My latest: Recently, Donald Trump told us how he really feels about the midterms: “When you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms.” His conclusion was stark: “We shouldn’t even have an election.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

This dude is intense and correct

What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging? The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it. 🧵

I hope it's James Bond

Sweden is over Trump's nonsense about Greenland and is sending in troops. SWEDEN, PEOPLE.

Cancer survival rates climbed significantly in recent decades. But federal funding cuts could threaten that progress, physicians warn

The #PrefrontalCortex is key for higher cognitive functions, but how do its circuits mature? This study provides a #transcriptomic resource for the mouse #PFC over 84 days of development, revealing cell population dynamics & expression of #psychiatric risk genes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45bhRLU

Nature research paper: Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context go.nature.com/4jCecge

Nicole Chapman & Hongbo Chi @stjuderesearch.bsky.social highlight how systems biology approaches are being used to unravel the complex process of metabolic regulation of immune function and advance our understanding of #immunometabolism in our new Perspective. 🧪 #immunosky

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.

🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀 #Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

It ain't your grandparents' working memory. Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #neuroscience

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works. This year, results from the largest trial yet should give more insight into its potential

Immune cells are most commonly engineered to kill cancers, but now, scientists have shown the technique makes the gut lining of older mice resemble that of younger mice, raising hopes that the same approach could work in people

Same sound, different perception: Do expectations change what you hear?👂🧠 We paired faces w topics and played the same ambiguous speech w different faces. The brain sharpened sensory signals toward predictions and showed gated prediction errors at higher levels. Read @plosbiology.org. Blueprint👇

He's just straight up rationalizing that it's OK for them to murder people over "hateful rhetoric." "Contempt of cop" is not, in fact, a crime, especially not one that warrants summary execution on the streets.

With a new 28 Days Later movie and a new Dune, not to mention films from Stephen Spielberg and Ridley Scott, this is shaping up to be a vintage year for sci-fi, says Simon Ings

The Telegraph: British officials have met with counterparts from countries including Germany and France to begin preparations for a military deployment to protect Greenland. The European Union is also drawing up plans for sanctions on U.S. companies, should the need arise.

UCSF scientists build brain organoids at scale equipped with blood vessels, "leading to high fidelity neurodevelopment." Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Organoid technology is one of the most significant advancements deriving from developmental biology. Yet, many aspects of the biology of organoid itself remain elusive, one of which is the role of mesenchymal stem cells. This review: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd... by Wang et al discusses this in detail.

Now you recall it, now you don’t: Working memory performance fluctuates with a theta rhythm www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience

Only in Shenzhen: Science Nature coffee bar. If you’ve published in @science.org or @nature.com, they give you coffee for free. 100% real!

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

The sound of underground When scientists put sound sensors into the ground, they couldn’t believe their ears. Life in the soil was thought to be silent, but it is anything but. Soil bioacoustics offers new ways to study life underground: buff.ly/VBePQCT

I talked to @latif.bsky.social at @radiolab.bsky.social about brain organoids for their new episode. Listen here: radiolab.org/podcast/brai...

New #research alert! #ScientificReports has a new paper exploring how sparse an #EEG can be while still decoding the #brain. The study shows reliable neural decoding with as few as 16 electrodes, even for complex, natural images: https://go.nature.com/4snqzk2 #neuroscience #neurotech

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

House passes minibus bill to fund science agencies www.politico.com/news/2026/01... headed to Senate next

Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans

The data shows BlueSky is a great replacement for science-Twitter! There’s no need to stay on the bad place (which is getting worse by the day).

The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. https://scim.ag/49G7Zwe

“We wanted to improve the removal of noise from fMRI data. Other work had attempted to do this before…using generative AI we were able to improve by more than 200% over previous methods." Denoising fMRI data with contrastive autoencoders Nature Methods www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They're going to invade Greenland, blow up NATO, and alienate all of our allies. bbc.com/news/article...

Astrocytes put the brakes on brain plasticity in mice by secreting the protein CCN1 to stabilize existing circuitry, a Nature study shows. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

“the new organizational chart contains the clearest evidence yet that the Trump administration has seized control of an agency that has historically been mostly free of White House interference.”

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New preprint. We show that in addition to reward prediction errors (RPEs), dorsal striatal dopamine signals encode sensory prediction errors (SPEs), the difference between sensory prior & observed stimulus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Flocean, a Norwegian company, is set to open the world’s first commercial-scale subsea desalination plant, an approach that could cut the cost and energy used to make seawater drinkable

An analysis of ongoing trials suggests that mRNA cancer vaccines have the potential to deliver health benefits worth $75 billion each year in the US alone

We just submitted for publication 📝 our work on neonatal sensory prediction (83 premature neonates 👶🧠, tactile ERPs ✋⚡📈) that took many years of labor 💪 and hope 🥹 ! If you are asked to review it, please say yes 😁 or let me know of any thought on the preprint ⤵️ Thank you 🙏💛 arxiv.org/abs/2512.23301

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 If we leave aside the more extreme discussions about "everything everywhere" and modularity this is a very cool paper. So much can be done with data from 260 regions and 60K neurons. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

a level of realpolitik here: the United States is unlikely to face serious international consequences for being lunatics acting with impunity, in large part because we are lunatics acting with impunity at the end of the day this is going to be up to us to solve, domestically

Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism. This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So nothing they just said in that press holds any water, they are just winging it