The HBCD Study Data Release 2.1 is here 👇🏾 3,500+ children followed from pregnancy through early childhood: MRI, dMRI, resting-state fMRI, EEG, biospecimens incl. genetics, wearables, and rich behavioral + environmental data. New in 2.1: Olink inflammation markers + the ERICA assessment.

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"Structure and metabolism should no longer sit in separate boxes. The brain’s wiring could also be part of its fuel strategy. Myelin may be more than insulation; it may also form part of the brain’s adaptive metabolic infrastructure." 🧠👇 #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/metabolism/b...

Beyond glucose: The brain may feed itself

Myelin may serve as an energy reserve for the brain, and neuroscientists are rethinking how the brain stores, shares and protects energy.

thetransmitter.org

Consultants should be hounded, heckled, and marched straight off campus. They are the enemy of education: an extractive beast who seeks to loot Universities of all their worth and leave behind a wreckage.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bowen was very enthusiastic, relatively knowledgeable about AI systems and agents, and charming. He had several pedagogical, personal, and professional ideas that he presented to us, including: 1. Do away with a physics midterm, ask students to converse with AI Isaac Newton.

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

Stalin fundamentally crippled Soviet #science in the 1930s and almost a century later it still hasn't recovered. That's what Trump, RFK Jr., Vought, and MAGA are doing right now to the United States.

I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation. These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

Read your comment section, NYT.

The 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Single Cell Analysis Meetings are here. This is the longest running single cell meeting, started in 2009. Please register and send an abstract! with streetslab.berkeley.edu ‪@saukaspengler.bsky.social‬ meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Great paper by @noranewcombe.bsky.social et al. on Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Predict that autistic children would have trouble with holistic, not with detail episodic memory (according to WCC hypothesis). doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood | PNAS

Pattern separation, or distinguishing similar experiences from one another, and pattern completion, in which components of an experience prompt ret...

doi.org

Amazing work by Dr. Yin Wang, Jamie Reilly, Haroon Popal, and others. The scale of this work is breathtaking.

Jamie Reilly 🦜@reilly-coglab.com · last yr.

It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Standing up for science in Philly!

This is how it’s done.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

Neuroscientists at UC Davis, Yale, and UC San Diego, go down the hall and ask that they stand up for your profession.

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social · 2y ago

SfN can and should weigh in with Congress, and coordinate litigation from affected investigators. Contact SfN's leaders and *be respectful*: President, John Morrison jhmorrison@ucdavis.edu Past President, Marina Picciotto marina.picciotto@yale.edu President-elect: Nick Spitzer nspitzer@ucsd.edu

The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.

Goes without saying for scientists: This means Musk and his kids have access to grant applications, study section reports, internal scoring, RPPRs. The core of the best ideas in US science. Will they steal those ideas? #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth 🧪🧑‍🔬

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

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That protest vote isn’t working out so well.

This is only the beginning.

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

scim.ag

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

I think pretty much everyone who might be concerned in UK science (plus interested newspaper readers like me, who have been following the story which goes back months) will understand what this is about. But for info: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship

Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences

theguardian.com

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

The Olson lab at Temple University is looking for new PhD students interested in doing research on the human cerebellum in affective and motivational states with clinical translation. If you know of anyone applying to grad school interested in this topic, please send them my way!

Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans. The neurons don't code for a particular element in the episode (e.g., concept or time). They code for the conjunction of the different elements. #neuroscience #psychology #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Kolibius et al. show that individual neurons in the human hippocampus code for particular episodic memories.

nature.com

Sometimes people hear that I work on the cerebellum, then contact me because they don't know how to interpret their unexpected findings. I just want to say "thank you". I'm grateful that folks are starting to pay attention to this structure! Also, I run a cerebellum journal club so reach out!

Mapping information flow between the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortices via neural oscillations in memory retrieval and maintenance www.cell.com/cell-reports... #neuroscience