“A sanctuary is not a strategy. It is a capitulation to fear and the political pressure that ignores scientific reality” Well said @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social

Optogenetics so powerful it can relocate the primary visual cortex! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

Just narrowly avoided signing off an email with "Thank you for your hell" but I should have just left it

It's long past time to stop indulging people who think you can meaningfully defend science without also defending democracy and academic freedom and opposing authoritarianism. It's the same fight, otherwise all you're defending is your own status.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

God I love dplyr.

How does neuronal gene expression evolve over time in response to experience? CytoTape will help us find out - a major milestone for neuroscience, providing new ways to study memory & aging 🧠 Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉

I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PREP-aring is worth it: Success of the Case Western Reserve University Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program and its Scholars www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The #AI company blames the store, and they're right – the store should NEVER have hired the AI company. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #facerec #AIEthics #AIBias via @fipr-policy.bsky.social

Besieged by ICE and need whistles? See below. Want to help communities besieged by ICE get whistles? See below.

Fixed at 2025 levels measured across the whole of NIH. Some individual institutes may do more or less.

Ahead of today's hearing with NIH Director Bhattacharya, @sanders.senate.gov released a report on cuts to critical healthcare research. New NIH awards in key health areas were down 16% last year, cutting off innovation for new cures. Read the whole report: www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

In today's 4-hour podcast, we have our first recurring guest and our favorite entrepreneur venture capitalist vampire, Bryan Johnson. We break down how to adapt his vampire PRP facial routine for those with beards and the effects on the #beardmicrobiome. Check it out!

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

New paper out on cortistatin neurons and their role in regulating fear and cortical hyperexcitability in the prelimbic cortex! This one has been a fun ride 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Eternal. m.youtube.com/shorts/uLHt1...

Catherine O’Hara, a Comedy Great from ‘SCTV’ to ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Dead at 71 The celebrated actress was also known for her appearances in the Home Alone movies and many collaborations with Christopher Guest. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

📢 GU Pharmacology & Physiology is hiring! Tenure-track / tenured faculty position at Georgetown University Medical Center. apply.interfolio.com/180562 Please share with your networks.

tfw you went to grad school with one of the "reviewers" in the new CSR "mitigating unfairness" training video 👀

👇New biosketch requirement update. “After evaluating the number and types of recent technical inquiries we received to both the SciENcv and eRA Service Desks, we recognize the difficulties these issues have had on the community’s ability to comply with the original timeline of January 25, 2026.” 👇

Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Love that this post highlights a classic Neuro Monty Pyton theory of Andrew Huberman: “the head shape” theory Congratulations to CBS for hiring their first neurocomedian

Want to help the good people of Minnesota? Read this thread by my good friend and brilliant scientist Dr Fair and do what you can 🙏

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

People outside of Minnesota, in case you are wondering how to help the current situation, this website has many current opportunities to donate and support people who need help in Minnesota. Help pay rent, get groceries, and provide other support for people in hiding. www.standwithminnesota.com

what is reliability, if not explained variance?

A low-variance subspace underlies individual differences in resting state fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.25.701594v1

When they tell you "CBP stays at the border," this is what they mean:

"Non-violent tactics that waste a company’s time or money are really effective. For Enterprise, we’ve made and cancelled car reservations, saying the roads are too icy. At Home Depot... people [lined] up to buy ice scrapers and then getting in line to return them, in a way that clogs the lines."

Hey, I just donated some $ to help ship whistles to areas besieged by ICE. If you have a few extra bucks, you can too: gofund.me/fec65595f

There's a lot to take in today, but here's another outrage we shouldn't let pass by: they keep trying to shutter the public health system, and then reversing when too many people notice. Gotta keep pushing back. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

law roach cast power word: stun tonight on Briar #dragrace

Here is the updated link (sorry for the misdirect): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you saying garlic has a PFC?

Maybe this was a monkey’s paw situation. “Dear monkey’s paw, I want to be published in Nature.” Your wish is my command…

Okay now NOBODY needs to be giving these assholes a bailout from OUR tax money that they TOOK from us after they TOOK our good jobs and left us to scrub floors.

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Lastly, as I have shared with my lab, trainees, be wary of AI searches (Gemini, GROK and Open AI). When you have read the papers, you know that AI is conflating, fabricating and BSing and will pretend until its called out. The cost of not reading maybe more than you can afford.

who did this

A synaptic locus of song learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.699515v1