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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
another "hidden figure" who shouldn't be hidden US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
1/ Something surreal happened to me recently 🍀 I ordered “A Feeling for the Organism” — Evelyn Fox Keller’s biography of #BarbaraMcClintock, the 1983 Nobel prize winner who discovered “jumping genes.” 🧬
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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Congratulations to Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, on being named a finalist for the prestigious Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists! 🎉 He was selected for his groundbreaking research shaping the future of neuroscience and medicine. stemcell.ucsf.edu/news/tomasz-... @ucsfstemcell.bsky.social 🧪 🧠📈
UCSF neuroscientist Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, seated at a bench in his lab.
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪#Neuroskyence
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🖤 On #Juneteenth, we honor the fight for Black freedom — delayed, but never denied. At #BlackInNeuro, we carry that legacy forward by creating space for Black excellence in neuroscience, year-round. ✨ Freedom is a journey — and we’re not done yet. ✊🏾
A graphic with horizontal red, black, and green stripes—colors of the Pan-African flag. In the center is a cream-colored circular outline featuring the profile of a Black woman wearing a geometric-patterned headwrap and large hoop earring. Arched above the circle is the word “JUNETEENTH” and below it reads “FREEDOM DAY” in curved, playful cream text. The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner.A graphic with horizontal blocks of red, black, and green — colors of the Pan-African flag — features a cream-colored box in the center. At the top, bold red text reads “DID YOU KNOW.” Inside the box, brown text states: “Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom—over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.” Below a row of green dots, it continues: “It marks the end of slavery in the US and an important celebration of Black freedom, resilience, and joy.” In the bottom left corner is the Black In Neuro logo.A graphic with a red, black, and green striped background features a centered cream-colored box. At the top, bold red text reads: “THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER.” Inside the box, brown text states: “Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is not truly granted until it is realized by all. As we reflect on the delayed liberation of enslaved people in 1865, we’re called to continue the fight for justice, equality, and liberation—everywhere. This history teaches us that no one is free until everyone is free.” In the bottom left corner is the Black In Neuro logo.
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Mari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
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lehtinenlab.bsky.social @lehtinenlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread rdcu.be/eoaSY
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Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development
Nature Neuroscience - The choroid plexus (ChP) provides molecular cues for brain development. However, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This study identifies an apocrine secretion mechanism...
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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/tra...
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Tracing the Path from Basic Research to Transformative Therapies
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Gene-editing therapy made in just 6 months helps baby with life-threatening disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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Gene-editing therapy made in just 6 months helps baby with life-threatening disease
Custom CRISPR paves the way for treating genetic disorders in tailormade ways
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/05/2025
Illinoisans deserve dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination. I'm issuing an Executive Order to safeguard the rights of those with autism in our state as Trump's administration threatens those very freedoms.
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In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data
The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
An exciting new collaborative effort organized by the Simons Foundation to better understand cognitive processes in the brain. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience
Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. We are seeking interested participants in the below survey: tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
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Representation: Past, Present & Future
This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.
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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The landscape of diversity and inclusion in science funding has shifted. David Barker explains how neuroscientists must adapt and take action or risk losing ground on all of the progress made. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/adap...
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Safeguarding diversity and inclusion funding in neuroscience
As DEI funding initiatives crumble, neuroscientists must change their approach to grant writing and communication and engage in constructive conflict.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...
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Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Caitlin Mallory @caitlinmallory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!
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The time course and organization of hippocampal replay
The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Truly chilling and totalitarian. “Promoting patriotic education”? We have arrived at the terrible place. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Animal models of memory retrieval trigger retrieval with cues and measure retrieval using behavior. We developed a neurofeedback paradigm for direct study of neural activity associated with memory retrieval by separating this from activity related to cues or behavior. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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michaelecoulter.bsky.social @michaelecoulter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Support the FamileSCN2A Foundation! secure.qgiv.com/event/givesc...
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Giving Tuesday/Gift of Hope
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