Chad Rogers

It’s not too late to apply for the PhD position in my lab! Please send your documents (cover letter, CV, transcripts, names of references) through the official application platform by Nov 25!

This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.

Excellent opinion piece about the "compact" from a legal perspective.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

1/7

Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

A green Black In Neuro graphic. It lists the event date — November 14 at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. The talk is titled “Non-invasive neurodiagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases in Africa.” The right side features a head-and-shoulders photo of the speaker. The Black In Neuro handle appears at the bottom.

A green Black In Neuro graphic. At the top is the Black In Neuro logo with a person’s profile and the words “Meet Our Speaker.” Below is a card introducing a featured neuroscientist from Ghana, describing their research in neurodegenerative disease, creation of Ghana’s first dementia research program and biobank, and their goal to develop culturally adaptive tools for early detection of cognitive decline in Black communities. The Black In Neuro handle appears at the bottom.

Join our next #BlackInNeuro seminar! 🧠✨
🗓️ Nov 14 — 9AM PT | 12PM ET
Topic: non-invasive neurodiagnostics + advancing equitable brain health resources in Africa.
Register today! 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the distinct motivational influences of reward and punishment on cognitive control Human motivation is fundamentally shaped by one's expectations of the reward they could earn for good performance or the punishment they would avoid for poor performance. However, the extent to which ...

Thrilled to share our new preprint highlighting distinct neurocomputational mechanisms underlying how reward and punishment determine adaptive cognitive control - a massive fMRI study and collaborative team effort with the @shenhavlab.bsky.social 🧠

Link here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…

My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”

Unsolicited click pic

Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.

#neurojobs

albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

Texas Tech chancellor directs faculty to recognize only two sexes in classroom instruction The memo comes after Texas A&M fired a professor over a lesson related to gender identity after a student objected to it.

Before I turn on @npr.org again or read another @nytimes.com editorial, because I know exactly how it'll be:

This isn't "a threat" to academic freedom. It's not igniting "a debate" about it. The "future" of academic freedom isn't at stake. This is what the end of academic freedom has made possible.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Applications are up for one more week. Come joins us here at Union. It’s awesome!

A graph showing nearly 500 million dollars of NIH investment in 4-year R01s since July 2025.

Here is a plot of 4-year multi-year funded new R01s for 2015-2025. NIH has made some 4-year R01s late in the fiscal year to invest the last of the appropriation, but what is happening this year is quite different.

I estimate that these new R01s are ~25% of the multi-year funding since July 1.

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Absolutely not.

We are not doing this.

Hard decline.

Firm no.

Not a fucking chance.

This is Nazi shit and we don’t do Nazi shit in America.

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!

a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it

WARNING WARNING WARNING

#ResearchAdmini

I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

I'm lucky to say we have a engaged and supportive department. Union is a nice little college and Schenectady is low-key wonderful.

Here's the link for the Cognitive Position
unioncollege.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UnionC...

Very happy to announce two new TT junior faculty positions in my Psychology department. One for Neuroscience (linked) and Cognitive Psychology (see replies). Need to be able to teach some Psych core courses. Please share!
unioncollege.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UnionC...

This is a good idea.

Three months ago I wrote about how there has never been a more important time for private philanthropy to support the junior scientists and invest in maintaining the talent pipeline previously supported by federal funding.

Here's the thread: bsky.app/profile/carl...

But instead:

TIL what Lysenkoism is. I wish I didn’t need to. Thanks @cdelawalla.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!!

Message from ACLU team below:

1/n

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

When Andrew Jackson sent Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, it was a policy choice.

When the British diverted food away from the Irish during The Great Hunger, it was a policy choice.

The starvation & death in Gaza is no different. This is a policy choice & our government is complicit in it.

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

Love this thread