The loss of SNAP, the doubling of premiums, the cancelled flights, the furloughed workers were all the result of GOP House being intentionally out of session. The Senate Democrats got cold feet because we all need to fly home and buy turkeys for Thanksgiving. Everyone lost.

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My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

Submitted a paper revision today. Project started in 2021. Received positive constructive addressable reviews this August. This paper is the best of my career. Working with postdoc @argalloni.bsky.social has been the most rewarding scientific relationship of my career.

Join us for a BTSP mini symposium Tuesday morning of SfN: Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity: Phenomenology, Mechanisms and Role in Learning and Memory www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime. While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open. ➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

Connectome suggests brain’s synaptic weights follow heavy-tailed distributions, yet most analyses of RNNs assume Gaussian connectivity.  🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs. The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/

There is no future for this country as a democracy without Supreme Court reform, as @joshtpm.bsky.social said yesterday. But there is something we can all do now: say the RIFs are obviously illegal, and publicly disagree with SCOTUS. Ask your Congressmembers to say that too.

My reax to the big planned NIH shutdown firing news from @politico.com: The Project 2025 ppl didn’t do big (illegal) NIH firings because they know there would be public outcry. Keep speaking up!

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

Right before the #shutdown, @kffhealthnews.org updated Key Facts on Health Coverage of Immigrants. In most circumstances, undocumented families remain ineligible for #ACA provisions; families typically forgo necessary preventive care and seek ED visits as a last resort. #hspr #immigration

I think I've decided that jupyter notebooks and ChatGPT are the best things that ever happened to early stage development, and the worst things that ever happened to intermediate stage development.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

So no terrorism then?

No Kings-Chicago, IL

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Be safe out there sane, nonviolent American patriots exercising their Constitutionally protected right to peacefully voice their opposition to inhumane policies that don't serve the majority or respect our values. Sane, competent leaders would hear your voices and compromise for the benefit of all.

No other administration has used all available official channels to lie like this.

1/ The chaos at our nation’s public health agencies continues. Last Friday, amidst an ongoing government shutdown, roughly 1,300 CDC employees were fired with no warning.

Things are at a standstill with the govt shutdown, the year has been one of 'constant chaos' at the NIH — & the worst may be yet to come folks said on my panel Read a recap of our talk w/ @jeremymberg.bsky.social @malar0ne.bsky.social & Eric Green here www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/f...

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

I made a video about the shutdown, and why this government worker won’t be a pawn. When the president and Supreme Court are both acting lawlessly, Congress must stand up and stop it. US science is collapsing and Congress needs to act. 🧪 Full video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DP1tXXE...

Right. Congress has powers to use to stop lawlessness in the other branches, as described here 👇👇 It’s also worth reading @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social ’s recent article, describing why we’re here—and the bad future if Congress does not re-assert its power. 1/

This is a fine read about scientists, entrepreneurs, public and private money, and how all these pieces interact in the complex societal system for innovation.

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

After changing the rules of the confirmation process, Senate Republicans confirmed a massive batch of 107 Trump nominees, including Solicitor of Labor Jonathan Berry. A Project 2025 author, he is a threat to all workers -- but especially women.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The #MurdochJournal celebrates the illegitimate court, its legitimization of authoritarianism, and the end of democracy. The Triumph of the Roberts Court www.wsj.com/opinion/chie...

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today. We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I was honored to speak up with my colleagues from across the government to demand Congress fight for the American people.

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel bit.ly/4gRA3yx

We need to restore funding for health care, for science, for research, for education, and for our communities. Democrats will continue to fight for a budget bill that centers working families.

Here's who to vote out of office next opportunity www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The coordinated Hatch Act violations by the White House confirm the lawlessness of this administration. They believe they can ignore the law and Constitution with impunity and the lawless Supreme Court will sign off on it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!