Bluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.

In which my brother models a squid shirt at the Phillies tailgate Get one to fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s work at squidfacts.net

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I like Sam but I absolutely disagree with this Absolutely post your papers, especially especially if you're a junior professor, people don't really know you or your work, you're a member of a marginalized group whose work can get overlooked. At the very least, I want to see what you've done!

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 8mo ago

🚨BREAKING 🚨 if you tweet your new paper in red-alert emojis, and the paper has not actually cured cancer, then you should reevaluate your perceived self-importance

One of the many things I love about @ascbiology.bsky.social ,my favorite scientific society, is that it recognizes there are many ways to contribute to science, including mentoring, education, outreach and advocacy. This year's Fellows represent that. 1/n www.ascb.org/society-news...

The reception to our paper about being neurodivergent in biology has received such a wonderful and warm reception, I am so glad that it is resonating with people and that is helping to educate our neurotypical peers! If you haven't checked it out, be sure to do so. Message me if you can't access it!

Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️@oceanfilly.bsky.social · 7d ago

I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

August as an academic

Did I just become fascinated by biological rhythms ….in avocados?? 🧪 🥑

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Colorado wildflower quest day 1: We're away in Gunnison CO hunting for wildflowers--a bit more about the back story below. We flew into Denver, drove to an airbnb in Gunnison, base don the diverse wildflower hikes in Crested Butte 1/n

Starting a science policy group on campus? SNAP wants to help! 🙋 SNAPStart mini-grants offer up to $1,000 to help new or relaunched student #SciPol orgs get off the ground. Apply now through August 31st! Learn more: snapcoalition.org/initiatives/... (please apply and take our money 🫱💵🫲)

The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

My first piece was about the em-dash and the people who love it: www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...

AI can’t have my em dash

Gen Z and AI have pulled a divisive punctuation mark into the spotlight.

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Inspiring story—but incomplete. The article overlooks the fact that limiting scientific exchange is itself part of US policy toward Iran. Imposed war, travel bans, sanctions, and exclusion from programmes like Neuromatch make that bridge almost impossible to cross right now.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last wk.

After meeting at an SfN social, neuroscientists Arash Fassihi, Gily Ginosar, Noga Larry and Abdulraheem Nashef organized the Middle Eastern Systems Neuroscience Symposium, hoping to build a community that can transcend political barriers through scientific connection. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4g0sZkk

🧪 🧬 #sciencejobs Calling all awesome postdoc applicants! Check out this job opportunity in Palo Alto with Dr. McNerney. Please RT (and check out Windy’s apropos lab logo two skeets down) #genomics

Ryan T Scott@ryantscott.bsky.social · last wk.

A rare postdoc: hands-on animal work and a genomics pipeline in the same job description. Windy McNerney is hiring at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto. Interested? Email her: margaret.mcnerney@va.gov 🧵/4 @eisch.bsky.social @sfn.org @deptvetaffairs.bsky.social

And yes, the logo is a neuron whose axon spirals into a tornado. Her name is Windy. I respect the commitment. Windy and the NeuroNado Lab: med.stanford.edu/profiles/mar...

M Windy McNerney, PhD | Stanford Medicine

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1. It's a fun action movie. A line that got cut but sums up some of my overall feelings: This Odyssey is not a rich, satisfying Homeric banquet, but sometimes in the heat, an ice-cold Philly water ice is all you want - even it's mostly sugar and food coloring, and makes no nutritional sense.

Happy Monday! Come learn how jellyfish swim. In a review led by fluid dynamics maestro Alex Hoover, we outline how neuromechanical modeling will help us understand how modulation of neural activity allows jellyfish to jet and pirouette through fluids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My colleague @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social is amazing on so many levels. The ethos of our era (including the makers of big budget films like Christopher Nolan) recognize that but I sometimes encounter those who missed the memo. If you don’t know Emily, here’s an intro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_W...

Emily Wilson (classicist) - Wikipedia

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

Pretty awesome day today. Best place on earth.

Every once in a while, I come across something that reminds me of how great the internet used to be in the 2000s. Most recently, this website with animations teaching you to tie 196 different knots: www.animatedknots.com/complete-kno...

Complete Knot List

Knots in Alphabetical Order. There are 196 knots listed (animated) and 374 total knots as some knots are known by several names. Select by Activity, Type or Search for Knots.

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Conceptually delighted and weirdly repelled by Julia Stack's vision of the "spinal homunculus" - the body scaled by numbers of spinal motor neurons devoted to each part. In its lap is the motor cortex equivalent, with large representations of the hands and face. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

New preprint from @sgrella.bsky.social team: silencing ventrolateral OFC (chemogenetically) blocks spatial memory-updating. Mice detect novelty fine but can’t use it to revise an existing memory. Deficit tracks w/ reduced engram reactivation in dentate gyrus. Looking forward to digging into this.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Ventrolateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Disrupts Prediction Error and Salience-Guided Memory-Updating at the Hippocampal Engram Level https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738971v1

<<Bow before greatness!>>

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

You have 3 more days to prepare your abstracts for posters, orals and blitz talks at NeuroAlliance This is the first ever joint meeting of Australasian Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry societies neuroalliance26.eventsairsite.com/call-for-abs...

In Tye et al., 2024, one of the authors (I assume it was Fusi) says they were accused of ‘‘'turning cortex into a bowl of porridge'’ at a major meeting". To me, that's what a paradigm shifting sounds like. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity

Neurons capable of mixed selectivity enhance the brain’s computational capabilities by responding to various inputs in complex ways, beyond simple combinations. Here, we describe possible neural mecha...

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We have a paper coming out soon arguing something in the same vein as well.... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Independent Continuous Tracking of Multiple Agents in the Human Hippocampus

The pursuit of fleeing prey is a core element of many species’ behavioral repertoires. It poses the difficult problem of continuous tracking of multiple agents, including both self and others. To unde...

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The apparent inconsistencies might be misleading. I predict in the coming years people will revisit some of those and find they aren't so inconsistent after all. The main battleground right now is place/grid cells. Eichenbaum started it... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Barlow versus Hebb: When is it time to abandon the notion of feature detectors and adopt the cell assembly as the unit of cognition?

Research on how information is encoded by the brain is largely based on studies of feature detector properties of single neurons, but considerable new…

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And of course there's prominent empirical data that is totally inconsistent with the present results: www.nature.com/articles/s41... elifesciences.org/articles/70129

Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables - Nature

Frontal cortex neurons can be grouped into categorical response types corresponding to particular decision variables, such as reward size, decision confidence, or value, and individual variables may b...

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This is a really interesting and important study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... However, isn't it concerning that sweeping conclusions about functional organization of cortex are being reached on the basis of a single task?

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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everything's coming up jimothy

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3w ago

might have to draw a jimothy