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new brain foundation model study, this time with a graph neural net architecture and fMRI, looking at a range of disorders and downstream tasks. arxiv.org/abs/2506.020... #neuroAI

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Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work. “As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.” New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org

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The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The US is at a low risk of an imminent economic crisis — but high risk in the long term, billionaire investor Ray Dalio writes in a new book.

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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"We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower: The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status." ⚛️ 🧪 @maxboot.bsky.social wapo.st/43Fqdd4

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The phase II clinical trial in China tested CAR T cells in people with advanced gastric cancer or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer - one of the first times this therapy has worked against solid tumours 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Check out the earlier phase 1 trial results (that led to this larger study) in #NatureMedicine (interim results published in 2022, final results published in 2024): www.nature.com/articles/s41... cc: @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Chat GPT is not better than the predictive text on your phone, except it has the capacity to lie

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Kinda love that this is still on the NIH site full of research Doge is killing www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh... www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...

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gift link wapo.st/3ZGoHpS

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Reviewing NIH grant proposals and am struck (and inspired) by all the brilliant, creative science going on right now. Set against the current political landscape and proposed funding cuts to scientific research, it is clear that we are really screwing ourselves over.

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Gift link. It's a really good article, despite the headline. (You can't "warn" of something that is already happening.)

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Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪

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Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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A poignant, parting plea from the great Joseph S. Nye Jr. in @foreignaffairs.com: "In his erratic and misguided effort to make the United States even more powerful, Trump may bring its period of dominance [...] to an unceremonious end." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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“Stripping away this lifeline leaves LGBTQ+ youth with the message that their lives are not worth saving. We refuse to accept that message.” variety.com/2025/politic...

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This academic cycle was really challenging for those students that applied for PhD programs. Please help me share this special episode discussing what to do if you didn't get accepted into a PhD program. open.spotify.com/episode/5tsj...

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This seems like it could be a game changer.

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One of the worst aspects of the detailed NSF budget request (emphasis on request) is that it eviscerates our ability to train future scientists. Funding for postdocs (PhD scientists doing research w/o permanent jobs) — some of the most productive scientists out there — would be down 91%. 🧪 [1/]

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Amazing. So incompetent. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Trump has terminated funding for more than 950 research projects at Harvard, including a study the Pentagon requested on biological threats, a research project on HIV/AIDS in children, and a study to help prevent breast cancer in women.

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Pre-2022 training data is the low background steel of AI:

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The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections. www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...

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BREAKING: The new head of FEMA told staff he did not know that the United States had a hurricane season. Yes, I am serious. www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked the mesoscale, which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in fMRI technology are changing that, writes Laurentius Huber @layerfmri.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

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"Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment," observes @jvl.bsky.social. So why are agents who purport to represent the Department of Homeland Security now wearing masks? Because "America can no longer be reasonably viewed as a stable democracy."

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An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

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🚨 New review out! With George Buzzell, we discuss the EEG time-frequency dynamics underlying the emergence and development of cognitive control in infancy and childhood🧠 @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EEG #DevelopmentalNeuroscience

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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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What does film reveal about the way the brain processes reality? And what does this have to do with omniscience or why dogs don’t do story? Join me on Inner Cosmos podcast with Jeff Zacks, neuroscientist and author of Flicker, a book about movies and brains. eagleman.com/podcast/106 #brain #movies

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www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3525... New PhD position part of a joint research program between Maastricht and the Radboud University on neural control. Are you interested in predictive processes and perception, and using ultra high field fMRI to study these systems? Apply or get in touch now!

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WSJ: “Support for law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing — At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with Trump or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals…” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

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Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

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Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

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I think @marcorubio is in denial or an outright liar about what he has wrought upon the world by dismantling USAID and our foreign aid programs. Yes, Marco you are killing children and our nations image as a humanitarian partner. You are just another toady. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Nature reports on how researchers are mobilizing against an executive order from President Donald Trump mandating the promotion of “gold standard science.” Researchers fear that the order will put US scientists and science under the thumb of political appointees. #academicsky 🧪

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In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

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How a Trump-fueled brain drain could be the rest of the world’s brain gain: cnn.it/4l5uxtp

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“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

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Imagine being handed the ultimate weapon to win a future war and throwing that weapon away. That's what RFK Jr. just did this week. Read the latest report in The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social

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This might be of interest to anyone who was at @nikika.bsky.social’s #CogSciSci talk.

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The remarkable benefit of exercise was just extended to improved survival after cancer in a randomized trial @nejm.org nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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