Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.
Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv
Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg
www.grc.org/frontal-cort...
Goddness, there's lots to say about this. Good to see the case pro laid out in detail. I wonder if Nature will be publishing the counter-argument too?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
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It was stimulating to chat about time, clocks, pendulums, death, physics, AI, the brain, movies, Kung fu and squirrels with @neildegrassetyson.com, @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, and @garyoreilly.bsky.social
startalkmedia.com/show/your-br...
Hi Dan ... if you're interested I discuss why LLMs can't "experience" or even tell time here: www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...
19.01.2026 06:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
16.01.2026 22:38 — 👍 132 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 0
Rankings are always problematic, but it is telling that in this productivity ranking, of the top 20 Universities 2 are American, and 16 Chinese.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
It was stimulating to chat about time, clocks, pendulums, death, physics, AI, the brain, movies, Kung fu and squirrels with @neildegrassetyson.com, @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, and @garyoreilly.bsky.social
startalkmedia.com/show/your-br...
South Park called it, and it’s hilarious.
One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.
ChatGPT is hilariously bad at this letter swap task. Claude got it wrong, and Gemini 3.0 does it perfectly:
Reproduce this very sentence, exchanging all uses of the letter "h" for the letter "t", and all uses of "t" for the letter "h".
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
ChatGPT is hilariously bad at this letter swap task. Claude got it wrong, and Gemini 3.0 does it perfectly:
Reproduce this very sentence, exchanging all uses of the letter "h" for the letter "t", and all uses of "t" for the letter "h".
#AcademicSky
Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California
Can synapses learn to tell time?
If your at #SfN25 on Sun morning checkout Jamie McDowell’s poster (PSTR059.01).
Don't skip this. It's masterfully done, and many of the key points are GENERAL and apply to many other fields.
"there can sometimes just be lots of smoke"
I discuss the general case here: labrigger.com/blog/2025/11...
WOW. He looks like he was listening in on the bats echolocating emissions and knew exactly when the bat would arrive.
28.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
22.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 88 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 0
Are working memory and timing two sides of the same coin? Does the duration of WM adapt to the temporal structure of the task? This collaborative project led by Conor Dorian shows that mice learn the WM delay, which in turn shapes the neural signatures of WM.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
USC rejects compact www.latimes.com/california/s...
16.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
thanks for speaking out @markhisted.org
02.10.2025 04:15 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership
skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
LLMs are like witnesses, you should not ask them leading questions.
24.09.2025 16:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
