Director Bhattacharya gave "Grand Rounds" at NIH Clinical Center today. This was not open to the public.

Here is a slide that several people shared with me.

The second bullet point is

"Supporting early-career investigators"

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In the desert of tools to manipulate oligodendrocytes in the brain, we built an OASIS. 🌿 Pun intended. I’m still in awe every time I spot an amazing-looking cell. The beauty of OL and myelin never fails me!
Hope this tool helps more people see it too.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

It is hard to conceive of a more anti-American policy choice for US innovation and prosperity in the 21st century.

Thanks Harvard, for taking a stand. Perhaps we should all stand together….

Latest from @mattrasband.bsky.social, as seen in Chile presented by @vicpal.bsky.social: planar cell polarity protein SCRIB is located along the periodic scaffold of the axon initial segment, where it connects ankyrin G to the Kv1/PSD93/LGI1/ADAM22 complex www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Another “Continuing Crisis” post, this one covering some larger principles and explaining why I’m doing these in general:

RFK Jr.’s office takes public
comments. Their phone number is 202-690-7000.

Bluetorial: The rationale for the “NIH” indirect cost “plan” is based on misunderstood (unintentional or intentional) accounting and math

The value of real government transparency

I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science.

This helps me remember what this is all about.

Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.

Another way to put this:

Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

Anyone who knows anything about any of the science that Elon claims to champions is well aware of the fact that he is completely ignorant of all of it.

Pandemics do not begin with official announcements.

They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern."

Pay attention.

Being critical is not the opposite of being optimistic. Its the opposite of not being critical. Optimism is a feeling, critical thinking is a process. A process that lets you see through the BS. Including the BS created by your feelings.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.