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I’m a neuroscientist studying memory @ UCLA 🌌 *Were most of your stars out?* 🌌
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 5 days ago • 462 comments

It would be like the Yankees striking out on purpose every game in order to win over Red Sox fans. Which they should do by the way. www.welcometohellworld.com/our-final-re...

submitted 206 days ago • 11 comments

It appears that the Republican administration has started deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, in blatant violation of court orders.

submitted 16 days ago • 124 comments

LA folks come see me speak on our latest results reading 🧠s at Pint of Science pintofscience.us/event/readin... I’ll be on 7pm Wed, May 21 @ Weary Livers in Santa Monica

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Not a single Republican Senator was willing to commit to holding Trump to the constitution. These people are corrupt, pathetic slugs who believe in absolutely nothing.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

submitted 27 days ago • 1067 comments

i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field. The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps... but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything. 🧠📈

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

The Democrats who think Americans are too stupid to understand what oligarchy means could use data like this to try to educate people. That they just avoid the problem altogether shows it’s not really about comprehension.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

submitted 48 days ago • 16 comments

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

submitted 49 days ago • 68 comments

vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

submitted 51 days ago • 429 comments

It seems as good a time as any to share that I've accepted a new job as Lecturer of Cognitive Neuroscience (equivalent to assistant prof) at the University of Manchester in the UK! I dusted off the blog to say a bit more about why I'm excited for this move: tomdonoghue.github.io/ms/2025/04/1...

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 63 days ago • 2497 comments

imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil

submitted 67 days ago • 262 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 68 days ago • 179 comments

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

this is that repost of bottom-barrel sociopathy I was talking about. "why are people cheering for murder, don't they believe in letting the system work?" they are cheering because the secretary of commerce is on TV saying "if you complain about not getting money you are owed, you're a fraud"

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

Thanks to the Trump admin the past month I have been inundated with scam phone calls. I haven’t lived in CT for 20 years so any time I get a call from an 860 I know they’re just spamming by area. Just one more way life has gotten worse.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

my son is 14 months old and I can hardly bear to read this stuff. I was going to say it's unimaginable but I can imagine it. the most profound evil there is www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 82 days ago • 21 comments

I’m not much of a theologian but I do not believe doing this to people is forgivable www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 82 days ago • 31 comments

I've spent the last few years disagreeing with Larry, but you know what... fuck it, one struggle

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments