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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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6 months

If you are a tenured professor in the life/neuro sciences who values open exchange of ideas in academia, please sign our new petition telling HHMI and eLife not to censure Michael Eisen for tweeting about the Middle East. @eLife and @HHMINews

Open letter to HHMI and eLife, in defense of free expression

(NOTE: To our wonderful community of academics who have signed this petition, we are in awe of you. There are almost 2000 people who have signed this petition, including academics from all over the...

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2 years

Just out in the New Yorker: An article about Men Reading Minds with fMRI! The author mentions 9 male and 0 female neuroscience professors, a feat made possible by impressive contortions like attributing a study from Ev Fedorenko’s lab to one of its male middle authors.

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My undergrad course on The Human Brain (the 2018 version) just went live on MIT's Open Course Ware. I am sure it contains errors and omissions and other infelicities, please email me with suggestions on how I can make it better.

The Human Brain | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare

This course surveys the core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented in the brain. Key themes include the representations, development, and degree of...

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1 year

Time to clear up some of the misconceptions and incorrect claims in this thread and accompanying paper:

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci . 1/

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To my US Academic Colleagues with Tenure- Where are you? I don’t understand why I see almost none of you using your safe posts to denounce the atrocities being committed right now, in your names and on your dime. What else is tenure for, if not this? continued...

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I have no idea how that happened, but it's a thrill to share cool things about the brain with people all over the world. I am so proud of MIT for starting the online learning revolution 20 years ago with OCW!

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In just a few short months, the first video for 9.13 Introduction to the Human Brain has garnered 7.5 million views on YouTube! Congratulations to @Nancy_Kanwisher and @mcgovernmit for this great work! Visit the course on YouTube here:

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4 years

My first tweet! Psyched to share our cool new paper led by @apurvaratan showing face-selective responses in the fusiform in congenitally blind people:

Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform...

The fusiform face area responds selectively to faces and is causally involved in face perception. How does face-selectivity in the fusiform arise i...

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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11 days

These students are not "pro terror", and you have nothing to fear from them.

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And, it’s happened. The anti-Israel, pro-terrorist encampment is now up at @MIT . We are afraid to go near.

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3 years

A wonderful visit today with the best Ph.D. advisor anyone ever had, the one and only Molly Potter. Here we are in the back yard of her house in Woods Hole, which by weird coincidence is the house I grew up in.

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We're hiring!: The Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), located on the main MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty at the assistant professor level or higher.

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A beautiful Seder run by @mitj4c at the MIT peace encampment. So proud of our lovely, thoughtful, students!

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2 years

I am not usually the hero worshiping type but OMG what a thrill and an honor to meet the amazing Katalin Kariko today!

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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1 year

This paper i an absolute gem: Great science, great writing, and a wonderful conclusion about scientific writing. I laughed out loud multiple times reading it. Hats off!

Things could be better

Eight studies document what may be a fundamental and universal bias in human imagination: people think things could be better. When we ask people how things could be different, they imagine how...

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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7 months

Israel is unleashing a humanitarian catastrophe on millions of Palestinian civilians, which would not be possible without US diplomatic, financial, and military support. Call your senators and reps now to insist that the US cut off all support of Israel until they:

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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3 years

it’s embarassing to tout a podcast about ME, but if anyone is interested in the many twists and turns in my career trajectory, cody kommers is a great interviewer and got me to talk about it here:

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Absolutely! One of the most important callings of any faculty member is to take care of our students. Especially when they are protesting peacefully for a just cause.

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We're saying it louder, for the people in the back.

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4 years

With democracy itself at stake in this election, here are some ideas of what academics can do. Please retweet, adding your own ideas.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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Proud to be a friend and supporter of MIT's Scientists Against Genocide Encampment:

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2 years

Dear fellow profs, especially those of you in swing states: According to the Higher Education Act of 1965, it is not only our right, but our obligation to teach civic engagement. We have at least some influence over our students, so let’s use it! Here are some ideas....

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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3 years

Apply here for the full-time lab tech position in my lab: We use brain, behavior, and computational methods to understand the human mind and brain. This position is a great stepping stone to grad school. Nancy

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7 months

Apparently some colleagues of mine are hurt that I have not sufficiently condemned Hamas. Of course I categorically condemn the hideous Hamas attack on Israel. I cannot imagine the suffering of the victims of this grotesque violence or their friends, family, & fellow citizens...

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2 years

Shiloh is making it hard for me to get any work done this morning

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Very sad to hear that we have lost Danny Kahneman, a titan of cognitive science. I remember how excited we were in grad school each time a new Kahneman & Tversky paper came out, each one was a big Event in the field. We poured over every paper and discussed them in detail.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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1 year

Dear Recently Laid-off Tech Workers, If you have strong ML/Python skills, consider applying this position in my lab at MIT: We do cool research on the human brain, have a lot of fun, and I help my lab techs get into top Ph.D. programs in cog/neuroscience.

Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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2 years

The Kanwisher Lab @mitbrainandcog encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. We aspire to be a place where all people can feel welcome and thrive! #NeuroJobs #BlackinNeuro #LatinxinNeuro #QueerinNeuro #WomeninNeuro #SACNAS #ABRCMS #neurotwitter

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I asked her how she persisted all that time with so little support. Her answer: Don’t waste time comparing yourself to others or worrying when others get recognition you do not. Just focus on your own work.

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2 years

I'm psyched to share a new study led by @meenakshik93 , with @apurvaratan collaborating: Data-driven methods applied to the NSD fMRI dataset reveals that the ventral visual pathway has neural populations that respond very selectively to images of food:

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6 months

The statement from eLife is BS: If the Board had other problems with Eisen, they should have fired him earlier. So despite their vague talk, it is clear he was fired for his Onion tweet. Shame on the eLife Board!

Prominent journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict

eLife’s Michael Eisen ousted for social media posts perceived as siding with Palestinians over Israel

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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6 months

Others can also sign but we recommend those with less vulnerable careers sign first.

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7 months

This is the best analysis I have seen on the root cause of the tragic events unfolding in Israel and Palestine, from wise and courageous former Israeli soldiers:

Breaking the Silence

@BtSIsrael

7 months

Hamas's attack and the events unfolding since yesterday are unspeakable. We could talk about their cruel and criminal actions, or focus on how our Jewish-supremacist govt brought us to this point. But as former Israeli soldiers, our job is to talk about what we were sent to do 🧵

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Twenty years ago today, the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Despite support from pundits and politicians, the war's folly was obvious in advance. I collected signatures from 15,000 US faculty members on a petition we published in the NYT in October 2002 stating that:

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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7 months

Reposting this thread about the amazing Katalin Kariko who today won the Nobel Prize:

Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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2 years

I am not usually the hero worshiping type but OMG what a thrill and an honor to meet the amazing Katalin Kariko today!

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I love my lab! Here we are last night at an in-person pizza party on an outdoor patio of the McGovern Institute. How did I get so lucky as to get to work with all of these kind and smart people?

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Scientific impact should be measured not by the fame of the PI, but by the success of her students.

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Federico Pelisch has just stepped down from the eLife Board. Good for Pelisch for standing up for open discussion in academia! Same goes for the now numerous editors at eLife who have also decided to leave the journal.

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3 years

For a long time I didn't get what deep net models could tell us, but then Ratan did this awesome study and I am a convert. We no longer need to chose between "word models" and computational models, we can have a thrillingly synergistic combination of the two!

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3 years

Its finally here! The project that lifted my spirits through 2020-21! Super excited to finally see this online @SpringerNature @NatureComms : Here is a thread! 1/11

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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1 year

Exactly. As I said yesterday: "The brain affords many levels of analysis from molecules to neurons to circuits to brain regions to brainwide networks, and none of these levels obviates or “explains away” any of the others."

Russ Poldrack

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The recent "modular vs distributed" debate seems so 20th (or even 19th) century to me. The science of complex systems has taught us that a system can be both modular and interactive. It's like arguing over whether stars or galaxies are the right astronomical unit to study.

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An important point made at the Harvard rally yesterday: When we learn about mass atrocities committed in the past, like the Holocaust, or the Nakba, we often wonder: What would I have done if I had lived then? Would I have tried to do something to stop it? (continued)....

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1. Localization of function and context independence of functional selectivity are not "assumptions” but empirical hypotheses. It does not advance science to replace them with opposite assumptions (as LFB proposes). Rather, we should test these hypotheses against data.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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11 months

What a blast to get a sunset flight with a pilot friend over my beloved home town of Woods Hole:

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Not much can elicit audible gasps from MIT students, but the amazing Professor Matthew Frosch did yesterday as he showed students an actual human brain in a masterful dissection in my class. Thank you Matt!

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2. First: The claim has never been that a particular mental process engages only a single brain region. Rather, the claim is that many individual brain regions are engaged in single mental processes.

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3 years

If you want to hear about my twisted career path, I discuss it with @weijima01 on Growing upon Science:

Growing up in Science - Nancy Kanwisher (October 7, 2021)

Official and unofficial storyhttps://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/growingupinscience/unofficial.html#NancyKanwisherModerator: Wei Ji Mahttps://www.growingupinscien...

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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2 years

These young Iranian women are so courageous! Huge respect.

Rana Rahimpour

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Protesting students, chasing away an #Iranian official from their school, shouting: Shame on you…October 3rd… #MahsaAmini

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Bassem Youssef is brilliant:

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What an absolute legend

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Mina - I get these too, luckily not followed by pain. I consider them god's gift to an atheist: you get to see the retinotopic mapping of your own visual cortex as waves of activity spread across it (for me, upper left visual field from center to periph). Enjoy!

Mina Cikara

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2 years

So I just had some strobing in the shape of a C in my left visual field (like a clear aurora borealis) which over the course of several minutes got larger and larger until it was just at the edges of my periph vision. Stroke? Tumor? Am I already dead?

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Spot on. This is why I stopped going to Israel ~10 years ago: how could these otherwise smart thoughtful lovely people apparently feel so comfortable when that comfort was predicated on the subjugation of another people? I found it so upsetting and dissonant I just stopped going.

Frederick Deknatel freddydeknatel.bsky.social

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. @NathanThrall on Israelis pre-Oct 7 who were “so comfortable they could speak without blushing about Israeli democracy, while half of the people under Israel’s control were Palestinians, and most of those Palestinians didn’t have basic civil rights.”

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What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean? I too have skipped this chant at protests, and urged others to avoid it, because it can sound like a call to violence. But Yousef Munnayer's 2021 column explains what most Palestinians mean when they use this phrase:

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For over a decade I ended every talk saying: now that we know the brain has all these specialized regions, the real question is WHY it is organized that way. Now @KathaDobs is cracking that question wide open.

Katharina Dobs

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Super thrilled that my main postdoc project with @martinezjulioa_ , @alexjkell and @Nancy_Kanwisher is finally out as preprint! We're using CNNs to ask “why” the brain exhibits functional specialization for the case of face perception:

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Are you afraid that speaking out against the Israeli atrocities your taxes fund will harm your family, friends, and colleagues in Israel? There is greater risk for Israelis if they continue on this path without hearing from us. Friends dont let friends commit genocide. cont'd...

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I see claims that pro-Palestinian activists are cheering for Hamas, but I have not seen this, despite following many pro-Palestinian sources (Israeli, Palestinian, and other). Please check your sources before repeating this claim. What I heard at the Harvard rally yesterday was..

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3. The evidence for the functional specificity of many individual brain regions (e.g. the FFA, PPA, EBA, VWFA, TPJ, language regions) has been replicated in 100s of studies in dozens of labs using every method in cognitive neuroscience.

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8. Localization of function in the brain is alive and well.

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A beautiful and important paper!

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1/ Today in Science, we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools.

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It's an exciting blizzard here on Cape Cod, the wind gusts sound like a freight trains. Hoping the power stays on so I can get my course ready for first (in person) lecture Monday! Meanwhile here is a pic of the MBL in Woods Hole (credit Gale Clark).

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Kudos and appreciation for those who can see straight in times of trauma and madness:

Ami Dar

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Israelis with the photos of killed Gazans calling for a ceasefire in front of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. More power to them.

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Yep. That’s why I keep talking about it. That is what tenure is for: saying the things others cannot afford to.

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"Eighty-two percent of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98 percent), said that they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Just over 81 percent of those self-censoring said they primarily held back…

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Thrilling (if long overdue) news of tenure for the brilliant and wonderful @ev_fedorenko ! I am so very proud of you Ev (even though you were amazing when I first met you and I don't deserve any credit). I'm grateful beyond measure to have you as a colleague and friend.

Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦

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@neuranna Thank you, friend @neuranna ! And a big thank you to all those who have supported me across all the different stages of this long, and often difficult, journey (you know who you are <3). I really wish my parents were here: I wouldn't be here without them and I miss them every day.

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Yes! I also took out an NYT ad opposing a US attack on Iraq that was signed by 13,000 university and college professors in the US. While the pundits pushed for war, 100s of thousands of us marched in the streets in opposition. We were right then, and we are right now.

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Note that the closing media space to argue against the disastrous 2003 Iraq war before it was started led me and IR colleagues to pay with our own funds for a @nytimes ad in September 2002 arguing : War With Iraq Is Not In America's National Interest"

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I am sad that my activism (paltry as it is) upsets some of my Israeli friends. But we are facing an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe and I do not want to fail the test of "What did you do when....?"

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Work hard, play hard! This me going over Cascada Verde in Costa Rica today.

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What fun to be introduced by my former postdoc @davidjpitcher for this graduation speech at the University of York. I discuss privilege, luck, and compassion in science and life:

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This Nakba is being televised:

Christiane Amanpour

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“Now we’re supposed to be in the safe area, but you can hear the bombs behind us. All of our houses are bombed. Nothing is left.” Hear these desperate voices from Gaza, as @SalmaCNN reports.

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“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” Biden said. Well then why don't get briefed by Human Rights Watch @hrw or Amnesty International @amnesty ? A shockingly ignorant and dismissive comment.

Biden, shifting tone, stresses need for Palestinian state after war

Biden denounces Hamas killings but also condemns attacks by Israeli settlers as “pouring gasoline on the fire.”

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New opening for a full-time lab tech in the Kanwisher Lab; apply here: Very strong math and computer skills and a serious interest in the human brain required. This position is an ideal stepping stone toward to graduate programs in cognitive neuroscience.

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Second, I speak out about Israel’s ongoing atrocities because many like-minded Americans are afraid to. (What else is tenure for?!) Indeed, it was my realization 20 years ago that many of my friends were afraid to speak out publicly that made me decide to do so.....

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Went on a gorgeous flight last night with a pilot friend. Here is the sun setting over the Elizabeth Islands and Martha's Vineyard Sound, with Woods Hole just to the right of the blaze. Magic!

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New paper out in eLife led by @PramodRT9 with @m_the_cohen and Josh Tenenbaum! Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain

Invariant representation of physical stability in the human brain

Scenario-invariant representation of physical stability is found in the frontoparietal regions but not the ventral visual pathway (and ImageNet-trained convolutional neural networks), consistent with...

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Are you afraid if you speak out you will get called an anti semite or self-hater? I understand that, I have endured it repeatedly, and it is no fun. But you are an adult, you can endure name calling. Your friends, if they are true friends, will get over it. continued...

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Don’t know what to do? Call your reps. Follow Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow to learn about demos in your area. Post a simple tweet. Educate yourself. If there was ever a time when your voice was needed to stop atrocities committed in your name and on your dime, this is it.

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First, as a US citizen I am ethically responsible for, and in principle in a position to influence, Israel’s actions, which my government and my tax dollars directly support. My tax dollars do not fund Hamas, and I have no leverage over Hamas’s actions. Second....

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Shamefully, elite colleges are engines of inequality, giving preference to rich students over poor students with the same SAT:

Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

Extraordinarily detailed data shows how elite colleges prefer the richest students, even among students with similar test scores.

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What an incredible privilege it has been to join the amazing @rebecca_saxe and @heatherlkos on the thrilling ride to discover that the FFA, PPA, and EBA are all present in young infants with recognizable adultike selectivity and locations

Heather Lynne Kosakowski

@heatherlkos

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My 1st 1st-author paper is in @CurrentBiology ! Selective Responses to Faces, Scenes, and Bodies in the Ventral Visual Pathway of Infants. w/my amazing advisors @rebecca_saxe & @Nancy_Kanwisher & collabs @m_the_cohen , A Takahashi, & B Keil 1/

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Fantastic news, congrats to the editors on this excellent decision and may other editorial boards soon follow! I look forward to publishing in the new OA journal Imaging Neuroscience!

Marc Coutanche

@MarcCoutanche

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Huge news for the neuroimaging community. I'm on the NeuroImage editorial board and am happy to follow their lead by resigning. Looking forward to the new journal! 🎇🧠

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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This made my cry. I wish I knew how to do more!

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Yay Ev you amazing scientist and awesome person, you!

McGovern Institute

@mcgovernmit

2 months

Yes!!! We are *all* excited to celebrate @ev_fedorenko 's tenure at MIT! Congratulations Prof Fedorenko, you are an inspiration to us all! 🎉🍾🥳 [Amazing photo courtesy of Julianne Gale @mitbrainandcog ]

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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I could not be prouder of the amazing Heather Kosakowski, a true Force of Nature. What an inspiration and a privilege to co mentor Heather with Rebecca Saxe.

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The US should be rolling out the red carpet for our talented scientists from the global south, and instead we make their life hell, restricting their ability to go to conferences, visit family, and receive a paycheck. It is heart breaking. Unacceptable. Thank you @mayank_mchugh .

Mayank Chugh

@mayank_mchugh

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📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

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7. But the fact that some brain regions do not have domain-specific functions in no way argues against the domain specificity of those that do.

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Blood on our hands. The 14 countries voting against the UN resolution on a humanitarian truce in Gaza:

Suzanne Gardinier

@SGardinier

6 months

#Infamy #Gaza #Genocide

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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US citizens have considerable power to stop to this actual Nakba unfolding before our very eyes, which has been condemned by the UN Secretary General and by every major human rights organization. Things you can do: i) call all your reps now (continued on next post)....

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Not only is our government supporting Israel's destruction of Gaza and its people, we actively discouraged any discussion of ending the bloodshed. Beyond belief.

John Cassidy

@JohnCassidy

7 months

Wapo: "A leaked State Dep't memo, confirmed by The Washington Post and first published by HuffPost, warned U.S. diplomats from using the phrases “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm” as the words did not comport with current U.S. policy."

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This beautiful letter is worth reading in full. Exerpts: If calling for a future in which Palestinians can live in their homeland unshackled implies an existential threat to the Zionist ideology, it is that ideology that must be called into question — not the call for liberation.

Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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An open letter from Jewish students - The Brown Daily Herald

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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When your grants get rejected, dont waste time being frustrated about what did not happen. There is no point, it is done. Just focus on the future. What did the reviews say and how can you explain your ideas better or get more data to make a stronger case. Words to live by.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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Specifically it was the Israeli assault on Jenin in 2002 that got my attention. I then travelled around Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza to better inform myself. Here I am filming kids in Jenin in 2002:

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

2 years

yes it is. such great analogies to explain each point with crystal clarity! and a fun read besides.

steven t. piantadosi

@spiantado

2 years

wow, this book by @neurograce is good

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Don’t think this is your issue? Yes it is: 1. I have heard from multiple junior scientists from the Middle East who are understandably afraid to say anything publicly, who feel vulnerable. Speak out to support them. 2. The worldwide backlash against us will be long lasting.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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So heartening to see these courageous Israelis speaking out against the war.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

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Anti war protest in Tel Aviv tonight. There were also signs saying “stop the massacre” photos @OrenZiv_

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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Afraid you are not sufficiently informed? It is not that complicated. When is the destruction and expulsion of a people from their land ever ok? continued...

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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OK this site is awful. The substitution of pictures for headlines has put me over the edge. If someone has an invitation to the other place I would be grateful. Also if anyone has instructions for dummies on how to migrate I would be grateful for that as well. Thank you!

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Global warming sucks, but kayaking on Christmas day was pretty lovely!

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Don’t have time? Is that what you will say to a young person who asks you a few years from now: When your government was pulverizing Gaza and bombing and forcibly expelling hundreds of thousands of civilians, what did you do to stop it?

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Evening walk tonight with Shiloh in Woods Hole

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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I had a conversation this morning with a beloved, kind, and thoughtful Israeli colleague who described their awful experience of the last 2 months and the sense of existential threat they feel. No one deserves to go through this. They also told me....

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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A glorious Kayak paddle today with friends around Nonamessett Island. Here is a view of my beloved home town of Woods Hole over the deck of my kayak.

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Watch an actual Nakba unfold in front of our eyes nearly real time

COGAT

@cogatonline

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🚨Happening now: Thousands pass through the evacuation corridor the @IDF opened for civilians in northern Gaza to move southwards.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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5. The functional selectivity of these brain regions does not suffer from a replicability crisis. Indeed, each functional localizer in each subject is a replication of the original finding.

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@Nancy_Kanwisher

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You can watch and listen as the Nakba is apparently being livestreamed here: As Gazans sit in the dark with no phones, internet, water, or electricity, the only light comes from the bombs raining down on them. Your tax dollars at work.

Gaza-Israel Live: Real-time HD Cams Feeds from Gaza-Ashkelon-Tel Aviv

Welcome WWLive CamsThe Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on 07.10.2023 in a surprise assault that combined g...

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

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Much of the apparent disagreement here results from people are talking about different brain regions. Many parietal and frontal regions are famously multi-function. In contrast, face patches in humans and monkeys (and other category-specific regions) are highly domain specific.

Earl K. Miller

@MillerLabMIT

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@DrYohanJohn Only if you define "modular" in the loose sense. Strict specificity is not supported by neurophysiology. "Motion/space" area LIP also does object categorization. "Color/shape" area V4 also does motion. Mixed selectivity neurons are all over cortex.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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Exactly so @BevilConway . US support is enabling and our tax dollars are funding an extreme humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Call your reps now to demand conditionalization of US aid to Israel on a stop to bombardment of civilians and blockage from food water and electricity!

Bevil Conway

@BevilConway

7 months

I’m on this platform for science, education, art, color, & career discussion. But I can’t be silent: We are witnessing a greater horror than any seen in real time in history. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. We must condemn all violence, or humanity dies.

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Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]

@Nancy_Kanwisher

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On today, Holocaust Remembrance Day, listen to this courageous and clear-thinking Holocaust survivor

Double Down News

@DoubleDownNews

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“I saw In Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanise others, as the Nazis dehumanise me, the dominant group must first dehumanise themselves, the same holds nowadays for Israel. I am appalled about how hateful, how dehumanised, that they do not see any human aspect…

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