¡#OpenScience para todos! Neurociencias Para Todos is bringing neuroscience to rural Mexico with curriculum feat. our free and open brain atlases. Dra. López-Hidalgo shares the story and impact of the program w/ @analog-ashley.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/community/br... #OpenScienceWeek

If we fired someone every time they made some ill-informed conjecture on air I wonder which would be the last network standing 🤔

We have dropped an 🥰 anniversary special 🥰 for Change, Technically A year of podcasting with @analog-ashley.bsky.social and @daniloc.xyz has been more lovely than I ever expected, full of learning. Never let them take your swagger 😎 www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest." -Mon Mothma (Andor)

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Someone came into my house, stole my big and tiny lego mansions, and sold them for parts

As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Tomorrow, when you call your senators and representatives again to demand RFK's resignation, remind them that the nation's major medical societies (and our largest nurses union! @nationalnurses.bsky.social) demand it, too.

I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at [email protected]

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Writing is thinking, not just word production. (And we need thinking.) Agree strongly with Tim's take for @thetransmitter.bsky.social here: "The problem is not that the tools don’t work—it’s that they work too well."

Need to bring microscopes to a distant village? Make more robust microscopes. Need to work with students who speak Indigenous languages? Translate your protocols into their languages. No matter the challenge, Mónica's organization gets the job done. www.thetransmitter.org/community/br...

This interview of Monica López-Hidalgo by @analog-ashley.bsky.social is inspiring. All scientists’ job description should include this, great model

It is truly so annoying to be writing A TON right now and having to pause at every single em dash to ask myself if someone is going to AI-ccuse me

Neurociencias Para Todos brings neuroscience education to remote communities in Mexico. @analog-ashley.bsky.social‬ talked with founder Monica López-Hidalgo about the program’s efforts and the importance of making neuroscience accessible to all. www.thetransmitter.org/community/br...

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Read this, read it again, breath the words into your lungs, and then go live them. This is our mission. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Update: we did it and Cat enjoyed it; don’t let her tell you otherwise

"How old were you when you learned about death? What was your initial reaction?"

Did you miss the chance to pitch your story for our last SASSY science storytelling event? I have good news for you — we are doing it again. The theme is LITTLE LAB OF HORRORS and we invite you to interpret it loosely, we just ask that it is your real story to tell and has some tie-in to science.

I recently finished The Overstory and I’m still thinking about it. I’m thinking about the invisible impact of our technology, especially the use of ML/AI given its large footprint. What would be the equivalent impact of running a model or query in terms of damage to a single, physical tree?

Millions of experienced scientists forced to sit back and watch while others try to hack the body like it was built yesterday, like it can be fixed by submitting an issue, like all we need is AI

NWB just announced that they’re heading for a fiscal cliff next year. 😔 It feels like NWB was really just taking off in terms of data reuse — efforts like these take time and investment. If you want to help push back their cliff, reach out to @bendichter.com

Here you go..." Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science" JoAnn Trejo has turned mentoring into an evidence-based science, driven by her own exposure to inspiring mentors. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yes and I have 32 manuscripts in preparation

Mind reading seems to be possible, but so could mind ~passwords~. More incredible work by the BrainGate2 team. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Kudos to the Annals of Internal Medicine editors for their commitment to scientific integrity in the face of political pressure. The large Danish MMR study was well-done and found no link between vax-associated aluminum and bad outcomes. 👇

@adriennelaf.bsky.social, as wise as ever (from March @theatlantic.com — evermore relevant)

if you're reporting on the UCLA shakedown, you should ask the gov. what the legal basis for the $1 billion demand is. if they point to title VI, ask how a billion dollar demand squares with the limited remedies available by law. if they say the False Claims Act, ask which specific contracts.

Just wait until RFK learns about receptor binding specificity and the last 100 years of immunology research, it's gonna blow his worm-infested mind. 🤯

A confident Tom, even in 1997 ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/i...

Big data won't solve anything if it's crappy data. 😒 We need to 1) train people to inspect datasets before using them and 2) ensure that openly shared data is good data. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/poo...

1/ The Senate Appropriations Committee just approved key FY2026 spending bills 🧪 including the one that funds the NIH, CDC, and public education. ✅ But don’t breathe a sigh of relief yet. This is just the first step, and a shutdown showdown is looking likely. 🧵

Explore how the brain ages with our aging mouse brain data on the Allen Brain Cell Atlas! Explore the most comprehensive and detailed single-cell dataset of the aged and young adult mouse brain. 🧠📈 knowledge.brain-map.org/abcatlas#AQE...

Scientists who receive NIH funding, anyone want to share your thoughts on the recent White House whiplash? I'm working on a story about it for The Guardian. DMs are open. 🧪

The wall of shame. If Harvard settles, Trump will already have extorted $1B+ from universities, law firms, and tech and media companies in just over six months. www.axios.com/newsletters/... Does anyone think this shakedown will end? Or that these so-called "deals" will protect these institutions?

The whiplash continues: the WaPo now reports that OMB halted, and then hours later unhalted, these NIH funds. I'll be watching for any sign of NIH fund restriction this week and will post as soon as I hear more. Know what's going on? DM me on Signal (mkozlov.01). You can stay anonymous.

Huge tsunami headed for our coast and no more science funding, welcome to 2025 and probably the rest of time. Fuck.

As terrifying as this is, I will continue to sign everything that comes across my desk in the name of protecting our values and our students.

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Good morning to the fine but important line between fact and fiction We’re digging in, folks

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Do yourself a favor and watch every single Tom Lehrer video on YouTube. youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

These bitmojis are decent but missing my sideshave 🤙

Yessss this whole episode was so clearly made to piss off the White House and, well, they succeeded: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So I just randomly turned on South Park in my hotel room, which turned out to be the Season 27 opener, and oh my god

Transgender people exist. They will continue to exist. Get the fuck over it.