Twenty years ago, the notion that people could elect a Black man named Barack Obama President of the United States and a Muslim named Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City would’ve seemed completely outlandish Voters can sometimes surprise us in beautiful ways. Remember that during the midterms

www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... with quotes from me, @jasonshep.bsky.social, Nathan Smith, Eve Marder and Walter Koroshetz

Our new study explored how well various AI chatbots responded to health questions on various topics. Sum: not great. Nearly half (49.6%) of responses were problematic. See study: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... via @bmj.com

Queen Mary University of London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on Parkinson’s cohorts using PPIE, mixed methods and stakeholder engagement. Closing date: 30th April www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoct...

sciencefightclub.substack.com/p/scientists... “Despite all the ‘support’, not a single scientific society has donated to Stand Up for Science…(except Lasker Foundation and NRDC)….I can’t even get a response to my emails.” Disappointing. I set up monthly donation - other faculty pls do the same!

A very well produced story from NBC in San Diego about disruptions to can cancer research. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...

📣 Teachers and parents! Want to understand how teens think, learn and grow? This #BrainAwarenessWeek, sign up for our email course on the science of adolescent brain development. 🧠 Start today: knowmag.org/TBB_Bluesky This course is supported by a grant from @danafoundation.bsky.social

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

📢 Applications open for the 2026 Butler-Williams Scholars Program from the National Institute on Aging! 📅 Aug 3–6, 2026 | Rockville, MD ⏳ Deadline: March 31, 2026 A training opportunity for junior faculty & postdocs entering aging research. Apply: www.nia.nih.gov/news/butler-... #AgingResearch

Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

Assisting with final stages of puzzle completion. #Caturday

Kamala would have never! #KamalaHarris #VPHarris #VicePresidentHarris #KamalaDHarris www.noiresteminist.com/product-page...

A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

Working on a NIH multiyear funding tracker... This looks at the amount of multiyear funding (grants having a budget period 366 days or longer) for new and competitive renewal awards divided by the total amount of new and competitive renewal award funding over the same period. 1/5

In 2024, #NIH was 2.8% of the federal budget of HHS & less than 1% of total federal spending. NIH research generated $94.15 BILLION in new economic activity in 2025 (390,863 jobs). The 250% ROI at a fraction of the total budget speaks for itself. 🧪 www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/statements/u...

‘A recent study found research papers with women as first authors had fewer retractions than those with men as first authors. Curt Rice argues these findings indicate more troubling patterns of power and attention in academic publishing.’ blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Thanks to UNC's Daily Tarheel for great coverage of Saturday's Stand Up for Science UNC rally, including the important role played by UNC undergraduates in SUNRISE UNC 🧪 www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands: 1. Remove RFK Jr. 2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science. 3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees. Join the fight! standupforscience.net/march7

Universal healthcare, universal childcare, public health, education, cancelling student loans, science and research funding, welfare programs are all much better uses of that much money.

Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026

With just 3 days to go, let's CHECK IN! * What rally are you attending? * What's your sign going to say? What t-shirt will you wear? * What is YOUR biggest issue? #Research, #healthcare, #education, #climatechange, all of the above... ▶️ We want to hear from you: Smash that "reply" button! ◀️

www.propublica.org/article/educ... Dept of Ed cut staff, shifted priorities, and won’t share data. “Complaints about transgender students playing sports and using girls’ bathrooms at school have been fast-tracked while cases of racial harassment of Black students last year were ignored”

@samwang.bsky.social , an autism scientist who made headlines for his data-based analyses of congressional districts, is running for a House seat in New Jersey. By Lauren Schenkman www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

#FDA backs down on #Moderna: The agency had refused to review the company's licensure application for an mRNA flu vaccine, but after significant pushback has relented. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

A new policy went into effect at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill : the University can record a class without the permission or knowledge of the instructor. "Students will self-censor if they know that their words in class can be recorded by administrators.” —UNC - Chapel Hill AAUP

Cells come in many shapes and sizes, with diverse physiological functions. But how do #organelles and their interaction networks remodel during #differentiation of stem cells into different cell types? Here’s what we discovered about neuronal differentiation: 1/13

📌 Folks, you’re on social media, here is something everyone can do. Google “ICE facility being built in” and insert your state or county. If you find one, put it on blast and contact your local officials to say you oppose it. We need to protest these facilities before they open. 2/2

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

This week's Fitness Friday is LIVE! 💪 Join us online for a brain boosting workout with dual-tasking activities that combine physical exercise with cognitive challenges. Register for free: Parkinson.org/events/2026/Feb20FF

We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc... Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US. Read that again. 69 MILLION married women. See details from @the19thnews.org in the reply below.

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

(1/2) New NeuroSociety Stories episode coming soon… 🎥 #Neuroethics pioneer Karen Rommelfanger sits down with Dana Foundation President Caroline Montojo to discuss her path to neuroethics and why it’s important to consider its application through different cultural lenses. #neurosociety #neurotech

You have got to be fucking kidding me. So many of us are begging for scraps to do real cancer research and this is what NCI is spending money on??

Inflammation, cell and mitochondria damage biomarkers, and links to cognitive dysfunction in #LongCovid relative to recovered controls www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

In addition to boxes and shopping bags and laundry baskets and open dresser drawers, Foxy loves to lie on any backpacks left on the floor……. #Caturday

www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n... (1/3) I was really struck by the list of Trump administration actions against media / press in this article: “formal investigations of most of the United States' leading broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS;”

New paper mapping cellular vulnerability to #Parkinsons -associated a-synuclein in mice finds"αSyn path. propagates along anatomical pathways, but cell-autonomous factors determine if a neuron exposed to misfolded αSyn will develop Lewy-like path. or not" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧪Good News! HRT is no longer one size fits all. Humans come in different sizes. #BreastCancer risk depends on how long it is used & baseline risk (age, family history). These realizations will pave the way for individualized treatments depending on a woman's physiological needs. @drcleoryals on IG

“Messing with the H-1B system was a bad idea when President Trump first tried it. It’s even more reckless when it’s a governor undermining his own state’s workforce. Nowhere will that impact be more pronounced than our world class university medical centers.” —Brian Evans, Texas AAUP-AFT President

dukechronicle.com/article/duke... “[Basic science is] really important to do, of course, but if it just sits there in journals and no one reads that, no one actually uses it for anything, what good has it done?” Unbelievable quote from NIH director JB.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

www.standwithminnesota.com Ways to help support folks in Minnesota. There are also testimonials of what people are experiencing.

I wrote about Minnesotans putting their lives on the line to fight for their city, protect their neighbors, and defend the Republic against tyranny. Some thoughts from my new piece - angry and alarmed, but also hopeful and inspired: 🧵

NIHR Three Schools Dementia Postdoctoral Fellowships open next Monday, offering up to £160k over two years for early career researchers building careers in dementia research. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/post...

Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What happens when a neuroscientist realizes trauma rewired their own brain? ❤️‍🩹 I’ll be sharing that very personal story - the intersection of my research, insights it's brought me & the healing journey I've embarked on - LIVE & LIVESTREAMING on 1/26! Tickets 👇 www.storycollider.org/tickets/2026...