For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

Don't worry, I'm sure they are already working on a replacement late night host

Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime. bit.ly/transvictimized

🚨New preprint alert🚨 We used closed-loop optogenetics to causally test the importance of inhibitory spike timing in network function and found that manipulating PV+ cell theta phase locking in the dentate gyrus can shift seizure susceptibility (both ways!)

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any community out there has lost their sense of humanity.”

I feel like Florence + the Machine is peak grant writing inspiration music because all of her songs are giving "I'm totally a chaotic mess but I'm really eloquent about it in a way that gives the impression of insight and wisdom so give me a chance here I have Thoughts on Things that are Important"

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray. "Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career. They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort. See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"

Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

Mount Holyoke is an amazing place and their Neuroscience and Behavior program has been growing in leaps and bounds. Highly recommend!

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”

Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

I'm very excited to share the final, published versions of not one, but two papers examining cerebellar network dynamics in the context of healthy behavior and disease states using our new method for chronic, wide-field imaging of cerebellar cortical activity during behavior! (brief lil thread)

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

Judge Young is beyond livid — and fuming. He has another hearing that was supposed to begin minutes ago, and he's still going. "I've never seen a record where racial discrimination is so palpable. I've been on the bench for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this."

After issuing his rulings, Judge Young has some absolutely stark words for the Trump administration. "This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind to not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

Maybe consider removing the paywall from this one, star trib?

Brooklyn park PD are SPECIFICALLY ordered to only approach any in pairs today. Do not go near a solo officer

John Roberts has epilepsy, and reportedly it is severe enough that he does not have a drivers’ license. Real thing: Does Roberts know that all his votes to let Trump dismantle the government are also votes to kill epilepsy research at #NIH that could help him? Someone should make the case to him.

Judge Breyer summarizing the DOJ: “If the president says that there’s a rebellion, then there is a rebellion.” "How is that different from what a monarch is?" "We live in *response* to a monarchy."

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

That is 54, 5-year NIH biomedical research grants. Or 270 years worth of biomedical research.

ARSENAL ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE

Screaming crying throwing up

A high school freshman takes transphobic Maine politicians to task for bullying the trans girl who beat her in a race. Kudos to you, Anelise Feldman.

@ UMN Parking and Transportation Services

Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

Dr. Noor Abdalla will be spending her first Mother's Day as a mom without her husband Mahmoud Khalil, who is still locked up hundreds of miles away from her in ICE detention. He should be holding his son who he hasn't met yet, but he is instead detained without due process by the U.S. government.

The breath I just let out when I read this

You also can’t learn to write good papers without writing bad drafts (or bad papers) so write your own outlines, drafts, and papers!

Postdoc showed some cool exciting preliminary data at lab meeting; it’s taking all my restraint not to follow her around, excitedly badgering her with follow up questions and ideas. How do established PIs regulate these emotions. I fully understand now why you are all crazed data monsters.

oh my word Arsenal WFC

Beyond parody

“Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.” That is 3 times the entire NIH budget www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

anyone who says "we have to hear the judge's account" or "the facts aren't in" or "there are two sides to every story" should get a primary opponent the next day and more calls to their office than they've ever seen.

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

Who decided the timing of road work projects near UMN this year, I just wanna talk

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."