Reposted by raheema javidPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Happy Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City to all who celebrate 😭❤️ 51440202
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025250m deep in the Al Wahbah Crater! 🌋 Just wrapped up finals at KAUST and looking back at this grueling 4-hour trek. It was hot, steep, and rocky—the perfect metaphor for a Master’s program. Here are 4 lessons I’m carrying from the crater into the break: 🧵👇 100
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025What does a Neuroscientist do at the Global Water Sustainability Conference?💧 Look for the Data, Policy, & Behavioral Loops! Attended #IDWS2025 in Jeddah this week Water security, like the brain, is a complex system solved at the intersection of #AI, #Policy, & #HumanBehavior 100
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025One year ago today: I hosted "Classroom Cognition" for CUNO ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's #NeuroscienceOutreach program)🧠 My #SciComm goal: Bridge the gap between #Neuro knowledge & classrooms. Having been a teacher, I experienced firsthand this knowledge gap's harm This talk was my answer👇 130
Reposted by raheema javidNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/12/2025GLP-1 drugs can help people lose weight by quelling hunger cues. Nature reports on the work by scientists testing if these drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids. 🧪 go.nature.comWill blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food. 23612
Reposted by raheema javidCantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine. 01711
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025When #Neuroscience meets #Policy! 🧠🇸🇦 Was thrilled to attend the Behavior Change Policy Forum at KAUST last week, focused on driving sustainable waste management. My driving force: Using behavioral insights to translate research into massive, positive societal change (hello, #SaudiVision2030). 🌍 110
Reposted by raheema javidsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 10/12/2025🇨🇦🇨🇦 Just announced: a massive new program from the Canadian govt, separate from the well-known CRCs and CERCs, to recruit foreign scientific talent Canada was already a destination for scientists but whoa. Real impressive for a new govt to back political talking points with serious investmentnouvelles.umontreal.ca$1.7 billion to attract international researchers to CanadaDetails of the major federal initiative to draw new talent to the country's universities were announced today at UdeM. 48237
Reposted by raheema javidJeff Stein @jsstein.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Increasing e-cigarette nicotine strength doesn't appear to make e-cigarettes better substitutes for combustible cigs. New data suggesting that both low- and high-nicotine e-cigarettes support product switching about the same. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comDoes e‐cigarette nicotine strength influence substitution for combustible cigarettes?Using the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace, we examined the effects of e-liquid freebase nicotine strength (3–24 mg/mL) and e-liquid price (US$0.25–$1.00/mL) on behavioral economic substitution for c... 242
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/12/2025And that's a wrap on an incredible week of #Neuroscience at KAUST🇸🇦! Thrilled to have attended the Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease conference🧠, hosted by @natureportfolio.nature.com right here on campus. 💡 A great capstone to a week of high-level brain discussions! 👇 120
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The future of the brain is bright at at KAUST 💡 Thrilled to attend the Neuroscience Symposium 2025 🧠 Energy, research, and collaborative spirit were contagious! Sessions covered emerging tools, genetic insights, & brain health. So exciting to see neuro get its flowers here💐 150
Reposted by raheema javidJosep Goded (Backup Account But Still Active) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Palestinians mourn their colleague Saleh Al-Jaafarawi, killed today by Israeli-backed gangs in Gaza City. 14721
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 12/10/2025he survived two years of genocide, reporting the news for us only to become the news story once the genocide was “over” saleh. anas. hamza. the dozens of journalists who have been targeted and killed by the occupation all deserve justice 010
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 12/10/2025saleh was the best of us 💔 glory to the martyrs 010
Reposted by raheema javidelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...middleeasteye.netProminent Palestinian activist Saleh al-Jafarawi killed by armed militia in Gaza CitySocial media activist was shot dead whilst covering clashes between Israel-backed militia and Hamas fighters, Al Jazeera reports 51186716
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Honored to serve as a Graduate Student Ambassador representing KAUST at the @timeshighered.bsky.social #WorldAcademicSummit 🏔️ We proudly welcomed delegates from universities across the world 🌎, showcasing KAUST's innovation and the warm hospitality of Saudi🇸🇦 #thewas 000
Reposted by raheema javidCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiEnyti.ms 14147041812
Reposted by raheema javidSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The destruction of Gaza. Genocide. 813683
Reposted by raheema javidAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/10/2025The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.bit.lyIsraeli military intercepts Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessels: ReportThe Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza. 11157105
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2025reposting this with tears in my eyes. what palestinian doctors have been telling us all along only now being confirmed by “american doctors volunteering in gaza.” hopefully this wakes people up 000
Reposted by raheema javidMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"He has 100s of 1000s of Arabs' blood on his hands. Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza." What I told Piers Morgan on his show this week, about the ludicrous and colonial plan to have Blair help Trump run Gaza. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm... 34937189
Reposted by raheema javidShawn's Socialist Slipstreaming(宇祥)- he/him/他/dia @shawnslipshrimp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025'Conference of Zionists Will Colonise Palestine' - June 20, 1899, 124 years, 3 months and 17 days before October 7, 2023 4535241
Reposted by raheema javidElla Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!neuroscience.georgetown.eduHome Page - Interdisciplinary Program in NeuroscienceThe Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration... 01413
Reposted by raheema javidMalaysiakini @malaysiakini.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Jakim, Jawi mosques and surau to hold solat hajat for Sumud Flotilla #newsmalaysiakini.comJakim, Jawi mosques and surau to hold solat hajat for Sumud FlotillaThe Qunut Nazilah will also be recited for the activists' safety. 011
Reposted by raheema javidMélissa Camara @melissacamara.bsky.social · 02/10/2025💥 KEEP UP THE PRESSURE! Governments must take action. The kidnapped crews of the Sumud must be released immediately. Share information about the flotillas. Take part in support events across France and the European Union. We are counting on you! ✊🏾🔴 099
Reposted by raheema javidmaia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 01/10/2025sumud flotilla is intercepted and being boarded, chemical agent apparently used against one boat via @dropsitenews.com 4344161
Reposted by raheema javidResist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of Global Sumud Flotilla 18525360
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 29/09/2025how NOT to halt a gen/0/cide: www.pressenza.com/2025/09/how-...pressenza.comHow Not to Halt a GenocideAll those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest 100
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 11/08/2025“i urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.” rest in power ya anas fa anta shareef tshrfna ya batal 000
Reposted by raheema javidPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him. 7062814707
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 10/08/2025thrilled to share my first published paper! across 3 behavioral experiments, we find that although encoding and prediction depend on distinct and competitive computational mechanisms, the success of one in behavior can increase the likelihood of success for the other. 140
Reposted by raheema javidMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 09/08/2025This project unfolded in parallel with one led by Jiawen Huang & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social. They also found that successful prediction enhances encoding, in a different task with different measures. Our papers were published at the same time in the same journal, purely coincidentally!direct.mit.eduAccurate Predictions Facilitate Robust Memory Encoding Independently From Stimulus ProbabilityAbstract. We can use prior knowledge of temporal structure to make predictions about how an event will unfold, and this schematic knowledge has been shown to impact the way that event memories are enc... 181
Reposted by raheema javidMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 09/08/2025I am so proud of co-first authors Craig Poskanzer & Hannah Tarder-Stoll for seeing this project through. It was a challenging, puzzling, and exciting process and we learned a lot along the way. Also many thanks to Raheema Javid & Edoardo Spolaore for help on experimental design and data collection! 171
Reposted by raheema javidMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Successful prediction of the future enhances encoding of the present. I am so delighted that this work found a wonderful home at Open Mind. The peer review journey was a rollercoaster but it *greatly* improved the paper. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...direct.mit.eduSuccessful Prediction Is Associated With Enhanced EncodingAbstract. Forming memories requires a focus on the external world; retrieving memories requires attention to our internal world. Computational models propose that the hippocampus resolves the tension ... 27522
Reposted by raheema javidMarta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 01/07/2025🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9lrdcu.beMovie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundariesNature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human... 815968
Reposted by raheema javidMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025If you, like me, are confused about the relationship of the "Big Beautiful Bill" to the 2025-2026 Federal budget and its relevance to science funding and other issues, here is a GREAT explainer from my friend Kevin Wilson 🧪@ascbiology.bsky.social 47129
Reposted by raheema javidMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 22/10/2024When we anticipate the future, the brain shows graded and bidirectional representations of the future and the past. The scale of these representations increases systematically from lower- to higher-order regions. Proud of this work led by Hannah Tarder-Stoll, a collaboration with Chris Baldassano!nature.comThe brain hierarchically represents the past and future during multistep anticipation - Nature CommunicationsMemories for event sequences are represented hierarchically in the brain, with further-reaching representations of both the past and future in higher-order brain areas. In the hippocampus, these repre... 06319
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Big thank you to Pakistan Society of Basic & Applied Neuroscience for allowing me to present virtually when a last minute disruption prevented me from traveling to Lahore for their 10th Annual Neuroscience Conference! Here’s to making neuro more accessible to all! 🧠 010
raheema javid @raheemajavid.bsky.social · 08/10/2024amazed at how fast a four hour poster session can fly by when you’re having fun! 030
Reposted by raheema javidMariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2024Does encoding the present compete with predicting the future? Across 3 studies, we find that encoding and prediction are coupled, not competitive! Proud of co-first authors Craig Poskanzer & Hannah Tarder-Stoll, along w/ @raheemajavid.bsky.social & Edoardo Spolaore! osf.io/preprints/ps... 03617
Reposted by raheema javidIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2024Almost exactly how I teach about titles. Something catchy or fun implying you can write: The effect of the Independent Variable on the Dependent Variable 073
Reposted by raheema javidThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2024Steve Silberman's empathic storytelling changed how society—and researchers—view autistic people. More on his legacy: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/the... By @ejwillingham.bsky.socialthetransmitter.orgThe legacy of Steve Silberman and his book, ‘NeuroTribes’The writer’s empathic storytelling changed how society—and researchers—view autistic people. 38929
Reposted by raheema javidDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/09/2024The link for ordering 4 free COVID tests is now LIVE. Do it NOW! Order here: covidtests.gov 12445337
Reposted by raheema javidDorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 26/09/2024One thing I find depressing / unintentionally funny about the replication crisis in psychology is there’s all this high-level drama about retractions & fraud, then you look at the original study & it’s like… “Thinking about God made undergrads (N=28) wash their hands 0.8 seconds longer (p=0.04)”. 414135