Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More resources on responding to proposed OMB changes.
Our latest, led by @ivaili.bsky.social out now in Nature Mental Health using normative modelling to understand the heterogeneity of atypical FC in autism. Peep the thread...
People with schizophrenia show altered cerebellum-cerebrum dynamics during eye gaze perception that is linked to social dysfunction, suggesting the cerebellum might be an accessible target for brain stimulation therapies to improve social cognition.
🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social.
We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them.
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Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪Â
A deep dive in tonight’s special and urgent issue on the OMB’s gambit to achieve by rule-making what the administration fails to win in court.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
I'm excited to invite applications for a post-grad position in my lab @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social. Great opportunity for pre-med or pre-psychology (or clinical-curious humanists) to learn clinical and data skills as part of our dynamic team!
campuspress.yale.edu/fineberglab/...
Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...
The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brain🧠and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
Carl T. Bergstrom
Individuals with schizophrenia have prominent impairments in social cognition that contribute to poor functional outcomes. Gaze processing – the social-cognitive ability to accurately perceive human…
Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our paper “Multiscale heterogeneity of atypical functional connectivity in autism” is now out in Nature Mental Health
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
With @alexfornito.bsky.social, Jan Buitelaar, Marianne Oldehinkel
SAVE AMERICAN SCIENCE (Please! đź’ś Annika @annikabarber.bsky.social) What are the proposed changes to scientific grant review and award? Read the Federal Register directly here: Regulation for Federal...
Using normative modeling to measure the interindividual variability of atypical brain functional connectivity in autism, the authors identify heterogeneity at the level of specific connections alongsi...
Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪
What's the problem?
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Iva Ilioska
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
