NIH will spend its full $48B budget — but multi-year funding means fewer projects, record-low grant success, and a warning for U.S. science.👉 lfdn.org/3KOs2hT 💜Learn how you can support NIH funding: www.lustgarten.org/forging-ahead #ResearchMatters

Just get an R01 for tenure, they said

With a shutdown looming, one thing is clear: this is a standoff over the future of science. Everything from science funding and research, to public health and wellness, to managing emergency situations will be affected by what our leaders decide to put first: people or politics. #Standupforscience

Applications are now open for our spring internship! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons... #neuroskyence

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

From an NIH source: "The fact that it’s 8am on the day of a likely shutdown, and NIH personnel have received not one word about it from our leaders, from HHS, or higher, is gobsmacking. Normally we receive shutdown preparations emails starting days in advance. Absolute silence except at IC level."

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thinking about which neuroscience conferences to attend in 2026? Check out our recently updated calendar, featuring top neuroscience meetings and events through April 2027. Are you organizing a conference? Share it with us at [email protected]. www.thetransmitter.org/events/?utm_...

Here are the results in terms of the number of projects. The number of funded projects in FY2025 is 4014 fewer than the number for FY2024. 2/3

New article from the Washington Post [Gift Link] wapo.st/4ngFN7u

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Excited to be part of this work and amazing team. A deep dive into remapping dynamics🗺️! Thread below 👇

Hi everyone! We are taking a look at the state of funding in the neuroscience field so we are looking for PIs to answer this survey. Please feel free to fill out and share with colleagues. Ty!

Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence

happy 6 years to my first paper!

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026! Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

We're hiring 2 faculty in Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level -- come join our amazing department at Texas A&M! apply.interfolio.com/172286 Apply by Oct 1 for highest priority.

ok i have a 70k grant supplement that' been approved that my PO said prob won't pay out. TIME TO PROVE HIM WRONG NIH!!

folks-- I'm debating whether I should go to SfN this year. I am/will be on the job market but I also think SfN may be a wasteland because no one wants to travel to the US bc...*gestures wildly*. Thoughts?

who else is going a little crazy today between work and the news?

Happy to share our new paper with Mathilde Nordlund and Julie Koenig out @currentbiology.bsky.social. We used virtual reality in mice to study hippocampal distance coding. Our results suggest a primary contribution of grid cells to distance over cue-dependent place cell coding. shorturl.at/63yFo

fig. 1: The QUACK RACKET. A unique network of symbiotic relationships between Quack-in-Chief and a secondary tier of Quack Lackeys. Our review of past literature leads to a clear conclusion: naturally, we should select actual experts to fill these niches— er, departmental appointments. #impeachrfk

ok but how many ppl did Kirk kill by claiming that hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating [covid-19]"???? ????/

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

🙌 Let’s expand the mathematical biology community! We’re gathering mathematicians working on areas not traditionally associated with “mathematical biology” and biologists interested in exploring research questions in new theoretical ways for an exploration of new perspectives in your work 🔗⬇️

M1, not so low-d after all: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Cosyne2026 is now open for business! Show us what you got both for the main meeting & workshop proposals 🧠🥳🧠🥳🧠

Every faculty job solicitation in the biomedical sciences should come with a link to a robust University policy on dealing with current and anticipated future NIH / NSF etc funding issues. Including removal of any hint of a major award being required for tenure.

Allothetic and idiothetic spatial cues control the multiplexed theta phase coding of place cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ok but abysmal results for dems also, ngl

Excited to give a talk at UW Madison!

#FluorescenceFriday - immunostaining for cell markers in tissue section of the hippocampus in human 🧠. Sometimes, at the exact right level and angle (i.e. this one), the sea horse thing feels like not just a resemblance, but almost eerie. Image credit to RA Maddie Abramson🔬👩‍🔬🧪

1/2 Multiple faculty positions available at Stony Brook University, in the Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior. Its a wonderful environment, with great colleagues and students at a public AAU. @sbuneurobiology.bsky.social School of Medicine positions: apply.interfolio.com/170252 A&S search next post

Finding correlates of the same signal in different brain areas is not evidence against specialisation, it is evidence for interconnection. When I flush my toilet, the level in the tank and the flow rate in the supply pipe become perfectly correlated. Yet these toilet areas have distinct functions.

Former infectious-diseases chief Jeanne Marrazzo and international-research chief Kathleen Neuzil allege in a whistleblower complaint they were removed from their posts after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money, NYT reports.

"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)

“So, when somebody comes & tells us, ‘No, you can’t say these words, you can’t teach this book…this class…it’s basically like saying to a doctor, ‘You’ve trained for years to become a doctor, but we’re not going to let you see patients. You’ll have to do office work.” — Isaac Kamola, AAUP CDAF

TOUCHE, @currentbiology.bsky.social , TOUCHE!!!

Op-ed from Cincinnati.com www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...