A true Hero.

The @nytimes has been climbing this mountain for a while...congrats on getting there, everyone.

"'The number of $500 million is completely arbitrary and it will solve nothing,' [Claudine] Gay said. 'There is no justification.'"

SAY IT AGAIN DEAN GAY. #Harvard

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

Kill the poor? Wow. This is getting really dark really fast.

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts.

We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Thanks Niko for spearheading this!!

We won!!

“Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

This is great, Daniel!

..democracy often erodes slowly at first... But with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden autocrats, leading to the demise of democracy.

A randomized trial of for eye care by ophthalmologists with A.I. vs ophthalmologists without A.I. demonstrated much higher accuracy in diagnosis (92 vs 74%) and many other improved outcomes @NatureMedicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement

@kiahhardcastle.bsky.social @olveczky.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thanks Nancy!

Wrote a eulogy for the yellow letters in my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What do neuroscience labs and the streets of New York City have in common? They are both commonly home to rats, a feature this research team is leveraging to study rat social cognition in the wild.

By @martajhill.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/social-cogni...

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

An excellent but devastating piece on the Israeli assassination of the brave and beloved Gazan journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
This is on us in the US: our government could stop this with a single phone call.
Call your reps to demand an end to US military support of Israel

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Happening right here in Boston.

Same same, but different.. 😊

Dog’s reaction to feeling the baby’s kick for the first time.. 😊