This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Life goals.

The Detectorists

What a nice SNR for these dF/Fs! #team_ephys

404 error trying to download the data 🫤 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

also good advice for nth year faculty

This semester, I will totally keep up with reading journal ToCs as they arrive. 😆

Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social‬

there was once a time you could search key terms in quotes and get the most established, most cited, most relevant and newest results from legit academic publications on the first ten pages and now you get unpublished masters theses from liberty university halp

The Neuroscience Dept at American University is hiring for a tenure-track position at the Assistant level with expertise in Computational Neuroscience. Apply by Sep 15: american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-... #FacultyJobs #AcademicJob #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #AI #ComputationalPsychiatry

So what happens when the Trump administration eventually says "Hey, 9% of your students are Black, that has to be DEI because Stephen Miller doesn't think Black people are very smart. You've got to cut that way back or we're going to cut off your federal grant money again." What then?

Being an academic right now feels like riding in a car that has the check engine and low fuel light on, and you know you there isn't a gas station for at least the next three years. How long before it stalls in the middle of the rode? How long before you get off? How long before we all get off.

Orgs very much need to look at all aspects of service requests, and outcomes. Great point.

How do GJ plaques organize their line dance? One step closer to finding out:

Congrats, ec!

It's 2p here in Boston, and we're back on the record in the NIH grant terminations case. It's possible Judge Young could issue some sort of ruling here in the next few minutes, or he could provide more context for case management going forward. Stay tuned.

The blatant stenography in the cnn article is .... something else.

"why is there brain art?" What the hell kind of question is that?

My .sig went on an adjective-loss diet

Eve = 🧠🙏💪💜, not necessarily in that order.

I just can't get past the ide0a that the child of the corresponding author of project 2025 was cured of cystic fibrosis - and all he wants, his life goal, is to cause trauma amongst those who created the cure.

This is so heavy on my heart today.

Algorithms are biased, part MCMXLIV: I asked an AI to write a letter for me, based on my letterhead and an older letter I wrote on same. It returned a letter from my male colleague. Complete with his name on my letterhead.

The Philip Glass line is brilliant

Merci, Canada.

unadorned truth

Must do:

I use the "word cloud" as a learning consolidation exercise on the last day of class. For my neuro lab this spring, a lot of usual suspects appeared - spike, EPSP, frequency, etc. One student said: I learned expectations. To have them and to check whether they happened. (mic drop)

Different plasticity rules in one neuron: foundational.

Scientists on Bluesky, here's one of the best feeds I've found here: Paper Skygest - a feed of posts containing research papers shared by people you follow.

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

This guy’s not getting enough social media attention since we broke free from Meta and Musk platforms

PSA: for home goods that you might ordinarily order on the nazi site, I discovered today via GoodsUniteUs.com that Wayfair is reported as 100% democrat.

So much this

I spent the weekend a little obsessed about getting word to tenured professors at the 60 targeted schools who are also U.S. citizens, but the organizers have now provided an even easier way to share: sites.google.com/umass.edu/we...

The SS trust fund is just short of $3 TRILLION. You and I have paid into it all our lives. So, they close up shop, "no other choice!", and wander away whistling inncocently? One big con job.

Remember: recycle responsibly, even if it means delivering a box of e-shards to the waste center. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

If you were born before 1989 and have regular contact with college students, you might think about a second shot (I got one).

I called (even tho it's Fetterman). Did you?

Happy Caturday!

Haas Lab representing in Philly

I strongly suspect the Nature piece may have been written by an AI.

Voted on this for the first time in my 30+ year membership.

Is there a Ten Simple Rules for prioritizing all the 10 Simple Rules lists we get?

Yo, climbers: recall on a BD harness. Fast, hidden degradation and a scary failure mode. Pass it on plz. www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/conten...

🚨PA colleagues: "Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania." "If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC Get out your Other Support and share that info!

So many things suck right now but my people are all making great progress and that makes me happy-proud PI.

✔️done