Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Excited to return to Lisbon this June for the epic 3-week Cajal course on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR! 🐀🐟🪰🏃‍♀️🎥🖥📈🧪 Applications are open through Feb 13! Come join us. cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

He waited 40 minutes for a ticket from Maine State Police, then spent 2 months in a Texas immigration facility

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

🚨 We are recruiting a full-time Research Programmer to push forward several exciting machine learning projects in the lab! Work on computational behavior and joint neural/behavior models. Start date flexible, can be a pre-grad-school position or longer term. recruiting2.ultipro.com/SCR1003TSRI/...

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.

The full making-of recorded with {camcorder} in #RStats 📹 🧵4/5

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

Thanks for connecting at #ABRCMS2025! Didn’t attend? Explore our programs 👇 🔸 Summer Student Program: www.jax.org/ssp 🔸 Cooperative Ph.D. Program: www.jax.org/phd 🔸 Courses & Workshops: www.jax.org/courses 👏 Congrats to all the @jacksonlab.bsky.social SSP alums who presented their research!

🚨🚨🚨 Science will be much more efficient without scientists. Universities are being destroyed because we don't NEED them anymore. Instead, all existing data will be fed to AI "agents" who will mine them to "test new hypotheses" and "generate scientific breakthroughs". 🤨🤢🤮 #academicsky #edusky 🟦🧠

Eagle Lake, Acadia NP, last night around 4pm

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives. She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

I'll be giving a talk at UCSD Psychiatry today at noon. Please drop by.

Hello New York! Giving a Swartz seminar at NYU today, come say hi! as.nyu.edu/departments/...

#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

"So let’s not confine engineers to the workshop or the data center. Let’s bring them into neuroscience, as scientists. And at the same time, it won’t hurt to try to think like engineers ourselves, at least some of the time." www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

After the torture of Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, and even fricking Ro Khanna, what a relief and joy to have a righteous south Asian like Mamdani light up the horizon.

Applications Open! The Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center is accepting proposals for the 2025–2026 Pilot Program Awards 🧬 🔹 General Pilot Awards 🔹 Translational Research Pilot Awards 💰 $5,000–$20,000 📅 Deadline: Nov 5, 2025 Apply: oklahomanathanshockcenteronaging.org/pilot-grant #AgingResearch

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

Symposium deadline for IBANGS 2026 in Pittsburgh (June 8-11) is November 7! @ibangs.bsky.social www.ibangs.org/symposia-sub...

My lab is seeking to co-hire a postdoctoral fellow with the @shaonsengupta.bsky.social team. See details below! I'll be #ASHG2025, so open to discuss further there if interest. careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/10...

Open to connecting with potential candidates at #ASHG25 !

The number of academic software tools in the world only grows with time, and learning new ones is daunting. Here, my postdoc @rgast.bsky.social spoke about PyRates, a model translator that lets you study dynamical systems with a whole suite of tools built in Python, Julia, Matlab, and Fortran.

Thank you for citing #tidyplots 🙏 Jakub Idkowiak et al. Best practices and tools in R and Python for statistical processing and visualization of lipidomics and metabolomics data. Nature Communications (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414... #rstats #dataviz #phd

Whether you think limiting student visas to 4 years is a good or bad thing, please comment. Be heard.

💥SESSION SPOTLIGHT: Discuss commercialization opportunities with @goldenneuron.bsky.social and @vivekdna.bsky.social during a special evening session at the #MachineLearning Short Course: www.jax.org/education-an...

And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

A simple way to help reduce obesity and stroke? Stop the shifts in our clocks twice a year www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

See you next month!

Baxter State Park is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individual or individuals who carved their initials into the sign at the summit of Mount Katahdin.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

For over 100 years MDIBL has been contributing research that creates talent, knowledge and cures for what ails us. Thanks to Jeri for a great tour. Maine has a life sciences story to tell, and we should make sure our labs grow and thrive. #Maine #BuildABetterMaine #MEpolitics @mdibiolab.bsky.social

🖥️🧬 Through hands-on workshops & lectures, participants will explore: 🔹 Experimental workflows 🔹 Animal tracking algorithms 🔹 Advanced statistical modeling The @jacksonlab.bsky.social's course features experts in neuroscience, machine learning & behavior analysis. Apply: www.jax.org/education-an...

Thousands of people moved to Maine since the pandemic. The influx isn’t over.

The Hibbins Lab at the University of Rochester seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Phylogenomics. Ideal candidates should have experience in phylogenetics and strong computational skills. Details: https://mhibbins.github.io/research/ #postdoc

Picture #3 is giving me life

I just gonna add photos to encourage ML Behavior short course applications. jax.org/autobehavior