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John Borghi
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PhD | Cognitive Neuroscience | Research Data | Photography | Opinions are just mine | Boring you all in a personal capacity
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
[Doing my best Jack O’Connell in Sinners]: Sammy!!
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The best part of Rogue One is imagining the oral history of its production that we’ll never get to read.
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Train Dreams (2025)

This hit *really* hard for me, even when it occasionally felt like Terence Malick lite.

Maybe the most incongruous movie to watch on Netflix of all places.

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Train Dreams | Official Trailer | Netflix
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November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today's update includes

1. News from NIH, CDC, and other acronyms.

2. A sign I once saw taped to a door that has confused me for 15 years.

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November 21, 2025
ceci ne'st pas une infolettre
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November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Oh to have a fraction of the confidence in myself as my kid has in me.

We were talking about running and I mentioned I used to run a decent 5k. Wide eyed, they responded with "Wow, 5000 miles".
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Today's news update covers the federal government unshutting down as well as some notes out of Harvard, UVa, and Texas A&M. fusiforms.beehiiv.com/p/november-1...
November 14th, 2025
Claude Monet would have been 185 today.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Today's update:
- The shutdown is (close to) over?
- Also some notes on the CDC, FDA, and UC System
November 12, 2025
Whelp
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November 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This feeo album has some understated Portishead vibes that really work for me.
feeo - The Mountain
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November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reading the science and higher education news so you don't have to...

Today:
1. News from Cornell, Pitt, and UCLA
2. Some curious NIH job listings
3. Notes on the continuing shutdown

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November 7th, 2025
An epic on a cellular level
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November 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Every few days I summarize the news in science and higher education. Today I'm trying not to crash out about fluoride. fusiforms.beehiiv.com/p/november-1...
November 1, 2025
Spooky Scary
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November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm reading about GDPR for a thing* and am wryly amused at the constant use of "processing".

Mostly because my old PI's big cogneuro pet peeve - that she would bring up in every seminar and meeting - was that the term meant everything and nothing.

*This thing. johnborghi.github.io/Supporting_S...
Supporting Scientific Data A Guide for Researchers
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October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of my favorite things about doing photography is how my favorite photos are almost always completely accidental.
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today I'm attending the third annual Stanford Rigor and Reproducibility Colloquium. med.stanford.edu/sporr/educat...
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today's in science and higher education news:
* The government is still shut down
* Updates on federal layoffs and hiring
* Brown says "Thanks but no thanks"

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October 15th, 2025
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts
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October 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Books are not precious, it’s ok to get rid of them if you’re running out of space or whatever.

eBooks are great. Who wants to bring a giant tome on a plane.

Turn down those corners, it’s fine.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s apple galette season.
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It's National Metric Day (not that one). Here's the news from science and higher education. fusiforms.beehiiv.com/p/october-10...
October 10th, 2025
Black sheep, come home
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October 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Every few days I summarize the news in science and higher education...

Today's update includes:
- Notes on the government shutdown
- A new compact for academic institutions
- Me trying not to lose my mind at DHS's vaporwave video with music by The Cure.

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October 3rd, 2025
Get some rest. Drink some water. Watch a medium bad movie.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
September 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hopefully I didn't jinx us all by posting this before 5pm on a Friday.

Today's updates include an imminent government shutdown, more on (sigh) acetaminophen and autism, and changes to the NSF GRFP. Also inexplicably, Amelia Earhart.

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Friday, September 26th
Who is asking the President about Amelia Earhart?
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September 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There is A LOT of news today:

* An impasse in the Federal budget
* Contentious vaccine discussions at the CDC
* $100k for an H1-B visa, $1 million for a Gold Card
* The Northeast Public Health Collaborative (minus NH)

...and lots more. Happy Friday everyone.

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Friday, September 19th
Listening in as people read systematic reviews on Youtube...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The @aaup.org has released some guidance for academic workers engaging with social media.

www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
September 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM