I was running down the road, trying to loosen my load. I’ve got 7 Heat and Mass Transfer problems on my mind. 4 about conduction, 2 about convection, 1 where I just find the time.

Can brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) one day record our dreams? How do they move a cursor with thought alone? What does it really take to implant a brain chip? Watch the latest episode of Wired's Tech Support series on Youtube below to find out! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Shutting down the war on cancer. “New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…” Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article. 🧪

Really curious how this #ArchManning kid does today. He may have come from nowhere without a lot of attention, but I’ve got a feeling about him. And as always, screw ‘La’ #OhioState.

@riceneuro.bsky.social researcher Jacob Robinson @jacobrobinson.bsky.social and his team are developing next-gen wireless miniature bioelectric implants that are opening doors to new treatments for a multitude of chronic conditions. Read more about their recently published work here: bit.ly/45VfTi5

🚨🇺🇸 RED ALERT: Chinese gov’s dumping $47B+ into brain-computer interfaces to CRUSH US tech by 2030, while we’re stuck at $0.2B from DARPA/NIH/NSF! They’re stealing OUR jobs & security! DEMAND $20B/yr NOW to back USA Neurotech! www.wired.com/story/china-... #AmericaFirst #TechWar #NIH #NSF #DARPA

Micah Parsons for two firsts and Kenny Clark??? To quote Brad Pitt’s character from Inglorious Bastards: “I'd make that deal. How about you? You make that deal? - I'd make that deal. I don't blame you. Damn good deal.” #gopackers

If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.

Patriots! NIH cuts kill cures for cancer, HIV, opioid research, hitting red states like hardest with lost job & lost cures for you kids. Longer, costly waits for care. Rural families pay the price. This ain't America First. it's hurting real Americans! Demand better! #NIHcuts

"The ideas and technologies that are being destroyed today, ... some of them irreversibly, those are the cures that would have been present 20 years from now." "It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20, or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

SCOTUS letting NIH pause $783M in grants screws taxpayers! $1.4B of OUR money already spent is wasted if stopped. Kills 🇺🇸 scientist & supplier jobs, lets China beat us in medical breakthroughs. This isn’t draining the swamp, it’s draining our wallets! #AmericaFirst www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g...

Playing around with analogies: LLMs are going to be like microwaves: an initially-amazing technology that becomes pervasive, but ends up mostly being used for a mediocre simalcrum of real cooking, churning out fast easy stuff while highlighting just how important are expert cooks and great meals.

"The field of AI safety is also closely linked with neuroscience, because understanding how human neural networks create bias can also help us understand how AI networks create bias."

The real irony is, even when viewed in his most favorable light, #musk is at best Thomas Edison in the story of Nikola Tesla.

This is an excellent explainer about the US scientific ecosystem. It covers a lot of points I often hear non-scientists asking about: about talent, the dynamics of the academic research environment, Germany, the USSR, history of NSF, NIH. Worth a read. 1/

Training to run the 5.6 mile degree dash with my grad students who are 25 years younger, I am yet again struck by the fact that if there even is such a thing as a runner’s high, my dealer sold me some serious weak-ass sh!t.

Big win for American health & jobs! Senate panel boosts NIH budget by $400M, rejecting 40% cut. NIH research saves lives, fuels innovation, & returns $2.20 per $1 spent. MAGA taxpayers, this is YOUR win! Call your reps & keep pushing for science! #NIHFunding #AmericaFirst

German BCI startup CorTec announces first in-human use of a fully implanted ECoG grid 🇩🇪🧠 The Seattle-based trial, led by Jeffrey Ojemann (U Washington) and Steven Cramer (UCLA), tests if cortical stimulation can aid upper limb recovery of stroke patients. #neuroskyence #neuropapers

Basic science is declining, hurting American jobs, security & our kids’ future. This started pre-Trump. Cuts now will tank biomedical, manufacturing & defense tech. Tell Congress: Fund science to keep America #1! #AmericaFirst #Jobs

This isn't a done deal, but it also shows how important and impactful our advocacy as scientists can be. I would much rather go back to posting about cool science and neurotech. But now is the time to get even louder to get this over the finish line. lnkd.in/ga4ZFw-v

This isn't a done deal, but it also shows how important and impactful our advocacy as scientists can be. Now is the time to get even louder to get this over the finish line. www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work www.notus.org/climate-envi...

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know. ⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget. Personal examples help. My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

🚨 NIH budget cuts threaten America’s defense! 40% slashes for 2026 gut labs that beat COVID with Warp Speed vaccines. We lose scientists, strength & readiness for the next crisis. China gains, we weaken. Protect NIH funding... keep USA #1! #NationalDefense #Biodefense #NIH #America #Innovation

Transparency wins! OMB’s Russell Vought tried to pause $15B in NIH research funding on 7/29/25, but WSJ’s reporting & public outcry forced a reversal in hours. Taxpayers win with protected health research & jobs. Speak up, share info, ignore the naysayers! #ScienceMatters #TaxpayerWin #NIH

The NIH was healthiest when pay lines were in the 20th percentile range. We are headed into an environment where pay lines are in the 5% range. In my entire career, I’ve only had 3 grants that scored better than 5%. And my lab is considered a successful one. This is going to destroy science.

PATRIOTS! The Senate’s NIH vote on 7/31 could lock in a disastrous multi-year funding policy, slashing $7B from research. It KILLS jobs in PA, AL, WV, WASTES your tax dollars, hikes healthcare costs, & lets China win in science. #SaveNIH #AmericaFirst

New preprint led by co-first authors Jennifer Perrault and Keith Kozma and co-last authors Aaron Dingle and Aaron Suminski from the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering (WITNE). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”

Trump's budget plan “would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation” & ... “is threatening not only science but the American public. If approved by Congress, it will make the public less safe, poorer and sicker.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

I wouldn’t have thought #Dunning-Kruger could be implemented as a system of government, but here we are.

NIH’s 2025 policy on animal testing grants worries neuroscientists. Organoids & in silico models can’t yet replicate glymphatic systems for brain implants or complex vision circuits. Strict animal model justifications may delay funding & discoveries. #Neuroscience #NIH

I am very proud that the public, through NIH, has built such a powerful and successful enterprise to understand and treat diseases like cancer. I am very sad that this research enterprise at NIH is suffering such damage. That’s bad for patients, bad for the economy, bad for all of us. 🧪

Difficult to overstate this. It seems that many in core science and math fields feel that they will be able to hunker down and wait, but the infrastructure for ALL science is being diminished. This will diminish US higher ed in ways that will not be apparent for another 12-18 months.

News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings. “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

Towards Optimizing Target Engagement in Non-Invasive Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation: Anatomical Characterization and Computational Modeling of the Human Trigeminal Nerve https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.19.660375v1

Very flattering free article by Victor Pikov in Neurotech Reports discussing our new paper. “They may have developed a solution toward a holy grail of bioelectronic medicine: small-fiber-selective vagus nerve stimulation" www.neurotechreports.com/pages/kHz-bl...

📆Save the date! 📆 Women in Neural Engineering (WINE) will be hosting another panel & social along-side the IEEE NER and SfN meetings. Saturday November 15th, 2025, 6:30pm Come discuss how researchers can use our voices to advocate for ourselves & our work, and meet fellow neural engineers!

The original members of NWA were Easy E, Ice Cube, Arabian Prince, with DJ Yella and MC Ren joining later.

Pocket rescissions could hurt everyday Americans! Withholding funds for programs like education & health risks job losses for federal workers & contractors. A gov’t shutdown looms, delaying benefits & hitting local businesses. This undermines our workers & communities! #Jobs #Economy

New paper led by Cuong Luu and Aaron Suminski of the Wisconsin Institute of Translational Neuroengineering. They evaluate Cala Health wristworn transcutaneous afferent patterned stimulation using thalamic recordings as part of existing DBS procedures. www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new preprint showing that at the most common electrode implant location, the sympathetic trunk is frequently conjoined with the vagus within the carotid sheath in rodents. This may help explain complicated #vagusnervestimulation dosing for multiple conditions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The disruptions to NIH and NSF since January 21, 2025, have likely cost taxpayers $10 billion annual economic impact due to reduced research activity. Long-term costs could reach tens of billions if the U.S. loses its scientific edge.

Elect a bigoted, mysogenistic, white nationalist goverment and this is what happens. Shame on them all.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Let me get this straight. The US was so bad when led by qualified professionals, you think putting unqualified people in charge en masse is a good idea? Isn't that like saying I'm going to make the Cleveland Browns a winner by replacing the players with girl scouts who have never played football?

You don’t get out of debt by refusing to buy gas for your car to get to work.