IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

It's utterly shameful that it's only "in doubt"...

US Ambassador doesn't like #ElbowsUp as he thinks it's anti-American, but it's fine for the US president to speculate about annexing Canada? This idiot needs to get a fucking grip.

There’s a real generational divide between Labour MPs leaking to the Guardian and Labour MPs leaking to the Huffington Post

Small victories #SpellingBee

I want to start a new global movement: Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

Well said.

The age of enshittenment.

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

There's a very cool Buzsaki #neuroskyence paper out in Science this week, looking at hippocampal spatial information encoding by multiple interneuron subtypes in parallel. The brilliant @agonru.bsky.social and I wrote a wee perspective to go alongside it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Couldn't sleep as I had a full and very exciting day of #neuroskyence and was buzzing. Had to get up and have a dram and some shit TV on the internet to decompress. Been a while since I've had such a fun science day. Good times.

Yesterday my wife, the awesome @dominiquechaput.bsky.social gave evidence at the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry. She gave a absolute masterclass in scientific communication, clearly defining complex subjects and interpreting within the limits of that the data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lH3...

But the US is not fascist! 49.8% of the voters can’t be wrong! He’s no Nazi! [& so the defence goes]. In 1937 Hitler decided that museums should only exhibit state [his] approved art. It was called Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). 88y later America’s führer is introducing it again. Not good.

I'm feeling a little Canadian today. Their slogan is a bit more socially acceptable than “fuck Trump”, so suitable to wear while teaching… 😏

This little bit of warmth has made my news feed a much nicer place today...

IMO, when you ask for people's time for something, the least you can do is send the calendar invite with all the details and save them that time and mental energy. I know, this shouldn't be a novel concept.

More than a week later, my manuscript revision remains unsubmitted as the journal’s technical support team try to work out what went wrong… 🫣 #NeuroSkyence

I think I broke the journal submission system... 🫣 #NeuroSkyence

We have updated our nucleus reuniens paper: now with added data from rat (courtesy of Zaf Bashir's lab in Bristol). They also failed to evoke a synaptic response in CA1 pyramidal cells when activating reuniens axons, in either dCA1 or vCA1. #NeuroSkyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have updated our nucleus reuniens paper: now with added data from rat (courtesy of Zaf Bashir's lab in Bristol). They also failed to evoke a synaptic response in CA1 pyramidal cells when activating reuniens axons, in either dCA1 or vCA1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Airport security is always at its most efficient when you're not in a hurry. 1h40 to kill now... 🙄. Oh well, Bristol here I come!

Finally got around to reading the Salmon of Doubt. Dragged my heels for the best part of 2 decades as I wasn't quite ready to say goodbye to Douglas Adams... Here are his thoughts on England 🤣

This month’s "Launch" newsletter features an essay by Sheena Josselyn on the importance of reading (but not too much), Q&As with @agonru.bsky.social and @drewkesner.bsky.social about their new labs, the latest job openings and more. Subscribe to receive the newsletter each month: bit.ly/4luI2mJ

Over a decade ago I used to edit a magazine called One in Four. The tagline was 'written by people with mental health difficulties, for people with mental health difficulties'. We did it for 7 years. It was born out of my live of reading about the mundane stuff of everyday life from specific angles

What does everyday #neuroscience look like? We asked BNA members, and the results were truly inspiring. www.bna.org.uk/resource/exp... Congratulations to @cristina-mtz-glz.bsky.social as well as shortlisted images including @kmujmer.bsky.social @mickcraig.bsky.social and @dalmaijer.bsky.social

If the Royal Society had decided to expel Elon Musk simply for violating their Code of Conduct, they wouldn't now face the embarrassment of having a Fellow who built MechanoHitler. Hey ho.

Great PhD from 2 awesome supervisors. Deadline tomorrow. #NeuroSkyence #FindAPhD

🚨Funded PhD studentship co-supervised by me and @matthewwself.bsky.social. Using neuropixels, behaviour, viral tracing and optogenetics you’ll study how visual areas enhance target representations vs background to support goal-oriented actions. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Iran had tried to play nicely, making a nuclear deal that Trump tore up last time. If not pursuing nuclear weapons as failed to keep them safe, isn't it kind of obvious what US/Israel may force them to do next? They do have a lot of enriched uranium now... 🫣

Keir Starmer is calling for Iran to “return to the negotiating table”. But is he also calling for those Iranian negotiators to be safe from Israeli assassinations? Because that what happened to the previous Iranian negotiators. It’s ridiculous.

I'm very confused by the UK media reporting on European leaders calling for "Iran to end war with Israel". Isn't Israel the one who startes bombing to distract from their war crimes in Gaza? I don't understand the continued reluctance to call out Israel's appalling behaviour 🤯

I definitely never regretted the decision to leave New York for Stockholm and Karolinska - now you can join us: big call for assistant professors across medical disciplines coming up. news.ki.se/ki-to-recrui...

This is utterly chilling. I looks like I won't be entering the US again any time soon, I've been very outspoken on social media. Wild.

Great turnout for the Washington DC Military Parade.

Damn, I forgot to include some hashtags. Erm. See the post below for some fun #NeuroSkyence and #Neuroimmunology.

Preprint alert! An update to our main neuroinflammation in depression project. A brief 🧵. tl;dr altered ahalamostriatal signalling appears to undelie depression / anhedonia in both humans and a preclinical mouse model. Glia & infiltrating immune cells all contribute www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This story is just so sad: a postdoc's life is ruined, and so stupid: our government is disgustingly duplicitous, and the media and university are completely credulous. Needless to say, everyone must have the proper permits for your strains. More importantly, this is targeted fascism. the details:

🧠🍄Have you used classic or non-classic #psychedelics? We are running an anonymous online study on how these experiences relate to mental processes. Share your experience (takes less than 15 min):👉 durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hello #AcademicSky, particularly those in the UK! I have been tasked with coming up with a workload model that accounts for the various things we do in research as well as teaching. Do you work at an insitution that does workloading particularly well? Or badly? Fancy chatting? Please repost.

This is absolutely mad. I did my postdoc at NIH on a J1 visa, this affects not only students but also any postdocs or anyone else on temporary academic visas. The US government's attack on academia and freedom continues unabated. If it walks like a fascist...

Here's the letter Noem sent Harvard, as posted on X. Nothing alleges ANY specific violation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. Nothing. She cites no law violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored. I don't care what you think of Harvard; this is clear weaponization of government.

Few things evoke anxiety as much as the supermarket being out of stock of one of the few healthy staples that you can get your autistic child to eat. This is going to be a difficult week... 🫣🫣

Thank God for immigrants open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

The advice to change running shoes "every 300 to 500 miles" is utter bollocks. But I've had 2 pairs fall apart this week and one pair managed almost 1400 km (~860 miles) and the other managed a whopping 2400 km (1500 miles) before bursting apart. That'll do!

Achievement unlock: run up Dumgoyne, a hill that overlooks Glasgow and has been calling to me for years. Ran from my house to the hill, up then to Strathblane for coffee with a colleague. 21.5km all in, third run >20km this week 💪

“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @cambsforeurope.bsky.social

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

And to be clear, my colleagues who immigrated here to work in other roles - e.g. cleaning, catering, nursing - are far more integral to keeping the NHS running than I am. But no, apparently we're now 'cheap foreign labour' that's 'tearing the country apart'.

I'm one of those whose arrival here was part of 'a sordid chapter' in the UK's history. Gearing up to do more 'incalculable damage' in the NHS tomorrow by (checking diary) running a specialist diagnostic lab test that I set up to help clinicians treat desperately ill patients in ICU.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank