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@turrigiano.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist and curious human. Views are mine alone and re-skeets are not endorsements. she/her

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Matthew W Nugent @n00ge8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Vote Yes in 2026 to protect Massachusetts’ new gun safety laws… Keep communities safes.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really cool work: visual learning in juvenile mice produces a persistent increase in spine density, resetting the synaptic setpoint 🤯, by @dianebissen.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social Different starting point from the drug-induced plasticity we study, but perhaps a hint of related mechanisms
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Straightforward recommendations from @jjn1.bsky.social on how governments should manage the AI companies. @theobserveruk.bsky.social "Second – even more straightforward – we could just make AI companies legally liable for any harms that their products inflict on us humans."
But the real utility of the apocalyptic narrative for the industry is that it distracts attention from more tangible issues over which democracies could have leverage. Such as what? First, there's the monopolistic power of tech companies, something for which existing legal tools are readily available, provided governments have the political will to use them. Second – even more straightforward – we could just make AI companies legally liable for any harms that their products inflict on us humans. And then we could leave apocalypse to the movie industry, where it belongs.
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just another day of navigating the chaos
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bay Staters, you have 30 days to register to vote or update your registration before Massachusetts' October 24 deadline for the November 3 election! Check your registration. Share this to remind your friends and family. More resources available here: www.aclum.org/2026-voter-h...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feels like illegally funneling money to politicians in exchange for government contracts should be against the law, you know? 
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I hope my neighbors see this 🙄
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today's installment in the NIH institute director shitshow... A new director for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). www.nih.gov/news-events/... As far as I can tell, he has three publications and has never received NIH funding. 1/2
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Dr. Jonathan Burke selected as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Dr. Burke will start his role on Sept. 20, 2026.
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me, up early: wonder what the admin will do today The admin: we are going to kill the whales
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 17/09/2026
Honestly, it was scary to think about being named. As I sat with the opportunity more, I thought that there aren’t a ton of moments to act and set up a better future for science. We’ve all been through a lot. Even though I’m at a vulnerable stage of my career, I also have relative privilege…
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you to the plaintiffs, the staff at Protect Democracy, staff at ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Jacobson Lawyers Group, and all who supported this immense effort. protectdemocracy.org/work/researc...
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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is very well stated. And the sort of thing that will get @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to take notice.
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
meanwhile...
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 11/09/2026
Hi don't use VoteSafe dot org Elon Musk created it to capture all your personal data for his pro-fascist super PAC
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have met actual, real, graduate students in this day and age, getting degrees in biomedical fields...who think Huberman is a good guy and great communicator. 1. Intelligence is uncorrelated with common sense. 2. No one is free from bias.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump announced his signature policy for the midterms: A $5,000 check for all adult American citizens, to be spent on American goods. I poured my heart into getting you this analysis as soon as I could. Here's the newsletter: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/i-promise-...
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I Promise I'm Good for It
So does the president. His check is $5,000, mine is $5,000, and so far the two of us have funded the exact same number of them.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We had a wonderful ‘Democratize Yale’ teach-in last week on the Yale campus organized by students, faculty and alumni. It went off without a hitch (though Yale threw the press off campus) and we had a special guest from the Class of 1962, actor Sam Waterston, join us. 1/
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More Perfect University on Instagram: "“The answer to any kind of restriction on free speech is just more speech.” Hundreds of Yale students, faculty, and alumni gathered to demand Yale abandon its s...
20K likes, 308 comments - moreperfectuniversity on September 7, 2026: "“The answer to any kind of restriction on free speech is just more speech.” Hundreds of Yale students, faculty, and alumni gathe...
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NIH Director Bhattacharya has said he's focusing NIH funding on "cutting edge" science, but as Berg explains, he's not. The money he's stupidly handing over to the DOD could have funded the research of hundreds of innovative young scientists.
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
about alpha school: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/09/2026
Trump wants to let special interests build over our protected forests—and we need to fight back to stop it.  The public comment period to overturn the Roadless Rule closes at midnight on September 21. Speak out now to SAVE OUR FORESTS.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 04/09/2026
We already have special research funds for diseases that impact our military. Hegseth has requested a $1.5 TRILLION budget.   Still, the DOD is diverting funds for medical research at NIH.   Stopping lifesaving treatments & cures to help wage foreign wars. This must end.
‘Outrageous’: Pentagon Secretly Working to Divert Billions From National Institutes of Health

“These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Last week, @whipkclark.bsky.social visited Brandeis to meet with the @turrigiano.bsky.social lab. She stopped by the light microscopy core, where we showed her what the support of the state and federal grants can achieve.
Picture of me standing in a microscope suite with Rep. Katherine Clark. You can see a STED image in green and red on the computer screen of a neuron
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A friend in Texas just found out he'd been bounced off the rolls despite voting in the primaries, so DOUBLE-CHECK your voting registration before they would push you to a provisional ballot. And you may not be at Vote dot org, but be registered with your own local registrar. Contact them!
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As your Attorney General, I've sued Donald Trump over 60 times - but I can't do this work alone. I need partners like @edmarkey.bsky.social in the Senate so we can keep fighting back against this administration at every level to protect our people.
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Clara Lenherr @lenherrc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation with Saikat about his amazing & exciting work on spatial cognition of freely flying bats in the wild! It's our second episode of our latest @neuroversepod.bsky.social mini-series on cognitive ecology and wild neuroscience www.neuroversepod.com/wildminds
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Wild Minds | Neuroverse
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
so rare and beautiful when someone famous dies, and all the secret GOOD things they did start to surface. RIP Dolly, you were an icon and an inspiration
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 24/08/2026
Hello all! Grant Witness has a new website at grantwitness.org, and you can now subscribe to our newsletter and follow us at @grantwitness.org, or on whatever social feed you prefer (find them at linktr.ee/grantwitness)
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Grant Witness
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
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Julijana Gjorgjieva @gjorjulijana.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Supper happy to see this published. In short, we show how dendrites and inhibition allow neural circuits to learn new representations while protecting representations that are already stored in the network. See below for a detailed post by @cmiehl.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
To my mind, referring to people like Cofnas as “race scientists” signals both their pretensions (which are manifest in the defenses now appearing) *and* their crank status. Tiptoeing around “science” won’t fool anybody on either side and imbues science’s past with an unmerited and misleading purity.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods just took effect—Maine is going to feel it hard. Its economy is deeply intertwined with Canada: blueberries, lobster, lumber, paper mills. These tariffs raise costs & threaten jobs across the state. Susan Collins won’t stand up to Trump and fight to stop them.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Absolutely stunning video. Never realized. www.mcz.harvard.edu/resource/res...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
SCOTUS has done this again and again: without determining the merits of the case, claim that it is an emergency to allow Trump to continue to upend the status quo until his changes become irreversible.
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 21/08/2026
Scientific peer review must remain the primary foundation of NIH funding. SfN is concerned about NIH's proposed changes to grant review and funding decisions. Read our statement: vist.ly/5fpaa
Society for Neuroscience logo with 'SfN' in a blue square.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Donald Trump is bringing out the Malden in me every single day. I am fighting for a progressive majority in the Senate so that we can take on Trump and secure a just and livable future for all.
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Joe Cheer @joeycheers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New opening in our lab!
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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
when the only argument for your candidate is that the other one is too old, but all the young'ens disagree
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