You had questions about the Take Back our Science Rally, and we have answers! If you have more, drop them in the comments. We'll keep posting more as they roll in. See you March 7th! standupforscience.net/march7 (1/11🧵) #science #standupforscience #rally #March7

HEY YOU!!! There's research WE NEED to PROTECT! How you ask? We are rallying NATIONWIDE on SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH to SAVE SCIENCE, PROTECT HEALTH, and DEFEND DEMOCRACY! Join us by visiting standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally, volunteer, host a local rally, or host a pop-up protest!

#chicago Come out this Saturday 1pm at Federal Plaza to Stand Up for Science! Bring your friends! Bring your kids! Being your bench mates! @standupforscience.bsky.social We've got a righteous lineup of speakers, it's going to be 🔥🔥🔥 Spread the word!

Mazel Tov! I’m visiting Chicago for the Fly Meeting and I am trying to wrangle fellow attendees to go to the SUFS rally a mile away… Jack Szostack is on the schedule here.

Nicole Amor. 39 years old. Mother of two. Days away from returning home to Minnesota. 💔 patch.com/minnesota/sa...

The Take Back our Science Rally just 5 days away. FIVE DAYS AWAY! Washington DC and Nationwide. Join at local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at: standupforscience.net/march7 #science #standupforscience #rally #March7

After 5 years of developing, a new preprint from the lab - introducing our workflow for comparative insect connectomics, aimed at democratizing connectomics. @erc.europa.eu @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"never been seen" - maybe not by humans, but I bet species with UV cones in their retinas can see it!

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

So, while we are in the street standing up for science and the scientists who can’t risk standing up for theirselves…you’re what? In your lab? Keeping your head down in “resistance”?* *ppl at risk are not included in this!!! Do better. Grow a spine.

Maybe science organizations don’t want to play outside game. FINE. 1. Apologize to your people for not responding well & 2. Support some activists who are doing the dirty work you can’t be bothered to do. Not a SINGLE science org or society has donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social said it perfectly: now is the moment for people in power to get up and do a little multitasking for the folks in our scientific ecosystem who are most at risk because of the attack on science and democracy. It’s a privilege to get to keep your head down while ICE…

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

Nice to chat with @neilsteinberg.bsky.social at the Sun Times about the next @standupforscience.bsky.social rally coming up on March 7! Read here chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2... Get mobilized here: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it. bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com

The Chicago local chapter of @standupforscience.bsky.social is organizing a rally on March 7. It's more urgent than ever to Stand Up for Science in the US! Join us

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

The chief of NIAMS, Lindsey Criswell, has told her staff that her 5-year leadership appointment had not been renewed, meaning 16 out of 27 NIH institutes and centers will be operating without a permanent director. https://scim.ag/4cr5wHI

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Hey #chicago! We're joining the national Day of Action on March 7 to Stand Up for Science @standupforscience.bsky.social It's time again to show your support for science in the US!

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Boy sounds like a great time to fire tens of thousands of Haitians with TPS working in the healthcare sector, I’m sure that’s going to go well!

We now have a CDC grant tracker and are collecting information on CDC terminations. If your CDC grant was terminated, we need your help to gather data and documents! Please report! grant-witness.us/submit-cdc.h...

A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-... 24/

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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

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I’m very excited to announce that a part of my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! In this paper, we show how spontaneous activity prior to visual experience shapes neural circuits in the retina. (1/11)

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Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two. RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)

Details for the memorial ride for Alex Pretti in Chicago this weekend. - Meet at 1:15pm, Roll at 1:30pm - John Walsh Park (E end of The 606) - Route to come, we will roll @ party pace (casual, no drop) toward the VA on Damen where a memorial is set up for Alex. See you Saturday.

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#HHS unveiled a new childhood vaccination schedule today. The pared-down schedule was developed in secret, not using the normal public science-based process. With the change, the US recommends fewer vaccines than Germany, Israel, Spain, China, & many other countries. www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c...

New story in STAT with data about Early Stage Investigators www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n... 1/4

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Reminder to please reach out if you are interested!

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

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Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social (It’s also our kid’s birthday)

Let's talk about barreleye fishes in family Opisthoproctidae. Take a minute to take in the image below. What look like 'eyes' above the tiny toothless mouth are in fact chemosensory organs equivalent to nostrils. The EYES are the green domes INSIDE THE TRANSPARENT HEAD. And they look *up*...

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing. She was truly one of the best.

Happy Halloween from the Vlasits Lab! Can you guess the species from the eyes? Ping pong ball art by the lab members!

I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉 @karalmckinley.bsky.social We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice. We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵

Such exciting work from @karalmckinley.bsky.social lab. I wonder if this mouse model could be used to study brain changes across the menstrual cycle and associated mood disorders as well.

So excited that a retina neurobiology colleague was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award! Congratulations Teresa Puthussery! news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...