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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 1d

Fully agree!

PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 1d

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The one that i would emphasize the most:

jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21d

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.

That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.

My latest

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump

The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

www.arcdigital.media

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Aug 21

From @coreykeller.bsky.social's amazing team, led by @chrisclineneuro.bsky.social: x.com/DrCoreyKelle...

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Aug 2

Would love some insight into what has happened to @nytimes.com. Is a president embroiled in a child sex trafficking scandal with underwater poll numbers on a "winning streak"? Is Trump usually cool, calm, and collected, only now "displaying his volatile side"?

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Even if you think these deals are worth the tarnished academic integrity and freedom (they're not), paying an extortion fee to get your grants back doesn't make much sense when the rest of the government is working hard to gut NIH/NSF/etc on a larger scale anyway.

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jul 24

Calling these outcomes 'deals' or 'agreements' is in the interest of both university administrators (who do not want to appear passive) and the White House (which does not want to appear authoritarian).

They are extortions—displays of power & dominance designed to coerce all universities watching.

Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · Jul 24

"this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

www.nytimes.com

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm here, would be great to catch up!

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 23

Understandably so, given it's easier to operationalize sensation than it is something more integrative, global, and context-dependent like emotions.

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 23

Introspection isn't useless, but e.g. introspection did not teach us how the visual system worked and I'd argue if we had clung to introspection too tightly we'd still not understand vision as well as we do. Something like that might be happening with emotion research.

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 23

The underlying idea here I agree with is that hypotheses about emotions are at high risk of being framed more by introspection on the part of the researchers than prior objective evidence (but they'll go to great lengths to convince you -- and themselves! -- otherwise).

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 18

My favorite is PCR, which essentially underlies the entire trillion-dollar biotech industry. It grew out of (NSF funded) research on bacteria living in Yellowstone hot springs!

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 17

Wait, most blue state universities don't say anything publicly either! (At least in an institutional capacity.)

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Bruce Hinze @brucehinze.bsky.social · Jun 14

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Jun 9

Excited to announce award of my K99/R00 "Theta burst modulation of hippocampal-cortical rhythms in schizophrenia," under amazing mentors at Stanford including @coreykeller.bsky.social! We will ask whether hippocampal oscillations can be systematically influenced by stimulation in schizophrenia.

RePORT ⟩ RePORTER

reporter.nih.gov

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Jackson Powell @powellj.bsky.social · May 29

New paper showcasing the incredible effort from the amazing Human Neural Circuitry (HNC) team! Beyond the great science, one can appreciate the poetic story told about human emotions. Looking forward to what's coming next!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice

Emotional responses to sensory experience are central to the human condition in health and disease. We hypothesized that principles governing the emergence of emotion from sensation might be discovera...

www.science.org

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · May 2

Keller lab is an awesome place to work! Great science, great mentorship, amazing group of people at a world-class institution.

Corey Keller @coreykeller.bsky.social · May 2

We are still hiring! Please do reach out if interested in joining a collaborative and energized team of engineers, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists developing new methods to probe the human brain in an effort to improve our treatments for mental health disorders!

Precision Neurotherapeutics Lab @ Stanford @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

🧠 We are #hiring! Postdoc @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social: help us develop closed-loop EEG platforms to improve TMS treatment for depression! Coding and neuroscience / engineering backgrounds required. Join our team! precisionneuro.stanford.edu email: [email protected]

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 23

Why is Stanford not a signatory? President Levin has already publicly supported Harvard's stance against the administration -- strange he would do that yet find this objectionable. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

www.aacu.org

Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 21

Plainly unconstitutional.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions...

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 15

Wherein the NYT parrots Trump talking points, leaves claims of "campus antisemitism" entirely devoid of correction/context, and *not once* mentions that the unilateral cancellation of grants is *illegal*, instead framing it as an "aggressive stance." Unreal stuff from our paper of record.

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities

The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.

www.nytimes.com

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Sara Parmigiani @sparmi.bsky.social · Apr 4

🧠 NEW PAPER: How do we capture excitability noninvasively in mood and emotion networks in the human brain? Here, we used real-time optimization to improve these measures!
@saraparmi @KellerStanfordU @ClinicalNeuroph doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2025.02.261 1/7

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 3

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning.

This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition

After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.

www.nature.com

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 3

This builds on influential work by @foxmdphd.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social, @desmondoathes.bsky.social, and many others. It would not have been possible without the support of UIowa, Stanford, and generous funding from the NIH/NIMH.

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 3

It’s important to be clear that we only had two neurosurgical patients to test these effects, so these findings need replication. But these data so far seem to align with a major hypothesis in the field: DLPFC TMS specifically alters population-level neural activity in the sgACC. 5/

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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · Apr 3

We were surprised to find that, despite anticorrelated HFA signals, TMS seemed to increase phase-locking in lower frequencies (alpha and theta) between sgACC-DLPFC. Could this be a mechanism by which the DLPFC influences sgACC activity? 4/

Figure depicting enhanced low-frequency phase locking between the sgACC and DLPFC following TMS pulses.

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