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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4h

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

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Vincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · 4h

Our yearly PhD call is open: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
We are recruiting. Please pass the word.

International PhD Call 2026

The VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research is recruiting enthusiastic, creative, ambitious, and highly motivated PhD candidates to join us starting autumn 2026!

cbd.sites.vib.be

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Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا @jacob-hanna.bsky.social · 6h

A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 6h

"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!"

- Jacob Hanna

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Hannes Mehrer @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 1d

🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684

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Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar @mpinb.mpg.de · 10h

💡 Join the 8th Bonn Brain Conference
March 23–25, 2026 | DZNE Bonn, Germany

Explore the latest in brain states, neural circuits, and behavior — with keynote talks by leading neuroscientists including Cori Bargmann and Edvard Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 8d

#JNeuosci | Olianezhad et al. found that human amblyopia, or lazy eye, is associated with contrast sensitivity and impaired shape perception. They also propose a mechanism in the cortex that compensates for these impairments.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1111-25.2025

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Joe Raimondo @joeraimondo.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m incredibly stoked to announce our latest preprint led by Thijs Verhoog, where we show that human cortical neurons mature hundreds of times slower than mouse neurons, only reaching functional maturity well into the third decade of life.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 1d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

jocnf.pubpub.org

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Vincent Bonin @boninlab.bsky.social · 3d

Doctors and researchers, please hear this plea. The collective silence on Gaza and resulting inaction have enabled / ignored unfathomable atrocities, including targeting children with gunshots — and we may not have seen the worst. It is time to break the silence.
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 3d

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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 3d

"The world has never listened to Palestinian voices or taken seriously the existential threat Israel poses to Palestinian life, and this has not materially changed despite the increase in performative angst." A must read essay www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

www.nejm.org

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 3d

In my latest interview, Ahmad Al-Najjar reflects on what it means to report from Gaza – and why he continues to do so, even as journalists are being killed for it.
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

“Why Be Killed in Silence?” – A Gaza Journalist on Reporting Through Genocide

In this interview, Ahmad Al-Najjar reflects on what it means to report from Gaza – and why he continues to do so, even as journalists are being killed for it.

open.substack.com

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 6d

"As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening."

youtu.be/jw93RKKreqY?...

Jenna Norton, PhD - (NIH, Bethesda Declaration organizer, mom) *speaking in her personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 6d

"If Congress doesn't stand up now and defend our democracy we will lose it. It is slipping away. We are warning you, we are all Federal workers and know what’s happening inside the buildings: things are worse than you can see."

youtu.be/csA73xTXPf4?...

Kimberly Konkel (formerly HHS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 6d

"I came to the FTC to fight for American consumers and workers, not to do favors for the President’s billionaire friends... At my agency, corporate lawbreakers are learning that they can get away with illegal conduct we would never have let slide in the past."

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Charlotte Slaiman (Federal Trade Commission; union member) *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 6d

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?...

Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 6d

thanks for speaking out @markhisted.org

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 6d

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?...

Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 7d

@deffinger.bsky.social and @melissaherman.bsky.social argue that, though many human psychedelic clinical trials are underway, preclinical studies remain our best bet to answer fundamental questions about the neurobiology of psychedelics.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics

Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don’t know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering…

www.thetransmitter.org

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