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Naoshige Uchida @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our new work on how belief states could be implemented by attractor-like dynamics in the brain -- an effort started in Starkweather et al. (2017) in collaboration with Sam Gershman, and Jay Hennig, now joined by Scott Linderman! Thank you to all collaborators!

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Jay Hennig @jhennig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing work by @sromeropinto.bsky.social ! Sandra found that in Pavlovian tasks with hidden states, neural population dynamics in mouse OFC resemble beliefs/state-inference

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to have this finally out! TL;DR: The evolution of beliefs over time can be formulated as a dynamical system, and OFC neural activity appears to implement this system with its own dynamics. These emerge without explicit supervision—when animals learn to predict value in simple Pavlovian tasks

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/05/2026

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

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A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth

YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/08/2025

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

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TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US

TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

this is awesome groundbreaking work!! congrats to all involved!!!

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Cuts to NIH funding will impact the economy and employment nationwide. We visualize these losses and advocate for a theory-driven approach to communicating local, self-relevant impact. w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social + SCIMaP team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain economist.com/science-and-...

website views of PhD programmes up in Netherlands. canada, sweden etc

website views from outside the US down massively in the US, up elsewhere

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I am where I am now because of OPT. That was my status all throughout my postdoc. It is basically the only way international students are able to transition to employment and contribute their US-trained skills in the United States.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I realize that as a retired professor I have a responsibility to say more on this than I have. International students are essential to the fiscal bottom line of almost every university. This is an unambiguous attempt to destroy Harvard—permanently. And he won’t stop with Harvard. This is madness.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 21/05/2025

They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

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Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US

The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 16/05/2025

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/04/2025

The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes.

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‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/04/2025

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

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RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated: 1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n... ......

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/03/2025

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

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Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

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Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates

Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

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Sandra Romero Pinto @sromeropinto.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thinking of how to convince the NIH to give me money to study these...

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Needhi 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.

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