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jonnasingh.bsky.social
Interoception, psychedelics, pain, flashy neurons, and everything in between prev basal ganglia and birds Postdoc @ Andermann lab
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TOMORROW 12pm PT/3pm ET, academic workers across the country are organizing to call Senators and Representatives, particularly from historically “red” districts, to sign onto to letters supporting federal research funding. Register here to join the phonebank: form.laborbase.org/251246245216...

Hardest surgery I’ve seen to get the coolest brainstem imaging I’ve seen! Rachel’s paper shows interoceptive information, in particular feeding-related info, is organized across PBN

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Pretty ironic that those who stand to gain the most from a quantitative arm are biologists given the reformatting of the field with new tech.

One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...

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

🚀🔬🦠 Releasing 🤖Cellpose-SAM🤖, a cellular segmentation algorithm with superhuman generalization 🦸‍♀️. Try it now on 🤗 huggingface.co/spaces/mouse... paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @computingnature.bsky.social 1/n

The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. 🧵

I 💙 seeing team science makin it happen

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Many of us use 2p scopes to image 3D volumes of brain. But then we analyze the data plane by plane, resulting in duplicated neurons, missed neurons, and low s/n. Let's go 3D! Suite3D: Volumetric cell detection for two-photon microscopy by @haydari.bsky.social & team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

Another NIH grant rescinded - The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

A Sensitive Soma-localized Red Fluorescent Calcium Indicator for Multi-Modality Imaging of Neuronal Populations In Vivo. It works well with wide-field imaging, two-photon microscopy, and fiber photometry biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪🧠 more new red GECIs!🚨 👏🥳 congrats to everyone involved!

There is one True Skill that defines all basic neuroscientists, and that is the ability to copy and paste arrowheads from a lil green picture of cells to their lil red picture of cells

week-long recordings of agrp neurons and circadian fluctuations in hunger (we can all relate), always exciting work from @amdouglass.bsky.social and Hakan! www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

home today

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Juan and Hugo and the rest of the authors. Not sure if anyone is on bsky yet.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch is referenced in every single one of my papers I tend to ask for it to be cited appropriately (always) when I review, too.

I have never learned so much about a conference against my will with all the #ACNP2024 spam… but I guess I have to go to the Bahamas in 2026 now

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.

I hate seeing Bluesky becoming overrun with follower-chasing accounts that post a mix of unattributed photos, AI dreck, and bad photoshop jobs. Fortunately, there are block lists: bsky.app/profile/maur...

This truly sucks and we can’t let them destroy the entire foundation of scientific research in this country www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

let all scientists be united by their use of thorlabs legos

No matter how you choose to celebrate, remember to be the annoying science nerd at the thanksgiving table telling your loved ones that turkey doesn't have enough tryptophan to make you sleepy. They'll love it.