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🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Collège de France

💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene!
Talks (including mine) are online here 👇

AAUP Organize Every Campus: Core Skills Training (Oct 2025 Registration Form) Chapters are encouraged to send at least five people to the training. Please choose one person to serve as a coordinator for your chapter. *Only the coordinator should complete this registration* If...

The AAUP is doing a skills training for campus organizing. Is your school participating?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My main question is: Can I get this book in mahogany and gold leaf?

Review | To Steven Pinker, human knowledge is just a game In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses

Full review here:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”

This new book sounds interesting

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Published authors by career stage: Pre-doc 42%, Post-doc 18%, Faculty 39%

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:

sciencehomecoming.com

Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠

penncapital-star.com/health/resea...

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

Scientists studying how to improve human life

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠

tbrnewsmedia.com/your-turn-ho...

This is gold. Emmy for Morgan Spector just for the pronunciation of "Cuomo."

ScienceSavedMe Testimonials - YouTube

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare

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The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher Being a scientist should not require developing the grit to continually endure misogyny, discrimination, harassment, assault or bullying

When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.

Pie chart — Biology 30%, Neuro 23%, Medicine 12%, Environmental Science 13%…

Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠

NSF STEM K-12 (STEM K-12)

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed:

Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs.

Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

I signed. I am a member of the National Academy of Medicine, but more importantly, I am someone who cares about my health and the health of my fellow human beings.

Sign!

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho
RFK, Jr. has got to go...

The unexpected value of communicating science to the public Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value.

rdcu.be/eCGr7

One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Here’s a link to my copy of the article:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95tev...

We discuss some related evidence from chicks in the paper — right now we only have this type of learning data from primates.

I think primates made evolutionary strides turning sensory signals into quantitative abstractions and then yes humans hijacked those abstractions to make even more abstractions

The heartbreaking thing about this
is that there’s already a proven way
to invest lots of money in a knowledge machine
that produces unforeseeable results
that include fantastically profitable ideas
(and some life-saving ones)
and generally benefit society
and this machine is called
a university

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen All Drizzle, no sizzle

The FT has been consistently good on this stuff, the only outlet to really take coreweave seriously, had great reporting, probably my fav business outlet. The Altman oil piece by bryce elder is one of the most devastating things I've ever read

www.ft.com/content/b180...

Cognitive bridge between geometric and numerical learning in monkeys | PNAS Educational research highlights strong developmental links between numerical and spatial cognition in humans, often shaped by cultural tools like t...

Children build math skills on a “cognitive bridge” between space & number. But where does it come from? Our new study finds monkeys transfer learning and abstractions across geometry & numerosity, revealing the evolutionary roots of basic math development. 🧪🧠

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...