Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Anna is a treasure, cool to get this opportunity 041
Reposted by Christopher MooreRhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 12/08/2025It was wonderful to take a moment to celebrate as Gov McKee signed the Freedom to Read Act today! Thank you everyone! Sharing some photos and nuggets of wisdom from the speakers 2315
Reposted by Christopher MooreZero-Noise Lab @zeronoiselab.bsky.social · 31/07/2025What shifts in our brain when our consciousness shifts? On Sept 8-9, we will explore this question at ESI-SyNC 2025 - with exciting talks, posters and discussions on the neural dynamics of altered consciousness, from psychedelics to breathwork, near-death experiences and meditation. (1/2) 1144
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025More video from the Francis Collins interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 1/5 48324
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025We have an open position for a Scientist I at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Come join our exciting research environment @alleninstitute.org. Please share! alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...alleninstitute.orgJobsWe are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience. 24225
Reposted by Christopher MooreZero-Noise Lab @zeronoiselab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Sweet, sweet review by the awesome @anne-urai.bsky.social on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comStructure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-makingStudies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o… 03611
Reposted by Christopher MooreNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Here's a provocative proposal for settling the "What is an emotion?" debate - get rid of the concept altogether! From What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories (1997). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... /1 4113
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025My quote of the day To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine 18719
Reposted by Christopher MooreMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/06/2025An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.motherjones.comAn LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.” 1235159526470
Reposted by Christopher MooreStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrumpactionnetwork.orgADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH StaffJoin the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now. 6871299
Reposted by Christopher MooreSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025... 26110
Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 10/06/2025So psyched for this! Go grab a few copies, you’ll want to give them to friends 110
Reposted by Christopher MooreStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/06/2025LIVE feed of Senate Appropriations Committee ready to hold #Bhattacharya accountable to stand - or not - with his heroic #NIH staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIHappropriations.senate.govA Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on AppropriationsUnited States Senate Committee on Appropriations 13211
Reposted by Christopher MooreStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/06/2025One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated. zurl.co/QUnUUzurl.coDeep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to comeAmericans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. 519358
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Getting confirmation from several sources that the review branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH no longer exists. I am sure this is true across many/all institutes and centers at NIH. I hope the Center for Scientific Review will be up to the task. 1010653
Reposted by Christopher MooreStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/06/2025"Trumpism may be ascendant, but it is not invincible. What it fears most is solidarity that bridges class, race, and background–solidarity that declares that America is not Donald Trump’s to disfigure or define." We agree. Join the #SummerFightForScience - This fight needs us all. zurl.co/noQrhzurl.coEnlightened Americans should stay and fight, not leaveDeclarations from abroad, however poignant, are not substitutes for showing up and standing up for democracy. 213730
Reposted by Christopher MooreDavi Bock @dddavi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Listening to & reading mainstream/center-left political media, I don’t get the sense that the generational threat to U.S. science is really on the radar or breaking through. 151
Reposted by Christopher MooreEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2025The cortical critical power law balances energy and information in an optimal fashion doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neurosciencedoi.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 0183
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...pll.harvard.eduGovernment | Harvard UniversityBrowse the latest Government courses from Harvard University. 14547206
Reposted by Christopher MooreJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Press release from Senator Welch about the event... www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...welch.senate.govHear from the Health Experts About the Human Harm of HHS’ Mass Terminations | Senator Welch 14117
Reposted by Christopher MooreNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Nachum and I are talking. What's holding back progress? Is it oversimplifying the brain? (Yes, we agree!). And/or is it oversimplifying the experiments? (There, we differ - not on the goal, but how to acheive it). Looking forward to reading his book and comparing notes w/ Elusive Cures. 2358
Reposted by Christopher MooreRhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Rhode Island friends: stop by the Warwick Central Library Saturday, May 24, from 10-2 and tell us about your favorite banned book! RI #FreedomToRead coalition members will be there to answer your questions and help you find your state reps and write postcards! 0187
Reposted by Christopher MooreGc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out! 3422381315
Reposted by Christopher MoorePete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government. 14434769511268
Reposted by Christopher MooreNIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 28056
Reposted by Christopher MooreNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Philadelphia friends! We SO NEED to celebrate science. Let's raise a glass to brains. Join us Wed, 5/21 for Pint of Science. I'll be opening for headliners Dimitris Boufidis, @audreydrotos.bsky.social, & Jacqui Barker. 😊 Tickets (to support the org, $2): pintofscience.us/events/phila... 04821
Reposted by Christopher MooreMarc Sommer @neurocircuits.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Tip of the iceberg 033
Reposted by Christopher MooreNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Congrats Katharina! Love that big smile and fighting spirit. You and me and millions of others all here because #sciencesaveslives Let's defeat cancer and let's stop this insane war on science. 0293
Reposted by Christopher MooreNPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR 518191605965
Reposted by Christopher MooreEuropean Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷 35963301
Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 04/05/2025m.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVM...m.youtube.comNeil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video)YouTube video by neilyoungchannel 010
Reposted by Christopher MooreTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 24/04/2025Almost nobody is ok with it. But was it on your local news today? If not, nobody is going to know about it in order to not be OK with it. Ppl oppose almost everything this administration is doing, when they’re told what those things are. But most people aren’t! 8131661211
Reposted by Christopher MoorePatrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Some fantastic work on the virtual fly www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comWhole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion - NatureNature - Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion 053
Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 24/04/2025A great few days w @nicolecrust.bsky.social now in motion at @carneyinstitute.bsky.social! Brown U folks, 2 pm tmrw for this exciting talk 120
Reposted by Christopher MooreC.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on! 4613403
Reposted by Christopher MooreNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Terminated PI grants is a terrible thing. Trainees - that’s another level entirely. They have near zero resources to weather the storm. The rest of us must step us to help. 17012
Reposted by Christopher MooreNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Despicable: “It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the ACLU. www.propublica.org/article/more...propublica.orgSome Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ... 073
Reposted by Christopher MooreAmber Maimon @ambermaimon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Can't wait to share our @chi.acm.org #CHI2025 conference paper and demo in Yokohama, Japan next week!! 🌸 Presentation: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... Interactivity demo: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... with @iddowald.bsky.social and Donald Degraen. Interested in what we do? Let's meet :) 041
Reposted by Christopher MooreTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Just blatantly violating court orders to not freeze NIH funding. We are governed by shameless criminals. 0142
Reposted by Christopher MooreHajime Hirase @hajimehirase.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Selective activation of mesoscale functional circuits via multichannel infrared stimulation of cortical columns in ultra-high-field 7T MRI: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...cell.comSelective activation of mesoscale functional circuits via multichannel infrared stimulation of cortical columns in ultra-high-field 7T MRITian et al. devise a column-targeted, removable, MR-compatible, dense multichannel infrared neural stimulation (INS) system. INS-fMRI shows “moving dot” stimulation in the early visual cortex and evok... 023
Reposted by Christopher MooreTim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025This is a great video, highlighting the value of NIH and what is at stake. HT @haribharadwaj.bsky.social vimeo.com/1075817060/2...vimeo.comCures in Crisis Highlights VideoThis is "Cures in Crisis Highlights Video" by The AACR on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 052
Reposted by Christopher MooreAnn Clemens @annmclemens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org 15143
Reposted by Christopher MooreBen Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.” 11026606511335
Christopher Moore @cimoore444.bsky.social · 13/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why? 020
Reposted by Christopher MooreRhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025From the American Library Association: 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries come from small groups of people. Most people are against censorship 0126
Reposted by Christopher MoorePessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: Join our discussion with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Apr 11 at noon EST USA time. Here's the paper to get the discussion going: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Everyone welcome but register ->onlinelibrary.wiley.comBeyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in NeuroscienceThe search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c.... 56719
Reposted by Christopher MooreAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 04/04/2025From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped” 421835714
