URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

if a man wanted free reign to attack women he wouldn't try to be seen as a trans woman he would try to be seen as, say it with me class a police officer

Last month, we organized #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.org (along w Karel, Saskia @sejdevries.bsky.social , David & Satra) with the theme "Integrating Scales & Modalities". See the videos📣👇 Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎥 Speaker: alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi... youtu.be/N1IMki0RnIc?...

If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.

How many authenticator apps does one person need?

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

My speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Compare and contrast the emails from McKnight (left) and Chan-Zuckerberg (right). Proud to be part of the McKnight community.

On this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪

“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.” ☝️☝️☝️ That one sentence all scientists must read.

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Registration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday! Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠

Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!

I biked 2250 miles this year. 591 was for recreation, the rest was commuting and errands. Compare this to 2951 miles that I drove (half of our shared car’s mileage, probably overestimating my share of the miles)

I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics.

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

This was such a fun conversation on open science and collaboration! Thanks @grimalkina.bsky.social and @analog-ashley.bsky.social for having me on the podcast! 🧠🧪

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

I don't think a lot of cis people, queer or not, realize that this SCOTUS case on healthcare this week affects us all, not just our trans siblings. Because at the core of this is a severe question: Can you ban healthcare? @msjpauly.bsky.social has an amazing legal breakdown to read on this 👇

Evergreen tweet: whenever 🇺🇸 plays 🇳🇱 in soccer I never know which part of my identity to root for. Turns out I root for the part of me that is us a former goalie. Especially today!

This is due soon! #NativesInSTEM #BlackInMicro #BlackInSTEM #IndigenizeSTEM #LatinoInSTEM (not sure if that last one is the right tag) #BIPOCinSTEM

If you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

Check out these open positions! The neuro community at UW is amazing and I benefit from having awesome scientists and collaborators across the lake!

Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. W.H. Auden

There is a unique joy when you get asked to provide a reference for someone you think the world of.

Van Gogh Museum Mass MOCA The Tate - specifically the Turner wing.

Come be my colleague! UW ECE has multiple openings for tenure-track faculty at both the assistant and associate level. It's a great, collaborative place with a very inclusive definition of electrical & computer engineering. apply.interfolio.com/156207 apply.interfolio.com/156210

This is why no matter what people say about shared authorship, everyone will fight for first-first author!

@dyfbrain.bsky.social and I are talking about our data platform and metadata schema. Come by and chat! Posters AA11 and AA12. #SfN2024

I’ll be at the Allen Institute booth (#1301) this afternoon (2-3pm) to talk to anyone about Allen Brain Observatory data and our Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about either of these things, come by for a chat! #SfN2024

people who’ve given birth, can i get a fact check?

AMAZING news. Writing to NHTSA to say thank you right now. I think a surge of comments saying YES PLEASE will help to counterbalance the inevitable whining from auto manufacturers.

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

We're counting down the days until TReND's workshop in Rwanda! @sejdevries.bsky.social is part of an Allen Institute team making the journey to CMU Africa. Alongside others, she'll be showing students how to use our open science resources. More about TReND-CaMinA: trendinafrica.org/trend-camina...

Mar 31 is Trans Day of Visibility: to celebrate & recognise trans & gender diverse experiences & achievements. We want to share your thoughts, stories, perspectives, & experiences on anything related to being trans & gender diverse in STEMM! Tell us here: forms.gle/rUsCiXTTZkJo...

📢 Present at Assembly 2024: Submit your IP session abstract today 📢 📅 Deadline: Apr 08 🧠 Submit your abstract for 1 of 4 sessions on the brain & AI! bit.ly/INCFabstracts 🧠 List of topics: bit.ly/3IUOUs5 #neuroskyence

Layleen Polanco died in solitary confinement on Rikers Island because she couldn't afford $500 bail

Not just art. I feel this about research as well. Scientists' pursuing their own interests and curiosities exactly the way they want, in complete abandon, often makes for the most fascinating kind of research. We could use much more of it.