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?...

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

Looking forward to the inaugural Lurie Autism Institute Symposium: www.lurieautisminstitute.org/2026-lurie-a... today.

The Aery Jones lab is recruiting another postdoc! If you're interested in neural mechanisms of spatial memory, high-density recordings, cool tasks (like cricket hunting), and/or aging and Alzheimer's, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io. Please pass along to your friends :D

🚀 New workshop before FENS in Barcelona! Join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a hands-on workshop on pynapple & NeMoS. Learn to analyze and model neural data with open-source tools. Accommodation & meals included. Details ⬇️

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain? We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals. More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

The KM Lab is hiring! We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc. Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community. Learn more: sites.google.com/site/krookma...

Not explicitly no. In my experience as an applicant these grants don’t score well. They will need specific FOAs focused on cross-species studies imo to be successful.

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

Whittier in south Minneapolis was filled with visitors and residents attending vigils on Sunday. “People are showing up and this is one of the most incredible and resilient places,” one resident said. “It’s special, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.”

ICE sleeps somewhere. ICE buys food and beverages. ICE rents vehicles. ICE uses bathrooms. ICE buys fuel. Deny ICE access to food, beverages, fuel, bathrooms, and beds.

State and local officials have urged a federal judge to issue an immediate order that would temporarily halt the massive deportation operation in Minnesota. The matter is scheduled for a hearing at 9 a.m. Monday.

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING. 202–224-3121 Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Email your Representative and Senators before Jan 30. Ask them to "Adopt Sections 239 and 531 of the Senate LHHS Bill" to restore incremental funding and ensure timely grant awards at the NIH. Prevent a "grant drought" for our field this year. actnow.aamc.org/a/take-actio...

The appropriations bill that includes NIH is being finalized. The Senate bill includes a bipartisan amendment from Senators Capito (WV) and Baldwin (WI) limiting multi-year funding of grants. The House version does not and OMB has issued a veto threat if the House includes such language. 1/3

Was a honor to give this SfN Special Lecture & share 10 yrs of work from the lab on its 10th anniversary! Thankful to the incredible lab members, collaborators & participant volunteers who made this work possible. Link to video recording here👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...

For decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am a DEI supporter!

10.5 Tesla High-Resolution Macaque Brain MRI for Connectivity Studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695917v1

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

international.au.dk/about/profil... Aarhus University is looking for a director to establish and lead a centre working at the circuit level to tackle brain disorders. Please circulate if you know people who may be interested

📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University! healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati... 1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies 2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher Please share widely and reach out for questions!

Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.

Nature research paper: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain go.nature.com/4839zaL

Looking for a new Research Assistant to join the "rodent side" of the lab! Please apply and/or share widely! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

How do VTA DA neurons sculpt downstream representations to reinforce actions? VERY excited about our new preprint (by Alex Pan Vazquez & @czimmerman.bsky.social )

Nice write-up of some of our recent work! Thank you for the support @simonsfoundation.org !

The work with bats on barren, 7-acre Latham Island was Nachum Ulanovsky’s most complex undertaking yet. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroetholog...

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Our next profile is here! Dr. Christine Constantinople studies the neural mechanisms of decision-making. Follow the link below to learn more! 🧠 www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation — a Review by Dun Mao & Yong Gu www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of intuition.

The ‪@intlbrainlab.bsky.social published 2 papers today on their work to create a map of neural activity across the entire mouse brain. Learn more about the lab: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/02/20/how-do-our-brains-make-decisions-the-international-brain-laboratory-is-closing-in-on-answers/

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...