Our topic today in our 1st year PhD students skills & ethics course was Vannevar Bush's Science, The Endless Frontier. If you haven't read it, you should. Bush outlined a vision that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation. 1/n

Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

Excited that our new paper is out today in the Journal of Neuroscience. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/6...

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Don’t let Russell Vought trick Congress into destroying science by removing multiyear funding limits from the NIH funding bill.

If it helps, people are mad at Democrats because many of their social media presences produce comms which address what's happening as though we're simply dealing with the consequences of going along with a bad restaurant recommendation. The food isn't just bad, we want to shut down the restaurant.

Sharing this piece by @katherinejwu.com - A succinct explanation about why i fear for the younger generation of scientists... www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

New paper out from the lab. Tahi Khan, David McFall, and team (1) found increased senescent cells in hippocampus from individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy and in mice after status epilepticus, (2) cleared senescent cells using two strategies & reduced seizures and cognitive impairment in mice.

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

I tried something similar using ChatGPT 4.o. "I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.) Could you help me choose papers?" Here's the result.

It has been more than 15 years since the RDoC recommendations were published. The RDoC recommendations have had no impact on psychiatric drug discovery to date. zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...

Video from the hearing yesterday www.youtube.com/live/_Szx0jJ...

Excited to have a new preprint describing the seizure circuit in a CNS infection model of temporal lobe epilepsy- great work from Alexandra Petrucci (not on bluesky.) #epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hear why neuroscientists 🧠🧑‍🔬 should be valued, globally 🗺️! Prof Helen Scharfman 🤩 explains to us her #epilepsy research using mossy cells and the potential understanding them further may bring to people with anepilepsy and #anxiety! 👇🏻 ▶️ YouTube youtu.be/KHBqEYT1ThY 🎙️ Podcast shorturl.at/e7XWY

At its 29th World Law Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 6, the World Jurist Association (WJA) presented both #GeorgetownLaw and Dean William M. Treanor with awards recognizing their efforts to defend and advance the rule of law.

Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology are looking for new colleagues. See the ad below.

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

Abstract submission for #AES2025 is OPEN! AES is the optimal venue to share your #epilepsy research with a global audience. Learn more and apply by 6/9: buff.ly/Zg7WM2T #brainscience #neurology #epilepsyresearch

John Green did an amazing job with Everything is Tuberculosis. He manages to tell "people stories", inform on the history of medicine, and make a clear argument for public health policy in just over 200 pages. Well worth the read.

cheese is woke now

New paper from the lab: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Well done Columbia leadership and Paul Weiss...

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Circling back on this…

Very proud of this paper, which spans three decades of work. (1/17) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Well, this took my breath away a bit... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Scientists: Columbia’s leaders are not on our side. Their incentives are neither to preserve US science or US democracy.

@jeremymberg.bsky.social NEI council: April 21 NIAAA council April 17th. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...