The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

More powerful tools for understanding the brain. 🧠🔍 Today, comprehensive, cross-species developing brain cell atlases were released to help advance health and disease research. 🧵 #studyBRAIN #BICAN

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

It’s truly wild how dumb he thinks we all are

Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman.bsky.social). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 . www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

🧵 1/5 Thanks, Trump. Because only you could turn a shutdown into an asbestos awareness week. 🎉 #EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

Director Bhattacharya has repeatedly spoken about his commitment to early career scientists. This commitment is not evidence in these data. 10/12

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Amazing to see solar generate a record 39% of California’s electricity from January through July. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca

For MAGA, facts are pesky things

nice! Hope it's open source too 😆

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

All this raises the question: why should profits for investors be given priority over affordable, clean energy for all? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Weird right? He used to support the first amendment

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I DID have Sen Rand Paul stands up for the Constitution and the rule of law on my bingo card! [I had 500 bingo cards printed with different names in the desperate hope that somebody would do it.]

In a year of highly unreliable federal funding, scientists say they're stressed about spending precious grant dollars on fees imposed by billion-dollar publishers like Springer Nature and Elsevier. “They’re responsible to shareholders, and not to the research community,” says an open-science expert.

Ignorance is the powerhouse of MAHA

“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”

Nope. tos.org/oceanography...

I'm pleased to introduce a full set of Congressional *and* legislative report cards, courtesy of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. An enormous amount of work, the culmination of several years of development. Check it out! samwang.substack.com/p/redistrict...

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content

Jim will be an everlasting influence to many of us. His curiosity and energy for science, as well as his kindness, were truly inspiring.

Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.

With x-ray microtomography, researchers created a full 3D model of a half-billion-year-old trilobite. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lsH3CP #ScienceMagArchives

Slightly diminish a band: Vampire Friday Night

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

Lots to be furious and baffled by in here, but this stood out as particularly pernicious for stability in any research program

New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including: -a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care -a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm so tired of winning 😔

NIH funding generates double the return in biomedical revenue. Budget cuts threaten new medicines, patents, and life-saving treatments. #ResearchFunding #SaveResearchFunding #UCSanDiego #UCSD #NIH

Savvy operative types in DC truly believed then and believe now that average Americans are too dumb to understand how government works or why it exists. Educating and defending the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—with its profound impact on people for negligible taxpayer cost—was a layup.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

Absolutely insane to treat NSF like this

Here's a 2013 throwback:

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.