Howard Chiu

🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders.

🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560

@arokem.org @alexfornito.bsky.social @macshine.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

TUNE IN: Governor Newsom delivers a formal address to California from Los Angeles.

Watch live at 6:30pm.

YouTube: youtube.com/live/Q69izEy...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/14380...
X: @CAgovernor
Instagram: @Cagovernor

New paper examining longitudinal #brain data over 7y & relation to #reading; implications for early intervention/policy @fitngin.bsky.social
Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are very excited to meet you!

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

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Please RT.

New study up on ROAR@Home BETA. We’re developing a phonics screener particularly for early elementary school. Please report bugs if you encounter any! roar.stanford.edu/signup/

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Two weeks to do our homework fellow Singaporeans. The system is imperfect but it still works. Make your vote count or hold your peace till 2030.

How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

An astute reviewer 2 would probably have noted: methods matter. “[We] should spend less time criticizing the content of the administration’s executive actions […] than focusing on its suspect methods. […] Don’t give up on the levers of political power prematurely. Use them, or they will disappear.”

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

Programming is essential for research in neuroscience and psychology. This Primer introduces ten principles guiding researchers toward writing clear, adaptable, and easily shareable code, supporting reproducible science.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

There is no silver bullet - scaffolding the environment, medication, and other tools only facilitate but cannot replace skillbuilding through educational supports.

• In the short-run, tariffs pinch bottom income households 2.5x more rel. to income than at the top.
• Families at the bottom lose $2,100. In the middle, $3,700. At the top, $10,000.
• Consumers face +64% higher apparel prices in the short-run, +27% in long-run.
6/7

EducationCounsel - EXECUTIVE ACTIONS CHART: EducationCounsel’s Summary and Analysis of Trump Administration Executive Actions Impacting Education (through April 2, 2025) President Trump has issued numerous Executive Orders and taken other administrative actions, several of which have significant implications for early childhood, K-12, and higher education. EducationCo...

Thanks to Mario Cardona from EducationCounsel for sharing an extremely comprehensive summary of federal actions on the present state of education in the US here at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s RAPID Survey Project 5th Anniversary.

Not just big data, but beautiful visualizations! Raj Chetty also makes the poignant point at the recent @stanforddata.bsky.social lecture that beyond changes in the GDP, what matters even more is how that growth is distributed (especially in the US).

youtu.be/UCn5Bm0VEbw?...

Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more:

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

🤯 WM development is not uniform!

1. there’s a deep-to-superficial axis, superficial tract regions near cortical surface exhibit greater age-related change.
2. this aligns with cortical hierarchy defined by sensorimotor-association axis; tract ends adjacent to sensorimotor cortices mature earlier.

The total WM volume trend is surprising to me given their previous publication - WM volume looked to be increasing exponentially rather than logarithmically at that age range, but I might be missing something...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

One of the first sites that piqued my interest in data visualisation, not to mention the numerous R datasets for many students. Rest in statistical significance.

Safeguarding diversity and inclusion funding in neuroscience As DEI funding initiatives crumble, neuroscientists must change their approach to grant writing and communication and engage in constructive conflict.

The landscape of diversity and inclusion in science funding has shifted. David Barker explains how neuroscientists must adapt and take action or risk losing ground on all of the progress made.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/adap...

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

Programs focused on increasing the diversity of the scientific workforce are imperiled. Ten trainees funded by these programs spoke with The Transmitter about what the uncertainty of the past few weeks has meant for them, their research and their futures.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...

I scribbled this quote down during Bill’s Festschrift last September - “If I don’t get into something I’m really interested in, I won’t finish grad school.”

This Paper Changed My Life has been such a fascinating series, lending a personal touch to the history of neuroscience.

These Strange New Minds Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems. The march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies, challenge our democracies, and r...

I am a bit bashful about sharing this profile www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... of me in @thetimes.com, but will do so because it kindly refers to my new book which is coming out in early March. www.penguin.co.uk/books/460891.... The tech titans pictured seem to be decoration (and not my co-authors)

I often think about the participants that fail preprocessing (especially when working with infants and children), but thankfully pipelines are continuously improving such that the number of participants that fail preprocessing should continue to decrease for the same degree of motion.

Four areas that increase uncertainty & unpredictability: persistence of poverty & inequality, time spent in non-familial settings, global climate change, & rise of digital technology.

Five recommendations, including elevating parent & provider voices, community & multigenerational programming.

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!

careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

In Praise of California It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness

States shouldn't have to earn the right to federal aid. But in any case, California, which subsidizes the rest of the country, definitely has open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Just attended a wonderful guest lecture from @lisapatel.bsky.social about effects of climate change on early childhood.

Facts were depressing, but my main takeaway was for adults to model taking climate action collectively, and also to help our children build a personal connection to nature.

"While reading intervention improved reading skills and increased VWFA size, disparities persisted, suggesting that VWFA abnormalities are an enduring trait of dyslexia.”

“[E]ven with sufficient intervention to close the reading skill gap, dyslexic readers are still expected to have smaller VWFAs."