Congrats to our lab’s newest PhD’s: Dr. Zitong Lu & Dr. Yong Min Choi!
@zitonglu.bsky.social is off to postdoc at MIT w/ @nancykanwisher.bsky.social & @evfedorenko.bsky.social;
@yongminchoi.bsky.social is off to postdoc at Dartmouth w/ @violastoermer.bsky.social
Will really miss these 2, so proud 🥳
#VSS2025 Come check out Min’s super cool talk Tues 6pm! He cleverly uses voxel-wise predictive encoding models to compare different forms of remapping across the human brain @vssmtg.bsky.social
Congrats to former JGLab undergrad @avaaaaran.bsky.social for her first-author publication! What a cool undergrad thesis project, with grad mentor @zitonglu.bsky.social. Keep an eye out for both of these early career stars!
If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...
This is a vile move. All the more disgusting and infuriating that it’s being framed about “protecting” Jewish students. You know what’s actually anti-Semitic? using Jews as pawns in this disgusting fascist theatre. Don’t take the bait and let it divide us. 😡
Drop your favorite Stand Up for Science slogans / homemade signs here! I’ll be at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Columbus tomorrow! Please consider joining us if you’re local, or find your closest rally site in your state! Numbers matter. Science matters.
President Carter told us he was fighting for us. But this article based on public info requests shows that the Ohio presidents jointly decided to stand down before SB1 was even introduced.
signalakron.org/ohio-univers...
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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March 20, 2025
Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education:
You are on the frontlines ...
sites.google.com
The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.
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The lobbying group for the state’s public universities advised them to sit on the sidelines over Senate Bill 1, records show.
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
…And then talked about how grant funding works, what direct and indirect costs are and why they’re important (using real-world examples like restaurant meal costs and then my own grant as an actual research example), etc
I didn’t make any actual materials, just talked about it verbally. There was a point in my lecture where I already had slides about relevant research being done in our dept and how the students could participate, so I took the opportunity to explain that all those studies are funded by NIH and NSF,…