Check out a cool new SciTunes about how AI works from @BrownUniversity youtu.be/r_kSGs14syA?... 🧪

From Music to Mechanism: Understanding What Makes AI Tick

When you ask your favorite AI model for a movie recommendation, an email draft, or home decor ideas, the end result could be likened to hearing the polished performance of a massive digital…

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New in #JNeurosci: Comparisons between macaque, chimpanzee, and human brains from Ruan et al. reveal which aspects of self-processing brain architecture are conserved across primates and which aspects have been reorganized during evolution. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0439-26.2026

Very proud of Aida for her summer project as part of the Carney Quantitative Scholars program! She tackled a hard problem and we all learned a lot! #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Most parents who have worked outside the home have questions about maternal work and I found this conclusion striking "the perception of maternal work harming child development does not align with measured findings" #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🔬 Thoughtful review in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Maternal work and children’s development: A review

Causal inference studies suggest minimal impacts of mothers’ work on development from early childhood to adolescence

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Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Having an amazing start to the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Conference! Took advantage of the beautiful weather to hike with the lab after the first couple of fantastic sessions 🧠🧪👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #neuroscience

This is a good pithy explainer by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder of @standupforscience.net on OMB's proposed rule that affects federal funding. It impacts cancer research, clinical trials, women’s health, climate change, how scientists disseminate information at conferences & public.🧪

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OK FINE ILL MAKE AN INSTAGRAM REEL FOR THE LAY PUBLIC ABOUT THIS DAMN RULE! www.instagram.com/reel/DZLgMlT...

If you have applied or plan to apply for an NIH grant, if you have reviewed or want to review for an NIH panel, you must read this piece from @27unihted.bsky.social about the detrimental changes to NIH peer review. @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/2...

The Quiet Attack On Science: Subverting NIH Peer Review

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review, this is an overview of all the changes to NIH's peer review over the last 18 months.

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More important analysis and insights from Elizabeth Ginexi about the proposed OMB regulations: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

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Abstract submission for #SfN26 is now open! Share your findings, spark new conversations, and connect with researchers who care about the same questions you do. Avoid the last-minute rush. Submit your abstract today! 🔗 vist.ly/55m24

Beautiful work in this paper. I think anatomy is often under-appreciated. I'm glad to see things like this #neurosicence 🧪🧠 An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization

The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets...

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New work from the lab: We found that similar brain circuits interact differently in OCD than in healthy controls during the task. #OCD #Neuroscience #MentalHealthResearch 🧪 🧠 👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Catching up with a couple more from Brown graduation yesterday. These amazing two did undergrad honors theses in the lab. Congrats to Aiai Calmer and Mmesoma Nwokolo!! #BrownStrong #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Hyde (née Doyle) and to all the graduates at Brown. So proud of her and everyone! #neuroscience #womenInSTEM 🧪🧠👩‍🔬

New STAT story about delays in filling open NIH institute director positions. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/n... 1/3

NIH behind in filling top roles, with 15 of 27 institutes led by acting directors

An NIH leadership vacuum has persisted for months, with 15 of the 27 institutes being led by acting directors.

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🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

📍 SfN is at #CAN2026! Stop by our booth to chat with us about advocacy, membership, journals, and more. 🧠 #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

My new @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece. Does Claude AI have emotions? *No*. Does Claude have nontrivial emotion-equivalents? *Yes*. Like your "memory" vs your laptop's; similar but not the same. Here, I unpack why that's interesting. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/what...

What can AI teach us about ‘emotions’?

Exploring why Anthropic’s AI, Claude, displays something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans.

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I remember the first time I learned about affordances and what the brain does with them - our learning about how we relate to things in the world. So cool! Check out the latest by @sci_toons explaining them: 🧪 🧠 youtu.be/cs3Clg5Syf8?...

Affordances: How our Bodies and Environment Shape Thought

Imagine you are building a robot to clean your room. The robot needs to overcome a number of challenges in order to complete its tasks, including: perceiving things from changing perspectives,…

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So cool. Whale "midwives" 🐋 🧪 Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity

We quantitatively document a sperm whale birth event, revealing collective support behaviors across kinship lines. Using high-resolution drone footage, computer vision, and multiscale network analysis...

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Another fun fact about our avian friends - people used to think that scavengers followed hunters to find their food. Turns out they likely remember 🧪 🧠 🐦‍⬛ #neuroscience #memory Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales

Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to…

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I'm so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! Last night we rounded out our spring celebrations by heading to Xaco Taco. Good food and great people! 🧠🧪 👩‍🔬 🌮 p.s. the grasshoppers are tasty! 🦗

Took the lab to Wicked Tulips to pick tulips last week on what turned out to be the best day! We had the best time wandering around the fields, and yes, the colors are real🌷 💐 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Help elect leaders that will shape future programs, events, and more. Emeritus, regular, postdoc, & graduate student members can cast their vote in SfN’s officers & councilors election! Check your e-mail for a passcode & log in to the voting system. 🔗 vist.ly/53s8t #neurosky

My quote of the day La science, mon garçon, est faite d'erreurs, mais d'erreurs qu'il est bon de commettre, car elles mènent peu à peu à la vérité. [Science, my boy, is made up of errors, but errors which it is good to commit, because they gradually lead to the truth.] Jules Verne

I have held events on what was the Pembroke campus - it’s beautiful and happy to see these amazing women honored in this way. 👩‍🔬

The Pembroke Center at Brown University@pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Celebrating the 135th anniversary of Pembroke College: Martha Alice Ingham Dickie '26 was part of the American Relief for Czechoslovakia program during WWII, in which she smuggled hundreds of refugees out of Czechoslovakia and France. Listen to her interview: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral....

The deadline for the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Conference is coming soon. We have an awesome lineup of speakers. We will begin assigning fellowships in mid May, so don't delay, apply now! Spread the word! 🧪 🧠 #neuroscience #cognition www.grc.org/neurobiology...

I have always wondered about this 🧪 🐦 Pigeons sense Earth’s magnetic field in an entirely new way www.science.org/content/arti...

Pigeons sense Earth’s magnetic field in an entirely new way

Specialized hair cells pick electric currents induced by magnetism

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Beautiful day in Providence for an Undergraduate Honors poster session 🌸 Very proud of the lab’s two undergrads, Aiai and Mmesoma, along with their mentors, for their great work! 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Hi Boston folks! I'm speaking at MIT today at 5pm--free & open to the public in person or online; just register. Hope to see some of you there! calendar.mit.edu/event/hidden...

Hidden Truths & Human Ties: A Conversation with Celeste Ng

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