New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Delighted to be awarded the 2025 International Prize from the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social jointly with my long time collaborator @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social for our work on the 'Neurobiological foundations of human cognition': www.fondationfyssen.fr/deux-laureat...

So I guess they can pencil him down for "opting for Polio" 🩺 🤷‍♀️

Exciting PhD training opportunities 👇 www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

exciting opportunity! 👇

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

i really enjoyed talking to Holly Barker @thetransmitter.bsky.social about our collaborative work with @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social studying the role of human-specific genes SRGAP2B/C in implementing synaptic neoteny in human cortical neurons 👇

a great piece by @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social in @thetransmitter.bsky.social 👇

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

If you normally have an incoming class of 15 students (like in my PhD program), what's the point of admitting just one or two students? How are you going to teach classes or have any sense of camaraderie?

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

This is Trump's hometown, New York City. It's hard to comprehend just how many patriotic Americans turned out for the No Kings protest against Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime — but this arial video gives y'all an idea. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇

This is what leadership looks like👇 orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Six surgeons general...are coming late to the fight. No paywall: archive.ph/cW4yJ

The intellectual purge continues. Last month Marrazzo said she had been silenced when she and her colleagues pushed back against NIH officials who questioned the importance of childhood flu vaccines and canceled long-running clinical trials. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Excited to highlight a new paper from my graduate student Sergio Bernal Garcia who, together withLuke Hammond, developed RESPAN, a new deep-learning pipeline automating the segmentation of neuronal morphology and dendritic spines from fluorescent microscopy images: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

✨ Post-doc opportunity in axon biology, funded by #ATIP-Avenir! 👀 We are looking for an enthusiastic post-doc to join our team at @ibdm.bsky.social to explore translation dynamics in axon regrowth, using live imaging approaches. Apply at: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Thank you for sharing! 👋 🙏

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

fascinating results👇

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Watch this video about the new Vera Rubin telescope. Truly remarkable scientific and engineering achievement, so much to learn about our universe! I In these troubled times, it's so refreshing and stimulating to realize how transformative science and human ingenuity can be 👇

New, from me: The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission. They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Dissolving ACIP is an absolute mistake. We need accurate information—not fringe theories—guiding government recommendations on which vaccines to give which people.

My message to Trump’s NIH Director? No one in America wants us to do LESS cancer research. No one is asking Trump to make it harder to cure Alzheimer's disease. Yet Trump is cutting all of this NOW and demanding an $18 BILLION cut to NIH next year. Not on my watch.

Trump sends 5,000 military to invade & occupy LA, and NYT headline is literal false-equivalency he-said-she-said.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇

Postdoc opportunity in the heart of Europe! Check out the flyer below. Join our team on an international project with Anthony Holtmaat exploring synaptic plasticity and specificity in cortical and thalamocortical circuits.

Glad to see our new paper finally out! We show how the GPR158 receptor controls synapse maturation and function by silencing an intrinsic inhibitory mechanism. authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HS5Sx5g... Work from Ben Verpoort and colleagues, with special thanks to our collaborators.

i recently presented a seminar @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social and part of the visit included an interview that was transcribed 👇

a remarkable technological breakthrough for neuroscience, LICONN, developed by Johann Danzl's group @istaresearch.bsky.social and published @nature.com combining molecular detection and large scale, dense connectomics at synaptic resolution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ISTA scientists and Google Research unveil LICONN: a new expansion microscopy method that can reconstruct mammalian brain tissue with full synaptic detail using light microscopes. This method could transform how we study the brain’s networks. @nature.com Read more: https://bit.ly/44f0euV

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

"Absolute Nonsense": As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link

HOLY SHIT! This might be the coolest thing ever.

How does the brain create mental maps of the world? In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social study, Justin OHare, @franckp.bsky.social & Attila Losonczy reveal how branches at the farthest tips of neurons can help us remember new places: zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/how-do-memor... #neuroscience #memory

Exciting meeting 👇 I wish I could have attended but three of my former postdoc trainees now independent @jcourchet.bsky.social @hirabayashi-lab.bsky.social and Seok-Kyu Kwon are either organizing or speaking! 😊

excellent opportunity!! 👇

It's hard to see what is happening unless you pull back the lens, read @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and others on autocrats and centers of knowledge and expertise. Once you recognize it, a chill should go down your spine. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist