I'm thrilled that our long-term, multi-disciplinary, multi-lab collaboration on empathy has finally come to fruition. A big kudos to team leaders Mark Davis and Sara Konrath for shepherding this project along as we try to chart a course for empathy research moving forward.

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WHY WE ASK WHY will be released in October and I'll be on the road! Please join me if you're in or near my stops - Warwick's in La Jolla (Oct 1), Labyrinth in Princeton (Oct 7), Porter Square Books in Cambridge (Oct 15), Brown in Providence (Oct 16), and Manny's in SF (Oct 20).

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This special report explores how neuroscientists in Latin America—through sheer grit in the face of numerous obstacles, including lack of infrastructure and funding—shape their work, and how they conduct high-quality research despite those limitations. www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...

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Thanks @lottelambrecht.bsky.social for the interview in the Belgian @standaard.be. We discuss the complex relationship between DNA, behavior, and society, racist pseudoscience from people like Nathan Cofnas & Emil Kirkegaard, and polygenic embryo selection. English: drive.google.com/file/d/1jSpH...

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"Educate people and do good research. That is the best defense against bad research — better than blocking and censorship. Ideas cannot simply be erased."

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