Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab:

Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale

We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

A common gotcha is "but Olivia, proofs don't capture reality" which I find honestly so beautiful because that's THE point. A formal system, a proof, maths, code, 💯 CANNOT solve reality, the frame problem, human cognition — so their gut tells them exactly the answer. Lean into it! That's exactly it.

After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here!

I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!!

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Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues.

We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more! 

🧵:

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to be at the Computational Psychiatry Conference #CPC2025 in Tübingen! I’ll be presenting a poster called Computational Psychiatry meets Algorithmic Fairness. You can read it (along with some of my other philosophical ideas) here: www.beingsaige.com/single-post/...

I defended my PhD! You can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/OCfqTtPy1KM?...

If you want to make America healthy again, start with

Universal health & UBI
Masks in healthcare
Clean air & water
Affordable housing & food
Guaranteed education
Paid time off
Affordable child care

When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit

There may be even more stupid use cases for #genAI, but this one is definitely a top contender

Congratulations @Saige to a wonderful PhD Defense!

To help computational cognitive scientist engage with more naturalistic experiments, I've made NiceWebRL.

NiceWebRL is a Python library for designing human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments.

github.com/KempnerInsti...

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...

Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

Science builds our future.

In Europe it has the freedom and support it needs.

To find the next cure and develop the next ground-breaking technology.

Our mission is clear:

We want the brightest minds and boldest innovators to "Choose Europe!" ↓

europa.eu/!fyy9RX

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Curious about the MAHA Report on children’s health but don’t have the time or energy or inclination to read all 75 pages?

You’re in luck! I’m reading it for you. Link in replies.

open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?

From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:

• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)

More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count.

Many thanks to my BU colleague
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science.

103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...