Carlos Brody
@carlosbrody.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, both computational and experimental. Also, parent of a teenager :) . All posts and opinions are in my personal capacity.
professional website: https://brodylab.org
professional website: https://brodylab.org
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Carlos Brody
@carlosbrody.bsky.social
· May 7
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!
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My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
How do you pinpoint the moment when a brain makes up its mind about a decision?
@racheltompa.bsky.social wrote a lovely short article for the general public on answers found by @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social when they were in my lab.
@simonsfoundation.org
bit.ly/43DiM70
@racheltompa.bsky.social wrote a lovely short article for the general public on answers found by @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social when they were in my lab.
@simonsfoundation.org
bit.ly/43DiM70
Scientists Pinpoint the Moment of Decision in the Rat Brain
Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain researchers found a synchronized shift in neural activity that signals the moment when animals commit to a decision.
www.simonsfoundation.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
How do you pinpoint the moment when a brain makes up its mind about a decision?
@racheltompa.bsky.social wrote a lovely short article for the general public on answers found by @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social when they were in my lab.
@simonsfoundation.org
bit.ly/43DiM70
@racheltompa.bsky.social wrote a lovely short article for the general public on answers found by @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social when they were in my lab.
@simonsfoundation.org
bit.ly/43DiM70
Thank you @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social ! Yes, please share your research stories! So many great things to showcase to the public!
bsky.app/profile/carl...
bsky.app/profile/carl...
Such an important project! Please share your research stories.
U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thank you @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social ! Yes, please share your research stories! So many great things to showcase to the public!
bsky.app/profile/carl...
bsky.app/profile/carl...
I've been super excited about @kevinjmiller.bsky.social and @neurokim.bsky.social's AI scientist project since I heard about it
delighted to see them collaborating here with the awesome @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and lab to create full-on new science and new scientific insights.
It's the future!
delighted to see them collaborating here with the awesome @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and lab to create full-on new science and new scientific insights.
It's the future!
1. New preprint resolving a conundrum in systems neuroscience with an AI scientist, and humans Reilly Tilbury, Dabin Kwon, @haydari.bsky.social, @jacobmratliff.bsky.social, @bio-emergent.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net, @kevinjmiller.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
The visual cortex contains millions of neurons, whose combined activity forms a population code representing visual stimuli. There is, however, a discrepancy between our understanding of this code at ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I've been super excited about @kevinjmiller.bsky.social and @neurokim.bsky.social's AI scientist project since I heard about it
delighted to see them collaborating here with the awesome @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and lab to create full-on new science and new scientific insights.
It's the future!
delighted to see them collaborating here with the awesome @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and lab to create full-on new science and new scientific insights.
It's the future!
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I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts
@markhisted.org , you have been and are incredibly brave and admirable.
I hope the rumors are false.
and: keep up the amazing work!
I hope the rumors are false.
and: keep up the amazing work!
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/
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/
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
@markhisted.org , you have been and are incredibly brave and admirable.
I hope the rumors are false.
and: keep up the amazing work!
I hope the rumors are false.
and: keep up the amazing work!
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Ecstatic to announce our exciting new paper! Rat-mon y Cajal found a new friend to help him learn. Introducing, Dr. Tutor-us!
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ecstatic to announce our exciting new paper! Rat-mon y Cajal found a new friend to help him learn. Introducing, Dr. Tutor-us!
What is it like for a U.S. citizen to be kidnapped by CBP? What are they like, how do they talk when they speed off with you in their car?
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Watch this. I mean it. Watch it
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
danielbiss.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What is it like for a U.S. citizen to be kidnapped by CBP? What are they like, how do they talk when they speed off with you in their car?
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Reposted by Carlos Brody
U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science
Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
U.S. Public Research Benefits is a searchable repository that showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format. @baselesspursuit.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues developed the resource.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...
Mark is so right about this.
The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.
I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
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I made a video explainer about why.
Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social
1/4
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October 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Mark is so right about this.
Don't miss No Kings!
Bring your American flags 🇺🇸 , protesting this lying, cruel, law- and Constitution-breaking administration is the most patriotic thing you can do! 😊🇺🇸
Bring your American flags 🇺🇸 , protesting this lying, cruel, law- and Constitution-breaking administration is the most patriotic thing you can do! 😊🇺🇸
We have a shot at participating in the biggest protest in US history. Especially if you show up. Find an event near you. Don't miss No Kings II!
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Don't miss No Kings!
Bring your American flags 🇺🇸 , protesting this lying, cruel, law- and Constitution-breaking administration is the most patriotic thing you can do! 😊🇺🇸
Bring your American flags 🇺🇸 , protesting this lying, cruel, law- and Constitution-breaking administration is the most patriotic thing you can do! 😊🇺🇸
Firm, elegant, and clear "No Way" response to Trump's compact from MIT
"fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
Well said, well done, well led MIT!!!
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
"fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
Well said, well done, well led MIT!!!
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Firm, elegant, and clear "No Way" response to Trump's compact from MIT
"fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
Well said, well done, well led MIT!!!
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
"fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone"
Well said, well done, well led MIT!!!
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter Regarding Compact
MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Another absolutely astounding "gem" in the compact: abolish units that "belittle" conservative ideas -- while doing it in the name of an "intellectually open campus" 😮‼️
😂 Amazing! apparently no sense of irony (or consistency) whatsoever! 😂
Also completely incompatible with First Amendment.
😂 Amazing! apparently no sense of irony (or consistency) whatsoever! 😂
Also completely incompatible with First Amendment.
Excellent analysis of the Trump compact for universities -- read it, recommend it, share it.
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another absolutely astounding "gem" in the compact: abolish units that "belittle" conservative ideas -- while doing it in the name of an "intellectually open campus" 😮‼️
😂 Amazing! apparently no sense of irony (or consistency) whatsoever! 😂
Also completely incompatible with First Amendment.
😂 Amazing! apparently no sense of irony (or consistency) whatsoever! 😂
Also completely incompatible with First Amendment.
Excellent analysis of the Trump compact for universities -- read it, recommend it, share it.
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Excellent analysis of the Trump compact for universities -- read it, recommend it, share it.
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Among the big points: take away the law's predictability and fairness, and instead become entirely subjugated to arbitrary whims of the DOJ.
Dangerous and un-American.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Message to university leaders considering signing—or negotiating—the extortion letter.
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Message to university leaders considering signing—or negotiating—the extortion letter.
Reposted by Carlos Brody
Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity
YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."
youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
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Comment now! Cutting off student visas is terrible for US competitiveness in key research areas.
Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Comment now! Cutting off student visas is terrible for US competitiveness in key research areas.
Thank you @nancyrmack.bsky.social and @princetonneuro.bsky.social for a great explainer about our paper!
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/wh...
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/wh...
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you @nancyrmack.bsky.social and @princetonneuro.bsky.social for a great explainer about our paper!
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/wh...
pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/wh...
Always exciting when someone reads one's work! Thank you for the interest and the quotes @ulisespereirao.bsky.social
And a shout out here to Adrian Bondy, @juliecharlton.bsky.social and @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social, the wonderful co-first-authors who led the work.
Adrian is on the job market!
And a shout out here to Adrian Bondy, @juliecharlton.bsky.social and @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social, the wonderful co-first-authors who led the work.
Adrian is on the job market!
Friday’s AIND JC lead by Shawn Olsen and I on the Brody lab preprint ran 90+ min, unusual. Nice paper, spirited discussion. Make a clear argument that to grasp behavior we need multiregional, multi-neuron, simultaneous single-trial data. Below quotes from the paper.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brain-wide coordination of decision formation and commitment
Neural correlates of a subject’s upcoming choice in decision making tasks are remarkably widespread throughout the brain, but how these brain-wide signals are coordinated remains unknown. Do brain reg...
www.biorxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Always exciting when someone reads one's work! Thank you for the interest and the quotes @ulisespereirao.bsky.social
And a shout out here to Adrian Bondy, @juliecharlton.bsky.social and @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social, the wonderful co-first-authors who led the work.
Adrian is on the job market!
And a shout out here to Adrian Bondy, @juliecharlton.bsky.social and @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social, the wonderful co-first-authors who led the work.
Adrian is on the job market!
Life is a crazy rollercoaster these days! Yesterday I was all proud of people in my lab, like @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social and the paper they posted about.
Today? -- gah 😳🤯 straight corruption!
Up & down like that All. The. Time!
Breathe deep, everyone. It's a marathon
Today? -- gah 😳🤯 straight corruption!
Up & down like that All. The. Time!
Breathe deep, everyone. It's a marathon
Omg that second highlight. Just straight corruption.
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Life is a crazy rollercoaster these days! Yesterday I was all proud of people in my lab, like @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social and the paper they posted about.
Today? -- gah 😳🤯 straight corruption!
Up & down like that All. The. Time!
Breathe deep, everyone. It's a marathon
Today? -- gah 😳🤯 straight corruption!
Up & down like that All. The. Time!
Breathe deep, everyone. It's a marathon
What happens in your brain when you make up your mind?
Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 1/6
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What happens in your brain when you make up your mind?
Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 1/6
Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The First Amendment and a Free Press are fundamental to freedom and to making America a great country.
Threatening to take away broadcast licenses for criticizing the president is a direct attack on the First Amendment. We have to speak up, be active, defend it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Threatening to take away broadcast licenses for criticizing the president is a direct attack on the First Amendment. We have to speak up, be active, defend it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The First Amendment and a Free Press are fundamental to freedom and to making America a great country.
Threatening to take away broadcast licenses for criticizing the president is a direct attack on the First Amendment. We have to speak up, be active, defend it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Threatening to take away broadcast licenses for criticizing the president is a direct attack on the First Amendment. We have to speak up, be active, defend it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
The Trump administration's assaults on great American successes, like this one, leave many of us scientists bewildered and not knowing how to respond.
But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Trump administration's assaults on great American successes, like this one, leave many of us scientists bewildered and not knowing how to respond.
But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
But inaction is not an option. If you don't know what to do, put time and effort into figuring out what to do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...