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👀 Spatial sequences might be replayed in parallel in the hippocampus. If true it might open a whole new interpretation in the MEG replay methodology results. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

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Simultaneous awake replay of multiple spatial representations

Mou and Ji demonstrate that hippocampal place cell activity representing multiple trajectories are simultaneously replayed during reward consumption in an observational learning task. Simultaneous rep...

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Comments due Tuesday! rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3... Here is mine.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We need to alert Congress and we are asking them to make a STINK AND USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO STOP THE STUDY. We have an autodialer here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/GB_... Email tool here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/GB_...

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Stand up for Science

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This US-funded study will assign some babies in a poor African country to get an effective hepatitis B vaccine, while WITHOLDING THE VACCINE from a control group. These babies are being treated as expendable test subjects in a study that could never get approval in the US. Fuck RFK Jr.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'd really like public intellectuals to talk more seriously about mainstream beliefs in philosophy of mind

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I didn't say that most non-experts confidently believe LLMs can't be conscious... I said that the most confident takes are coming from non-experts. Which in the context of a social media post is clearly shorthand for "the most confident takes that I personally am seeing".

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Agree, but... It's better than not knowing much of anything about LLMs or the neuroscience of consciousness but still believing you have arrived at the one right opinion on this matter, based on vibes or whatever. Generally, the more people know the less confident they are, and that's appropriate.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not really. Since I'm a cognitive neuroscientist, the people I hear from are not a random sample of the population. It's fairly rare for someone with expertise in neuroscience or consciousness to voice the kind of absolute 100% confidence on this that I see from commenters on threads like this.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OK, you're am exception! :) But I notice you said you "think" they can never be conscious, not that they definitely 100% could never be conscious and that anyone who questions your position is a fool.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good question. Here's another: Why do the most confident declarations that LLMs could never be conscious tend to come from persons who do not have expertise in either the neuroscience of consciousness or LLMs? (IMO, often this is an emotional reaction, not an intellectual position.)

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I have gotten less patient with the commitment to silence that many of my colleagues have,” he said, “which I do think is immoral and cowardly.”

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The College President Who Won’t Shut Up

Michael Roth is trying to defend higher education. Why isn’t anyone joining him?

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The plan to phase students out of college is nearly complete.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/10/2026

Trump has been coming for American higher education since January 20th, 2025. It's time to fight back as a unified front. Join us on October 7th, 7pm ET to increase the public pressure on higher education leadership and defend academic freedom: tinyurl.com/yckchhy3 #Science #University #HigherEd

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NSF Spokesperson: "The SBE Directorate has not been shut down.” Reality: GRFP fellowships "will exclude students in the social sciences... NSF’s August call for new grant proposals left out SBE. No SBE-specific calls for grants remain open, and no review panels are scheduled"

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm clinging to my ripped wide-legs until death.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NIH makes yet again new LOW number of grants report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/...

Table from NIH showing drop of nearly 8,000 grants vs 2023

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Response speed is modulated by respiratory phase

Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One thing I learned from the Epstein files is that rich bros suck at proofreading.

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Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today & tomorrow are first days of strike as Uni council makes final decisions on massive cuts of courses &staff. Please show your #solidatity by sharing this, to encourage management to take our alternative financial proposals seriously. Compulsory redundancies not necessary!! @uonucu.bsky.social

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026

after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My entire professional career up to the present in one chart.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, that's a problem www.chronicle.com/article/high... #academicsky #edusky

A line graph demonstrating the nonacademic spending has outpaced academic spending, from 2010 to 2024. The note indicates this is for 146 R1 institutions. Source: NCES, Created with Datawrapper

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Alright, let’s all get on the same page about Vought/NIH/Trump. THEY👏WILL👏STOP👏AT👏NOTHING👏 The goal is to destroy the STEM ecosystem, universities, and democracy as we have known it. PERIOD. The only way to win is to impeach them all…which means we need Congress. HERE’S HOW WE WIN 🧵

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The attacks just keep coming. Planned executive order "aims to create a new external committee with the power to veto awards" We also learn that "Vought...refused to meet with Dr. Bhattacharya... accused the N.I.H. director of funding projects that were in conflict with administration priorities"

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

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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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your research paper will *literally* be AI.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah but then there's that giant at the top.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i've read from many that "gold standard science" sounds good in principle and that could not be farther from my truth. there is no such thing, there cannot be such a thing, and the sheer thought that it could actually be a good idea betrays a complete ignorance about science and scholarship.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What's the % chance these supermice cause human extinction by the end of the decade?

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Internet: This is for sale on Amazon. WHAT IS IT? bit.ly/3VggWrg

"Using good materials can make your home decoration last longer...", it says, on a picture of some ductwork with an inset picture of a thing that looks like a dead mole carcass or zombie toupee.

A 3-pack of a mysterious object that looks like it might be part of a testicle haloween costume.

Two pictures of said product, and one is titled "AVIRULENT INSIPIDY"

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Research Idea: What makes people so miserably fail to understand how lame and obvious their AI-generated content is?

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Tony Cunningham @tonycunningham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can what we think about before sleep shape our dreams? Holder & @wamsleylab.bsky.social found that reactivating emotional autobiographical memories shifted subsequent dream emotion, but dreaming about those memories did not reduce overnight emotional reactivity. Sweet dreams! doi.org/10.1093/slee...

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Validate User

This research demonstrates that reactivating remote emotional memories before sleep influences subsequent dream emotions. Notably, we found no evidence tha

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm writing a registered report for the first time and it's really fun.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very bad for our international students. 😢 I often tell my undergrads interested in a PhD to think about working in research for a year or two first-- Make sure they REALLY want to do that, get experience, gain maturity. Not possible for int'l students under this rule. #edusky #academicsky

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