loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

Our first 2026 paper is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! 👏 to @nathancsharris.bsky.social (now Asst Prof, GA State) and PD Priya Dutta. Here we show how transcriptional and trafficking pathways coordinate thermoreceptor levels to precisely modulate response plasticity www.cell.com/current-biol...

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

California just joined the World Health Organization. I love it.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/5

@currentbiology.bsky.social does it again. The video is a must watch 🤣. Smart bovine!

Huge. www.advocate.com/health/macke...

I enjoyed reading these 20 reviews in this special edition on interoception. This exciting field of brain-body signaling has many open questions – indicated by most articles written by PIs of labs opened within the past few years. Nice job authors and editors. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

my god it's only jan 7th. how are we going to get through the rest of this year

26 degrees out and snow on the ground? No matter. First job accomplished for 2026 was putting up the hammock in the family room. Panacea for existential stress.

Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

Iguana thermoregulation. (This is not Boston)

Hey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Is it better to decline a paper review invitation if you are swamped, or accept and then sit on it for >2 months? Asking for a friend...

In vivo transcriptomic, functional, circuit-based, and translational analyses of enteric neurons @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Today's collection of headlines makes me want to curl up in a ball under a blanket in a sensory deprivation chamber. 2026 had better be better or else...

Explore the first seven parts of American Science, Shattered A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Our hearts are with the students, staff, and families at Brown. We don’t have to live this way. #BrownUniversity

Afternoon tea to warm ourselves up and to usher in the holidays.

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

🤣🤣🤣 but also of course really 😥 (But read the comments!)

The best books of 2025

Mango cream, sweet potato, pecan, two cherry. Not sure we made enough.

Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social >20 review articles on Interoception www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Anyone else obsessively checking to see if the NIGMS EI MIRA NOFO has been posted? Nah - just me? Expired in 2025 and the forecast said would be posted Nov 3rd. But ofc there was the shutdown in between.

Thanks to @nature.com for featuring our work in this piece on genetically-encoded sensors. The article does a great job highlighting their importance for both basic research and translational impact, such as in our lab's research on serotonin. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Come do a joint postdoc with me and @tinakim-neuro.bsky.social, splitting your time between Princeton and Columbia. Come design new activity-dependent labeling enzymes and transcriptional reporters optimized for application in the peripheral nervous system. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

All of you knowledgeable music-lovers on here - I need recommendations to rejuvenate my workout playlist (to keep my mind off my aching everything). Gravitate towards high energy sounds - punk, metal (thrash, power, prog mostly but not death), industrial, but will try out other genres. 🙏

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

Congratulations on your re-election, Mayor Wu - the best mayor in America. You proved once more that Boston can't be bought and won't be bullied.

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together. Happy reading! #cilia #flagella journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

What a loss. Instead of welcoming talent from around the world, we are kicking them out and embracing the cult of stupidity and ignorance. As an immigrant myself - this really resonates. I am sorry Wei -we will miss you. I wish you the very best in your life and am sorry it couldn't be here.

Exciting new work from Mike's lab! #ProudExPI

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Synapses may get all the glory, but join us cilia-philes for our @sfn.org Nanosymposium to learn about the role of cilia in modulating brain activity, behavior, and development. Sunday November 16th 1-4pm SDCC Room 25A. Thrilled to chair with @konjikusicmia.bsky.social - we'll see you there!

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Neuroscientists say No Kings

Good crowd here in Waltham