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submitted 6 days ago • 189 comments

Horror show.

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so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.

submitted 16 days ago • 441 comments

Thoughtful piece on how going with the flow, however well meaning, may end up washing us all down the drain. Harvard admin take note.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

To my friends and colleagues at UAB, IU, UF, FSU, UL, WashU, OSU, CWRU, etc, etc. Call both your senators and your representative. They listen. Emphasize the direct economic impact of NIH research, and the indirect impacts on pharmaceutical/biotech. Underscore its relevance to national security.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

NIH funding supported : * 412,041 jobs * * $92.89 billion in new economic activity* * $2.46 for every NIH $1 spent.* We are a $100B industry. Let's act like it How about, at a bare minimum, we all just call our congressional reps www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

This is bad.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to see this out, heroic effort by the brilliant Sara Mederos, uncovering the detailed brain mechanisms of how animals learn to overcome their instinctive fear responses, from neural circuits & cell types down to synaptic plasticity mechanism! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1214 comments

Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan. But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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There's "being wrong in early in a pandemic" wrong and then there's "doubling down over and over again until you find yourself in bed with RFK Jr. and founding a whole-ass journal to discredit all of academic publishing along with all of medicine" wrong. publichealth.realclearjournals.org

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

Death by 1,000 Cuts Democracy is Dying in the United States, Why are We Acting Like Everything is Okay? open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Why Paul Krugman left the New York Times.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Great course!!

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We are pleased to announce our first ever Kempner Institute Symposium, Frontiers in NeuroAI, a two-day event in Allston, MA. Virtual and in-person options available. Learn more: bit.ly/41wSYJA #KempnerInstitute #NeuroAI

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

One great scientist writing about another. Inspiring. Incidentally, Horace was a huge inspiration for my PhD in Markus' lab. When I finished, I made the pilgrimage to Cambridge to see him. Horace took me, a lowly grad student, to the pub and shared his wisdom. A great memory of a great man.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Is this a joke?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Us: "Hey we wrote a spirited defense of basic science funding, showing how it drives startup creation and ultimately GDP. Would you like to publish it as an OpEd?" Major Media Outlets: "No."

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Looks to be a great meeting. Consider applying!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Definitive white paper on neuroAI inspired AI safety!

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Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h

submitted 94 days ago • 40 comments

The best take I’ve seen yet on the problem of populism turned autocracy and how to fight it. A must read. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 95 days ago • 11 comments

Stephen Zhang and the team found that in vivo peptide release and signaling gradually enhances responses of satiety-promoting hypothalamic neurons to each bite of food. These consequences of each bite take minutes to manifest, and could help explain why slow eating enhances satiety. rdcu.be/dZlI3

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In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM. Here is an extract.

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement

submitted 105 days ago • 86 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton for work in machine learning and neural networks. Here's why that research qualifies as physics (it's also a fascinating read): www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi... 🧪

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments

Shit's getting biblical at the Open.

submitted 177 days ago • 5 comments

I had no idea Cormac McCarthy worked as a science editor for the Santa Fe Institute, editing the work of scientists. @sciencewriters.org This is a great feature. 🩺🧪🔬

submitted 180 days ago • 5 comments