Calling all neuroscientists: please come to a virtual Rally For Neuroscience! Saturday 11am ET/8am Pacific. I'm hosting it not just as a candidate but as a scientist. Learn how it's happening & how we can defend ourselves! Sign up: note this is a *free* event! secure.actblue.com/donate/samzo...

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026 📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls Don't miss two of our illustrious speakers: Andrea Volterra (@unil.bsky.social) and Beatriz Rico (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

We had an amazing weekend at Dag van het Brein in Leuven. 12 LBI members volunteered and gave workshops like painting brains for kids 🧠 stay tuned for more pics #brainawarenessweek @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social

“by opening the door to irrational medicine alongside evidence-based medicine, we are poisoning the minds of the public” “if we don’t put a brake on the increasing self-confidence [...] they will cease to limit their attention to self-limiting or nonspecific maladies” labrigger.com/blog/2026/03...

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

Are altered states of consciousness really all in your head? 🧐 Lana Porter, Valerie Bonnelle and us have been thinking about this question for quite a while, and our best guess is: Nope! The autonomic nervous system does some fascinating stuff during altered consciousness...

C'est la semaine du cerveau! Venez à notre activité grand public qui aura lieu ce vendredi 20 mars, de 17h30 à 19h00 au bar La Maisonnée, tout près de l'Université de Montréal. @umontreal.ca @umontreal-en.bsky.social @facmed-umontreal.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social

These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models

Now read this SUPERB piece by the inspirational virologist @angierasmussen.bsky.social, “Thirst for revenge—What Jay Bhattacharya has in common with Stalin’s crackpot science seer Trofim Denisovich Lysenko” It’s a long piece but well worth your time rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

My travel to Cosyne was barred by the Trump admin, so I'm here on my personal dime. I care about the COSYNE community, I committed to co-chairing. And I always learn here. But the worst part about this travel ban is my lab colleagues— students and fellows—couldn't come. /1

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Disinformation is a deliberate strategy to discredit science and scientists — @caulfieldtim.bsky.social The Lloyd Lecture at UofR

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis med-techinsights.com/2026/03/09/f... #Occular #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

AI is being used in warfare despite there being no agreed rules for this application. Researchers working on the most advanced AI models want rules to be drawn up to minimize the harm the technologies could cause. We agree; read our Nature editorial 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

On average, more than 10 children have been killed every day across Lebanon over the past week, @unicef.org says. Israeli military operations and evacuation orders have also displaced nearly 700,000 people, including around 200,000 children www.unicef.org/press-releas...

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

A key read regarding some (just some) examples of inappropriate, offensive, and/or inaccurate comments by Vinay Prasad (from May of last year) An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA newrepublic.com/article/1949... via @newrepublic

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

TOMORROW. One. Day. Away. Join the Take Back our Science Rally! There are events all over, in Washington DC and across the country.

The post will be based in the Neuroinformatics Unit at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, working with the Mrsic-Flogel, Branco and @behrenstimb.bsky.social labs. Start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-62k.

JOB OPENING! If you want to work as a reporter with Nature's US news team, this is a VERY RARE opportunity. The beat is physical sciences/energy & environment/technology. DC or NYC location. Deadline 3/27. Join our awesome team! #journojobs springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/es/SpringerN...

If you can't help this weekend or you live far away, please give! When Congressional districts are ~800,000 people, the only way to get our message out is through mail and advertising. Help me defend science, preserve health, and save democracy! secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4nj

Central NJ friends, I urgently need help with signatures to qualify for the ballot. Come help, get swag! I need at least 500...but we have to overkill, or else face legal challenges. Sign up to help in Princeton, Montgomery...or another town in NJ-12. Earn a hat! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s not just US corporate media, the Canadian media are not better. Shame on all of them.

No it's not rocket science.

This March, more than 1,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with a brain tumour. That’s why we’re raising awareness and supporting life-saving research to give patients and families hope. 💛 https://bit.ly/49AIz0x #BrainTumourAwarenessMonth #TogetherWeWillFindACure

“officials at NSF have spoken publicly about how President Donald Trump is now calling the shots at the $9 billion research agency…” Hard to imagine a cleaner statement of the big-picture destructive change at science agencies this year: Presidential takeover. Presidentialization.

"Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said Canada is 'abandoning” its historic commitment to preventing the illegal use of aggression. He said it has become a pattern for Carney to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada can be a 'complicit partner.'”

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

Of course they don't have plan; they don't even think it's their job (to have a plan).

Another week, another effort from Councilor Flynn to prop up Trump and attack Mayor Michelle Wu TY to the 9 City Councilors who voted against this effort to push harmful narratives around immigrants and crime. Boston www.boston.com/news/local-n...

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not. Gift link:

This #RareDiseaseDay, we're highlighting research initiative @sparkforautism.bsky.social#RareDiseaseDayand Simons Searchlight, a research program focused on 184 rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Learn more about these cohorts: https://www.sfari.org/resources/?nav_items_term=cohorts #science

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"More than 270 staff signed an open petition to take the same stance as Anthropic, joined by more than 60 people who said they work for OpenAI." notdivided.org

Republicans think starting and conducting a regional war for another state is America first.

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #QuitGPT #ChatGPT #SubscriptionCancelation https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1132577/a-quitgpt-campaign-is-urging-people-to-cancel-chatgpt-subscriptions/

hey team! I need advice! If there were theoretically an organization whose sole purpose was to systematically identify and break nuisance and stupid IP in the biomedical space, creating shareware equivalents, what would be the highest value targets? e.g., AAV serotypes, antibodies, CRISPR, 1/n

📢 Applications are open! This meeting brings together scientists using data-driven #AI to analyze + model neural circuits and uncover how the brain performs complex computations. 🧠 Apply by May 28 ➡️ janelia.news/NAI26 @computingnature.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @srinituraga.bsky.social

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

This, like the rest, is completely unwarranted. Hyperscalers and large AI/IT companies with any sense of responsibility (or self-preservation) should step in and provide compute to researchers. It would be a tiny fraction of their capacity.

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...