House passed the budget bill. NIH will re-open tomorrow with a budget until 9/30.

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NIH is in a shutdown. The Senate passed a bill that is reasonably good for NIH funding (except that multiyear funding is limited to FY25 levels rather than FY24), but the Senate bound a new 2 week CR for DHS to the funding bill. That forces the House top pass it or start over. 1/

Saying the quiet part out loud. Grad students are striking, or about to, in multiple universities. They mostly want more money and less time required working. But they are creating a very poor economic disincentive. 1/

Choosing to train with someone like Seth would be a VERY good career move.

It is reported that Democrats and Republicans struck a deal. Budget for everything except DHS passes as in the House. DHS gets a short CR once the House returns to pass it.

In the Senate, 7 Republicans voted against cloture on the budget bill. Cloture failed 45-55. Talks are underway to split the bill - DHS and everything else. Pass everything else. Pass a continuing resolution on DHS (which includes ICE) to keep it open. Full year DHS bill would be later.

Translational neuromodulation panels at Winter Brain were great fun. Ferrera did not join for dinner, but the other 7 speakers did. And a few other good people.

Aging macaques bridge the translational gap in perivascular space biology https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.14.699534v1

Vervet monkeys loose in St Louis. Their owners/origin are unknown currently. www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeys...

A new paper on aged macaques came out, some notes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/

He is without a doubt on the list of my top five favorite scientists in Canada.

The Senate put forth a minibus appropriations bill yesterday, but it did not include Labor/HHS which means the NIH budget is still not lined up for a vote. And HHS figures to be problematic with ACA subsidies under debate.

We are leading two panels/symposia on Jan 27th at Winter Brain with a focus on translational neuromodulation that impacts the brain, with most of the work in NHP models. We would love to see you there and expand the scope of our conference panels on this topic in the future.

Portrait: David Schoppik @schoppik.com in Times Square bryanwjones.com/2025/11/port... #Scientist #BalanceScientist

Our new article in Nature Communications, led by Kevin Cheng here at WITNe. Neurotech Reports was kind enough to call this "a solution towards a holy grail of bioelectronic medicine: small fiber selective vagus nerve stimulation." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are leading two panels/symposia on Jan 27th at Winter Brain with a focus on translational neuromodulation that impacts the brain, with most of the work in NHP models. We would love to see you there and expand the scope of our conference panels on this topic in the future.

What is the status of DBS for epilepsy? Find out in our new review/metaanalysis spearheaded by @laurenahart.bsky.social & Garance Meyer in JNNP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40666371/ A 🧵 — please RT for reach! 🙏

"NeuroXess has completed 54 human BCI implantations since its establishment four years ago"

#20Years20Stories Collection 1️⃣9️⃣ Defining moments with @megancarey.bsky.social Megan Carey’s story tells us about big dreams and big ideas that came true. 📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/intangi... 🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...

I am up to four gallons of donations now, with six this year. Each time you donate blood products, you can save lives.

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.

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

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...

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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.