On which see further my review of Nolan's Odyssey! pghrev.com/nolans-odyss...

Michael DeVries@michaeldevries.bsky.social · 2w ago

"As long as sufficient numbers of people admire the ancient world uncritically and remain ignorant of the violence that admiration has authorized, the prestige of the 'classical' will continue to be available to white nationalist intellectuals [to legitimize their ideas]." @curtisdozier.bsky.social

@yalepress.bsky.social has published my reflection on how "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate", which I mostly wrote in 2022/23, holds up in 2026. Wish it held up worse. yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/07/20/w...

When in Rome: White Nationalists, Ancient History, and the White House - Yale University Press

Ancient Greece and ancient Rome have provided grounds for white nationalist ideas to take root in an age of classical education.

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Very sad to hear of Susumu’s passing. His scientific creativity and intuition were inspiring. As director of @RIKEN_CBS, he hired a remarkable group of young scientists, including me, and set us free to pursue bold ideas. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro...

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

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Did someone say “Regional Specialization?” Convincing evidence from 💯 neural recordings and zero causal manipulations. This was a fun lab meeting discussion! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Regional specialization in prefrontal cortex manifests in the reliability of task progression codes

Guidera et al. found that single units in rat dmPFC and OFC code reliably for progression through a spatial alternation task at action- (dmPFC) or outcome- (OFC) related task phases, consistent with t...

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The thalamic nucleus reuniens orchestrates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony in memory, emotion, and disease www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...

Frontiers | The thalamic nucleus reuniens orchestrates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony in memory, emotion, and disease

Decades of literature point to a critical role for prefrontal-hippocampal interactions in emotion and memory. Recent studies in both rodents and humans have ...

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Why do we forget our dreams? Dreams are the kind of experiences that in principle should stick well in memory: emotional and often bizarre. If we would encounter typical dream content during wakefulness, we would likely never forget it. Yet, we forget most dreams soon after awakening. (1/3)

Read the entire thread.

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 4w ago

When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher (who was also my astronomy teacher) gave me a brochure for the 'Astro-Science Workshop'. She knew that I took her astronomy class because I liked it (and not to get out of taking physics like many other students) 1/n

Very excited for our new paper, now out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! /🧵 The protein Tau forms intracellular toxic tangles in neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and Tauopathies. Tau pathology slowly spreads from cell-to-cell but the mechanisms are not clear /1 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Arc mediates intercellular tau transmission via extracellular vesicles

Tau pathology spreads cell to cell, but the mechanisms of intercellular tau transmission remain unclear. We find that the neuronal gene Arc is critica…

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The prefrontal cortex outputs to the amygdala facilitate threat-discrimination learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734929v1

Old mice fail to integrate a memory update into an existing hippocampal engram. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733721v1

My conversation about "The White Pedestal" on the "Review of Democracy Podcast" revdem.ceu.edu/2026/06/18/a...

The Ancient World Mobilized for Hate: A Conversation with Curtis Dozier | Review of Democracy

Ancient Greece and Rome are often celebrated as the foundations of Western civilization, democracy, and political thought. But what happens when these revered historical traditions are mobilized to le...

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David. This is important work. I am developing a seminar course @vassar.bsky.social on Sleep and Dream Neuroscience for the 2026 Fall semester. I will be incorporating defense activation theory into the curriculum.

David Eagleman@davideagleman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why do we dream? Why do we experience a fraction of our lives inside an internal, delusory picture show? My former student @DrDonVaughn and I have built a new framework to answer these old questions. Read the summary in Time Magazine. time.com/5925206/why-...

Also apply for the GRS!! Great opportunity for trainees to present and networking.

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · last mo.

Meet your #GRC-FrontalCortex chairs! Only 2 weeks left to apply! For more info: www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵

Improving Rigor in PTSD Clinical Research: Four Design Principles for Advancing Pharmacotherapy osf.io/preprints/ps...

Glewwe et al. demonstrate that female mice outperform males in a touchscreen set-shifting task, suggesting that stable choice commitment in females paradoxically enhances cognitive flexibility

Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice

Neuropsychopharmacology - Sex-biased computations underlying differential set shift performance in mice

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Beautiful new article "Neurobiology of negative reinforcement as a driving force in alcohol addiction" by Vendruscolo & Koob. Been reading these reviews for 20yrs- this might be the first time that Medial & Lateral BNST received separate labels in the circuit figure! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Improving Rigor in PTSD Clinical Research: Four Design Principles for Advancing Pharmacotherapy osf.io/preprints/ps... See our latest work proposing PTSD research design recommendations based on a survey of over 200 pharmacotherapy clinical trials.

I'm looking to hire a research technician/lab manager. This role is ideal for someone looking to gain experience and independence after undergraduate research on their way to graduate school. Please encourage anyone interested to apply: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... (job code 374183)

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The Fraser Lab at the University of Minnesota (https://fraserlab.psych.umn.edu/) is recruiting a full-time research technician to support the lab. As a part of the Department of Psychology we are involved in the greater neuroscience research community at the University of Minnesota which provides excellent access to training and professional development. The Fraser Lab is interested in the neurobiological basis of motivated behavior and investigates how defined brain circuits contribute to behavioral regulation. We make use of modern neuroscience approaches to record and manipulate neural activity in real-time as rodents perform complex behavioral tasks to relate precise aspects of neural activity to well-defined psychological processes. To do so, we regularly use optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging, biosensors, pharmacology, and immunohistochemistry. Our ultimate goal is to decipher the neural mechanisms regulating behavior and to characterize how these are altered in psychiatric illness, such as addiction, or by differences in lived experience, such as after early life adversity, to potentially identify novel therapeutics. We seek a team member who can play a lead role in lab operations, collaborate closely with the PI, and engage in team-building and growth.Duties:Laboratory logistics, maintenance and operations (30%):

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This is amazing. 😂

Tom Kash@superkash.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahabahahahahahaha

Clever use of a complex behavioral task to show that BLA dopamine tracks emotional salience, not value or prediction error. Threat/Safety cues drive larger, sustained signals than reward/neutral cues. Dopamine in the BLA is very much different than in the striatum.

I was on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast talking about "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" newbooksnetwork.com/the-white-pe...

Bravo Zach! Very interesting work…

Zach Cofran@dizachster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New open access article and data examining the most complete endocast and its implications for the ever-surprising extinct human species Homo naledi link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JNeurosci Viewpoints | Mammalian Brains Seen through the Lens of Evolution https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0217-26.2026

www.chronicle.com/article/they... This story hits way too close to home... "A physician scientist [...] has been waiting for an NIH grant to come in since July, when his application was ranked in the first percentile [...] he is trying to cobble together funding..."

They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.

The NIH’s spending on new medical research is significantly slower than in previous years, leaving confused scientists in the lurch.

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We are happy to share an interview with ACNP Member Fellow Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D. by Associate Member Talia Lerner, Ph.D. 🙂👉 tinyurl.com/yzxyd643 Talia Lerner

Frontal Cortex Peeps: The full program for the 2026 GRC Frontal Cortex is now available! Applications are due July 12, 2026 - don't delay! Spots are starting to fill up! Check out the complete program and register here --> www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

GRC Frontal Cortex@grc-frontal-cortex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Calling all PFC and PFC-adjacent neuroscientists--registration for the GRC Frontal Cortex - "Frontal Cortex in Function, Dysfunction, & Therapies" is open! Check out the amazing lineup of speakers for this year's program, feat. keynotes by Geoff Schoenbaum & Helen Mayberg www.grc.org/frontal-cort...

Our NIAAA funded Post-DoctT32 has received its NoA (non competing renewal). Are you looking for a post-doc and interested in joining our amazing center? If so, reach out! Here is a convenient form that you can use to upload CV and a cover letter! unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

My novel is up for order at Amazon now! a.co/d/0eyyU25X