nytimes article on 11/6/25 court ruling about first amendment injury caused by grant suspensions/terminations.

There’s a compelling case that as much as Canada wanted it, LA needed it.

This is heartbreaking 💔 to read. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this with us. I want to apologize to you on behalf of real Americans. It’s a painful reminder that we must keep resisting these harmful policies so we don’t lose more people like @wwenneuro.bsky.social, whom we spent over a decade training.

How is the persistence of compartmentalized inflammation sustained in MS? Our new study in @cp-immunity.bsky.social offers some hints. cell.com/immunity/ful... Thanks and congratulations to all contributors

New tenure track faculty position in glia and/or neurovascular coupling! Please come join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30864 #neurosky #neuroskyence #glia #neurojobs

It’s so exciting to see this. These tools will be game changing.

Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

If you think your field needs a collection of curated reviews and protocols, let me know! Let's create it and help the community.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first (of hopefully many) reports to come from our collaboration with @hjp.bsky.social We present a new type of cell fitness assay that allows you to both quantify and explain differences across human donors in cell proliferation and sensitivity to environmental toxicants.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

21 groups representing more than 100K UC employees sued T over the $1.2B fine against UCLA. #WeThePEOPLE aren't waiting for billionaires to make backroom deals with this fascist regime which only benefit them & screw the rest of us. Pls sign: tinyurl.com/ucstandup www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

Going on more than six weeks without $500 million in federal research grants cut under Trump, UCLA faculty and students took their cases public this week in the "Science Fair for Suspended Research" -- including demonstrations with preserved human brains: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here’s a copy of the 123-page lawsuit UC faculty associations and unions filed against President Trump today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information: 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Wow! This is really exciting!

We must work to end the scourge of gun violence. That is why I am cosponsoring @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social's Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act. This sensible bill focuses on safety & reducing harm – non-gun owners & gun owners alike should support it. desaulnier.house.gov/media-center...

UCLA research is amazing ✨✨ newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

I love the description of federal grants as a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

🚨 New Preprint! Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons. ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BIG NEWS: “Senate appropriators on Thursday approved an FY26 Labor-HHS bill that included a slight bump in funding for the NIH, with a strong 26–3 bipartisan vote.” Thank you to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on both sides of the aisle! www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

F31 parent is back! grants.gov/search-resul...

It was great to co-teach today’s Academic Skills workshop with the amazing @debiaselm.bsky.social 🧪✨

Check out our recent progress using 🧬 PAINT kinetics to decode molecular tension in super-resolution force imaging! 🔬 Great team effort from Seongho, Adam, Irving, and Kevin! 👏 #DNA-PAINT #tension #integrin #superresolution #adhesion doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Please spread the word about the glia networks world-wide 🙃 @astrocytenet.bsky.social @astrocytecafe.bsky.social @ukglia.bsky.social @glialclub.bsky.social @gliameeting.bsky.social @warsawgliacomm.bsky.social @italianglianetwork.bsky.social @canglia.bsky.social

Come join our lab as Postdoctoral Fellow! The project will investigate the maturation of spinal circuits and their plasticity within chronic widespread pain states. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... until 11th April. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnpp.bsky.social @jobrxiv.bsky.social

I submitted an NIH grant in October. The proposal was based on a discovery 4 years in the making that could explain why some people with a certain genetic mutation develop autism. The review was supposed to be yesterday, but it was abruptly cancelled. This is why I am marching for science today.

It was a pleasure hosting Ritchie Ho for this weeks Neural Repair seminar and hearing about his amazing work to understand pathogenic mechanisms of ALS @ucla @ritchieholab.bsky.social

UCLA scientists led by Dr. Hilary Coller have found that quiescent cells express transcription factors that act as "master switches" to regulate genes that suppress cell cycle progression, prevent the adoption of irreversible fates and reorganize their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨UCLA is an amazing place for science! ✨ 📢 Tenure Track position open at UCLA! This is a very broad search in the Biomathematics, Biological Chemistry, Human Genetics, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Neurobiology, Physiology departments. 🔬✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

✨Tenure Track position open at UCLA! This is a very broad search in the Biomathematics, Biological Chemistry, Human Genetics, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Neurobiology, Physiology departments. 🧪🔬 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

Check out this paper and tool that we worked on with @sloanlab.bsky.social and Ye Zhang. Think of it as 'the Barres datasets 2.0' Lots of input and feedback from the amazing #Glia community.

📢UCLA is recruiting an open rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty position in the basic sciences! (see link below) #AcademicSky 💫✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

📢UCLA is recruiting an open rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty position in the basic sciences! (see link below) #AcademicTwitter 💫✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062

so nice to see this amazing study out - huge congrats to @franckp.bsky.social & coll.!

📢UCLA is recruiting an open rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty position in the basic sciences! (see link below) #AcademicTwitter 💫✨ recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062 🧪🔬

Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪 Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors! Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social! rdcu.be/d33uQ 🧵

New results! Visual adaptation changes the geometry of V1 population activity: frequent stimuli elicit smaller responses but become more discriminable. Similar results are seen in ANNs trained with metabolic constraints, suggesting these changes emerge from efficient coding. bit.ly/3VJHXRn

Happy #Caturday

Undergraduate research at UCLA is amazing. Consider applying. #glia #neuroscience #brain #CNS #UCLA 🧪

Yup

fantastic resources here. any neuroscientists considering single-cell work should read these reviews. I am thrilled to have them to cite when I review grants and papers.

Happy #caturday