Reposted by Harris BlankenshipPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman 287218477375
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever. 125140254032
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipJohn Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 10412151
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comVectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - NatureMice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain. 315645
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 25/02/2026“These days, if you’re not a mad scientist, you’re not paying attention.” @standupforscience.bsky.social 24911
Harris Blankenship @harrisedwardb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026“When you’re 95, you’ll going to wake up from a deep slumber and say, ‘I need to split my HEK cells’.” 000
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/... 904178507434
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipBen Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Less than a week after they were installed, many of the flex posts on the BU bridge have been destroyed by vehicles. Appreciate the thought but cyclists clearly need more protection at these intersections. 2317029
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMichael Baym @baym.lol · 12/01/2026Update: they were literally all mowed down by cars in under two weeks 2121
Reposted by Harris Blankenshipamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like 36191718726
Harris Blankenship @harrisedwardb.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Congratulations to our fearless leader @mikebeckstead.bsky.social on his much deserved recent promotion to full professor! His days of assisting or associating have come to a close. 040
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipIan L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 22/08/2025When science is politicized like this, the American people suffer.vox.comThe Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grantsMy brain hurts. 26919
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMiles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today. 437378456749
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipAddgene @addgene.bsky.social · 20/06/2025New plasmid kit available from the Jeffrey Lewis Lab! The Expanded CRISPEY Kit can be used to create genomic edits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using CRISPR/Cas9 cleavage coupled with directed homologous recombination using an in vivo expressed repair template. twp.ai/4iobNo twp.aiAddgene: Expanded CRISPEY KitUse the Expanded CRISPEY Kit for CRISPR-based gene editing of S. cerevisiae. 061
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/06/2025“The homegrowns are next” 🇺🇸 #StopICE 411655684
Harris Blankenship @harrisedwardb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025#NoKings signage in Talkeetna, Alaska (population 997) today. 050
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipNature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 12/06/2025Mouse retrosplenial cortex encodes spatial hypotheses with well-behaved recurrent dynamics, which can combine these hypotheses with incoming information to resolve ambiguities @jvoigts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSpatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex - Nature NeuroscienceUsing a spatial reasoning task in mice, the authors show that retrosplenial cortex encodes spatial hypotheses with well-behaved recurrent dynamics, which can combine these hypotheses with incoming inf... 0329
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipNature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 10/06/2025Multiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases, and suggests novel mechanisms of hippocampal memory formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comFormation of an expanding memory representation in the hippocampus - Nature NeuroscienceMultiday imaging of CA1 neurons during learning reveals that the representation stabilizes as the number of readily retrievable, information-rich and stable place cells increases and suggests novel me... 02711
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/06/2025If you missed the brave and articulate Jenna Norton - one of the hero researchers at #NIH who signed the Bethesda Declaration - on #NPR yesterday, check her extraordinary interview here. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH #StopTrump #KillTheBillone.npr.org🔊 Listen Now: NIH scientists sign Bethesda Declaration to protect biomedical science through Trump administrationHere & Now from WBUR on NPR One | 6:30 010233
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipCLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Nature Neuroscience Spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comSpatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex - Nature NeuroscienceUsing a spatial reasoning task in mice, the authors show that retrosplenial cortex encodes spatial hypotheses with well-behaved recurrent dynamics, which can combine these hypotheses with incoming inf... 0196
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025This is your health on MAGA.nytimes.comHere Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye. 7231121
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Kudos to @amartinezla.bsky.social on NPR for squeezing this line in real quick this am: “Polls will soon close in South Korea, where the country is voting in a snap election for a new president. That’s what South Koreans do when a former president tries to overturn the constitution.” I see you. 201381359
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...unbreaking.orgMedical Research Funding — UnbreakingHow the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us. 361366805
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... 12553960613766
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipBrian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I cannot stress enough that what government scientists are going through is not being fully reported. They are quite literally preventing science from happening already. 👏 085
Reposted by Harris Blankenship𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/05/2025“He tried to kill his own Vice President. Do you think he cares about you?” -Barack Obama 7266261500
Reposted by Harris Blankenshipboehninglab @boehninglab.com · 23/05/2025youtu.be/KBmdxv29tog?...youtu.beA message from MIT President Sally KornbluthYouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 0127
Reposted by Harris Blankenshipbergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025sadly relevant on the daily 0436
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean! 1314237946145
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect 48544401212792
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipCathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025 181459598
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipLynn Jolicoeur @lynnjolicoeur.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...wbur.orgAntibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cutsMicrobiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week. 11425241
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This about sums it up. 2724190
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 01/08/2024#science 🧪 820742
Harris Blankenship @harrisedwardb.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Five years ago, I joined @mikebeckstead.bsky.social’s lab as a wide-eyed, clueless 22-year-old. Yesterday, I closed my doctoral chapter with even wider eyes, more questions than answers, and a few extra letters behind my name. 180
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipStacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n 371132391
Harris Blankenship @harrisedwardb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I did not have “Be a scientist during a dystopian, anti-science administration” on my life-long bingo card. 010
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists! 379103583771
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865978920441
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief." 182883913
Reposted by Harris Blankenshipjp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 05/03/2025Quick shoutout to the labs, departments, and scientists cancelling / rescheduling lab meetings, seminars and more to give students and others the chance to defend science for @standupforscience.bsky.social 021935
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Parallel gene expression changes in ventral midbrain dopamine and GABA neurons during normal aging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 051
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipNadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Clay Bennett nails it. 7486372244
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipMichael Deistler @deismic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Together with @dendritesgr.bsky.social, we’ll be hosting a tutorial on constructing and optimizing biophysical models (via Jaxley & DendroTweaks) 🚀 Join us in Florence if you like dendrites, biophysics, or optimization! 0239
Reposted by Harris BlankenshipCian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Some politicians are labeled as "all tactics, no strategy" imo neuroscience is "all hypotheses, no theory" In this sense, I disagree with the article. All neuroscientists do is test hypotheses! It's just that these are typically based on vague mental theories, rather than formal maths theories 2133