The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

NINDS has rescinded a policy that required extra Council level review/scrutiny for awards to any PI who had $1.5Million in total- a halving of the payline, possibility of denial, etc grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup. That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

Not a great email to get leaving on a Friday. “Really sorry I’ll be out of town so I’ll miss your talk on Monday.” Me to myself: I have a talk on Monday??? The transition from Assistant to Full Prof may be from being nervous about talks for weeks before to completely forgetting you had one.

Newest paper! mSDF-DFT: An ultra-low energy discrete Fourier transform architecture for closed-loop neural sensing in the Journal of Systems Architecture. Everyone uses Fourier transforms in online neural signal processing. We made it more efficient! doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

Today's anti-science pairing

Department Grand Rounds on documentation for reimbursement today. As a non-MD myself, my MD colleagues kept joking "this must be fascinating for you". It was fascinating as someone who designs tech to help MDs. But as a non-MD, I'd like to say on behalf of the rest of us: "I am so, so sorry..."

This is about LLMs and comparing activations to large-scale recording in brains

I asked #GoogleAI "What do #Bannon, #Lutnick, #Musk and #Dershowitz have in common?" with zero context. It immediately made the connection between both #Trump and #Epstein. Yet the media has missed Trump preferentially works with MANY people with clear ties to Epstein. #kompromat

Let’s see, #Dershowitz, #Musk, #Bannon, and #Lutnick all tried to go to the #epstein island. Remind me, who else do they all have in common? #trump At this point, there is zero way that is a coincidence. It seems like Trump only hired people with the mutual connection to Epstein in common.

I have a feeling that more American states would vote to join Canada right now than there are provinces keen to head the other way…

Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: pull down your pants and slide on the ice

The irony of all this is, the Trump administration is EXACTLY why the #2nd Amendment was written.

Precision Neuroscience is excited to partner with Medtronic to advance neurosurgical innovation. The companies will co-develop a solution that pairs our Layer 7™ cortical interface with Medtronic's StealthStation™ surgical navigation system. Read more below. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Join us in Italy to hear all the latest on Neuroelectronic Interfaces! We have an amazing group of speakers. Only a few slots remains, so apply today! www.grc.org/neuroelectro...

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.