U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

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...

Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Excited to share the first 2(!) preprints from the Kebschull Lab. The amazing @hyopilkim.bsky.social developed MAPseq2 & POINTseq and used them to map the dopaminergic cells of VTA and SNc. tl;dr MAPseq2=10x cheaper, 4x better; POINTseq=easy cell type specific barcoding; DA neurons=very cool.

SLAy-ing oversplitting errors in high-density electrophysiology spike sorting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660590v1

Join me tomorrow June 11 2-3 ET for an @apsphysics.bsky.social‬ webinar with co-authors Andrea Liu and Sidney Nagel about how scientists can speak up for the rights of scientists, the independence of our institutions and the rule of law. Register here: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

3D printing has a wide variety of applications, from birthday present gimmicks to usage in state-of-the-art science projects, but did you know the technology has its roots in government-funded reseacrh? Read more: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...

Did you know that naloxone, a treatment to reverse opioid overdoses, was originally developed thanks to publicly funded basic research? The National Institute for Drug Abuse figured out how to administer the drug via a nasal spray. Learn more here: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...

Before there was Minecraft or Fortnite, there was Tennis for Two, a simple tennis simulation played on an oscilloscope. It was originally designed by William Higinbotham at the publicly funded Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958. Learn more here: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...

Did you know closed captioning began as a government funded endeavor? It was originally developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide more equal access to emergency broadcasts. Learn more here: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...

Wonder what kind of innovations publicly funded science has generated? Look no further than the device you may be reading this post on! Touchscreens started as a NSF funded thesis project at the University of Delaware. Learn more at: publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202...

The joy of a new baby can turn into a nightmare when the mom develops postpartum depression. Federally funded research developed a new fast acting medicine to help those moms. publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202... Ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives

Do you remember the movie Awakenings? The miracle drug that treated those locked-in patients was L-Dopa, developed with NIH funding, & the gold standard for treating Parkinson’s disease. publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/202... Ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TOMORROW 12pm PT/3pm ET, academic workers across the country are organizing to call Senators and Representatives, particularly from historically “red” districts, to sign onto to letters supporting federal research funding. Register here to join the phonebank: form.laborbase.org/251246245216...

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

CREIMBO: Cross-Regional Ensemble Interactions in Multi-view Brain Observations Noga Mudrik, Ryan Ly, Oliver Ruebel, and Adam S. Charles arxiv.org/abs/2405.17395

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

WE JUST GOT DOGE’D no funding for this year. We have to cancel the program and email 450 applicants there will be no REU program in physics at MSU. First time in 20+ years. I’m fucking livid, y’all.

Today's Haiku ------------------- The rich man promised that he would quickly lose weight. He cut off his limbs.

Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

We have to stand up for science! Anyone who can join these rallies and believes that US science must be protected should come! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

my thoughts on the destructive chaos targeting university research right now. Btw I've left @forbes and moved to @SubstackInc, where all my content is free: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

My colleague in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University put together a very articulate description of what is going on in science and why we should care. I recommend reading this piece by @stevensalzberg.bsky.social stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

"NIH admit freezing is illegal, will resume issuing grants" popular.info/p/breaking-n...

Solution to "Everything Everywhere" -> It's only visual coding if it comes from the visual areas of the brain. Otherwise it's just sparkling sensory information.

Going to be in SF these next two days at #PHOTONICSWEST . Stop by the NeuroImaging session this afternoon to hear about our new approach to high-speed imaging: Neuroimaging by Oblique Random Acquisition (NORA). Talk is today at 2:50PM Pacific time!

My kids only color in the most prestigious of coloring books

Our paper on ketamine’s effect on astrocytes and behavior is out in Neuron by Marc Duque, Alex Chen, Eric Hsu, and colleagues @marcduque.bsky.social @alexbchen.bsky.social @ehsu6.bsky.social, with the Engert, Fishman, & Bergles labs, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NeurIPS paper: Excited for our work (with Iuliia Dmitrieva+Sergey Babkin) on "realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis" arxiv.org/abs/2405.15701 to be presented tomorrow (Thu 4:30-7:30PM). realSEUDO is a fully on-line method for cell detection and activity estimation that runs at >30Hz.

At NeurIPS and care about dynamical systems models for neuroscience? Come check out Yenho Chen presenting his poster on "Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics" on Wed at 4:30pm (#3910).

The preprint with full details is here: arxiv.org/abs/2408.16862 It's a great collaboration with @baselesspursuit.bsky.social @salagapan.bsky.social Noga Mudrik and Kyle Johnsen

Excited to share our NeurIPS spotlight paper that develops cell-type dynamical systems to understand the effects of neural perturbations, and roles of distinct cell classes in a neural circuit! Joint work w/ @dikshagup.bsky.social , Carlos Brody, @jpillowtime.bsky.social . (Details below)

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

We are hiring at NYU! An Assistant Professor position between the Department of Biology and the Center for Neural Science. apply.interfolio.com/160048 Deadline Jan 8th Please re-post / re-Sky / re-Blue...just tell people

The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

Oh - that's right - she teaches a whole course about it! nivlab.princeton.edu/courses/

Congratulations to all @johnshopkins.bsky.social researchers participating in #NeurIPS2024! Check out all @johnshopkins.bsky.social accepted papers, tutorials, and workshops at ai.jhu.edu/news/johns-h....

The Center for Neural Science at NYU is aiming to add another computational neuroscientist to our community: apply.interfolio.com/157767 Come join us! Deadline 31 Dec 2024

Check out our database of 47 POSTDOCTORAL fellowships in cancer/oncology. For each fellowship, we provide a brief description, link to opportunity, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download this database here (Excel file): research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... Good luck!

Why should you trust me over that post on Reddit? Well, I've handled countless papers as editor, reviewer and author, so I've seen the process from all sides and with many publishers. 2/12

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Finally, you may be thinking, "Ed, read the room. No way I want to work for the federal government right now." I'm not going to comment on that more broadly, but I will say at NEI we're trying to help people see or see better and have a higher quality of life. That shouldn't be controversial.