out our #CCN2026 GAC Debate recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYES...

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CCN 2026 | GAC: NeuroAI Methods & Frameworks

YouTube video by Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/09/2026

As the first ballots are being mailed out to voters for November’s midterm election, there is an enormous amount of uncertainty and confusion about how Americans will vote. Here are some clarifications:

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Analysis | What to watch for when voting in the midterms

The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to polls and voting by mail could be tricky if you don’t plan ahead.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not stated strongly enough.

Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research. These funds were provided to support research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I teach about Ariely's fraud in my methods class and it is probably not the best message to undergrads that he still has his job

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/09/2026

Part 2. There is no bottom to Ariely's malfeasance. The Arday tragedy is so raw now the comparison is unavoidable. Ariely's fraud cost millions. Books were sold, careers altered. People and organizations changed policies and practices based on his fake results...

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A lot of ink has been spilled on RCP-8.5, but its worth pausing and celebrating just how dramatically the high-end tail of emissions scenarios has changed over ~15 years. Genuine technological and policy progress on climate, reflected in the set of futures we can imagine

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excellent piece that articulates many of the parallels I was thinking about when I read Dalrymple's book on the East India Company: how do governments control companies that more economically powerful than most countries, and can purchase political influence in the most powerful country?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/08/2026

Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This paper shows how measures and constructs in psychology get introduced but rarely reused. Would love to see a similar analysis done on methods of analyzing neural data. A Fragmented Field: Construct and Measure Proliferation in Psychology" Anvari et al., 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Treemap plots for (top) personality and social psychology and (bottom) clinical and health psychology. Each tile shows one measure, labeled with its acronym if it fits on the tile. Larger tiles indicate that the measure has been used a higher number of times; the many smaller tiles show fragmentation.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As like 2/3 of our food gets recalled it occurs to me again how this whole era is perhaps best explained by The Curse of the Preventive Measure

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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 27/08/2026

🧪 Scientists and researchers in your life have been freaking out for the past year and a half because we know exactly how hard & how long this work takes. The real damage from RFK's tenure won't just hit now. It will hit in 10 yrs, when the therapies we could have had simply won't exist. #MedSky 🛟

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Studies show that in conjunctive visual search (e.g. searching for a stimulus defined by both orientation & color), eye movements are much less guided by orientation than other features, despite the fact that eye movements *are* guided by orientation in single feature search. Why? #psychscisky

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Last week, the National Science Foundation announced $1.5 billion in new funding opportunities—but none from its Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/funding/futu...

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Future unclear for U.S. federal funding of cognitive science

The NSF hasn’t shared new funding solicitations for its Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences or replaced outgoing program officers.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That is what I say too: Every 1/10th degree of warming prevented is a profound gift to our children & grandchildren, & their children & grandchildren. And we, humans, have already averted many 1/10th degrees of warming from the likely outcome. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hiring for research scientists in expansion chemistry and optical physiology at mindspan.org with @eboyden3.bsky.social, Yongxin Zhao, Xue Han. We will build tools to analyze the human brain. We are into compiling arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713. We are into cutting edge technology.

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Mindspan Institute

A non-profit creating and applying tools to characterize the molecules and wiring of the human brain, as well as to interpret how they contribute to brain functions and dysfunctions, openly sharing to...

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

NSF is substantially reducing grants, zeroing out many SBE subdivisions, & withholding the funds to spend next year on central initiatives: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

30-40% of the US corn supply in recent years, but yes, point well taken (corn for ethanol covers an area of prime cropland about the size of Indiana)

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026

7. @madisoncondon.bsky.social calls for giving the public real-time and long-term info about how specific towns and regions can anticipate and prepare for climate harms. Make Science Useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Stand Up a National Climate Service

Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.

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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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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Climate change is becoming a crisis. So we have a choice to make: 1. Pretend it’s not happening and do nothing. 2. See it’s happening, but spiral into “doomerism” and surrender. 3. See it’s happening and get to work fixing it. The third option is the right one. Join us. Drawdown.org

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is the reported $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign students to remain for a couple years in post-graduate employment. The fee would devastate the program, making the US even less desirable as a destination for the world's best and brightest.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/08/2026

if you wrote something about AI and climate, pls send it my way

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Teaching "AI use" in college (not related to teaching how AI is built) is silly because 1.) the tools are meant to be user friendly with minimal training and 2.) they change so often your education would be good for about a semester

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026

Something worth noting is that a 9 gigawatt "off grid" gas plant still buys obscene volumes of gas: more than any other gas plant in the US. that itself makes gas more expensive for the power plants that are on-grid: raising costs for everyone, albeit less directly

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Selmaan Chettih @selmaan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Check these three faculty searches at Yale and join me in New Haven! 1. Experimental neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190736 2. Computational/Theoretical neuroscience apply.interfolio.com/190740 3. The (new!) Center for Neuroethology and Physiological Plasticity apply.interfolio.com/191722

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

Join the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as Assistant Professor in cognitive neuroscience.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

University professors generally do not make very much relative to our training levels. Most of us, especially in STEM, could make a lot more in industry (and deal with a lot less bureaucracy). Grant money mostly goes to paying students, postdocs, and staff, and is heavily vetted and scrutinized.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 19/08/2026

The Trump administration has wreaked havoc on federal science - firing scientists and removing or altering scientific resources dedicated to the public interest. A recent study highlights the impacts on federal data sources:

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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A lot of us Americans who may have otherwise fled decided to stay in the US to fight the rising tide of fascism, but we do have to grapple with the fact that it's becoming a materially unsafe place to be.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

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