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Harris Kaplan @harriskaplan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm thrilled to announce the opening of the Kaplan lab at the University of Virginia @uvabio.bsky.social ! We are a neuroscience lab aiming to define circuits underlying naturalistic behaviors in infants and adults. We're actively recruiting students and postdocs. Learn more at kaplan-lab.org.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The same conservatives pushing to close facilities like this will then go on to ridicule biomedical research done on lower animals as "wasteful and irrelevant to human health". You can't have it both ways. www.opb.org/article/2026...

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OHSU board contemplates closure of primate research center; its scientists plead for support

Scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center say their work is driving critical medical advances. But leadership at the federal level has questioned the value of the research model, and c...

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Zoe Donaldson (@neurozoe.bsky.social) studies the neural circuits that govern social bonding & social loss, and how variations in these circuits shape emotional outcomes. Follow the link to listen! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

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Dr. Zoe Donaldson — Stories of WiN

studies the neural circuits that govern social bonding and social loss, and how variations in these circuits shape emotional outcomes

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Public engagement: building common ground
How can we help to bridge this divide? Simply producing more excep tional science will not be enough to rebuild public trust. Rather, we must adopt a new model that recognizes communication and advocacy as core pillars of science, on a par with rigor and reproducibility. Public engagement efforts should be valued for faculty promotions, much like obtaining grants and publishing our findings in scientific journals. Researchers should be recognized and rewarded for activities such as giving public talks, working with local schools, engaging with policy makers, developing social media campaigns and platforms or writing accessible articles for general audiences. Developing these skills must be an integral part of scientific training, reinforcing the notion that the responsibility to champion science lies with us. Courses that teach graduate students and postdocs to communicate complex ideas clearly, to use social media effectively and to advocate for evidencebased policies must be deemed critical and supported by our universities. These efforts should not be viewed as distractions from research but woven into the fabric of what we do as scientists. Rebuilding public trust requires a cultural paradigm shift: scientists must see themselves not just as producers of knowledge, but also as its ambassadors and translators. Such a fundamental change will occur only if it is embraced by our scientific leaders and institutions, emphasizing the critical role of public engagement for science to succeed.

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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/09/2025

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/05/2025

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

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Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science

It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs! The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now. Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

While pushing through absolutely devastating cuts to research, science, and scientists, RFK Jr. blatantly lies to Congress saying there have been no cuts to research, science, and scientists. www.factcheck.org/2025/05/rfk-...

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RFK Jr. Denies Cuts to Scientific Research While Slashing Staff, Funding - FactCheck.org

Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has canceled or frozen billions of dollars in scientific research grants and attempted to cull around 20,000 agency employee...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Nature @nature.com · 16/05/2025

A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation go.nature.com/45bprqu

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World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease

Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

True facts.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2025

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/03/2025

We want to know—why are YOU standing up for science? Whether it's a commitment to evidence-based policy, a drive to protect our planet, or the personal impact of recent events on your career, we want to feature your story. Head to standupforscience2025.org/science-stor... to share yours ☀️

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Why I Stand Up for Science

Science shapes our world, drives innovation, and protects our future—but it needs voices like yours to defend and champion it. We want to hear your story. Why do you stand up for science?Is it beca…

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

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MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration

We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 12/01/2025

Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior. w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social

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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

schematic of neural recordings from mouse V1, whole-brain, and hippocampus; neural activity traces from the population, showing more correlated activity in V1 and whole-brain recordings versus more decorrelated activity in hippocampus

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

New year, new paper! We continue to unpick the interplay between ecological upheaval and sociality and show altered social structure could result in 2x disease transmission rates. Senior authored by the unstoppable @ctestard.bsky.social. In Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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A Natural Disaster Exacerbates and Redistributes Disease Risk Among Free‐Ranging Macaques by Altering Social Structure

By simulating disease spread in free-living rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) before and after a hurricane, we demonstrate doubled pathogen transmission rates up to 5 years following the disaster, equ...

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

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Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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

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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We wrote a review on analysis methods for large-scale neural recordings www.science.org/stoken/autho... @marius10p.bsky.social #neuroscience 🧪🧠 Anything we missed? Reply w/ your fav method!

large-scale neural recording of 50,000 neurons, showing many diverse activity patterns, and also what the cells look like at various zooms of the maximum projection image of the recording FOV

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