Jonathan Peelle
@jpeelle.bsky.social
PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying the neuroscience of language at Northeastern University
Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press)
http://jonathanpeelle.net/the-neuroscience-of-language
Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press)
http://jonathanpeelle.net/the-neuroscience-of-language
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Jonathan Peelle
@jpeelle.bsky.social
· Sep 25
I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵💫
So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.
Introducing the HEALING study
with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social
So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.
Introducing the HEALING study
with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social
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I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
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🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
The Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication conference conference will take place May 6-9 at Washington University in St. Louis. (This conference combines the highly successful Aging and Speech Communication and CHSCOM conferences.) Looks fantastic!
sites.wustl.edu/casc/
sites.wustl.edu/casc/
Home | Conference on Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication | Washington University in St. Louis
Welcome to the Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication conference (CASC) The first international CASC conference will take place May 6-9, 2026, at...
sites.wustl.edu
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication conference conference will take place May 6-9 at Washington University in St. Louis. (This conference combines the highly successful Aging and Speech Communication and CHSCOM conferences.) Looks fantastic!
sites.wustl.edu/casc/
sites.wustl.edu/casc/
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
Four years to write a paper sounds pretty good these days… 😭
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Four years to write a paper sounds pretty good these days… 😭
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
I’m not necessarily a fan of all this AI but let me tell you, if I could get an LLM to do bedtime for my 9-year-old…
a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .
ALT: a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m not necessarily a fan of all this AI but let me tell you, if I could get an LLM to do bedtime for my 9-year-old…
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In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important.
A new webpage on the NIH site called “Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions” is causing a small kerfuffle on the socials. As per us…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
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Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
what's that Prof. Meyers?
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
what's that Prof. Meyers?
oh man and I also forgot ascots
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
oh man and I also forgot ascots
Important for reviewers and people interpreting reviews of their grants
"Nice" NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/n...
“Nice” NIH study sections screw their applicants because of the way NIH calculates percentile.
I often write blog comments about NIH grant review matters that exist in an uncomfortable tension between what NIH wants us to do on study section and what I see as our professional obligation to t…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Important for reviewers and people interpreting reviews of their grants
When given documents to review that have my name mis-spelled I'm always torn about whether to track changes when I fix it
a man wearing a cafe tropical shirt is saying okay this
Alt: David from Schitt's Creek says "Okay this is passive harassment"
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
When given documents to review that have my name mis-spelled I'm always torn about whether to track changes when I fix it
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What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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AD/ADRD peeps: Notice to expire the Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias effective immediately. (Related R21 also expired in NOT-AG-25-023). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-AG-25-024: Notice of Early Expiration of PAR-25-332, "Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)"
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Early Expiration of PAR-25-332,
grants.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
AD/ADRD peeps: Notice to expire the Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias effective immediately. (Related R21 also expired in NOT-AG-25-023). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)
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My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
pumpkin emeritus
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
pumpkin emeritus
Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶
Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).
Please help spread the word!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).
Please help spread the word!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶
Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).
Please help spread the word!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).
Please help spread the word!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Ditto(ish) for our section. Rescheduled from early November to early January!
Just to add a data point: A study section I'm on that was originally scheduled for late October is now being rescheduled for mid-January. #nihgrants
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ditto(ish) for our section. Rescheduled from early November to early January!