Christopher Moore
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themoorelab.org Brown University The Carney Institute for Brain Research
Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity
Anna Devor@annadevor.bsky.social · 10mo ago"I always feel that I'm a student," says Neurophotonics' Anna Wang Roe. Tune in to Chris Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social fantastic interview with Anna and hear her story of the illusory contours and bridging the disciplines and continents! www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neu... #Neurophotonics
It was wonderful to take a moment to celebrate as Gov McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act today! Thank you everyone! Sharing some photos and nuggets of wisdom from the speakers
What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2)
More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 1/5
We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share! alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making
Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…
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Here's a provocative proposal for settling the "What is an emotion?" debate - get rid of the concept altogether! From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... /1
My quote of the day To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
So psyched for this! Go grab a few copies, you’ll want to give them to friends
Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · last yr.It's publication day for 📘Elusive Cures. What a moment! 1st book, 1st time on Mindscape (which, as many of you know, is one of my favorite podcasts). Here, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and I have a wide-ranging conversation around: Why are brain and mental disorders so hard to understand and treat?
LIVE feed of Senate Appropriations Committee ready to hold #Bhattacharya accountable to stand - or not - with his heroic #NIH staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH
A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.🚨 NIH head Bhattacharya is about to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee. We'll be keeping a close watch. Follow along for updates HERE⬇️ (🧵):
One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated. zurl.co/QUnUU
Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
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Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists. I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH. I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task.
"Trumpism may be ascendant, but it is not invincible. What it fears most is solidarity that bridges class, race, and background–solidarity that declares that America is not Donald Trump’s to disfigure or define." We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all. zurl.co/noQrh
Enlightened Americans should stay and fight, not leave
Declarations from abroad, however poignant, are not substitutes for showing up and standing up for democracy.
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Listening to & reading mainstream/center-left political media, I don’t get the sense that the generational threat to U.S. science is really on the radar or breaking through.
The cortical critical power law balances energy and information in an optimal fashion doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience
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Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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Press release from Senator Welch about the event... www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...
Hear from the Health Experts About the Human Harm of HHS’ Mass Terminations | Senator Welch
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Nachum and I are talking. What's holding back progress? Is it oversimplifying the brain? (Yes, we agree!). And/or is it oversimplifying the experiments? (There, we differ - not on the goal, but how to acheive it). Looking forward to reading his book and comparing notes w/ Elusive Cures.
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor@ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · last yr.Just finished Natural Neuroscience – a book I think will become an instant classic. This book can do for neuroscience what Schrodinger’s ‘What is Life’ did to usher in the golden age of molecular biology. Nachum Ulanovsky has given us a compelling call to arms to truly understand the brain.
Rhode Island friends: stop by the Warwick Central Library Saturday, May 24, from 10-2 and tell us about your favorite banned book! RI #FreedomToRead coalition members will be there to answer your questions and help you find your state reps and write postcards!
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Philadelphia friends! We SO NEED to celebrate science. Let's raise a glass to brains. Join us Wed, 5/21 for Pint of Science. I'll be opening for headliners Dimitris Boufidis, @audreydrotos.bsky.social, & Jacqui Barker. 😊 Tickets (to support the org, $2): pintofscience.us/events/phila...
