This is a good pithy explainer by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, founder of @standupforscience.net on OMB's proposed rule that affects federal funding. It impacts cancer research, clinical trials, women’s health, climate change, how scientists disseminate information at conferences & public.🧪

If you have applied or plan to apply for an NIH grant, if you have reviewed or want to review for an NIH panel, you must read this piece from @27unihted.bsky.social about the detrimental changes to NIH peer review. @jeremymberg.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/2...

More important analysis and insights from Elizabeth Ginexi about the proposed OMB regulations: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

Abstract submission for #SfN26 is now open! Share your findings, spark new conversations, and connect with researchers who care about the same questions you do. Avoid the last-minute rush. Submit your abstract today! 🔗 vist.ly/55m24

Beautiful work in this paper. I think anatomy is often under-appreciated. I'm glad to see things like this #neurosicence 🧪🧠 An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New work from the lab: We found that similar brain circuits interact differently in OCD than in healthy controls during the task. #OCD #Neuroscience #MentalHealthResearch 🧪 🧠 👩‍🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Catching up with a couple more from Brown graduation yesterday. These amazing two did undergrad honors theses in the lab. Congrats to Aiai Calmer and Mmesoma Nwokolo!! #BrownStrong #neuroscience #WomenInSTEM 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Hyde (née Doyle) and to all the graduates at Brown. So proud of her and everyone! #neuroscience #womenInSTEM 🧪🧠👩‍🔬

New STAT story about delays in filling open NIH institute director positions. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/n... 1/3

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

📍 SfN is at #CAN2026! Stop by our booth to chat with us about advocacy, membership, journals, and more. 🧠 #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

My new @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece. Does Claude AI have emotions? *No*. Does Claude have nontrivial emotion-equivalents? *Yes*. Like your "memory" vs your laptop's; similar but not the same. Here, I unpack why that's interesting. www.thetransmitter.org/emotion/what...

I remember the first time I learned about affordances and what the brain does with them - our learning about how we relate to things in the world. So cool! Check out the latest by @sci_toons explaining them: 🧪 🧠 youtu.be/cs3Clg5Syf8?...

So cool. Whale "midwives" 🐋 🧪 Cooperation by non-kin during birth underpins sperm whale social complexity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another fun fact about our avian friends - people used to think that scavengers followed hunters to find their food. Turns out they likely remember 🧪 🧠 🐦‍⬛ #neuroscience #memory Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm so lucky to work with this amazing group of people! Last night we rounded out our spring celebrations by heading to Xaco Taco. Good food and great people! 🧠🧪 👩‍🔬 🌮 p.s. the grasshoppers are tasty! 🦗

Took the lab to Wicked Tulips to pick tulips last week on what turned out to be the best day! We had the best time wandering around the fields, and yes, the colors are real🌷 💐 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Help elect leaders that will shape future programs, events, and more. Emeritus, regular, postdoc, & graduate student members can cast their vote in SfN’s officers & councilors election! Check your e-mail for a passcode & log in to the voting system. 🔗 vist.ly/53s8t #neurosky

My quote of the day La science, mon garçon, est faite d'erreurs, mais d'erreurs qu'il est bon de commettre, car elles mènent peu à peu à la vérité. [Science, my boy, is made up of errors, but errors which it is good to commit, because they gradually lead to the truth.] Jules Verne

I have held events on what was the Pembroke campus - it’s beautiful and happy to see these amazing women honored in this way. 👩‍🔬

The deadline for the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Conference is coming soon. We have an awesome lineup of speakers. We will begin assigning fellowships in mid May, so don't delay, apply now! Spread the word! 🧪 🧠 #neuroscience #cognition www.grc.org/neurobiology...

I have always wondered about this 🧪 🐦 Pigeons sense Earth’s magnetic field in an entirely new way www.science.org/content/arti...

Beautiful day in Providence for an Undergraduate Honors poster session 🌸 Very proud of the lab’s two undergrads, Aiai and Mmesoma, along with their mentors, for their great work! 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

Hi Boston folks! I'm speaking at MIT today at 5pm--free & open to the public in person or online; just register. Hope to see some of you there! calendar.mit.edu/event/hidden...

I ❤️ this competition. Just brings so much joy every year. Piezoelectrics, bees 🐝, hearing aids 🦻, DNA 🧬, MRI 🧠 - what more could you want? Happy #InternationalDanceDay 🧪 💃 Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest winners: www.science.org/content/arti...

What a giant in the field. Sorry we lost her so young 🧪🧠👩‍🔬

Had a fantastic visit to NYU the past couple of days. Thank you to my hosts! I had excellent conversations with new and old friends and colleagues. 🧠🧪

Excited to be visiting my alma mater NYU today! Got to catch up with friends from my graduate class at MIT last night who are profs here. A mini reunion with Neville Sanjana and Jon Winawer!

Fun little morning tidbit ➿🧪 A shocking explanation for tape’s distinctive screech | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

We, as individuals, can do something. See below to help save SBE funding. #science #skyence 🧠 🧪

Today is the 250th anniversary of mathematician Sophie Germain's birth! Her use of auxiliary primes in breaking down Fermat's Last Theorem was inspired, and her solution to the elastic deformation of a disc was genius, compelling recognition. tinyurl.com/4dkshwvn #WomenInSTEM #WHM #MathSky 🧮

What?!!!!! They are ending continuous submission? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

💫@becky-pope.bsky.social spoke with Dishaa Sinha, DPhil student, clinical researcher, and recipient of the WiNUK Research Support Award, about the science behind early dementia detection and the realities of coordinating large‑scale studies across the UK.

I’m excited to be headed to Pittsburghto visit awesome colleagues and attend a thesis defense! 🧪🧠👩🏻‍🔬 #womenInSTEM (I tried to take a pic of the Boston skyline as we flew out but I just got the dirt on the windows ha ha)

Good news - a little less paperwork for some human studies: Planning an NIH Application involving Basic Experimental Studies with Humans (BESH)? | Grants & Funding grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

But, as they say, there is no time like the present [OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick] But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves! 2/3

Fun little news piece on some of our recent work #science #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧪 🧠 👩‍🔬 New study reveals insights about brain regions linked to obsessive compulsive disorder | Carney Institute for Brain Science | Brown University carney.brown.edu/news/2026-02...

This made an excellent grant-writing break! #skyence #science 🧪

They’ve had enough of us. They’re taking over.

Thank you!

Oh hi did you know eNeuro @sfnjournals.bsky.social does double-blind peer review and from what I've seen as an editor the past couple years it works really well.

Ha! Perfect follow up to yesterday’s thread :)

TFW you realize you have more time than you thought you did! #SfN26 #neuroscience 🧠🧪

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

The video abstract is amazing. And very cool work - tool use in cows! Certainly challenges a lot of uniqueness arguments. Always lots to learn. Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience #science

Grateful for a little time to chill this weekend. Good to take some time - even if it’s just a moment to appreciate a sunset #sunset

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

Very important!

hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇

Less than a week left to go! Now's your chance to propose a workshop for #SfN26 🧠🧪