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I might be slightly biased... but this is probably the best set of tutorial-based courses you will ever encounter!

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🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Article in WaPo today on the Federal Register ban. If ayone has a gift link to share I’d be much obliged! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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This was supposed to be a post about my lab's first funding of the year, a diversity supplement to fund our amazing research technician. The award never arrived. Now it's a post about the value of diversity and trying to persevere in these dark times. devinenilab.org/news/diversi...

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1/5 of my fellow Germans elected the far right (* the ones most European far right parties consider as too far right) - most important 4/5 of my fellow Germans DECIDED FOR DEMOCRACY!!!

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I remember this evening 3 years ago clearly. I was reading twitter and by midnight it became clear that the war was imminent. Woke up after a few hours just to catch the end of Putin’s diabolical speech. One of the worst days of my life till now. The war is in Ukraine but it’s against all of us.

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Principal researchers inside and outside academia: do you know groups self-organizing to protect academic science in the US? How can we connect and mobilize? Could you share your thoughts? 🧬🔬🔭🧪🧠🤖

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Some non-Americans are expressing a sense of helplessness watching the US. My personal recommendation to those feeling that way is to work to steel up the science infrastructure, funding, and culture in your own country. We need everyone to harbor knowledge and incubate progress while the US can't!

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Dear Germany (and every other country). If Viktor Orbán likes a political party, you’re 100% guaranteed that it will be awful for you. If Elon Musk likes the same party, you’re 200% guaranteed.

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"With end-to-encryption unavailable, it allows UK government agencies to subpoena Apple to access data from any iCloud account they please, without restriction. Under the regulations of the new law, Apple is not even allowed to tell its users when this happens." 9to5mac.com/2025/02/21/a...

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Becoming more glad by the day that I have been working to exit cloud services for awhile. Local storage of everything you use the corporate cloud for is possible with a personal cloud system. It takes time and requires new tools and maybe the hardest part, new habits.

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Tesla is turning into the Hindawi of car manufacturers.

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Compare and contrast the emails from McKnight (left) and Chan-Zuckerberg (right). Proud to be part of the McKnight community.

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The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today. Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I don't know what to say anymore. Imagine being Ukrainian tonight. 🇺🇦

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Nothing else to say.

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Bundestagswahl für eine im Ausland lebende Deutsche Ich habe meine Wahlunterlagen fristgerecht an meinem alten Wohnsitz Rostock eingereicht. Erst am 10.2. werden diese mir postalisch zugestellt. Bis sie also hier in Norwegen ankommen, vergeht mindestens eine Woche. Dann haben wir den 17.2.

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Die Wahlunterlagen sind immer noch nicht angekommen. An wen wendet man sich da, um nach dem Verbleib zu fragen? Den Wahlleiter? Kann ja nicht sein, dass Deutsche im Ausland keine Chance bekommen, ihre Stimme pünktlich abzugeben. #Bundestagswahl #Wahl #Briefwahl

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Any suggestions for tutorials/blogs that go each of the different families in glmmTMB (e.g., gamma vs. negative binomial vs beta vs lognormal). I find resources with one or two but curious if there has been anything crafted to be paired with this package Would be useful for a lab cheat sheet...

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Lab Values “We believe that diversity of background, identity, and opinion are essential to maximize scientific innovation.” Nature Methods Article: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Sammy Katta's Lab Posters: www.sammykatta.com/diversity #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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Thousands march against far right in Berlin At least 30,000 people demonstrated in German capital a week ahead of elections & after comments by US Vice President calling for German political parties to abandon the 'firewall' policy of not working with the far right www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

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In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... #WomenInScience #February11

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F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email [email protected], Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

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A lucid and spot-on analysis of what indirect costs are and why cutting them would badly hurt red states: dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...

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I'm looking for postdocs who'd like to apply for the @connectedminds.bsky.social PDFs with me and collaborators to work on the following potential projects: 1. explainable neuroAI for ANN / SNN models of motor control 2. neuromorphic robotic control 3. neurorobotic artistic performance ... /1

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I wrote this today: Elon Musk Is Not What I Need For My Birthday www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/elon-mu...

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"Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing" @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The potential repercussions go beyond decimating US biomedical research. Many of the best clinical specialty departments (trauma units, neurology, etc) are in academic med centers and are money losers. They rely on overheads from NIH to keep things going. This is bad.

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ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

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Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.

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JAMA Viewpoint: “Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety.”

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When is indeed the March for Science?

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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

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This may be a good time to remind yourself that when you store your information 'in the cloud' all that means is that you're handing it over to some other person(s) to store on their computer. Ask yourself who are they, what are their values, what obligations do they have?

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As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist. - Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators. The goal is total erasure/elimination.

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My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and waves vaguely this nonsense, and it will impact their productivity. It can't not.

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Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

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