This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

We wanted to understand how mRNA vaccines work. So we talked to three cocaine addicts in a gas station bathroom off Route 6.

This is Bailey. She normally gets kibble for dinner but she's pretty sure there's meatballs in here so she's very excited. 14/10 (TT: baileycarriesthings)

“Candidate A supports 90% of what I believe in. Candidate B only supports 10% of what I belive in. Therefore, both candidates fail to support 100% of what I believe in and I will not vote for either.” And that’s how we got here.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

a friend recently shared this with me and i'm obsessed — it's an MTV/VH1 simulator with almost 30,000 videos (organized by decade) along with special sections for things like 120 Minutes, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, and Pop-Up Video (!!!) wantmymtv.vercel.app

This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)

This is Skye. She refuses to let her human leave for college. Willing to do anything to get him to change his mind about this whole "education" thing. 13/10 (IG: skye.redgoldenretriever)

This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)

Britain's Royal Mint is celebrating Freddie Mercury with a new coin design.

Day 2 of the Grad School Fair! Visit our booth #47 to learn about our program! We are (among other things!) collaborative, supportive, innovative, and fun! Dr. Jill Daniel is here today to chat about the program and her research! #SfN25 @sfn.org

If you are at #SfN25 and looking for a MS or PhD Program, please visit the Tulane Brain Institute booth at the #GradSchoolFair these days. @sfn.org

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

Congratulations to Karel Svoboda and @jshendure.bsky.social on their election to the National Academy of Medicine (@nam.edu)! Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in health and medicine. #NAMmtg More on their journeys to this achievement: alleninstitute.org/news/karel-s...

Latest from the lab. Fantastic work by talented Irene Fernández @irenefu.bsky.social Send us your feedback!

Phil Knight, a co-founder of Nike, and his wife, Penny Knight, will give $2 billion to the cancer research center at Oregon Health & Science University, a gift the institution billed as the largest single donation to a university in the U.S.

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Neuroscience research and training has taken a $323 million hit in the form of grants rescinded by the U.S. NIH, according to an analysis by @thetransmitter.bsky.social. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

This is Luna. She didn't realize you were planning on wearing that outside of the house. 13/10

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out the latest updates on Zach Plumley's @plumley.bsky.social project and give us feedback before we submit! Kudos to him and the rest of the team, including Irene Fernandez Ugidos @irenefu.bsky.social and Jennifer Calvo-Iglesias.

The lab surprised me with a personalized cake for an early celebration. They are awesome!

A study in Scientific Reports finds that a Californian sea lion trained to move in time with a metronome can keep a beat better than some humans. go.nature.com/4lY7mlU 🧪

Speak up! Important to register widespread opposition to transitioning NIH to funding ideologically-motivated science. If you want advancements in knowledge and eventual cures, it is critical that research is steered by knowledgeable scientists, not political appointees

Kapahi Lab at Buck Institute for Research on Aging is recruiting 2 postdoccs to lead innovative projects exploring how circadian clocks and nutrient-responsive pathways influence eye and neuronal degeneration. For more info and to apply: buckinstitute.applytojob.com/apply/xz17Kn... #postdocjobs

Arizona dog found a missing 2-year-old on his nightly patrol that a local rescue team spent 16 hours searching for. 15/10

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to receive almost $9 billion in funding.

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men. A feature in Nature Medicine reports how the changes to the female brain during menopause, along with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk. #medsky #alzsky 🧪

✨ Introducing a new #SOTA action recognition large multimodal language model: #LLaVAction! By @shaokaiye.bsky.social Haozhe Qi, @trackingskills.bsky.social and me! 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2503.18712 🤖 mmathislab.github.io/llavaction/ 1/n

How is protesting Tesla domestic terrorism but attacking the Capitol building is not? 🤔

Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science. "Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players. No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Sort of interesting to see a fancy academic society send a letter to membership about the IDC cut when their response to NIH cutting everything related to diversity was 🦗🦗.

Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/

Juan Lerma, el promotor del centro internacional de investigación en neurociencia de España, dimite por la falta de ambición del proyecto . Algunos referentes internacionales que habían decidido incorporarse ya no lo harán “por la deriva del proyecto”

New paper out in Cell Reports! Led by @susieyufeng.bsky.social, we found that chronic epilepsy in mice drives distinct synchronization deficits in hippocampus and MEC, with early changes in HPC and late-onset changes in MEC that align with progressive memory impairment. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧠📈 Now available on the Allen Brain Cell Atlas - aging mouse brain data! Explore the most comprehensive and detailed single-cell dataset of the aged and young adult mouse brain. Contains 1.2 million high-quality, single-cell transcriptomes. 🔭 Explore: knowledge.brain-map.org/abcatlas?def...

I feel sick to my stomach #LGBTQ+Rights

2025 looking great so far!

Here are *some* of my favorite studies on dendrites and spines from 2024 👀 - feeling very excited and inspired about the field! 🔥 Happy new year y'all!

Fantastic study on brain aging from the @alleninstitute.bsky.social Potential link between lifestyle and gene expression during aging