Brian P. Keane
@briankeanelab.bsky.social
I study human visual perception and how it is altered among those with psychosis
@URNeuroscience
@URNeuroscience
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Alert for scientists: NIH institute director vacancies are posted! Please apply so we get actual scientists in these positions instead of just political appointees!!!!
More new NIH institute and center director positions posted
with a closing date of 11/26/25.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
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with a closing date of 11/26/25.
hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
1/3
hr.nih.gov
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Alert for scientists: NIH institute director vacancies are posted! Please apply so we get actual scientists in these positions instead of just political appointees!!!!
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Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology.
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Battle between Trump and universities hurting scientific research in need of federal funding
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology.
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
Transcript and video here
www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
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‼️ Today is the deadline to register for the CVS Retreat. See the agenda with links to register on our website: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‼️ Today is the deadline to register for the CVS Retreat. See the agenda with links to register on our website: www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/cvs_r... @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social
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Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
37% fewer neuroscience grants awarded in 2025 due to a new funding mandate that prioritizes renewals over new research. This hurts innovation and early-career scientists most. We need to speak up! Contact your representatives:
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
37% fewer neuroscience grants awarded in 2025 due to a new funding mandate that prioritizes renewals over new research. This hurts innovation and early-career scientists most. We need to speak up! Contact your representatives:
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Philosopher John Searle has died.
John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous
Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...
dailynous.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Philosopher John Searle has died.
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!
Here is a plot in terms of PROJECTS rather than dollars. I am using projects rather than awards so that projects that received supplements do not get double-counted.
While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
While the FY25 curve is improving, it seems that the number of funded projects will drop by 3000-4000 compared with FY24.
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
NIH's updated multi-year payout policy (funding all years of a grant upfront vs. annually) could dramatically reduce new R01s available. While total awards are "catching up," the impact on new investigators remains concerning. With budget negotiations underway, now's the time to contact your reps!
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Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Here is some bright news for science, for a change:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
With boost to NIH budget, Senate panel rejects Trump’s plan to slash agency
Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts
www.science.org
August 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Here is some bright news for science, for a change:
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thanks to scienceimpacts.org for mapping the impacts of cutting NIH indirect costs & making it easy for local news to focus on the impacts to their community
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for helping researchers write op-eds for their hometown newspapers about the impacts on science 4/
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“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025
April 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025
Philosophical thought experiments can sometimes be addressed empirically through scientific advances. This new paper reminds me of Hume’s “missing shade of blue” problem — it seems to suggests that we cannot through “mere conjuring” generate a new color percept . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Philosophical thought experiments can sometimes be addressed empirically through scientific advances. This new paper reminds me of Hume’s “missing shade of blue” problem — it seems to suggests that we cannot through “mere conjuring” generate a new color percept . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Biological Psychiatry: Preserving the Promise - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Biological Psychiatry: Preserving the Promise
Biological psychiatry is in the midst of a neuroscientific revolution that is transforming
our understanding of psychiatric disorders and how they are treated. For scientists
to achieve their potentia...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Biological Psychiatry: Preserving the Promise - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
April 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
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Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!
Visual Cognition
Teaching Sensation and Perception, Edited by Anna Kosovicheva, Julia Strand and Ben Balas. Volume 32, Issue 6 of Visual Cognition
www.tandfonline.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!
Less than one percent of the federal budget is dedicated to NIH. We could fire every single person at the NIH right now, and it would barely make a dent in our budget deficit. Yet, somehow, we want to dismantle the very agency that makes us stand out in the world.
11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Less than one percent of the federal budget is dedicated to NIH. We could fire every single person at the NIH right now, and it would barely make a dent in our budget deficit. Yet, somehow, we want to dismantle the very agency that makes us stand out in the world.
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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h... #NIH #chaos #fail
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h... #NIH #chaos #fail
Excited to share our work on a somato-visual biomarker of psychosis at the Conte Thalamus Center this Friday from 1–2:30 PM ET!
Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/3858843347...
Abstract: conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/3858843347...
Abstract: conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Scientific Meeting
Brian Keane from Rochester will present.Thalamic and cortical sensory dysconnectivity as a biomarker for psychosisPast work has shown that people with psychosis exhibit thalamo-cortical hyperconnectiv...
conte.thalamus.princeton.edu
March 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Excited to share our work on a somato-visual biomarker of psychosis at the Conte Thalamus Center this Friday from 1–2:30 PM ET!
Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/3858843347...
Abstract: conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/3858843347...
Abstract: conte.thalamus.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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What can our brain tell us about chronic pain?
@paulgeha.bsky.social and others have found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict the long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #psychiatry
@paulgeha.bsky.social and others have found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict the long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #psychiatry
February 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What can our brain tell us about chronic pain?
@paulgeha.bsky.social and others have found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict the long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #psychiatry
@paulgeha.bsky.social and others have found properties of a major white matter bundle in the brain can predict the long-term outcome of an acute bout of low-back pain @urochestersmd.bsky.social #URochesterResearch #neuroscience #psychiatry
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
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Great resource!
What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts
What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts
People can visit this site to see the impact of NIH grant funding in their state. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Great resource!
What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts
What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts
Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.eenews.net
February 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM