Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

For you NIH folks, two interesting announcements. 1) no more LOIs. 2) No more needing permission to apply with a budget of over $500K per year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

DC people, Saturday, December 6 is my last IRL event of 2025. P street between 20-21st

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

I hate that negativity gets all the amplification by social media algorithms. Let’s amplify LOVE instead. I am beaming love at you. Right now. Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.

for everyone visiting their parents who are getting weird ideas from the machine they never turn off, and it's getting harder to ignore them, and fixing the machine will not solve the problem: "curb" or "kerb" are both fine if they will notice it on the curb, they may not check the recycling bin

Updated guidance on NIH grant application due dates (10/1/2025-12/5/2025), along with some other Info. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The Cognition, Aging, and Speech Communication conference conference will take place May 6-9 at Washington University in St. Louis. (This conference combines the highly successful Aging and Speech Communication and CHSCOM conferences.) Looks fantastic! sites.wustl.edu/casc/

In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.

How our foray into acute neural recordings from the frontopolar cortex started. Check out Kati Rothenhoefer’s LBP028 poster this afternoon (11/16) to learn about how it’s going. #sfn25 #sfn2025

Will you be at #SfN25? Don’t miss these lectures: 📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN) 📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM) 📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM) #KavliNeuro

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Pack rain gear if you are going to #SfN2025

If you’re coming to #SfN2025, check out the San Diego Symphony while you’re here in their gorgeous renovated hall close to the convention Ctr. Great programs! I’ll be at the concerts on Nov 15, 22, and 23 (w labbies). Come say hi if you spot me there. www.sandiegosymphony.org/tickets-even...

The NIH passed three major #NIHGrant submission deadlines during the shutdown with a fourth hitting on Monday. There is a huge backlog of proposals needing to be referred to study sections and ICs for potential funding.

CSR, which handles this process, is no doubt missing a lot of employees due to the doge shenanigans. Be patient (I remind myself) if your #NIHgrant application remains in limbo for a few weeks.

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

What a day to find out my postdoc topic was item 2 on this guy’s list of Deep Thoughts.

Check out our posters at #SfN25 on Tuesday AM! We have lots to share and would love you all to stop by!

More new NIH institute and center director positions posted with a closing date of 11/26/25. hr.nih.gov/careers/open... These include the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ... 1/3

My my, hey hey…🎵

Up to 323 cancelled CSR study sections. That's more than the 204 sections cancelled earlier this year. Rescheduling is going to be a hot mess with NIH staff reductions and study section members heading into finals and holidays that limit availability. 🧪

Folks at SfN come see the first Fraser Lab poster ever at FF6 on Tuesday Nov 18, 8am. Serena Miller has oodles of data to share on a new direction for us. Also, that day happens to be my birthday so you have to come say hi or else

I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”

Really disappointing that our #NIH colleagues will NOT be at @sfn.org this year, will NOT be discussing science, will NOT be advising us on grants, will NOT be sharing results or advancing research. 🤐

Please help spread the word to all who will be in San Diego on Sunday, Nov. 16th. As part of SFN, SFN's scicomm arm is sponsoring an event. It's me, Shrek Chalasani (Salk), Kumar Narayanan (UIowa) and the brainfacts.org team. Short talks; trivia; lots of fun. Join us! It's free. Register here.

I also want to point out that this work was entirely funded by NIH through the HEAL Initiative. The future of HEAL is somewhat uncertain right now and I hope this paper will play a small role in convincing folks that this work is important and will have an impact on pain science and treatment.

A New Thread on NIH Forward Funding I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25. This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right. 1/25

Pretty sure I’ve published a figure in each of these styles.

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word! On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research. It's free! Register here: burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

Is anyone a fan of the new online reviews for NIH study section? I just spent 1hr writing a review online & then the website crashed. It did not autosave anything, I lost all of that work!!!

“A lot of things need to work ALL the time. Who needs the stress of learning a new interface when you’re just trying to wash your hands or find the handle of a car door? The end goal of many useful innovations is to be able to take them for granted.” -Vince Mancini open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

Happy Halloween

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

🧵1/7. More blows to science. Dr. Rachel Riley, a 33 year-old DOGE staffer and former McKinsey consultant, replaced a Rear Admiral as the head of the Office of Naval Research. The ONR, with a budget over $2B, oversees Navy and Marine Corps research programs in science and technology.

Editorial - From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected. In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different. 🧪🧠💉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

It's amazing that even in a story about monkeys, cops will just lie about important shit. "The Jasper County Sheriff's Office originally said the monkeys carried hepatitis C, herpes and COVID. Tulane officials stressed that the animals were not diseased or infectious."

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

Reviewing grants and some of these folks could benefit from attending our graduate level grants class, especially the presentation on figures. I’m seeing lots of examples of what not to do. Poor legends, missing legends, images or text too small. Fun. 🫠

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...