Jibran Khokhar

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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Headlines indeed moved on too quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names. No profiles of their lives or aspirations. No smiling photos paired with quotes from grieving families.

Some dead are memorialised; others reduced to “estimated casualties.”

What a life. What a world.

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace.

If safety demands their suffering
then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

This is the wrong take

It’s not about weapons

They killed children

They killed girls

Please, change our stance

Henrietta Lacks' immortal cell line was never not-for-profit.

Many people made vast sums of money from it.

Except for the Lacks' family. They had to sue over it.

The 2nd of those lawsuits literally just settled. As in like on Friday.

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

YouTube video by Abe Oudshoorn Research Highlight: How to do Homelessness Prevention

When I think about prevention I think about how we also need to empower people through interactions with our systems.

In this video I talk about a paper where we proposed advancing the current model on homelessness prevention to also include empowerment in the process: youtu.be/kGKUdUJEVuo

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?

We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!

Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

So much for all the outrage by the CPC this past week in parliament about immigrants pressuring the health system.

illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
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Researchers urge early screening for math struggles in Ontario Assessing kindergartners on counting skills could help address challenges before they mount, expert says

Could not agree more: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cb0fda6...

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

The old boys’ club: Epstein and the male scientists around him intentionally shaped the exclusion of women in academia 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst... via @19thnews.org

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
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🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

Sigh, here we go again

Omg. Humans, please stop hurting each other!

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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#eNeuro | When Familiar Faces Feel Better: A Framework for Social Neurocognitive Aging in a Rat Model
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0422-25.2025

Here are the Alcohol GRC awardees-Congrats!

This is NN-DMT, not 5. Both come in short acting smoked formats, no vomiting with either. La Purga takes many forms, isn't the same as a hangover or flu, and can be important rather than a side effect. Medicine carriers are not the same as psychotherapy sessions. Critical window effects?

Oxytocin neurons in the anterior and posterior paraventricular nucleus have distinct behavioral functions and electrophysiological profiles NPP BrainPod · Episode

Oxytocin is perceived to have anti-anxiety & affiliative effects - that’s why many are excited about it as a potential therapeutic💊

Our latest BrainPod episode features Dr. Brian Trainor, whose lab has been exploring oxytocin for the past decade 🎙️

From rest to focus: pharmacological modulation of the relationship between resting state dorsal attention network dynamics and task-based brain activation Neuropsychopharmacology - From rest to focus: pharmacological modulation of the relationship between resting state dorsal attention network dynamics and task-based brain activation

Do resting-state dynamics network predict task-evoked 🧠 responses under pharmacological modulation?

Findings suggest intrinsic network dynamics influence drug-specific modulation of cognitive control & may support individualized txt

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days...

A particularly wrenching story: Rohingya refugee Nurul Shah Alam, who was mostly blind and had difficulty walking, was abandoned by CBP agents at a Tim Horton’s in Buffalo and was found dead five days later.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/u...

2/ Meanwhile I think we are starting to see that AI is going to have a disproportionately larger impact on the tech industry than it will elsewhere.

As with MOOCs, tech bros will yell at everyone else to get with the program because they assume everything is or should be like the tech industry.

1/ I'm starting to see more and more parallels between MOOCs and AI.

MOOCs worked in computer science because the end result of problems are either right or wrong. But they really ONLY worked in CS. They didn't work in any other field because there was no way to make assessment work at scale.

Also, if structural racism is not a “legitimate” hypothesis because it can’t be falsified, what is HIS alternative hypothesis that explains the broad array of observed disparities?

His answer would give away whole the game: resegregating science and who science serves

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.

Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).

Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.

To what end?

Caregivers are often the invisible backbone of support, navigating diagnoses, appointments, advocacy & uncertainty —but who supports them?

This story explores an evidence-based, co-delivered program helping caregivers build resilience & connection.

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