I just completed my service in my NIH study section. Some thoughts - with the disclaimer that these are personal, subjective impressions and do not reflect the opinion of any official body. Other than the one attached to my head. (1/10)

Apply to be a NIH PO. Open application portal, closes June 5th. www.usajobs.gov/job/870714000

A few years back we started a collaboration to try to work out the mechanisms engaged by DBS for depression. Published today we found that it changes functional networks (expected) but also remodels specific white matter tracts (unexpected). Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

Job opening at MIT for a research methodologist to facilitate open science practices and data management across all areas of neuroscience and cognitive science. PhD and some postdoctoral experience required. Please circulate to your networks. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Today's music pick is by Big Daddy Kane, who performs with the Duke Ellington School Orchestra tonight at the Bethesda Theater: www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fu...

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Herbie Hancock showing Quincy Jones how to use the Fairlight CMI synthesizer - one of the first commercially available digital samplers Herbie was an early adopter, using the $80,000 machine to compose and arrange, "Rockit," his classic work of early hip-hop/electro/jazz fusion.

Elsevier: we will join the lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement for AI training. Elsevier: Yes, this AI representation of an ear is an accurate representation for this mathematical model. Fig. 1. Schematic figure representing (...) the cochlea. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Our friends at @arpa-h.bsky.social are looking for multidisciplinary teams for HEARING (Hearing Enhancement through Artificially Intelligent Neurotechnology), a new program focused on developing the first brain-driven, minimally invasive hearing system. arpa-h.gov/news-and-eve... #keeplistening

SEPA R25, to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in (STEM) is published. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

"No, no, great job, you disintegrated the first-ever pedestrian-only planet. You drove a million miles just to ruin a perfectly lovely living space."

✨🧠 Tribe v2, our latest model of human brain responses to sound, sight and language can now be (partly) explored on your phone📱: ▶️demo: aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ 📄paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... 💻code: github.com/facebookrese...

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are an early career NHP researcher (postdoc or asstiant professor) and interested in attending #ACNP2027 please apply. I’ve also rolled off the E&T Committee that reviews these awards and am now an “ambassador” so if anyone wants some advice about applying for travel awards, reach out.

🪰 In the 1930s, USDA paid scientists to study the sex life of the screwworm fly. Congress called it waste. Result: a $250K investment that eradicated a flesh-eating parasite from an entire continent, saved ranchers billions, and cut beef prices 5%. Still in use today.

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

A little widget to play around with the various inputs and outputs that go into soft money research lab finances on a 10-year outlook. sashagusev.github.io/PISim/

Excited to share a new paper from our lab, just in time for Easter, where we characterize how arousal modulates different excitatory cell-types in the auditory cortex! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Now there’s a guy who owns a real tool chest. It’s definitely not a shoebox that he stores in his armoire next to the cat food."

Just a reminder to non-scientists that NIH funds are used for studies for prevention & cures to pretty much all the diseases you can think of, including cancer, heart disease, rare diseases, pregnancy-related conditions like pre-eclampsia, diabetes, childhood development disorders, and so more.

Congrats to all who were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), including @alexchesler.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social! www.aaas.org/page/2025-fe...

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Shame can be good sometimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hey folks, CSR has undergone a massive reorganization. The macro framework is in place and can be viewed online, and the micro details will come in the next couple of rounds. The new framework will structure your application review starting next (summer) round. Worth a peak for applicants!

New preprint: our lab’s first Alzheimer’s paper! “Loss of neuronal population organization links pathology to behavior in a model of Alzheimer's disease” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵1/

I'm sure folks have thoughts..... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Here's a (daily updated) NIH grant listing that doesn't suck: sashagusev.github.io/nih-grants-f...

🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Psychophysics in a moving car - gold standard science? What's My JND? 0.0065 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Seriously people. Don't make me have to blow up your figures on my huge screen to try to read your data when I'm reviewing it. This keeps happening. I'm not superhuman, I don't have super human vision. Be reasonable. Small figures save space in grants but they really piss off reviewers!!!

Funded by NIH + NSF. No private investor funds a 16-week mouse study on OL gene biology. Federal science builds the foundation industry stands on. Neurological disease costs the U.S. $800B/year. This is what the return on that investment looks like. #NIH #NSF #TaxpayerInvestment #Neurotech

UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!

As NIH moves to parent NOFOs another resource for finding out what topics are of interest. grants.nih.gov/funding/find...

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test? In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying. Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free. So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

Kick in a few bucks if you can, but DO NOT SNORT COKE OFF THE TOILET SEATS!!!

NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds. apply.interfolio.com/182074

“Other things I will need are the pan, baking powder, vanilla extract, and a different personality.”

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

On the anniversary of a dark day for U.S. science, please raise a glass for everyone who has come out stronger and encourage those who are still recovering. Here are five stories. 🧪 🔬 💪 www.science.org/content/arti...