Made it to Friday but at what cost

So proud of my new lab! Check out the recent songbird basal ganglia connectome - great job @alexandrarother.bsky.social !! @jmrko.bsky.social !! songbird-connectomics.org

Every time you ask your PhD advisor a simple question.

A black hole in the early universe? Sometimes I like to imagine that I operate a telescope, not a microscope 😁. The hole in the middle of the image is actually a blood vessel. The stars are astrocytes🟡 in the human brain, interacting with beta-amyloid🔵. The brain is from a donor with #Alzheimer.

it's beginning to look like a promise.

🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology! Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS. Many, many congratulations! Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

Thank you @neurocait.bsky.social for making an amazing website for the Kornfeld lab!!! 🤩

So we can now do mark-recapture and similar experiments with... tardigrades. 🤯 🧪 "This precise control also enables detailed investigations into tardigrade behavior and movement patterns..." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

My mom used to love #FluorescenceFriday, so I will keep posting in her memory ❤️ This photo shows neurons in the hippocampus accumulating phospho-tau in our monkey model of Alzheimer's Disease. Markers: Dapi 🔵, Neun 🔴, pTau 422🟣, AT8🟡

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Nelson from MRC LMB will explain how song birds learn their songs 🐦

One of our undergraduate students in philosophy at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi, has been arrested by ICE at an immigration appointment (that he thought was for his citizenship application) in Vermont. I am standing up to say: hands off our students.

A package of research papers from the MICrONS (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) consortium in Nature and Nature Methods provides a detailed map of mouse brain cell structure and connections, offering insights into how they relate to activity in the mouse brain. 🧪

LOL, this bag is perfect! Perhaps parents will be hiding Easter potatoes this year instead?

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

1/ Today, we publish the first of seven articles in a series exploring ‘Science Under Threat in the United States’. The authors discuss what they describe as the Trump administration's "assault" on science and scientists, and what the response should be. #StandUpForScience

One week left to apply!

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Attracting talent, offering safe spaces is good. If it goes hand in hand with extra resources for science / education. If not, these plans will create extra competition in already precarious systems. The fact is, many European countries cut on research spending. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!

From my PhD advisor @kenmiller.bsky.social at Columbia. These are the grants that funded my PhD.

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦

“Since the entire staff was also placed on administrative leave, we have been locked out of our computers, and have no chance to assist in an orderly transition in our work.” Sounds super efficient and safe

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

“I will de-nazify shit, but I will not re-nazify shit” should be somehow crafted into The Constitution. People seem to have lost this concept. Growing up in the punk scene, we had on occasion a person who would want to be edgy and put a swastika on something. That was absolutely radioactive.

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

If you die during peer review, you die in real life

Fascism comes to biomedicine.

It breaks my heart that the university where I spent most of my career, and where there are still many outstanding faculty and students, is now such a rapidly sinking ship.

Photoreceptor Inner Segments bryanwjones.com/2020/09/phot... #SciArt #retina

Neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky surged last week following an influx of users—including many neuroscientists. Chart by @callimcflurry.bsky.social.