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PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying the neuroscience of language at Northeastern University Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press) http://jonathanpeelle.net/the-neuroscience-of-language

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a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money . ALT: a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .

I’m not necessarily a fan of all this AI but let me tell you, if I could get an LLM to do bedtime for my 9-year-old…

22.11.2025 02:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. A new webpage on the NIH site called “Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions” is causing a small kerfuffle on the socials. As per us…

In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

22.11.2025 00:26 — 👍 49    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 3
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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...

Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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what's that Prof. Meyers?

21.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh man and I also forgot ascots

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Important for reviewers and people interpreting reviews of their grants

21.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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a man wearing a cafe tropical shirt is saying okay this Alt: David from Schitt's Creek says "Okay this is passive harassment"

When given documents to review that have my name mis-spelled I'm always torn about whether to track changes when I fix it

21.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀

Mine include:

1. Understandable to the (general) audience

2. Generate a sense of excitement

3. Clear sense of future directions

Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.

20.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464 The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

20.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 52    🔁 49    💬 2    📌 0
NOT-AG-25-024: Notice of Early Expiration of PAR-25-332, "Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)" NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Early Expiration of PAR-25-332,

AD/ADRD peeps: Notice to expire the Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias effective immediately. (Related R21 also expired in NOT-AG-25-023). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

20.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀

Mine include:

1. Understandable to the (general) audience

2. Generate a sense of excitement

3. Clear sense of future directions

Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.

20.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0

Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)

20.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.

Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:

20.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 57    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

pumpkin emeritus

20.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...

Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶

Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).

Please help spread the word!

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

20.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Ditto(ish) for our section. Rescheduled from early November to early January!

19.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!

20.11.2025 10:08 — 👍 318    🔁 79    💬 15    📌 8

now THAT is a flower!

20.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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dint see this one coming

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Oh yes you need a Myers and Myers publication....

19.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just to add a data point: A study section I'm on that was originally scheduled for late October is now being rescheduled for mid-January. #nihgrants

19.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters ALT: a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters

It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…

19.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 196    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 2

Email: "Thank you for reaching out. Kindly note that this is in XXX's signature queue and is being expedited. I will be back to you soon with an update."

I can't imagine being in a job where I have a "signature queue" 😂 and an assistant whose job it is to notify people about it 😂😂

18.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide.

Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.

Always check your priors!

#rstats

18.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 107    🔁 21    💬 10    📌 6

If there was any justice in the world I would get a medal for getting the kids to school on time with all (well, most) of their things.

18.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like

strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,

etc

just to make a point

16.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 186    🔁 50    💬 0    📌 0
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fMRI Course Instructors

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.

#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.

We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!

Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

14.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 36    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 2
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Navigating the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting — Stories of WiN In this special episode of Stories of WiN , Dr. Nancy Padilla shares essential tips on how to make the most of your Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting experience.

Traveling to #SFN2025? Download our special episode where @drnancypadilla.bsky.social shares tips on how to get the most out of the meeting!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

14.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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