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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · 1d

Look, we don't get a lot of October baseball in Seattle so we have to take it to at least 18 innings every chance we get.

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · 2d

In @elife.bsky.social: Enhancer-AAVs allow genetic access to oligodendrocytes and diverse populations of astrocytes across species doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Enhancer-AAVs allow genetic access to oligodendrocytes and diverse populations of astrocytes across species

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · 2d

He wants 5x the legs! A true visionary.

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 5d

🧠📈 Do neurons of a feather flock together? Not quite.

New evidence shows that neurons of the same specific type tend to avoid each other in space, supporting the mosaic hypothesis in the cortex.

📄 Read the @cp-cellreports.bsky.social study: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 9d

1M+ people live with SYNGAP1-related conditions, which can include severe seizures.

For the first time in mice models, gene therapy has reversed symptoms, even after onset. The breakthrough was achieved in collaboration with BioMarin.

🧠📈 Read the study: www.cell.com/molecular-th...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12d

Facial movements reflect a mouse’s decision-making patterns independent of their chosen action during a foraging task, per a new study.

By @lauren-schneider.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/motor-behavi...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13d

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By Natalia Mesa

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 23d

#OpenScience allows researchers like Maheshwar Panday from @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social create pipelines that can help other researchers.

🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 26d

Happy birthday to us! 🥳

In 2003, we launched with just four employees in a small, rented laboratory working together towards a big goal - map the entire mammalian brain in a way the world had never seen.

🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Sep 11

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪
⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET
📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC

🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · Sep 10

Earlier this year we released the Allen Institute for Brain Science AAV Enhancer Collection. Read about all the juicy details of how this collection was put together in our latest blog post!
@alleninstitute.org

blog.addgene.org

"Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Sep 10

Tall Geese is deeply menacing if you think about it.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 23

2. has made doing science ~feel~ apolitical. We’ve not really ever HAD to fight because everyone could agree this was a good ecosystem to maintain.

3. NUMBER 2 IS NO LONGER TRUE. Sorry, it’s just not. This means we have to do things a little bit different, which can feel uncomfortable 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 23

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:

1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.

2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 23

For some scientists fighting partisan attacks, the goal is to defend their work from political interference. But in retaliating, @katherinejwu.com reports, they also run the risk of advancing the narrative that they want to fight.

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap

Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Aug 27

We welcome today's news of the launch of the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST)!

Funded by the estate of Paul G. Allen, the new private foundation is focused on Allen’s lifelong passions for bioscience, the environment, and the power of AI for good.

www.ff-st.org/news-stories...

Fund for Science and Technology Announces Inaugural Grants, Planning at Least Half a Billion Dollars in the Next Four Years

$500 million over the next four years to support transformational science and technology for people and the planet

www.ff-st.org

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Aug 14

Holding a hot team to one run and losing is so much worse than losing by 12 to a bad team. It's weird for the mariners to be on the other side of it.

nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Aug 14

Try live distributions. That way, you can play around and get used to it without having to commit to an install or version.

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Aug 12

Help us bring #OpenScience to @sxsw.com by voting for our panels!

🏃‍♂️ Go to participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

🌟 Click the yellow “Login” button to create a free account.

🔎 Go to our proposals: participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

🗳️ Click the little hearts ❤️ next to each one to vote. That's it!

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Aug 6

There's no pre-order bonus so I'm waiting for the metacritic score to come out first.

nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yeah, Ed's going to feel really stupid next week when Softbank/OpenAI announces they've locked down Chase Burns until 2057.

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Aug 6

What if this round of funding is to also pay Ken Griffy Jr. for the next 30 years?

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · Jul 30

excited to get 'what i do' (my series interviewing individuals about their specific jobs in the games industry) back on the site and this was GREAT, @bentaels.bsky.social has some extremely interesting stuff to say about UX, as well as dispelling some myths about the field

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Jul 30

‘Dopamine simply doesn’t work like that’: an interview with a user experience researcher:

aftermath.site/video-games-us...

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nunoftheabove.bsky.social @nunoftheabove.bsky.social · Jul 28

Unimaginative. If you're making up your own pretend girlfriend she should be 9'7" with 6 arms and can out skate Conner mcdavid. Who gets themselves a fake girlfriend from Canada and then just settles?

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 28

A new study adds evidence to the idea of the behavioral immune system, showing that participants respond to infectious avatars by turning on threat-detecting brain areas and priming an immune response to a potential infection.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

bit.ly/4o5Hi9z

Human brain may anticipate looming contagion

Seeing a visibly ill avatar in virtual reality activates a neuroimmune pathway in brain areas related to peripersonal space and prompts an immune response, a small new study suggests.

www.thetransmitter.org

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ashley juavinett @analog-ashley.bsky.social · Jul 22

You can join this challenge to try and predict Alzheimer's pathology from transcriptomic data!

www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6...

It launches July 27! #hackathon @alleninstitute.org

SEA-AD DREAM Challenge - Predicting Alzheimers Pathology from snRNA-seq Data

'SEA-AD DREAM Challenge - Predicting Alzheimers Pathology from snRNA-seq Data' (Synapse ID: syn66496696) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations cen...

www.synapse.org

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