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Retraction stories can be a challenge to illustrate, so I'm working with photographer Richard Drury to concept images that fit the bill: Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication:
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Alzheimer’s paper retracted over apparent image duplication
The 2009 Neurobiology of Disease paper touted gelsolin’s ability to reduce amyloid burden.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/alzheimers-paper-retracted-over-apparent-image-duplication/
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Check out Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators by Michele Rosenthal on
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Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators
We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dialmformichele/armadillo-stock?ref=project_bsky
7 days ago
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Marvelous art by Ibrahim Rayintakath graces today's essay: Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality. Words by Luiz Pessoa:
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Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/beyond-newtonian-causation-in-neuroscience-embracing-complex-causality/
7 days ago
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Dynamic, compact art from Maria Cortez for today's article: International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever by
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International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever
These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in...
https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/international-scientific-collaboration-is-more-necessary-yet-more-challenging-than-ever/
14 days ago
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Fresh collage by Lucie Wimetz featuring Patricia Bath and Herman Branson: Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education. By
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A few weeks ago, illustrator Yihui Chang sent me an excellent cold email pitch. Showcasing her first illo
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: "Emotion research has a communication conundrum
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unpacks the different rationales and invites experts to chime in."
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Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-picture/emotion-research-has-a-communication-conundrum/
24 days ago
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Juicy art @ Ariel Davis for today's essay: Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’? @ Ben Dichter
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from
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Transmitter. A classic editor vs AD dilemma: I wanted vibes and they wanted code. We met in the middle:
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about 1 month ago
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Fauvist vibes from Eoin Ryan for
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essay: Deleting data will erase years of valuable brain research Open datasets have pushed science forward, but new federal restrictions put research in jeopardy
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Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research
An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/open-neuroscience/deleting-data-or-stopping-its-collection-will-erase-years-of-valuable-brain-research/
about 1 month ago
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Taylor Roades portraits shine for "Up and out with Peggy Mason" by Sydney Wyatt. Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course:
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Up and out with Peggy Mason
Mason helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field, but now she’s changing course.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/empathy/up-and-out-with-peggy-mason/
about 1 month ago
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Graceful art from Sunnu Rebecca Choi for today's news from Katie Moisse: The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes:
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The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes
Grouping people with autism based on shared features, genetics and co-occurring conditions may improve clinical trial outcomes, researchers say.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/the-spectrum-goes-multidimensional-in-search-of-autism-subtypes/
about 2 months ago
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Joyous art by Julien Posture for today's essay This paper changed my life: Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations By Abigail Person for
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Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
This 2002 Nature paper by Michael Fee and colleagues revealed elegant neural mechanisms controlling the timing of naturally learned behavior.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-changed-my-life/this-paper-changed-my-life-abigail-person-on-birdsong-feed-forward-circuits-and-convergent-computations/
about 2 months ago
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Impressionistic art by Enigmatriz: Babies, bees and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness to truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems. Tim Bayne for
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about 2 months ago
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Sharp art by Jon Han for today's essay: The challenge of defining a neural population: Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics. By Mark Humphries for
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The challenge of defining a neural population
Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/the-challenge-of-defining-a-neural-population/
about 2 months ago
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Architectural and biological shapes mix in Kathleen Fu illustration for Megan Peters and Bradley Roberts essay via
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: How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
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How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/education/how-to-build-a-truly-global-computational-neuroscience-community/
2 months ago
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Savory art Julien Posture for today's essay by Victoria Abraira for The Transmitter: This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior:
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This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior
The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-changed-my-life/this-paper-changed-my-life-victoria-abraira-on-a-tasty-link-between-circuits-and-behavior/
2 months ago
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Trippy art with AI assist from photographer Danielle Ezzo for today's essay by Bing Wen Brunton and John Tuthill: Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment:
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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment
Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/breaking-the-jar-why-neuroai-needs-embodiment/
2 months ago
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Splendid illustration by Eoin Ryan for today's essay
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: Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective by Karl Farrow and Katja Reinhard:
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Dramatic collage art by Julien Pacaud for today's essay; Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning:
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/
3 months ago
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I love the wobbly lines in Daniel Barreto's art for Ben Dichter's essay: "Neuroscience’s open-data revolution is just getting started" Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science and reduce costs via
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We sometimes get art made by scientists-shout out to Matthew Van De Poll his in today's news: It shows Drosophila on a ball, with waves of color hitting it. "Drosophila, like vertebrates, filter sensory information during sleep"
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3 months ago
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Popping photo art by Margeaux Walter for Ashley Juavinett's How to teach this paper: ‘Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia' Liddelow and collaborators identified the factors that transform astrocytes from their helpful to harmful.
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3 months ago
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Ravishing art by Eoin Ryan for today's article
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: Building a climate neuroscience subfield: Angie Michaiel from the Kavli Foundation talks research on climate change and the nervous system.
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Building a climate neuroscience subfield: Q&A with Angie Michaiel
Michaiel, a program officer at the Kavli Foundation, shares what it took to cultivate research on the relationship between climate change and the nervous system.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/building-a-climate-neuroscience-subfield-qa-with-angie-michaiel/
3 months ago
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Lovely portraits from Jillian Clark for today's profile of Diego Bohórquez: His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication:
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By Sydney Wyatt for
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3 months ago
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I felt honored to create the art for this important story by Claudia Lopez Lloreda: NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training Via
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3 months ago
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Illustrator Julien Posture combines pure visual pleasure and information for Bradley Dickerson's essay on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his current research. via
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This paper changed my life: Bradley Dickerson on how a 1940s fly neuroanatomy paper influences his research to this day
This classic paper by zoologist John Pringle describes the haltere—a small structure in flies that plays a crucial role in flight control. It taught me to think about circuits and behavior as greater…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-changed-my-life/this-paper-changed-my-life-bradley-dickerson-on-how-a-1940s-fly-neuroanatomy-paper-influences-his-research-to-this-day
3 months ago
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Electric art by Saiman Chow for today's essay: Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease. by Michael A. Yassa
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Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease
To truly understand Alzheimer’s disease, we may need to take a systems approach, in which inflammation, vascular injury, impaired glucose metabolism and other factors interact in complex ways.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-disease/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-inside-the-chaos-of-alzheimers-disease/
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Conceptual still life I whipped up for today's news about pseudoreplication by Lauren Schenkman for
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: Sounding the alarm on pseudoreplication: Q&A with Constantinos Eleftheriou and Peter Kind:
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4 months ago
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Elegant art from Sunnu Rebecca Choi for Sheena Josselyn's essay: On the importance of reading (just not too much). The real fun of being a neuroscientist is to think big and take intellectual risks:
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On the importance of reading (just not too much)
The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/on-the-importance-of-reading-just-not-too-much/
4 months ago
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So happy with this gorgeous and informative graphic on cortical layers created by Ramin Rahni for Laurentius Huber's essay:
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4 months ago
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Brain art collage by Mari Fouz for Laurentius Huber's essay: To understand the brain as a network organ, we must image cortical layers. via
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Imaging cortical layers to understand brain as network organ
This spatial scale, bridging cells and brain areas, has been overlooked in human brain research. But advances in fMRI technology are changing that.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fmri/to-understand-the-brain-as-a-network-organ-we-must-image-cortical-layers/
4 months ago
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Sumptuous art Ibrahim Rayintakath suggests phases of development for "Rethinking how neural activity sculpts critical periods" By Gregg Wildenberg:
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Rethinking how neural activity sculpts critical periods
New findings on the role of neural activity in developing circuits are challenging our prior notions about the rules that govern critical periods.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/critical-period/rethinking-how-neural-activity-sculpts-critical-periods/
4 months ago
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Beautiful brain art from Ada Zejun Shen for Dan Goodman's essay "Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots"
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4 months ago
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Loving
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: Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier on
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photos by Toni Greaves:
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Photographing the lab was impossible, so we were lucky to coordinate with The Aquarium Store in Eugene, OR, where scientists shop.
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Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cephalopods-visions-next-frontier/
4 months ago
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Romantic neuron art today from Ibrahim Rayintakath for Learning in living mice defies classic synaptic plasticity rule, by Sydney Wyatt for
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Learning in living mice defies classic synaptic plasticity rule
Donald Hebb’s theory—memorably summarized as “cells that fire together, wire together”—does not explain the shifting hippocampal connections in mice learning to navigate a virtual environment…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/learning/learning-in-living-mice-defies-classic-synaptic-plasticity-rule/
4 months ago
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Congrats to artist Adrià Voltà, chosen by AI-AP for his smart and voluptuous illustration highlighting the focus of
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essay–by conjuring the delicate shape of a brain from the pages of a book.
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4 months ago
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I love the peach / acid green afterimage AI effect in today's art by Danielle Ezzo for the latest from
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Neuro AI series: The BabyLM Challenge: In search of more efficient learning algorithms, researchers look to infants. Alona Fyshe:
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Can babies inspire more efficient learning algorithms?
A competition that trains language models on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, seeks solutions to some of LLM’s major challenges.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-babylm-challenge-in-search-of-more-efficient-learning-algorithms-researchers-look-to-infants/
4 months ago
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Structured illo from Julien Posture for the latest
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This paper changed my life series: Marino Pagan recalls a decision-making study from four titans in the field:
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5 months ago
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Appealing portraits by André Gottschalk for today's news on
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by Paige Miranda : ‘We still exist’: How four neuroscience advocacy groups are navigating federal DEI funding cuts:
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Neuroscience advocacy groups on navigating DEI funding cuts
Minority trainees are losing pillars of support, but grassroots organizations are stepping in to continue championing these early-career researchers.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-exist-how-four-neuroscience-advocacy-groups-are-navigating-federal-dei-funding-cuts/
5 months ago
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Sam Schuman and I created the illo for today's
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news by
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We wanted to show just 2 brains, and to suggest more were missing:
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Exclusive: Recruitment issues jeopardize ambitious plan for human brain atlas
A lack of six new brain donors may stop the project from meeting its goal to pair molecular and cellular data with the functional organization of the cortex.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-mapping/exclusive-recruitment-issues-jeopardize-ambitious-plan-for-human-brain-atlas/
5 months ago
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Lush portraits by
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for today's profile
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How pragmatism and passion drive Fred Volkmar:
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Words by Claudia Wallis
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5 months ago
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Lovely illo by Sunnu Rebecca Choi for timely essay from Lynn Waterhouse for
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: CDC autism prevalence numbers warrant attention—but not in the way RFK Jr. proposes
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5 months ago
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Stylish & smart illo by Julien Posture for today's article
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from Shane Liddelow: This paper changed my life: A game-changing cell culture method transformed the study of astrocytes
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5 months ago
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Ibrahim Rayintakath's luscious illustration was honored by Communication Arts! This art underwent many versions beforehand. The final composition uses a circle to capture the idea of the umwelt of an animal. Full art and the essay
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Super fast illo by Sam Schuman and myself for heavy news by
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: 'Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’. via
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Proposed NIH budget cut threatens ‘massive destruction of American science’
A leaked draft of a Trump administration proposal includes an approximately 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health’s budget and a major reorganization of its 27 institutes and centers.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/proposed-nih-budget-cut-threatens-massive-destruction-of-american-science/
5 months ago
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Subtle color and clean composition shine in today' illo by Sunnu Rebecca Choi for Christian Cazares, Maribel Patiño's essay: As federal funders desert mentorship programs for marginalized students, trainees fill the gap:
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As federal funders desert mentorship programs for marginalized students, trainee-led initiatives fill the gap
Grassroots organizations, led by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, are stepping up to provide neuroscience career training and guidance for students from marginalized backgrounds—and…
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/as-federal-funders-desert-mentorship-programs-for-marginalized-students-trainee-led-initiatives-fill-the-gap/
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Engaging illo by Mari Fouz for Avram Holmes' essay: To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of its silo. from
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Illo collab with Sam Schuman and myself for today's exclusive: NIH nixes funds for several training programs. By Claudia Lopez Lloreda
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NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs
Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/exclusive-nih-nixes-funds-for-several-pre-and-postdoctoral-training-programs/
6 months ago
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Art for
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's funding and firing news comes together fast. A combined effort by Anya Sahni, myself & Sam Schuman for Sydney Wyatt's story: Coding error caused layoffs at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke:
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I love Mackenzie Calle's photos for today's excellent story: Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste by Brady Huggett and Shaena Montanari.
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Thanks to Rafael Yuste and his team, who gamely opened the lab to us
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U.S. health agency purge includes 10 lab heads at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The reasons for selecting these researchers are unclear. By Angie Voyles Askham and Sydney Wyatt with art Sam Schuman and myself:
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U.S. health agency purge includes 10 lab heads at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The reasons for selecting these researchers—who have led work on neuronal migration, dopamine receptors in neuronal signaling and the structure of ion channels, among other areas—remain unclear.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-society/u-s-health-agency-purge-includes-10-lab-heads-at-national-institute-of-neurological-disorders-and-stroke/
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