"Since Trump took office 13 months ago, NIH has posted only 84 NOFOs, down from 787 in the previous year. Many more are in limbo. NIH has 323 opportunities listed as 'forecasted.' ... many on the list were announced in 2024 and ’25 and still are not open."

Trump is lying. I serve on the Intel & Armed Services Committees. There’s no intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. or the American people.

This is why it's not enough for Congress to just appropriate funds to scientific agencies. How the funds are or are not spent and when they are spent needs to be enforced. The administration is playing games with our taxpayer dollars, when they should be going towards scientific innovation.

I think this is a *super* important paper - if this result can be replicated with other regions or tasks then this may come to form our core understanding of credit assignment signals in the neocortex! #neuroscience 🧪

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

"For perspective, only 14,500 satellites are currently in orbit. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk now wants to dramatically increase that number by about 70 times, raising questions about the environmental toll from the required rocket launches and the potential for space debris."

Proud of my sister and brother-in-law for organizing their fellow residents to stand united against absolute crooks of landlords www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

At NIH, "grant awards must be approved by presidential political appointees. Review steps have been added throughout the agency, from review of contracts, review of formerly-perfunctory employee term renewals, review of travel, and even review of weekly money disbursements to grantees" What a joke.

Oh my god www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight. Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Now is the time!! ☎️

Scenes from today's protests. This is what Minnesota looks like. This is who we are. We show up for our neighbors. Such amazing energy on a brutally cold day.

Proud of Cleveland Owns's role in supporting People's Plumbing, a badass plumbing co-op! signalcleveland.org/inside-cleve...

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...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

📌NOTE: In the final year of Joe Biden's presidency 2 million jobs were created. In the first year of Trump's presidency 584,000 jobs were created. This is the weakest annual growth since 2003. In other words, generationally horrible. Trump is a terrible president, and an even worse human being.

A wonderful description of "Fascism" written by and for the men and women that confronted and defeated it in WWII

What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is really cool, by increasing neuroplasticity, it enables repair of brain damage. Aka, returning, memory, skills, connections to broken musculoskeletature system. This, along with vagus nerve stimulation are very intriguing ways to fix what is broken. 🧪🧠

Data centers in space??

Really, you'll fight it with every tool? Maybe you should have thought of that during the shutdown deal, which contained no punishment for the administration violating the power of the purse and withholding duly appropriated funding. This is constitutional softball.

NSF will dismantle National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder 😡🤦‍♀️

$600 million dollar bet by Astera Foundation to solve consciousness via reading and writing of neural activity led by Doris Tsao. astera.org/neuroscienti...

Nature research paper: Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour go.nature.com/4pFLw7V

Folks @ #SfN2025 - wondering what to do on this rainy Saturday evening? I've got the solution for you. Come to hear discussions about how we can help advocate for our science and ourselves, meet new & old friends, & enjoy some snacks at the WINE social. 7pm at Deck 655 tonight.

Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. n.pr/4pgmAna

Lots to learn from these two brave and inspirational women.

NPR story about @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

It turns out when you fire all the staff who handle travel bookings, visas, and security, the inspectors can't do their job either. These absolute dipshits.

The question being asked by the NYT after an election that promoted MANY women to power. It’s not a question. It’s a comment. An attack.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Many animal studies promise interventions for early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage, but treatments remain elusive. A possible reason? 40% of articles two data sleuths examined had evidence of duplicated/manipulated images. My latest: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/i...

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 very meaningful way, Donald Trump is erasing the work and the space that has been painstakingly carved out for women both at the White House, and throughout this country.” (continued in Substack 👇) open.substack.com/pub/mamasiss...

The CU Department of Neurosurgery is hiring! We are looking for someone whose research centers on human cognition using invasive and/or non-invasive neuromodulation. Join our vibrant and growing faculty invested in neuro stimulation and BCI! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨Pre-print alert! 🚨https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683171v1 Our new study tackles the question: do all neurons in motor cortices (MC) encode movement & coordinate as we move? Answering this question will be key for effectively targeting motor representations in BCIs.

Very proud of Dr Tracy Bale’s @thebalelab.bsky.social induction into the National Academy of Medicine yesterday evening! A brilliant impactful scientist, a champion of women, and a tireless advocate for global neuroscience at @ibroorg.bsky.social! Congratulations!

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social “Every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown...is already happening.” This isn’t about partisanship. It’s about stopping the erosion of our public services. It’s time to protect the programs that serve our communities and stand up to authoritarianism. #StopTheScam

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

the South Shore raid story seems to have broken containment, it can now be found at your local supermarket checkout people.com/ice-agents-o...

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social. By Natalia Mesa www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

Come join our exciting new computational neuroscience groups! Fantastic people, cool mountains, and exciting science!

Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz: 1. Neuroscience www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-pro... 2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bioengineeri... You could work with several comp neuro PIs, including me.

I really appreciate how Dr. Glaucomflecken has become all of medicine and public health's emotional support ophthalmologist. I sat through 16 hours of ACIP meetings last week. If I do not laugh, I will cry.

Okay, here is a communication example that we are very excited to showcase 📣: Sat Sept 27 join us at Stanley Marketplace to engage in some brain 🧠 fun and check out the amazing brain sculptures from our summer Brain Camp!

These are visas for skilled workers — doctors, scientists, and engineers. This move will hurt US innovation and exacerbate an already serious shortage of medical professionals. In what world does this make sense?? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...