Thanks for this great thread! These ideas cannot be communicated often enough. It seems that every generation seems to invent new reasons to invoke innateness. Today, many neuroscientists think that claiming innateness for their preferred phenomenon somehow makes their work more important. Sad...

The deadline for our open-area senior search is approaching. If you're looking for a new academic home and, perhaps, the security of a hard-money position, please consider applying.

If you have any questions about this position or the one in clinical science, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. We're a growing, interdisciplinary, closely-knit, and supportive department. And we're looking for exceptional junior and senior scientists to join us.

The ad for the tenure-track Clinical Science position is live. Please spread it around!
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"chronic venous insufficiency." So that's what they're calling _____ these days.

Two faculty positions in my department this year. Please spread the word! And don't hesitate to reach out if you want to learn more.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

Our cover this week.

Geez, if only the University of Iowa were among those mentioned in this article. Is it really that difficult? Even Nebraska is ahead of us. Nebraska!

From The Atlantic: “The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.”

Who remembers Lysenko?

We are all Harvard now. (gulp)

Kerr is such a class act.

Well, at least we know something horrifies her. It just ain't the people around her.

I'm ashamed of the silence from campus leaders across the country as our international students are terrorized by threats, intimidation, and deportation. Ducking and covering is not the strategy they seem to think it is. Soon enough, they will find there's no place left to hide.

I’ve committed myself to learning James Gadson’s brilliant drum pattern on Bill Withers’ Use Me. I’ve got the pattern down now; making it groove is the next big challenge.

“Wildly destructive stupidity.” Nothing like simple clarity.

Oh Susan Collins. Bless her heart.

I’m totally with David Frum on this. We have a lot of farmers in Iowa. If Trump grants them a bailout from his tariffs, which they desperately want, I don’t want to hear them whine about welfare and socialism ever again. They voted for this pig sh*t. They can roll around in it with the rest of us.

Ouch. @benwikler.bsky.social has got game. Congrats and thanks to Wisconsin. We all needed this.

Very proud of my wonderful former doctoral student for Standing Up For Science!

As a developmental scientist, I find it fascinating that "the greatest country the world has ever known" will have been destroyed by economic and moral concerns about eggs, embryos, and fetuses.

Powerful response from Marc Elias to Musk's provocations.
"I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey." Damn right.

I was more than happy to be interviewed again by the talented @nhassenfeld.bsky.social for the new Unexplainable podcast. This one is about the connections among sleep, dreams, and twitching. I hope you enjoy!

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