aaron bornstein

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15:
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
#FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

It's also worth noting: this entire case is only possible due to the bravery of INDIVIDUAL faculty members, not the uni admin.

It's a class action suit for UC researchers brought by UC researchers.

UCLA senior administrators, on the other hand:

Sign a letter demanding that UC and the state of California refuse to appease the fascists any further:

tinyurl.com/ucstandup

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Ivy League universities paid hundreds of millions to settle with Trump. Is UCLA next? President Trump's higher education battle comes to the University of California. After the Department of Justice found that UCLA had violated Jewish students' civil rights, the administration froze hu...

👏 appeasement 👏 never 👏 works 👏

“[UCLA hoped] the multimillion-dollar settlement ... would buy time.
“It backfired,” said one administrator, reflecting the sense of whiplash felt among many interviewed. “Within hours of [settling], the DOJ was on our back.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025

(University of Birmingham, 3–5 November)

A multidisciplinary event exploring the neural, behavioural and computational foundations of foraging across species:
uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...

Deadline: August 17, 2025

Elegant, surprising explanation for multiple memory phenomena

"But what universities are learning, that authoritarian scholars already know and have been saying, is that complying with illegitimate attacks does not make them stop—it makes them continue"

Super useful timeline of the attacks on GMU

We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1

This entire thread, from a lawyer representing Jewish UCLA faculty who tried to intervene to stop the "anti-semitism" case, is worth a read.

A clear message from UCLA's shameful settlement and today's news about funding terminations is: No amount of capitulation will satisfy this administration.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

the people with whom The Powers That Be are now agreeing lost diplomas, jobs, and their privacy to the aligned pro-genocide forces.

there is no room for those people on the right side of history until they've spoken out against what's happened to the protestors they now agree with.

Just _3 weeks ago_, UC banned student groups from individually boycotting Israel.

Not University divestment - forbidden from refusing to materially support genocide *with their own funds.*

The extent of complicity must never be forgotten. No amount of crocodile tears can wash away the bloodstains.

one thing I wish more people knew is that many offices have such poor air circulation that CO2 levels in meeting rooms can rapidly exceed 1000ppm, the point at which people start to get groggy and sleepy

people are literally suffocating in offices every day & absolutely no one talks about it

The House UnAmerican Activities Committee is one parallel. It operated for 30 years — and was most effective *when its targets cowered*.

If you are FOIA’d you have options: you can say “fk you” to these 🤡s by posting your syllabus yourself. Don’t give them the thrill of a ‘secret documents’ story!

Universities of California, Michigan urged by unions to put Sequoia Capital in hot seat Educational unions are calling on the two university systems to reevaluate investments in Sequoia Capital following an employee's remarks attacking New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Those who manage workers deferred wages and other public monies shouldn't promote hate. I'm proud to take a stance alongside @proftwolf.bsky.social, @tfromthed.bsky.social and CFT's @Jeff-f7.bsky.social condemning hateful statements made by Shaun Maguire www.pionline.com/institutiona...

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior.

Official job ads coming soon...

Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

This EO extends state laws, incl CA under Newsom, making homelessness criminal + *any mental health diagnosis* a factor in incarceration.

Involuntary commitment is both horrific & counterproductive: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr... - excellent analysis as usual by @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Abstract submission open for The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 (U. Birmingham, 3-5 November)

uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
Deadline: August 17

A meeting for all fascinated by the brain's role in foraging

Pls share!

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...

I'm still partial to the faith no more version but this is new to me, excellent, and - strange to say about this song - fun

Rubber arm illusion in octopus The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

L'article complet sur "L'illusion de la tentacule en caoutchouc" (via @sergeahmed.bsky.social 🫶).

(Btw attention, cela montre plus une fusion multi sensorielle qui permet d'inférer la possession d'un membre, qu'une "conscience de soi").

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Who's carrying out Southern California immigration raids? The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids.

“Many of them belong to the Border Patrol, the agency that traditionally has policed the nation’s border with Mexico. But the Trump administration sent officers from other agencies to Los Angeles, too, including the FBI and special tactical teams from the Department of Homeland Security”

This rescission package passed the Senate. It must pass the House. The deadline is tomorrow.

We hear the House has scheduled its vote for tomorrow. Johnson has little room for error!

Call your Reps and ask them to delay, and to vote no. If this passes it will make #NIH budget cuts more likely.

🚨 We’re hiring! The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Virginia Tech is looking for a postdoc to join our team studying the neural + computational mechanisms of structure learning and flexible cognition: ccnvt.github.io#positions

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.