iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 21h

📣 Multiple Flatiron Research Fellow (FRF) postdoc positions are available in my @flatironinstitute.org group! We've never been better positioned to understand how high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems (neural circuits!) compute. If this is as exciting to you as it is to me, consider applying:

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My god. This plus $100K for H1B visa that follows OPT. Making it impossible for foreign students to work in the US

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 31/08/2026

NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is wild. >1/2 of HC synapses disappear in artificial hibernation, come back in same/similar locations & memories intact. ~1/2 of engram synapses-between two memory-tagged cells-are clustered on dendrites, those preferentially spared. Not biggest synapses. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This shows the visual abstract and a paragraph from the extended abstract of the linked article.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I echo what @wiringthebrain.bsky.social said. Must watch and incredibly scary. Separate agents, each in own sandbox w/ own tasks, work out how to contact each other, work together, & lightning swarm thru OpenAI & HuggingFace security. Countries will be launching this on each others' defense/intel 1/

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You say Mamdani has to patch things up with the Democrats? You think you own the Democrats? The Democrats are the people who vote Democratic and the people they vote for. If your candidates lost, *you* need to patch things up with the candidates Democrats chose.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

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Stand up for Science

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

hmmm ... they quoted me in this article, saying some meaningless enthusiastic stuff (some of which I'm not sure i said?) but they sure dropped the main points i was trying to make, which can be found in this thread: bsky.app/profile/kenm...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Great idea! Make submitting your comment easier and a little more social by joining this action hour

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Then full communism

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Indeed. NAS President says main changes science needs are design grad programs more with & for industry, run basic research, by robots/AI not grad students, & only problem with OMB proposal to eviscerate/fatally politicize science is increasing PI paperwork. Could there be deeper failure to moment?

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I followed these instructions to comment on the new proposed (disatrous) OMB rule - super helpful! Please take the time to write a specific, personal comment!!!

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I miss this guy, even tho I haven't seen much of him since i left UCSF 22 yrs ago. A true original, thinking so outside the box that boxes disappeared, kind and generous, & pioneered much of modern pain and addiction research. www.thetransmitter.org/pain/in-memo...

thetransmitter.org

In memoriam: Howard Fields, pain research pioneer

Over six decades, Fields mapped out the circuits of both pain and addiction.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2026

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

nature.com

NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year

Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"Starving Gaza" "Today, the prolonged food shortage in the Strip barely makes the news — after all, we have already seen worse." "The reality in Gaza undermines the future and security of us all." Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma [The authors are at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.]

bearing-witness.com

Starvation Story — Witnessing the Gaza War

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Tennessee's already done it, and Alabama, Louisiana, & Florida are racing to do it. Back to the pre-voting-rights-act all-white South in terms of both federal and state legislatures.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/05/2026

jfc

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump has threatened to destroy Iranian civilization in 3.5 hours. Could be nuclear, or non-nuclear; could be he'll back down. Just an incredibly frightening moment. Dems in House & Senate should be issuing unified statement: this is genocide and military must disobey illegal orders. But they won't.

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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar

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Protect Academic Life in Iran

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law to Protect Your Elections From ICE. NOW. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...

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Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law. NOW.

I’ve gotten a number of helpful responses to my post from earlier...

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Opinion: Sinners was by far the best film of the year. But it was a film of black experience & music, straight and direct and without an ounce of bending over to make whites feel more comfortable. One B A Another was a white film, with a powerful black women for 1/3 who was mostly white men's 1/

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"

YouTube video by Phil Lewis

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I've been told Sameer Project is the "gold standard" for sending aid to Palestinians. Of many projects, this one is to keep Gazans warm this winter: shelter, warm clothing, blankets. Now they're in tattered tents w nothing, w/ Israel blocking aid entry despite ceasefire. chuffed.org/project/1491...

chuffed.org

RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project

"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Ketanji Jackson issues a stay on the order forcing Trump to fully pay SNAP now? WTF? Here's a good explanation: she's making the best of a bad situation, forcing things to move quickly; if she didn't do it, the rest of the court would have, and would have let everything slow walk thereafter.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Isn't it amazing that IL was never limiting aid entry, never deliberately inducing hunger/starvation, or denying medical supplies so medical care couldn't function, no drugs, anesthesia/analgesia, proper sterilization; yet when there's a ceasefire Israel can suddenly "allow" 600 trucks/day to enter?

Israel to allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza every day: Report

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

So outrageous. Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, "detained" by IL since Dec, held w/o charges at ILi torture ctr Sde Tieman, beaten, tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved, lost >40kg (~90 lbs), denied med treatment. They'll eventually claim he's Hamas but if so they'd have charged him.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is the professor at Rutgers who studies fascism and anti-fascism, got doxxed by some rt-wing group, was getting death threats, and decided to move to Europe.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line. www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Graphic of an IDF sniper along with a quote from a sniper: "There's a line that if the Gazans waiting for food cross, I can shoot them. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down.' I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children."

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Again & again, the Supreme Mullahs rule that Trump can act unlawfully & unconstitutionally & violate constitutional rights w/o restriction, at least until the courts finish the process of officially resolving the legality of these acts (and S.M.'s may well ultimately decide they're legal).

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

For anyone wanting to contribute to get aid into Gaza: I've been told that Project Sameer is "the gold standard" for this, one of their projects: chuffed.org/project/help... & a friend tells me this is a trusted source, getting baby formula in: chuffed.org/project/1387... 1/

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North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

“A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

By the way, for anyone still on xitter: I stayed on it to read and post about Palestine/Israel/Gaza. It's still where most people living there post, so it's news you can't get anywhere else. But I've been kicked off X since June 12. It looks like someone hacked to change associated email; I got 1/

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Invaluable xitter thread on famine momentum, famine response and the current disastrous state of Gaza from Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees Intl and former lead for COVID (46) & disaster relief (44) @USAID: x.com/JeremyKonynd.... Note the alarming increase in starvation deaths; links in reply.

Graphic showing that there were 68 recorded starvation deaths in Gaza from Oct 7 2023 to July 20 2025, and 43 starvation deaths reported on July 21-23 2025, an enormous acceleration.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Posts from Palestine on xitter are all reporting a level of hunger & desperation they've never reported before - people collapsing on the street, no food anywhere, maybe 1 inadequate meal in 2 days or 5 days. Mass death will likely soon begin. Here is a set of posts to give an idea. 1/

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

NIH proposing a crazy new policy: they will not fund proposals involving only animal research, proposals must include alternative approaches such as non-invasive human, computational, or cell culture studies. They are accepting comments at link, deadline is 5pm EST TODAY! www.fda.gov/news-events/...

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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing

The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

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Science Funding Process

=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/07/2025

This is an excellent statement of scientific values that we should all strive to uphold. 🧪🧠🤖 Sharing from @suryaganguli.bsky.social , who said this is the Stanford Med affirmation that all their PhD grads sign. 1/

STANFORD BIOSCIENCES AFFIRMATION**
September 23, 2019
As I embark on my career as a scientist, I willingly pledge that:
I will practice and support a scientific process that is based on logic, intellectual rigor, personal integrity, and an uncompromising respect for the truth;
I will perform my professional activities and interactions with scientific integrity and respect for the field and my peers;
I will acknowledge that science involves failures and can be frustrating, thus I will treat myself and my colleagues with kindness and compassion as we deal with temporary setbacks on the path to progress;
I will acknowledge my role as an ambassador of science to the public, and will strive to be honest, respectful, and unbiased while engaging the public;
I will never let the potential for personal recognition, profit or advancement cause me to act in a way that violates the public trust in science or in me as a scientist;
I will foster a community that is inclusive of all and recognize that diversity cultivates innovation, creativity, and progress;
I will acknowledge and honor the contributions of scientists who have preceded me and become a worthy role model deserving of respect by those who follow me;
And I will always be cognizant that my work is for the advancement of knowledge and the benefit of all humanity and our world.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Doesn't discuss NIH, but Senate Appropriating committee wants to restore NSF & NASA research funding & also National Weather Service. Good signs ...https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02171-z

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