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Keller lab is an awesome place to work! Great science, great mentorship, amazing group of people at a world-class institution.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Why is Stanford not a signatory? President Levin has already publicly supported Harvard's stance against the administration -- strange he would do that yet find this objectionable. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Plainly unconstitutional.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Wherein the NYT parrots Trump talking points, leaves claims of "campus antisemitism" entirely devoid of correction/context, and not once mentions that the unilateral cancellation of grants is illegal, instead framing it as an "aggressive stance." Unreal stuff from our paper of record.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🧠 NEW PAPER: How do we capture excitability noninvasively in mood and emotion networks in the human brain? Here, we used real-time optimization to improve these measures! @saraparmi @KellerStanfordU @ClinicalNeuroph doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2025.02.261 1/7

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

submitted 38 days ago • 68 comments

When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

What will university leadership do to allow early career scientists to thrive? What resources can be marshaled to support young scientists even as the NIH retreats? www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Now that the first Advisory Council meeting will be announced in the Federal Register tomorrow (National Institute for Complementary and Integrative Health) tomorrow, I want to clarify something that has been happening for at least the past 30 days. 1/n

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

We are excited to announce that nominations are open for our “Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025 report. We seek to feature early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to community-building. Submit a nominee here: bit.ly/4bsoBXD

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

""Many of us didn’t think all of this would be so drastic, or happen so fast. But here we are. The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep.""

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Thought-provoking piece on how scientists may need to pivot to survive and thrive in a new world. Even if you think the status quo will stay more or less intact, this is worth a read.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

#standupforscience in San Francisco! Amazing turnout and great speakers from UCSF, Stanford, Berkeley, and more!

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2

submitted 66 days ago • 19 comments

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 72 days ago • 421 comments

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

Have you signed up 2 lead a march for @standupforscience.bsky.social yet? Picketed at a Tesla dealer yet? Bought & distributed any @liberalrocks.bsky.social lately? Used 5calls.org to make your voice heard? #StrongerTogether #YesWeCan #NobodyElectedElon #ScienceNotSilence #Hoosiers #Michiganders

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

First Democrat with a national profile to get arrested resisting Trump/Musk --> instant contender for 2028 nomination. Maybe even frontrunner.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This breaks my heart 💔 Some of my most incredible trainees were Pitt PhDs, and I helped run the neuro grad program (CNUP) for a few years - one of the best and largest in the country I know this is the fiscally responsible thing to do but still, it is infuriating

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

Excellent piece by @samwang.bsky.social with actionable recommendations for how scientists can push back. Highly recommend for anybody in academia.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

submitted 82 days ago • 12 comments

1/10 🧠 We need better ways to measure brain excitability in psychiatric disorders. The prefrontal cortex—key target for brain stimulation treatments—is particularly hard to assess. Our new studies tackle this with systematic mapping! bit.ly/4cjHknX & bit.ly/3PW8RCx

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Great piece: Firsthand testimonies of how the flux in diversity-based funding is impacting trainees. Gratitude to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for amplifying these voices. Gratitude to all the trainees who bravely spoke up with these diverse perspectives so we can all better understand.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

"10 minutes of resistance a day": The changes over the past 3 weeks have been so distressing that many just tune it out, for the sake of their wellbeing. It's OK to feel this way. But we also have obligations to help those who have already been hurt, and to protect the world we want to live in. 1/

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 90 days ago • 73 comments

The whole "$1 NIH dollar generates $2.50 in output" sells science wildly short. Scientific discovery and technological development is the foundation on which our entire society is built -- and that includes all the businesses that operate within it. The throughlines are shorter than you think: 1/n

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

LANCET: American chaos: standing up for health and medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments