Do you want to see what scientists have been working on in animal models of translatable neuromodulation? Stop by our panels at Winter Brain. We would love to see you there (and talk science with you), and we would love to hold similar panels representing all of this subfield in the future.

We are holding two panels at the Winter Conference for Brain Research on Translational Neuromodulation. Mostly NHP work. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US. And we would love to do panels on this topic again in the future. Please come out to Big Sky!

A retinal prosthetic. It certainly makes you wonder if they know what has occurred to the prior technically successful retinal prosthetic companies. finance.yahoo.com/news/neurali...

I visited Mark when I did some work in focal hand dystonia. He was certain our group was wrong. Set out to prove it. Found we were correct... and changed his tune. Great guy, great scientist. He was intramural clinical head at NINDS at the fine iirc. wfneurology.org/activities/n...

For those who have not seen it www.science.org/content/arti...

I saw multiple lectures by Ekman while I was at UCSF and had labmates participate in his experiments. It was really impressive.

I guess for some people, junior scientists are like eggs. If you have a dozen, you can break most of them because you only need a couple to produce an omelet.

The human brain modulates sniffs according to fine-grained perceptual features of odours rdcu.be/eP16z

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

The online betting market over/under for the government re-open is this Wednesday/Thursday.

The election did not really move the online betting market predicted end of the shutdown. The over/under is Nov 18th as of lunchtime on Nov 6.

I review in full the October #Siberian #snow cover & what it may portend for the #winter #PolarVortex (PV). O Canada - PV can't seem to quit Canadian Warmings but what does it mean for Greenland blocking & our weather in the upcoming weeks. Blog is now public: published.aer.com/aoblog/aoblo...

Attention please. Temple Ophthalmology is chaired by an old friend. They have a super competitive office pumpkin carving contest each Halloween. Please HELP!!! Click into the thread and vote for your favorite using the"like" button. I will inform the dept who won the online vote. Retweet!

Attention please. Temple Ophthalmology is chaired by an old friend. They have a super competitive office pumpkin carving contest each Halloween. Please HELP!!! Click into the thread and vote for your favorite using the"like" button. I will inform the dept who won the online vote. Retweet!

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

New HD focused article leveraging multi-modal imaging from our long-standing collaboration with @danielebertoglio.bsky.social and colleagues! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apropos of nothing, I would really like healthcare organizations that think "The Pulse" is a clever title for a newsletter to consider what that name might evoke for members of the LGBTQ community. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_n...

I am beginning to see the light. In the next few weeks, new health care premium amounts will be revealed to voters who enter open enrollment. And that will be that.

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Kalshi, an online betting site, has the shutdown over/under bet at 36.5 days, roughly Nov 5th, for the expected end based on bettor choices. It has dropped over the weekend, perhaps as reports that Republicans are beginning to think $35B/yr for ACA tax credits might be reasonable.

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Cortico-striatal gray matter atrophy and white matter microstructural degradation across the rhesus macaque adult lifespan. @dralisonweiss.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001010

The betting over/under on the shutdown (Kalshi) is currently at 35 days total, which would occur Nov 4th. Polymarket is broadly consistent with the shutdown expected to last past Halloween.

If you've been hearing a lot about "AI Scientists" and wondered how much is real, how much is hype, and what's possible, so have I. So I spent some time thinking about it and this came out. open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams. open.substack.com/pub/thefront...

@sfn.org please consider hosting your next meeting outside of the 🇺🇸

The fiscal year is over. So how was the NIH appropriation committed? A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

Musing at lunch yesterday. Would there be advances in healthcare if, when an endovascular surgeon does a coronary angiogram, they do a head angiogram and vice versa? I mean, if there is stenosis in the coronary RCA, isn't there also possible stenosis in (head) MCA or basilar or PICA or PCA? 1/

Appropriations failure. Non-essential government work is shutdown. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

Fat Bear Week 2025 voting finals are today from noon to 9 pm EDT. Vote your conscience. explore.org/fat-bear-week

Once again, a shutdown appears likely after today 9/30. Please get anything you need from ERA Commons and any communications you may need from SROs and POS. Down the rabbit hole we go….

I have not seen anything new reported but being markets are at 67% for a Wednesday govt shutdown. Scientists remember to grab things you may need from ERA Commons before end of day tomorrow.

The standard for a grand jury is "probable cause" to hold a trial, and not "beyond a reasonable doubt". If a grand jury outcome is not unanimous or nearly so, it is a really bad sign for the prosecution.

10/1 shutdown betting odds down from over 70% to 58% at kalshi and polymarket as Monday meeting at White House is scheduled. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...

Govt shutdown: no new news. Democrats insist on legislation to protect health care in the USA in the case of a continuing resolution or a budget. Republicans want a clean CR with no new protections, and refuse to consider a bipartisan approach. Betting markets on Oct 1 shutdown range 67-70%.

For the scientists out there, please download anything you may need from ERA Commons before Oct 1. If there is a shutdown, it will go dark. SROs and POs will likely not respond to your emails, also, and study sections will not meet. 2/2

Tough talk about aggressive layoffs in nonessential workers in the event of a shutdown has dropped the betting markets to 64%. However, Jeffries and Schumer are holding the line so far. Next Tuesday at midnite, barring new legislation, the US govt will shutdown. www.axios.com/2025/09/25/t...

Note: your favorite SROs and POs will likely be very busy preparing for the shutdown next week. Keep that in mind.

Mike Johnson canceled House floor activities Sept 29-30, which appears to ensure a govt shutdown Oct 1. Betting markets are at 65% chance. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Trump cancels meeting. Shutdown odds in betting markets jump to 70%. In a shutdown, there are no cabinet members reporting to Congress, and no Epstein file activities. I suspect Trump "wants" a shutdown.

Potential concerning. www.cbsnews.com/news/animal-...

I’m waiting for the “jump the shark” moment of this administration, and it appears the Tylenol press conference has a chance of being it.

Shutdown news... democratic leaders from Congress to meet with Trump Thursday. Betting markets drop from 65% to 60% on shutdown next Wednesday 10/1. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It's almost like the author read the book "The Fall of the Faculty" which describes why running universities like businesses is Dumb.

Betting markets are up to 65% chance that the US government has a budget shutdown on Oct 1. Congress is out this week, the Democrats have drawn a line in the sand (reverse Medicaid cuts and tax credit cuts to ACA), and Republicans refuse to accept it. Implications for scientists 1/

The US Congress House schedule shows the next week off. The Senate lists it as state work week. Budget proceedings restart officially on Monday the 29th, but look for deals to be struck this week off the record.

Poorly conceived, vaguely worded, abruptly imposed. There is going to be a total mess in the landscape of H1 visa holders, including foreign postdocs and professors in the US.

An Oct 1 US Shutdown is now at 60% in betting markets. The House passed a clean CR through Nov 21. It failed the 60 vote threshold in the Senate. The Democrat alternative also failed to reach 60. No Senate budget bill or CR exists. And Congress is off next week.