Stephen J. Gotts

Also, it is so cringe to force prostrate authors to cite your papers. Don't do that!

I'm pretty comfortable not using a technology that coerces people to commit suicide, actually.

One lesson of the Sandwich Guy Case is now more than ever when you are called to jury duty you should go

In short: Shitty parties should get to enact shitty policies. An electorate that elects a shitty party should have to suffer the shitty consequences. And a party that enacts shitty policies should have to suffer the electoral consequences.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Fourteen suburban moms arrested in sit-in protest outside Broadview ICE facility The mothers sat in a circle on Beach Street on Friday to “demand an end” to the immigration raids that have swept through the Chicago area since the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Bli...

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area.

“We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping OHBM 2025 | Keynote | Lucina Uddin | Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks

ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Black and white portrait of an elegantly dressed woman seated with a book in her lap, gazing at the viewer. Photo tiled "Mrs. A. J. Cooper" by C. M. Bell Photography Studio. Held in the Library of Congress.

Born enslaved in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Oberlin in 1887 & a PhD from the Sorbonne. She observed, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.

What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Well, well, well.

L - October 27
R - Today

New layer-fMRI preprint using deep sampling to track face information across layers in FFA.
50 times 15 min scanning with whole brain VASO and BOLD fMRI.
By Kenshu Koiso et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data.

But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality.

Let's dive into why. 🧵

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

JUST IN: Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy,' charged with chucking a sub at law enforcement during President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital.

Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity - Nature BARseq interrogates the expression of 104 cell-type marker genes in 10.3 million cells over nine mouse forebrain hemispheres to reveal the role of peripheral inputs on cortical area development.

Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait?

Wrong.

Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).

Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

This is 🤯

All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.

#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

Who's Threatening Who? The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story

In Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to colleagues: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough celebrating the shooting of an American citizen, it speaks to a irredeemable organizational culture.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Border Patrol agent 'bragged' about shooting woman in Brighton Park, defense attorney says Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later text...

A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends:

“I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

AND If you’re interested in language-related aspects of individual differences for blindness or deafness, you can also already apply through neurolang.georgetown.edu/admission

I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

"Separation of powers" - mmm: might it also apply to actions like firing federal employees, impoundments, eliminating of agencies? Or just taxes.

We’ve come to accept the 45-minute data dump: a PI sprinting through dozens of studies to prove how much they’ve done. I’d rather hear one clear question followed to its end than a career retrospective pretending to be a talk.

Opinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter

the condescending smugness of NYT opinion, like— Hey Zohran, so yeah, we did our best to slime you, son & to keep you out & the shittiest & corrupts in control, but ok, you get one shot now, so listen close boy, here’s how & how not to do your thing y'hear
seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

I. Background On June 9, 2025, DHS published a final rule for the protection of federal property (90 FR 24217) (June 2025 rule). That rule implements regulations to protect property and prescribe reasonable penalties for misconduct. Specifically, the June 2025 rule makes the following changes: • Codifies the full scope of DHS’s statutory authority to protect all federal buildings that fall within the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), rather than only GSA properties; • Permits the charging of criminal activity occurring off federal property in accordance with 40 U.S.C. 1315 authority; • Modifies the list of prohibited conduct to include, among other things, impersonation of security personnel, trespassing into closed areas, the wearing of masks when committing crimes, and tampering with computer systems; • Updates definitions to account for evolving technologies and emerging threats such as unmanned aircraft and new tobacco products; and • Clarifies and specifies in more detail the definition of “disorderly conduct.”

DHS set the effective date for the June 2025 rule at January 1, 2026. DHS included that effective date in the regulatory text. See 90 FR 24217, 24218 (Setting forth effective date in 6 CFR 139.5(e)). As DHS explained in the June 2025 rule, the time was necessary to make preparations such as training officers and publishing new signage. II. Discussion This final rule moves up the effective date of the June 2025 rule and then amends 6 CFR part 139 to reflect the new effective date. The June 2025 rule set the effective date at January 1, 2026. This final rule amends that effective date to Nov. 5, 2025. Thus, through this final rule, the effective date for the regulations under part 139 is Nov. 5, 2025. Finally, DHS, through this final rule, is also changing 6 CFR 139.5(e)—which originally marked January 1, 2026 as the effective date for the regulations published under part 139 of chapter 1 of title 6 of the Code of Federal Regulations—to now reflect the updated effective date as set forth by this final rule.

Looking at the Federal Register this morning, DHS is moving up the effective date on a June rule that expanded its authority to charge people for certain criminal conduct around federal buildings. It was originally set to go into effect on January 1. It will now go into effect TOMORROW.

Holy shit