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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 27d

1/ Something surreal happened to me recently 🍀

I ordered “A Feeling for the Organism” — Evelyn Fox Keller’s biography of #BarbaraMcClintock, the 1983 Nobel prize winner who discovered “jumping genes.” 🧬

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations to Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, on being named a finalist for the prestigious Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists! 🎉 He was selected for his groundbreaking research shaping the future of neuroscience and medicine. stemcell.ucsf.edu/news/tomasz-... @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social 🧪 🧠📈

UCSF neuroscientist Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, seated at a bench in his lab.

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · Aug 3

How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪#Neuroskyence

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · Jun 19

🖤 On #Juneteenth, we honor the fight for Black freedom — delayed, but never denied.

At #BlackInNeuro, we carry that legacy forward by creating space for Black excellence in neuroscience, year-round. ✨

Freedom is a journey — and we’re not done yet. ✊🏾

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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · Jun 12

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience

Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...

www.nature.com

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lehtinenlab.bsky.social @lehtinenlab.bsky.social · May 28

Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread
rdcu.be/eoaSY

Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development

Nature Neuroscience - The choroid plexus (ChP) provides molecular cues for brain development. However, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This study identifies an apocrine secretion mechanism...

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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · May 25

magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/tra...

Tracing the Path from Basic Research to Transformative Therapies

magazine.hms.harvard.edu

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · May 16

Gene-editing therapy made in just 6 months helps baby with life-threatening disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Gene-editing therapy made in just 6 months helps baby with life-threatening disease

Custom CRISPR paves the way for treating genetic disorders in tailormade ways

www.science.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · May 8

Illinoisans deserve dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination.

I'm issuing an Executive Order to safeguard the rights of those with autism in our state as Trump's administration threatens those very freedoms.

In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data

The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · May 6

Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.

Please spread the word!

Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.

A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · May 3

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

www.science.org

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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congrats Mari!!!

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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · Apr 24

An exciting new collaborative effort organized by the Simons Foundation to better understand cognitive processes in the brain. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · Apr 14

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Harvard University

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

www.harvard.edu

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Mar 24

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thanks for highlighting for our work!

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · Mar 12

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'?

My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.

We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:

tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

Representation: Past, Present & Future

This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.

tinyurl.com

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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Feb 25

The landscape of diversity and inclusion in science funding has shifted. David Barker explains how neuroscientists must adapt and take action or risk losing ground on all of the progress made.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/adap...

Safeguarding diversity and inclusion funding in neuroscience

As DEI funding initiatives crumble, neuroscientists must change their approach to grant writing and communication and engage in constructive conflict.

www.thetransmitter.org

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Feb 24

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social · Feb 5

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate

www.princeton.edu

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Caitlin Mallory @caitlinmallory.bsky.social · Jan 31

1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!

The time course and organization of hippocampal replay

The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...

www.science.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jan 30

Truly chilling and totalitarian.
“Promoting patriotic education”? We have arrived at the terrible place.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

www.whitehouse.gov

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