Anyone that thinks that AI is going to discover the next breakthroughs in biological sciences is clearly not aware of how frequently AI systems hallucinate when summarizing science literature. I’ve received student papers with 20+ references that don’t exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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NYTimes piece citing work of Adam Green and colleagues on creativity in college essays. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

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Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

Whomever approved the new Spotify logo should be fired. I stared at it for like 5 minutes before making an educated guess that it was supposed to be a disco ball

Just in case you want to ever hear me blather on some more, I found a link to a podcast I did last year. Thanks to Ken Barrett with the Brainland podcast for the lovely interview and drawing. shows.acast.com/brainland/ep...

YOUR BRAIN ON VISUAL ART: Exploring the world of visual neuroaesthetics. | BRAINLAND

in conversation with Ed Vessel.

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🚨URGENT ACTION ALERT🚨 Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate! Write to your House Representative and Senators TODAY to share your concerns and urge them to act ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente... #WhySocialScience #SaveSBE

Stop the Administration’s Dismantling of NSF’s SBE Directorate Now!

A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is…

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Back from IAEA Jena 2026 brimming with excitement! Very grateful to receive the IAEA MidCareer Award, and proud of the great work of my students! Extra congrats to Sophia Senderak and Karen Azmy Wahba for winning poster awards. @iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social @iaea-jena2026.bsky.social

Last year there was a lot of talk about how to prevent cuts to science funding at NSF. I’m not hearing that discussion this year and it’s looking dire. What to do?

Neurable, which makes noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, is licensing its technology and promises a “flood” of new third-party hardware this year and next. www.wired.com/story/get-re...

Get Ready for More Brain-Scanning Consumer Gadgets

Neurable, which makes noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, is licensing its technology and promises a “flood” of new third-party hardware this year and next.

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Shoutout to @mehr.nz for making all the data openly available and thoroughly documented for other researchers to use 👌 Thanks to bsky-less contributors for their thinking along and to @edwardvessel.bsky.social 🔗 to original work and response below

Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin...

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I'm very excited to announce that I've been selected as the recipient of the IAEA 2026 Mid-Career Award. Thanks so much to the IAEA Awards committee for this honor, and congrats to the other winners!

International Association for Empirical Aesthetics@iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2026 IAEA Awards 🏆 Anjan Chatterjee - Fechner Award Edward A. Vessel - Washburn Award Aenne Brielmann - Baumgarten Award Katherine Cotter - Baumgarten Award Congratulations! 🎉 Award winners will be honored at IAEA2026 in Jena and deliver an address

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Information transfer between the brain's hemispheres is not passive process. It is an active process under top-down influence. Interhemispheric transfer of sensory and working memory information is dictated by behavioral strategy doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Repeated Viewing of a Film Clip Changes Event Timescales in The Brain

Many everyday experiences share a recurring structure: routines, familiar routes, rewatched films, and replayed songs. How do repeated encounters with such structure alter the brain’s representations ...

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out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !

Jörn Diedrichsen@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

New lab paper! We built a new computational model that explains several disparate observations about the conditions that promote (or hinder) associative learning. Main finding is that different kinds of experience (blocked, interleaved) have opposing effect at high vs low memory capacity. 🧵 below!

@sharonmnoh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper! Out now in Neuropsychologia: “Sparsity and memory constraints interact with training sequence to bias learning of associative maps” with @dalezhou.bsky.social*, @kwcooper.bsky.social, @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mipv6TBG9... 🧵:

Can AI-generated art improve well-being?🎨🧠 Using our #Enobio, researchers found increased pleasure and excitement, with EEG changes in gamma power and frontal alpha asymmetry linked to emotional responses. Full study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EEG #Neuroaesthetics #MentalHealth

Follow up on the genetics of chills from art and poetry. This time, including chills from music too 🧵 ⬇️

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪

🧬 Is beauty in the eye of the beholder or the object itself? Join us on Thursday, March 5 for a fascinating talk by Dr. Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social on the "interactionist approach to the neuroscience of aesthetics"!

Thanks to @alenedawson.bsky.social for this great piece integrating findings from the scientific study of aesthetics, including work from my lab. www.templeton.org/news/how-bea...

How Beauty Changes the Beholder

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Reminder: Apply or Nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards! Deadline - Feb. 1st ⏰ SfNC is proud to offer three annual awards recognizing outstanding contributions to creativity research. Winners receive a cash prize and are invited to present their work. Details here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

The Psychonomic Society is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Mid-Career Award, which recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology and are currently in the middle of their careers. The deadline is March 31. Submit today: buff.ly/Pct3kUM

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

Last chance! Tonight is the submission deadline for talks/posters for IAEA2026 in Jena, Germany! iaea-jena2026.org