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The new strains of SARS-CoV-2 appear to attempt to silently and quickly infect the neurons in human brains so that hosts would not take preventive measures against any pathogens.

That's cool behavior:

Audio for The Transmitter articles. Wonderful!! (I didn't know). Once again, TT delivers. For those of us who love to hear good science stories during a workout/commute/whatever ... thetransmitter.org/audio-research… (You can link to Apple/Spotify/YouTube by clicking on one article).

some of my personal suggestions on how to give a good research talk

Are my Brazilian friends and colleagues all blocked from Twitter now?? 😬

Either all psychopathology is personality psychopathology or there is no such thing! What we call “personality disorders” may be better characterized as “interpersonal disorders.” Discussing recent work by Aidan Wright , Hopwood, and Zavlis & Fonagy psychiatrymargins.com/p/either-all-p…

Neuroscientists should be a little more careful with their brains. Just saying but know no one wants to hear any of it...

Top-down modulation of *retina*? Another dogma about feedforward processing falls?? Study in mice but also "In humans same antihistamine modulated visual sensitivity across visual field ... evolutionary conserved function of histaminergic system." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The mind-brain?? Art by Laurie Anderson, Hirshhorn museum

Disks appear to move.

I applied for faculty positions at UCLA 8 different times before getting my current position. Sometimes the 9th time's the charm.

The Institut Wiener Kreis in Vienna has 4 research fellowships open for the next semester. Application deadline: October 10th. wienerkreis.univie.ac.at

After almost a year of looking for a postdoc position I’m stopping here. I have to say…I am extremely disappointed of all the processes I participated. If +5 years of research experience and a PhD in the area of interest is not enough to get a position then what?

Network of the day: Influence network among philosophers from A Raeithel (1992) Activity Theory as a Foundation for Design. What's the most glaring missing link? Marx -> Merleau-Ponty?

*What/where is the cingulate cortex in the mouse?* In this cross-species proposal they propose that rodent research adopt the ACC/MCC scheme by Vogt et al too. Is this something mouse/rat researchers have found useful moving forward. doi.org/10.1016/j.tins…

I’ve written only sparsely about this, but to answer the major question up front: Does this work refute the critique from generative grammar by Chomsky, Ian Roberts, Andrea Moro, Johan Bolhuis et al? Personally I think not, and I’ll break down why 🧵

The most interesting answers and learnings are those that dissolve the original question by rendering it meaningless.

This is meant to be engaging for those interested in the philosophy of attention but also conceptual work in the empirical theory of attention. Coming soon! routledge.com/Attention/Wu/p…

Is the amygdala one thing?? Clearly not so we need to move past talking about region-centered "amygdala" frameworks asap!