Cat and Ashley work so hard to do justice to both: - the scientific rigor of their fields - the human duties of making those fields serve us equitably, honestly, without distortion or manipulation You have been misled about girls and math ability. Don’t miss this one:

in case you’re wondering, i’ve lost my mind 46 times this year for an average generation of 12.2 minutes each time

if i get one more “2025 replay!” message from the multitude of mundane services in my life i am going to lose my mind

Congrats, @analog-ashley.bsky.social and Victor Magdaleno-Garcia on publishing nwb4edu in JOSE! 🎉 This interactive textbook teaches how to access, analyze, and visualize NWB data from @dandiarchive.org, w/ lessons recreating classic neuroscience figures nwb4edu.github.io doi.org/10.21105/jose.00309

It's my birthday and we're smuggling science, come on in.

This is optimistic even for my taste, but a lot of this did resonate. I appreciate that AI is forcing us to reconsider the entire point of being physically together in a classroom. The pandemic made some of us reconsider that too. But neither are without costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

we're bringing board games and homemade cinnamon rolls oh you wanted video games which console we got you

you will be visited by your gay aunts and their cute dog

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science. We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

I created a new profile pic for my wife so you can all start treating her with some goddamn respect (this is what you expect software engineers to look like, right?)

Can we please dear god standardize the application deadlines for PhD programs? I’m getting multiple waves of requests that are really annoying to track. 🫠

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/

Friends we are the 4%

The change to the CDC website to reflect unscientific, agenda-driven mindsets is deeply upsetting. But let's not forget there are a lot of excellent scientists still working there. Persisting. Trying to minimise damage. Let's not stop supporting them - while condemning those in charge!

Appreciate some of this clarification from @tedunderwood.com. Huge pet peeve of mine that everyone calls everything "AI". ... sometimes they're talking about a linear regression. 🫠

I'm not wholly opposed to LLM use in certain contexts in the classroom but I am foregrounding this intention to not lose community. Classrooms build habits of community and of mind, and it does feel like we're fighting a losing battle of slipping into education via LLM.

"I hope that the wearing-my-humanity-on-my-sleeves part at least continues to normalize the process of 'You’re going to have great days, and you’re going to have atrocious days in life.'" It does, @okaysteve.bsky.social. It really does. (via @undark.org) undark.org/2025/10/29/i...

One of the best reasons to make all your data open is that it can't be stolen #OpenScience

and then they lost 40million dollars

middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete you will not hear her name once on cable tv don’t let them erase her #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

If there were just one affirmation to contemplate every morning, this might be the one

Fellow higher ed folks! If you could scrap the current university system (i.e.- how universities work and are financed) how would you make a new system to cultivate and disseminate knowledge for the public good? Give me your wildest dreams & ideas.

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, Editor-in-Chief, now reporting for duty. 🫡 Catch me at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Booth (3928) today and tomorrow from 2-3 pm if you want to chat about your manuscript or what JUNE is up to. #SfN2025 #SfN25 @sfn.org

Catch me at the DANDI/NWB booth (3831) today at 1 pm for a live demo of this online textbook I developed with a former student of mine! #SfN25 #SfN2025 @sfn.org (Or check it out for yourself 👉 nwb4edu.github.io )

NEW: ‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules. The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.

Hearing a rumor that NIH/HHS may now plan to retaliate against other Bethesda Declaration signers. I am one, but it’s not about me: we have been speaking out because of the ongoing damage to US medical research, cancer and Alzheimer’s research. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put well: 1/

Me waiting for everyone to come to town for #SfN2025

The funniest thing about this to me is that if you want to shorten the strap, you have to buy an entirely separate sock www.theverge.com/news/818328/...

Project structure for scientific coding projects - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

Extremely niche invitation: If you're coming to #SfN2025 and you want to join me and some of the top breathing experts in the world in a hypoxic workout gym downtown, shoot me a DM. 😮‍💨

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025! #neuroskyence scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum. If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

look as soon as i had the vision it had to happen thank you for your contributions

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

We are looking for a scientific computing associate interested in data-driven equation discovery here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. This is an alternative to a postdoc that you can use to move into academic or software jobs. Please spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended. I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby. I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining. This is a good day for CSHL.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Neuroscientists of the bluest sky: I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system). Which papers come to mind? #neuroskyence

Want to see the impacts of FY26 budget cuts to science on YOUR community? Check out this incredible resource by @scienceimpacts.org which not only shows the current impact of the federal health research cuts, but also the implications for the new proposed cuts. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Scaling back DEI isn’t just a moral setback—it’s a loss of innovation. Bhalla, Trejo & @marymunson4.bsky.social in Nature Cell Biology: limiting who can participate in science “weakens research capacity and stifles discovery.” doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Ok she’s my wife so she’s biased but she’s also not wrong 😁🫶

Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

I want science communication to contain narrative. I want it to be honest and insightful. I want it to be in and for our community. We did all of this at our SASSY "Little Lab of Horrors" event this week and I am so, so proud of our storytellers and the work we put into this.

Hi all, this headline does not give the right impression of what is going on with these notices. (HHS employee here speaking in my personal capacity about matters of public concern that have been publicly reported—I am not sharing details from inside the agency.) 🧵 1/

my whole feed is anti-AI content that contains AI-generated content modern day adversarial weapon supply

Big Portland energy here in San Diego ✊🦖