which dystopian fiction novel is this dog from

It is truly disheartening to see the very small number of NSF-Graduate Research Fellowships awarded in Psychology this year. Congrats to the recipients -- and support for all the honorable mention recipients who deserved to be funded.

The veil is off. Cutting NSF Graduate Fellowships by half is a pure attack on science. If you believe in meritocracy, this is it. If you believe in STEM, this is where it starts. If you believe in Making America Great Again, this is what it looks like.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and

What does Harvard do with federal funding? Develop more effective treatments for cancer, heart disease, and suicide. Create new chemical methods that will lower drug prices (+ RoboBees!). All aimed at better understanding our world & improving our lives: harvard.edu

Big opening for vision scientists

and for vision scientists a good reason to get up in the morning ;)

Douglas Adams vibes

A new Science study finds that different dendritic segments of a single neuron follow distinct rules. The results challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain learns and adapts behavior 📄:

Nice clear video from Anthropic on their new interpretability work. While basic for practitioners, given the widespread public adoption and rapid progress of gen AI this sort of popular science communication (digestible + accurate) is a valuable service. youtu.be/Bj9BD2D3DzA?fe…

seven years after an initial meeting in seattle in march 2018, the results of the ARC-COGITATE adversarial collaboration on theories of consciousness have just been published in nature. congratulations to the whole cogitate team! nature.com/articles/s4158…

(1/9) Thrilled to share our new preprint🧠Using 7T fMRI, we report the presence of face-, color- and word-specific patches in the human #orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which form continuous functional gradients with VOTC patches. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Nice call for more “biology” (≈ close study of specific and perhaps idiosyncratic functional circuits) in deep learning research. Some of my favorite work in that spirit from Amirhossein Farzmahdi, Tal Golan, and others: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

understanding antibiotic resistance offers some of the purest benefits to humanity of any scientific field. what a tragic waste

big neuroscience paper dropped in Nature today: memory re-consolidation in hippocampus is supported by neurogenesis nature.com/articles/s4158…

VSS Demo Night!! “FIVE ILLUSIONS CHALLENGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE” #VSS2025 VSS Meeting Thread below 🧵👇

A statement from Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

Says the Wall Street Journal: The government seems bent on destroying Harvard for the offense of fighting back. And for what purpose? wsj.com/opinion/donald… via Wall Street Journal Opinion