My theme song for 2026, for a very specific reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6M...

Our new article in Nature Communications, led by Kevin Cheng here at WITNe. Neurotech Reports was kind enough to call this "a solution towards a holy grail of bioelectronic medicine: small fiber selective vagus nerve stimulation." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“It will take decades to undo the damage they have done and the lifesaving cures and treatments they have set back.” Yes. @murray.senate.gov covers Trump attacks on science, public health, and even on childcare. They must be stopped.

Really sorry to hear this. Can’t stress the importance of having world leading scientists and clinicians direct the institutes and centers at the NIH. Not politically appointed hacks specifically selected because they support party over science.

Very excited to announce the next steps towards translating our Cerebrovascular Pacing technology to human patients: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

We just posted an open access preprint we think is critically important for anyone using microelectrodes for BMIs/BCIs, neuromodulation and/or fundamental science research. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Systematic Errors in DC Offset Measurement and Mitigation at Neurostimulation Electrodes: Causes, Implications and Solutions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.691908v1

Come to Canada

Anyone in favour of science? #Trump #MAGA #health #protest #science #research #humor #PhdChat #HigherEd #medicine #vaccines #AcademicSky

This is a really smart move by Neuralink. Dave is fantastic and brings a wealth of knowledge as the director for the relevant FDA CDRH division handling much of neurotech: neuralink.com/updates/welc...

Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs. www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of… practice?

Speech decoding on the basis of single words has so far been limited to intracranial recordings. Scientists demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive language decoding using EEG and MEG, finding that more training data consistently increases model performance #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI

How do the metabolic waste products get cleared from our brain? And how does this process intersect with the brain's immune system? An exceptional review by @jonykipnis.bsky.social and colleagues cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Recorded talk I recently gave at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds going over the seminal studies regarding the clearance systems of the brain, and our work spanning multiple animal models and humans to understand if neuromodulation may influence the system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7e_...

Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/48Ova76

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.” Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”

22% fewer NIH grants

Pay attention at #NIH to peer review of grant applications. I don't think it's too much to say the keystone of US biomedical science is NIH's Center for Scientific Review. CSR organizes peer review—relying on 25k US scientists. Review helps isolate grantmaking from political interference. But! /1

This. There is no longer any excuse for vaporware. …but this dovetails in an interesting way with the idea a grant has to be half completed in order to get funded.

No surprise the Trump NIH director doesn’t understand how science works—doesn’t get NIH has been *the* world-historic leader in innovation. After all, he’s never actually done any science. Even before his rightwing pundit career 2020-25, he spent his time with economists, not scientists.

This new policy from NIH is concerning. It looks like a way to weaponize administrative burden, one of Russell Vought's favorite moves to break gov't. Background: Program staff / NIH institute directors can move grants around outside peer review order. 1/

As we were saying :/

Driving meaningful progress in neurotechnology requires careful clinical work that bridges scientific discovery & patient care. WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute recently completed its first extended in-human study with Precision’s Layer 7™. Read the news below. wvumedicine.org/news-feed/ne...

President of the United States: my political opponents should be put to death Paper of record:

A race to the brain 🧠 Paradromics has just received FDA IDE approval to implant their micro-electrode array in human participants. The neuralink competitor will soon start recruiting patients with speech/motor impairments at UC Davis, Mass General Hospital and U Michigan #neuroskyence

NIH posted 14 executive leadership jobs with only 2-week windows. SES roles normally stay open 30–45 days for real competition. Two weeks is far below standard practice and often signals a preselected candidate or rushed appointment. Taxpayers deserve transparency. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-xWIe...

Fierce Biotech recently highlighted Precision Neuroscience’s new partnership with SCI Ventures, the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, and other leading spinal cord injury organizations. Read the full article below. www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/prec...

Analogy here to scientists too. Scientist organizing is now a thing, as scientists are realizing under Trump 2.0 that avoiding discussions of power isn’t tenable

Let me get this straight: If I walk outside right now and tell my neighbor “God damn Bob, I’d really love to have a grill like yours!‘, I’ve broken TWO of the Ten Commandments?

New paper alert! Published in the Journal of Neural Engineering! Focal thalamic infrared neural stimulation propagates dynamical transformations in auditory cortex. doi.org/10.1088/1741...

To hell with the emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no brain cells.

Hi all, this headline does not give the right impression of what is going on with these notices. (HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.) 🧵 1/

Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

In a recent Forbes article, “Brains, Gains & Growing Pains: Inside Mount Sinai’s BCI Crystal Ball,” Naveen Rao takes readers inside Mount Sinai's annual Brain–Computer Interface Symposium. Read the full article below. www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...

Astrocytes share the same electrical properties as neurons. They spread electrical signals but don’t spike. So, while only about half the cells spike occasionally, all of them continuously transmit electrical influences. Which, then, is the tail and which is the dog?

Exciting new opportunity at the University of Pittsburgh Neural Engineering Cross-Translation (UP NExT) program @mcapo.bsky.social

I made a video about the shutdown, and why this government worker won’t be a pawn. When the president and Supreme Court are both acting lawlessly, Congress must stand up and stop it. US science is collapsing and Congress needs to act. 🧪 Full video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DP1tXXE...

This is a fine read about scientists, entrepreneurs, public and private money, and how all these pieces interact in the complex societal system for innovation.

NIH cuts save $9-10B short-term, but they’re killing 202K jobs & $46B in red-state economies (TX, FL, OH). $8T healthcare disaster loom, no cancer/Alzheimer’s cures, pricier drugs. Scientists fleeing to China? Bad deal. Fight for NIH! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... #AmericaFirst

New paper on BioRXiv: Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One of the most valuable lessons I've gotten from reviewing grants and papers is deeper empathy for the reviewers. So essential.

True. And much of that was due to government contracts— not just Bell system funding. Fundamental / basic science is a public good that markets do not support well. Only the public, through government, has the time horizon needed to make that investment rational.

🚨 Patriots, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" claims to fix colleges but stomps on 1st Amendment rights. It threatens YOUR jobs by diverting tax $$ to elites. FIRE calls it "McCarthyism 2.0." Fight for free speech & heartland jobs! #AmericaFirst www.thefire.org/news/fire-st...

Proud to talk about defending the Constitution in front of the Capitol this week. We are seeing the greatest assault on our freedoms of our lifetimes. The shredding of the Constitution must stop. The lawlessness must stop. And Congress can and must stop it.

We’re proud to share that Nature Biomedical Engineering has published our foundational scientific report, providing an overview of Precision Neuroscience's system design and capabilities, and our first-in-human data from 2023. Read the full study below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...