When specialized cells called tanycytes stop working, disease-causing tau proteins build up in the brain. go.nature.com/4ldhrez

*Kristi Noem singing in a Neil Young-voice to Jeff Sessions* "Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were...."

*Kristi Noem singing in a Neil Young-voice to Jeff Sessions* "Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were...."

New Count of Monte Cristo miniseries on PBS? Yes please!

Was curious about new model so today we demo'd the Keyence BZX-1000. Amazing machine. Improved speed and UI. Amazing how much tech has evolved over my career with the ultimate effect of improving accesibility and throughput of high quality microscopy for biomedical research labs. #neuroskyence

oh GREAT now i have to completely rewrite my script "Fuck Plane"

My weekly update on NIH funding This includes awards made through 2/27/26 Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery. 1/9

Methodist minister, National guardsman.

LinkedIn trying to tell you about the merits of AI in the workplace.

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Excited to share our new paper: We uncover a locus coeruleus→amygdala circuit linking β-adrenergic signaling to transcription regulation in defined amygdala cells during memory reconsolidation—+ stress or elevated noradrenergic signaling at recall can strengthen memory. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Check our @russpoldrack.org's series Better Code, Better Science, a really amazing resource bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/

The UAB Heersink School of Medicine is seeking to recruit up to 16 new research-intensive faculty as part of a major strategic investment in neurosciences. Faculty will be housed in a brand new research facility at the heart of campus, which is scheduled for completion this summer.

Why do you degnerates like to work in the midbrain? Horrible place to patch.

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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Old enough to remember when the US had a diplomatically-negotiated nuclear deescalation deal in place with Iran. This is a huge mistake.

Well this is all a cluster.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Good News. How great is this? Europe's drug regulator recommended approval for Moderna's (MRNA.O), a Covid and flu combination vaccine. This would be the first single shot to protect people aged 50 and older against both the flu & Covid. 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Watching Hegseth’s war on Anthropic while thinking about X and Palantir in three years

Don't forget, just 2 weeks until abstracts are due!

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test? In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I'm old enough to remember when Jack Dorsey was celebrated as our foremost luminary. Now he's laying off nearly half of Block/Square's staff even when he doesn't have to and drive by irrational AI fear. This is a company that has enriched its C suite for years with stock based comp for years.

I had to renegotiate my F99/K00 award twice in 6 months, and on both occasions I asked what specifically “DEI activities” means. I didn’t get clear answers, so I was hopeful the person that directive came from could specify (the NIH Director). I asked the on @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social podcast

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-... I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread. 🧵1/19

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Once again, there's a growing supply of excellent journalists who need a new home and a growing demand for a news outlet that won't bend the knee to authoritarians and billionaires, seems like there's a slight opportunity here

Breaking News: The Nobel laureate Richard Axel said he was resigning as co-director of a Columbia brain institute over his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.

If you're using an STC-1000 temperature controller in the lab*: I was annoyed by having mine taped down, so here is an enclosure to securely mount it to an air-table: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7302358 (* Say, for example, as part of www.nature.com/articles/s41..., just to pick something random)

Happy Tuesday.

Is Free's "All Right Now" one of the most underrated rock songs of the 1970s? People are asking.

Why is a cross-species spinal cord taxonomy important? 🧠📈 Join us on March 11 for an interactive webinar on this collaborative effort. RSVP for link: https://alleninstitute.org/events/neuroscience-cell-types-webinars/

The presence of Elon Musk and Larry Ellison is a notable stain on what is a solid film in Iron Man 2.

Ladies and gentleman: One of our foremost technological "luminaries"...

Highly recommend Lonesome Dove, tv miniseries, to anyone out there.

Questions i have asked to youths this past week: "Have you heard of The Allman Brothers band?" "Have you ever watched the Monty Python movies?"

Oligarchs gonna oligarch

Some cool stuff from Henry Yin's group.

We got all this (*gestures*) going on. No idea why academics create work for themselves re: promotion and tenure. Makes 0 sense. We all got better stuff to do.

Great piece about UAB's work on GLP-1 therapeutics featuring CNC member @andrewhardaway.bsky.social!

Check out ME!

*tom york voice* This is what you get...

Story out in The Guardian re Bhattacharya. @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social , @malar0ne.bsky.social , and I were asked direct questions and gave direct answers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 1/5