I've done cognitive training studies. I 100% do not believe these effects (for reasons obvious to anyone who knows this literature).
Lawn darts? It gets better. The best part of my elementary school was Show-and-Tell. We were all jealous of the kids who brought in their Christmas cross bows. Every few years there would be a hunting related injury - a lost eye, a shot-off toe.
Read your comment section, NYT.
Also, making us completely redo our syllabi and all readings with little to no support. But hey, we have the Calm app now!
The 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Single Cell Analysis Meetings are here. This is the longest running single cell meeting, started in 2009. Please register and send an abstract!
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Great paper by @noranewcombe.bsky.social et al. on Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Predict that autistic children would have trouble with holistic, not with detail episodic memory (according to WCC hypothesis).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.
This resonated with me because I just had to fill out a BS travel request. Took 20 minutes. Some staffer then had to spend 20 minutes reviewing it. Such a waste of time and energy.
Standing up for science in Philly!
Chicago is one of my favorite cities! Congratulations!
This is how it’s done.
Neuroscientists at UC Davis, Yale, and UC San Diego, go down the hall and ask that they stand up for your profession.
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
Goes without saying for scientists:
This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas?
#scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑🔬
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That protest vote isn’t working out so well.
This is only the beginning.
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
I think pretty much everyone who might be concerned in UK science (plus interested newspaper readers like me, who have been following the story which goes back months) will understand what this is about. But for info: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
you look much slimmer in powder blue
Are the costs are hidden? Seneca talked about gifts and favors as a sort of debt. To think otherwise is naive (it does make you wonder about universities and their relationships to billionaire donors).
My recent paper in Economic Journal:
In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement.
Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd
With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt
Interesting how the Great Lakes States are pulling away from the rest of the Midwest.
The Olson lab at Temple University is looking for new PhD students interested in doing research on the human cerebellum in affective and motivational states with clinical translation. If you know of anyone applying to grad school interested in this topic, please send them my way!
Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans.
The neurons don't code for a particular element in the episode (e.g., concept or time). They code for the conjunction of the different elements.
#neuroscience #psychology #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sometimes people hear that I work on the cerebellum, then contact me because they don't know how to interpret their unexpected findings. I just want to say "thank you". I'm grateful that folks are starting to pay attention to this structure! Also, I run a cerebellum journal club so reach out!
Mapping information flow between the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortices via neural oscillations in memory retrieval and maintenance
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#neuroscience
