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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 25/09/2026

Tomás S. Huerta, Kevin J. Tracey, Isaac M. Chiu, and @changsbrain.bsky.social review the organization and function of vagal neuroimmune circuits, from afferent cytokine sensing to organ-specific efferent immune control. rupress.org/jem/article/... #BioelectronicMedicine #Neuroimmunology

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

THANK YOU NIH STAFF! We see you working against strong headwinds to get as many grant Notice-Of-Awards out the door as possible as end of fiscal year. You're heroic; working under tremendous stress. NO THANKS to upper leadership at NIH, HHS, OMB & POTUS who are doing their best to kill USA science

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We are only one month away from the 7th Bioelectronic Medicine Summit in NYC! Seats are selling fast, but there are still spots remaining. Reserve your seat TODAY to hear the latest developments, discoveries, and translational advances in BEM! Sept 28-29th, 2026, Chelsea Piers, NYC. bemsummit.org

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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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🌈 Drawn&Quoted 🦄 @drawnandquoted.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

these are the stakes –– the eureka moment, the payoff, the surprise/delight/joy of accomplishing something ***meaningful*** after so much trial and error

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Feinstein Journals -Molecular Medicine & Bioelectronic Medicine @northwell-journals.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We have early news that Bioelectronic Medicine has its first official Journal Impact Factor of 6.8! Thank you to our entire editorial board, reviewers, authors and fellow citing scientists. To submit or learn more about our journal, click here link.springer.com/journal/42234 #BioelectronicMedicine

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#RossPrize recipient Dr Carl June highlighting the science advocacy work of a cancer survivor who benefited from the CAR-T therapy his lab helped develop! #NYAS at Cure, Manhattan. @standupforscience.net Basic science saves lives!

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

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silverwuffamute @wuffaf.at · 02/06/2026

Ironically, Young Jr is the oldest Young in this photo.

Baseball players at first base. #29 Jared Young #53 Eric Young Jr #2 Cole Young.

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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of... Please comment here www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... if you want science in the US to NOT be destroyed. Open for comments till July 13th, so spread the word 🧪

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Why are apps and programs forcing AI tools on me? I don't want help writing emails. I don't want summaries of 2 line correspondences. I don't need to lookup the logo from the app I want to use, I just want to open it. Honestly, stop trying to make my life easier because you are doing the opposite.

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Can Shocking Your Vagus Nerve Really Improve Your Health? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

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How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Heading into May of 2026 and so far this year, no new grants have been issued by the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute. No council meetings have been scheduled. An absolute, unmitigated disaster for vision research is setting up.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times
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The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dear neuroscientists, bioengineers, and anyone interested in bioelectronic medicine 📢 I am co-chairing the 7th Bioelectronic Medicine Summit on September 28-29, 2026 at Chelsea Piers, Manhattan 🏙️ Conference registration and Abstract Submissions are now open. Join us! bemsummit.org?events=bemsu...

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We should be learning from other countries...

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This program transformed my career! Please apply. @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Benefits from DEI: NASA’s first crewed mission around the Moon in 50+ years included… ✅Christina Koch (first woman on a lunar mission) ✅Victor Glover (first Black astronaut on a lunar mission) ✅Reid Wiseman (single Dad) ✅Jeremy Hansen (first Canadian headed to the Moon). Not “woke,” PROGRESS.👇

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc

Crescent view of Earth.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"We are going for all humanity." "Artemis crew is go for launch. Full send." Publicly funded science to explore our universe and our own precious world is a beautiful thing.

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Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵

Graphical abstract showing that NMDAR immunisation drives psychosis-like behaviour in mice, while clozapine reverses this. Upper panel: arrows show NMDAR immunisation producing a mouse exhibiting psychosis-like behaviour, with clozapine reversing this effect. Lower panels: anti-NMDAR antibodies bind neuronal NMDA receptors, which are then eliminated by microglia via phagocytosis, leading to psychosis. Clozapine restores NMDA receptor levels by reducing anti-NMDAR antibody levels, consistent with an immunomodulatory mechanism of action.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

That is equivalent to 2/3rds the population of Saint Paul

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/03/2026

NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science An accessible and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere. March 28th, 12:30 - 2pm CT followed by live stream of the national flagship event from the Twin Cities (MN). standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3 #NoKings #NoKings3 #NK3VR #Rally

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

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Eric H Chang @changsbrain.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A great honor to have 2025 Brain Prize recipient Professor Frank Winkler come and give a talk at the Feinstein Institutes @northwellhealth.bsky.social about recent work in cancer neuroscience! @winklerlab.bsky.social

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Bruce Hamilton @bahome.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Well done. Every news outlet should run a piece like this. By my age, you will have lost someone to cancer. Or cardiovascular disease. Or another disease NIH funding combats. You will wish you had more time with them. That’s what NIH funding does. Buys us time with the people we love. #FundNIH.

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Ansyme ~ Advanced Neuroscience for Systemic Medicine @ansyme.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Have you seen the vagus nerve in action? The lab of @changsbrain.bsky.social watched cytokine signals along vagus nerve fibers, using a miniaturized microscope! Read Eric's perspective on the fast-evolving field of #neuroimmunology & biolectronic medicine. ansyme.substack.com/p/using-neur...

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Using Neuroscience to Control Inflammation and Restore Homeostasis

Decoding the neural language of inflammation

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

1% grant scores, not getting funded.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thank you again @michaeldgreen.phd for speaking out. I don't know what bothers me more: Director Bhattacharya's callousness that damaging the careers of talented young scientists is "the cost of doing business" for his politics or His ignorance and lack of imagination about experimental design.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Please share widely--there are rallies planned across the nation--look for one near you

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Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Happening Now: A snowball fight is taking place at Washington Square Park in New York City

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🚨 New Paper from UP NExT (Univ. Pitt NeuralEngineering Cross-Translation): We discovered that microglia the brain’s immune cells, aren't just a "cleanup crew". During brain stimulation, they act as hidden neural modulators, actively monitoring and contacting neurons to help manage circuit stability.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every American needs to watch this:

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