Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory information

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The science is clear - SNAP reduces food insecurity, improves health outcomes, and lower healthcare costs. Although fed judges ruled the admin can NOT withhold SNAP disbursements, it appears they plan to do just that. We’re mobilizing a national food drive - join here👇 zurl.co/BrvG5

The science is clear: SNAP is critically important for the health of over 40m Americans. We are mobilizing @standupforscience.bsky.social to collect food, in partnership with local food banks all across the country. 🤝 Get involved here: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-dr...

Applications for our Fellows-to-Faculty Award are now open! This program supports early career scientists in #autism or #neuroscience research by facilitating their transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Apply by 1/14/2026: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/10/31/a... #science

Pitt faculty taking a stand against the higher education "compact" www.wesa.fm/identity-com... I know of a few other news stories about similar faculty action. Please share them here.

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social (It’s also our kid’s birthday)

MindCORE Summer Fellowship Program May 31-Aug 7, 2026 This is a paid 10-wk research experience for undergrad students matched with select Penn faculty in mind sciences. Open to both Penn students & non-Penn US students through our REU. Apply by Jan 11: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/research/sum...

Canadian researchers operating in Canada: consider signing this. This is important.

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

People outside of science think this is nothing that concerns them. "Oh, it's harder to get grants now? Big deal." But everyone deserves the rapid pace of advancements in science, medicine, and technology that our parents enjoyed. The Trump Administration's actions are taking that from everyone.

Nice cover of our work linking SRGAP2/SYNGAP1 synaptic neoteny and ID/ASD with @blibep.bsky.social @benvermaercke.bsky.social @franckp.bsky.social @boninlab.bsky.social @cecilecharrier.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pro...

"For-profit journals disproportionately cite other for-profit journals, academia-friendly journals preferentially cite other academia-friendly journals, and non-profit journals likewise favor citations to non-profit sources." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...

RFK Jr. is a danger to health and humans. So why is he Secretary of Health and Human Services? It's not too late to add your name to our petition to #impeachrfkjr. We'll be delivering thousands of petitions to Congress on November 5th, and demanding our representatives take action! zurl.co/tvlga

The US's attempted shakedown of the UC system mirrors tactics used by authoritarian regimes: secrecy, coercion, and suppression of dissent. By keeping it under wraps, UC has enabled this, sidelining public debate and resistance.

Cramer hat 2024 einen Forscher entlassen, weil ihm seine Äußerungen zum Völkermord in Gaza nicht passten. Inzwischen geben laut einer Studie von der FU 75% von Forschenden mit Nahostbezug an. sich mit Äußerungen zu Israel-bezogenen Themen zurückzuhalten — Selbstzensur. #Wissenschaftsfreiheit ...

Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience! Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community! All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...

I actually had heard the the potential NIEHS appointment 2 days ago and broke the news about it at the STAT Summit. I did not share any details since I did not have confirmation. Eric Green shared his views about the importance of process and applicant quality. 1/5

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...

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

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪

It's time for the second workshop this autumn - this time, you will have an opportunity to learn animal pose estimation with Deeplabcut! Workshop will be held Nov 20-21st in Heidelberg and is free of charge. More info on our webpage!

This is what 1933 Germany must have been like.

2p users -- Talk shop, troubleshoot, and trade notes in a slack-like community. I'm inspired by @brunopichler.bsky.social to renew this call. Invite link: 2p.ece.ucsb.edu/signup_user_... or email me. Bruno shared this fun read on technical communities: bsky.app/profile/brun...

Six percent of *all children* in the United States—all people in America under 18—are US citizens with at least one parent who is an unauthorized immigrant. Mass deportation is a vast military action against *millions of US citizens*.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Well, if that does not get citizens protesting on the streets, I wonder what will.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Emiliani Lab

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways this piece from @whyy.org is great an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive whyy.org/segments/oze...

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏 ⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025 📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC! RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️ 📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

Our yearly PhD call is open: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026 We are recruiting. Please pass the word.

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!! ..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!! ..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!" - Jacob Hanna

🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵

💡 Join the 8th Bonn Brain Conference March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social

#JNeuosci | Olianezhad et al. found that human amblyopia, or lazy eye, is associated with contrast sensitivity and impaired shape perception. They also propose a mechanism in the cortex that compensates for these impairments. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1111-25.2025

I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Doctors and researchers, please hear this plea. The collective silence on Gaza and resulting inaction have enabled / ignored unfathomable atrocities, including targeting children with gunshots — and we may not have seen the worst. It is time to break the silence. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

1/ Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!! www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

"The world has never listened to Palestinian voices or taken seriously the existential threat Israel poses to Palestinian life, and this has not materially changed despite the increase in performative angst." A must read essay www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.