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Jia-Hou (JH) Poh @jiahou-poh.bsky.social · 28d

Hello world!
Only a year late, but I am now at the NUS Centre for Sleep and Cognition, where I will be directing the Dynamic Brain & Memory lab!

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 10h

🧪 👇 read the 🧵 for all the posts being cut - health statistics in US will disappear

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20h

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · 9h

Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation

Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...

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Jia-Hou (JH) Poh @jiahou-poh.bsky.social · 10h

How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation.
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation

Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jun 9

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 9

The #BethesdaDeclaration stories are now up on the front pages of both the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Thanks again to the brave folks at NIH who stood up and worked together to make this happen.

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ALT: a black background with the words heroes at work

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 6

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 6

My quote of the day

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 6

Obituary: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025) mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world

https://go.nature.com/3HtgQpy

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat obituary: mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world

Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

go.nature.com

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School Library Journal @slj.com · Jun 3

EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

This is Government Censorship in its Plainest Form, States EveryLibrary

EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

www.slj.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal.

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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Jun 2

“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.”

This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jun 2

"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here

Anyone who thinks he’ll stop with COVID shots is deluding themselves. The time to raise hell is now.

www.thebulwark.com

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Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · May 28

Elon and his brother used student visas to come to America, then they overstayed after they dropped out of school

George Pearkes @peark.es · May 27

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting

The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.

www.politico.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!

Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · May 26

Always via the brain, but it still may turn out that other measures provide reliable indices

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · May 26

And still not enough to determine affect. We get variable midbrain and amygdala activation to exactly the same monetary reward cues not just across individuals but trial to trial, when no reinforcement occurs. Ongoing states (history, appetite, arousal) shape affective response to external events

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · May 26

It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · May 26

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

@realDonaldTrump

I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · May 26

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · May 26

For real - and the Truth account for the President of the USA truly just posted this which sure looks like my 16 year olds know more about Ukraine than he does.
Being president isn’t a right.
Maybe a few more requirements in the country’s interest.
Like citizenship & civil service exams.
As orals.

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Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · Feb 16

Industry is investing less in R&D and turning away from innovation.
The NIH and NSF fund science with huge economic ROI to taxpayers.
The ratio of government/nongov employees has declined, not risen over decades,
If you care about cures and a future for our children,
save science funding now.

Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · Feb 16

"In the 60s a scientist wonders how flies get around well with such tiny brains.. and in 20s we have self driving cars. Because someone thought bugs were neat."

No for-profit entity reporting quarterly can fund the first steps of R&D. That's why governments are the primary funders of pure research.

Alison Adcock @ralisonadcock.bsky.social · Feb 16

Trump and Musk/DOGE are absolutely, unequivocally damaging research - cancer research, Alzheimer's research, addiction research, drug development and testing.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · May 24

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin."
member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · May 23

🧪⚛️ Deadline extended for comments. Seriously, if you don't want science agencies to be run by political functionaries, please consider making a comment. news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services

Act now to defend the integrity of our civil service from the dangerous Schedule F proposal!

news.chanda.science

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · May 23

The cruelty is the point.

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