I'm excited to share that I've started my lab @stanford.edu in the Neurobiology Department! neurobiology.stanford.edu/who-we-are/f... #stanford #newPI #neuroscience

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

We're suing the Trump administration over its politically-motivated termination of research grants that has already harmed scientists and our communities. Political ideology shouldn't dictate public health.

What a cute baby!!! I'm so happy decades of investment in biomedical research saved his life and lives of many other babies born with genetic disorders. And he'll likely be a future @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social fan - the best kind of fan 🥰 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Paul Nurse: Musk "has said and instigated things...destroying science...He has behaved in ways that have really damaged the scientific endeavour in the US” www.thetimes.com/article/e13f...

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Please share www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h... "How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk? As patients are cut off from clinical trials? I know I feel outrage" @ardemp.bskyverified.social

Librarians at public libraries "are there to know books, get to know your kid, and find stuff that really supports your family throughout a child’s reading life and lifelong," says librarian Carrie Wolfson. This #NationalLibraryWeek, we’re revisiting last year's top science books for kids.

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects... Abruptly terminating clinical trials... Ignorant and evil www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I often wonder: what do MAGA people think that greatness means? One thing that makes us great, imho, is our scientific innovation, which really is the envy of the world. Breaking it is relatively easy. Rebuilding it will be very, very hard.

Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histscj Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme histochemistry, still used in imaging of 🧵

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What codes for threat imminence in the brain? Lots of places, including the hypothalamus it seems. Very cool study. (h/t @ajshackman.bsky.social ) #neuroscience doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

My friends at Columbia, Harvard, Pittsburg and Penn are fighting to find a cure your mom’s heart disease, your dad’s chronic pain, your niece’s cancer. This administration is fighting against these people, fighting against finding cures and destroying science in America.

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

"That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to. Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen." www.science.org/content/blog...

I had a fun conversation with @dev-journal.bsky.social about my scientific trajectory 🧪, my thoughts on the academic job market, @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social, and the joys and challenges of #newpi life. Thanks to Saanjbati for the interview! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Just yesterday @drnancypadilla.bsky.social's lab published a paper showing that a common behavioral paradigm in systems/behavioral neuroscience, produces distinct results/outcomes in different strains of mice. We should study a diversity of animals/strains and be humble about over generalizations.

My lab studies both lab mice and naked mole rats. There is a belief amongst some that what we discover in mice will be universally true, and what we discover in naked mole rats will be a weird mole rat quirk. I believe this mouse-centric view of biological systems is very limiting.

The Leading Edge Fellows starter pack is now up to 101 Leading Edge Fellows! If you haven't checked it out recently, there are lots of fabulous new postdocs and new PIs to follow!

I truly love @sfchronicle.bsky.social weather coverage "Thanksgiving is just over a week away, but something big is being cooked up off the coast of the Pacific Northwest right now. On the menu? A powerful low-pressure system — a feast of weather unlike anything we’ve seen so far this season."

I was honored to be selected as this year's winner of the Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology. Please check out my essay: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... And the essays of the two other finalists: www.science.org/content/page...

It’s been a few months since I have started using this colorful to-do-list to stay on top of the many tasks of a starting PI. I think much of my relative remained sanity is due to this organization of the seemingly never ending list of tasks. And I’ve been able to cross so many tasks of the list!

If you want to follow awesome women and non-binary early career scientists, the starter pack of Leading Edge Fellows is here! go.bsky.app/He3EAcq