The most recent CBRG preprint on intracortical microstimulation is now available! Over 24 combined years across 5 participants, we delivered 168 million!!! pulses of stimulation and recorded everything that happened. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

UPDATE: More than 900 Pitt students, faculty and staff have signed an open letter calling Pitt to more firmly address visa revocations, federal research grant terminations and funding cuts, plus proposing creation of a University Crisis Task Force. buff.ly/BAGNmns

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Thousands of people turned out in Pittsburgh today to demand Trump and Musk take their hands off our democracy.

This open letter will be published tomorrow on the AAUP blog. Signatures will be accepted after that, but a high # of signatures in advance will help the organizers gain media attention that could benefit the effort. Share in ways you believe will get results! sites.google.com/view/we-must...

The end of my speech at #StandUpForScience in Pittsburgh yesterday (in 6 parts) 1/6

Here's the only national TV coverage I've seen of #StandUpForScience. What a surprise to see Pittsburgh, @hunterschone.bsky.social and myself featured from the beginning! www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Disappointed to learn that Sen McCormick & staffers will not talk to constituents despite their repeated attempts to communicate through all legitimate channels #TaxationWithoutRepresentation

Local researchers and scientists are speaking out and calling for support to counter threats from Washington D.C. that jeopardize their funding and work. A planned gathering of science writers, however, has been cancelled after Pitt and CMU pulled funding.

Pittsburgh researchers, doctors, and supporters filled Schenley Plaza Friday to speak out against government research funding cuts. Similar demonstrations were held across the country as part of a nationwide “Stand up for Science” movement.

This afternoon several hundred Pittsburghers gathered at Schenley Plaza to show their support for science and the importance of scientific research:

@standupforscience.bsky.social in Pittsburgh with @jeffweiss.bsky.social and Brian Dekleva

#StandUpforScience local rally in Pittsburgh is confirmed! 📅 March 7, 2025 ⏰ 11 AM-1:30 PM 📍Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh Follow the local rally’s Instagram @savesciencepgh for updates Spread the word 🔥 @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025 #ScienceForAll #ScienceNotSilence #STEM

Call your elected reps, get your neighbors, friends, co-workers. Calling is better than email. Call once a day. Volume and immediacy is important. www.senate.gov/senators/sen... www.house.gov/representati... (use both home and work address) www.usa.gov/state-governor (governors can file lawsuits)

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

They tried this 💩 in the first admin, proposing cuts of indirects to 10%, and it was resisted by Congress Call your congresspeople, and remind them they have defended health research before, and they can do so again

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It just occurred to me the reason there are so few people at this international student career fair is that they are probably very unsure about their future in this country and if they will be able to find employment. Especially because so many of them are in STEM fields that rely on NIH grants. 😩

Thank you for this, TK. Senator John Fetterman has a short character limit on his contact form, so I sent him this abbreviated letter based on yours (continued in 🧵)

The NIH Is literally prohibited by law from commenting on the new NIH restrictions. The NIH can't fight this fight for you. Scientists who want to help people, this has to be your fight.

Here is a draft you can use to reach out to your Elected Reps about the devastating impact on NIH: find them here: www.bioniclab.org/news/nihexec...

Our group has a new paper out now in Nature BME, led by Charles Greenspon. It covers a number of updates on how we can restore tactile sensation from the hand using intracortical microstimulation (ICMS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new paper 'Evoking stable and precise tactile sensations via multi-electrode intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex' on @NatureBiomedicalEngineering 🦾 🧠 ⚡ LINK: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BCIs list! Still finding folks on here so please message me if you'd like to be added.

I might lose some followers, but to avoid confusion, I am NOT Prof. Jeff A. Weiss from Utah. I am also a #bioengineer, but I do NOT study biomechanics or orthopaedics. I work in #neuralengineering developing #braincomputerinterfaces, so feel free to stick around for occasional #neuro content. 🧠🦾

Hello, Bluesky! I'm Jeff, a staff research engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Rehab Neural Engineering Labs. I provide engineering support to our intracortical brain-computer interface studies, with the goal of restoring motor and sensory function to those with paralysis. www.rnel.pitt.edu