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César Vargas

@neuro-cesar.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist studying motor control in birds 🐦 Interested in brains, behavior & evolution. Will yap about coffee, politics, and sports Postdoc @ Sober Lab/Emory; PhD @ Jarvis Lab/Rockefeller | 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OMB's proposal to remake federal grantmaking was flooded with comments Now, they are withdrawing some from the public record — including some that point out Russell Vought's connection to the federally funded research that led to Trikafta www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13/08/2026
Since presidential appointments happen one by one, it can be hard to track, but: With Todd Blanche's confirmation, basically every lawyer in a position of power in the federal government was on one of the egal teams that worked to keep Trump in power, out of prison, or both
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The Justice Department Is a Glorified Pro-Trump Law Firm Now
The president is staffing the government with trusted lawyers who share a willingness to do anything for their favorite client.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Even Jim Crow is colorblind now under the Roberts courts' application of the law. But colorblindness is a lie designed to make people with my skin tone feel comfortable with the advantages we gain in a racist society. A lie that enables modern-day Jim Crow. My latest at @mississippifreepress.org:
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Editor’s Note | Even Jim Crow Is ‘Colorblind’ Now Under This Supreme Court. I Am Not.
News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow-style policies ...
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?
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César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"... AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress."
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César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Not one particular strip mall, but anything of Buford Highway for the Atlanta metro is 🔥
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César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Truly incredible things happening around the world with solar tech! @billmckibben.bsky.social 's book "Here Comes the Sun" provides a great and encouraging summary of these massive changes—highly recommend to all! Now if the US could get out of its own way on solar that'd be pretty neat...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/12/2025
🧠📢 New preprint alert Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵 #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 29/11/2025
Teaching people how mRNA vaccines actually work protects against misconceptions about mRNA vaccination changing the recipient's DNA, without the need to repeat the false claims, according to experiments with over 3,500 participants. In PNAS: ow.ly/sVwH50Xzutc
A graphic explaining how mRNA vaccines work, which was showed to study participants.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz responds to Trump calling him “seriously retarded”: “Release the MRI results.”
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/11/2025
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/11/2025
More powerful tools for understanding the brain. 🧠🔍 Today, comprehensive, cross-species developing brain cell atlases were released to help advance health and disease research. 🧵 #studyBRAIN #BICAN
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It’s truly wild how dumb he thinks we all are
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Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our newest preprint! Work led by Ben Dykstra (co-mentored by @gordonberman.bsky.social). Some of the first recordings from the iCA3 region during social behaviors. Ben found that iCA3 neurons more strongly represent social recognition information relative to iCA1 . www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.
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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
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Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/10/2025
🧵 1/5 Thanks, Trump. Because only you could turn a shutdown into an asbestos awareness week. 🎉 #EastWingDemolition #ShutdownShitshow #AsbestosAwareness
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Trump’s crew may be spreading asbestos with unpermitted White House teardown: expert
An interior designer sounded the alarm this week about a key safety issue facing the demolition of the East Wing of the White House: asbestos. Taking to Threads for the past two days, Sarah Boardman n...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Director Bhattacharya has repeatedly spoken about his commitment to early career scientists. This commitment is not evidence in these data. 10/12
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12/10/2025
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds. @jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Amazing to see solar generate a record 39% of California’s electricity from January through July. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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Solar is crushing gas power in California this year
The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…
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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For MAGA, facts are pesky things
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César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
nice! Hope it's open source too 😆
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 18/09/2025
All this raises the question: why should profits for investors be given priority over affordable, clean energy for all? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: Solar energy has dropped dramatically in price and that’s a problem for investors
Long considered a luxury for chardonnay-sipping environmentalists, solar energy now has the potential to become the energy choice of beer-drinking workers concerned about the cost of living.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2025
Weird right? He used to support the first amendment
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I DID have Sen Rand Paul stands up for the Constitution and the rule of law on my bingo card! [I had 500 bingo cards printed with different names in the desperate hope that somebody would do it.]
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
In a year of highly unreliable federal funding, scientists say they're stressed about spending precious grant dollars on fees imposed by billion-dollar publishers like Springer Nature and Elsevier. “They’re responsible to shareholders, and not to the research community,” says an open-science expert.
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Making Your Research Free May Cost You
Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.
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César Vargas @neuro-cesar.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ignorance is the powerhouse of MAHA
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/08/2025
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
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Opinion | All the Things Trump Thinks He Owns
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/08/2025
Nope. tos.org/oceanography...
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FEATURE ARTICLE • From Wind to Whales: Potential Hydrodynamic Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy on Nantucket Shoals Regional Ecology | Oceanography
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I'm pleased to introduce a full set of Congressional *and* legislative report cards, courtesy of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project. An enormous amount of work, the culmination of several years of development. Check it out! samwang.substack.com/p/redistrict...
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Redistricting plans in 50 states, graded (correctly)
...but first, we have to kill the proportionality myth.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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