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Jackie Birnbaum

@jackiebirnbaum.bsky.social
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🧠 Postdoc in the Green Lab at MGH. Formerly in the Economo Lab at BU. If I’m not thinking about the brain, I’m probably on a mountain 🧗🏻‍♀️🏔️

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Tudor Dragoi @dragoitudor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Very excited to share a new preprint - my first paper in the @mikeeconomo.bsky.social lab where we asked when and why the motor cortex is recruited for movement control:🧠👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699314v1
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Dynamic engagement of the motor cortex in controlling movement
Neural circuits do not contribute equally or continuously to behavior. In mice, the motor cortex can be essential or dispensable for movement in different contexts, but how it is dynamically recruited...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A scalable, all-optical method for mapping synaptic connectivity with cell-type specificity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jackie Birnbaum @jackiebirnbaum.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Congrats @mvickymoya.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to see how this will be used in the future
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Mood after catching up on news:
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a woman in a judge 's robe is saying earth is a mess y 'all .
Alt: The Good Place judge: "earth is a mess y'all ."
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It is a beautiful and amazing thing that a team of scientists can work for years on some intricate detailed exploration, and with just a little pdf thousands of other scientist can know and debate and discuss what they learned.
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Jackie Birnbaum @jackiebirnbaum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Honored for our recent work to be featured on the cover of Nature Neuroscience this month! (@mikeeconomo.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain) If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between cognitive processes and movement, check out our paper 👀
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent
A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”
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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.
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Boston, MA
Location: Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, United States Address: 24 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02133 Time: 12-4 PM Important information: Please do not fully block the sidewalk, st…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n
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Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)
Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Jackie Birnbaum @jackiebirnbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Really proud and excited to share the final version of our paper, co-led by the Bluesky-less Munib Hasnain!! We asked whether cognitive and motor neural dynamics can be isolated from one another, or whether they’re driven by common neural mechanisms 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse
Nature Neuroscience - Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics, the authors show that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and...
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek youtu.be/CnT7jaQX4X8?... - if you want to understand what brains are for (and their functional organisation), this is the way... 👍👏
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Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek
YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/01/2025
Slow-motion videos reveal tree frogs making some of the most dramatic landings in nature. Learn more: scim.ag/4gTAurn
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A little challenge for neuro/cog sci (/psych/comp-sci/bio/philosophy!) blueys: How would you define "cognition"?
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/
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