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Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.

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Naveen from Neurotech Futures @neurotechnology.substack.com · 04/10/2026

Neurotech Job seekers: We relaunched neurotechjobs.io! New site, with a new newsletter coming soon. Share your perspective and please share with your colleagues looking for work in this field! forms.gle/MokuufDEKXyo...

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Working In Neurotech: Community Survey

Hello! Neurotech Futures is shaping the future of our job board and newsletter. I'm asking for YOUR help as a member of our ecosystem. Please share some quick input with us to help us ensure our work...

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Neuralink on representational drift (until recently): "Users spend an average of 55 minutes per week calibrating simply to maintain control." neuralink.com/updates/pret... "Calibrating each decoder to peak performance could take the better part of their mornings." #BCI #NeuroTech

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Pretraining on 50,000 Hours of Unlabeled Brain Data

How self-supervised encoders kept neural decoders working for weeks without recalibration and set an 11.32 BPS record.

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/NIH/s/WdDl...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The person who thinks that he has the ability to decide which science to fund out of hundreds of subfields is exactly the person who should not make that decision. There is a reason that expert committees of scientists review and give recommendations for funding. No one person can know all of it.

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job Alert: Our department is looking to recruit an eminent scholar for a distinguished, endowed professorship (full professor, tenured) in the domain of human neuroscience with high clinical relevance. Please broadcast widely! For application information, see academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32753

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Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

(LinkedIn) Intracortical microstimulation (#ICMS) patterns affect cell-specific myelination, so myelin insulation is not a fixed given in brain stimulation www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai... "Oligodendrocytes respond to the pattern of the pulses"; by @bioniclab.bsky.social on #BCI #neuroscience

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Takashi (T.K.) Kozai | Substack | TK Kozai

🎉 Camila Garcia Padilla is now principal investigator on her own NIH grant. NINDS issued the Notice of Award for her F31 in August 2026 (F31NS147846) (she joined the lab 2022, as an ARCS Scholar). 🧠 ...

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve been listening to the #Beatles albums in order to pass time during cardio workouts. I love them, but if you are killing yourself near the end of a #workout, having ”I‘m So Tired” from the #WhiteAlbum come on unexpectedly may be the worst pump up song ever.

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

By the power vested in me by my old Blockbuster video rental card, I officially rename the #WhiteHouse La Maison De Douchebag.

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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

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am hereby exclusively calling #LLM based #AI word guessing programs. #dontbelievethehype

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m one of 155 physicians & scientists who signed this open letter calling on elected officials to end the vilification & harassment of scientists like Peter Hotez & Anthony Fauci We urge them to “stop these witch-hunts” www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

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Stop 'Harassment' of Fauci, Scientists Urge Politicians

Open letter signed by 155 physicians, scientists ahead of Congressional testimony

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026

I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.

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science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
That's it. That's the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about "gold standard science" and the
"reproducibility crisis" and funding "bold inquiry" for "transformational
breakthroughs". This is all bullshit, and it's important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-vou-

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/07/2026

100% on target—this is the way to think about the Trump science plan.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "electrodes maintained sufficient activity for 2 to 10 years; #ICMS #BCI #NeuroTech

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Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans

Intracortical microstimulation in humans is safe and efficacious for up to 10 years.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 11/07/2026

“if I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write.” Worth reading the whole thing from @dandrezner.bsky.social . I have two things to add to what he says: 1/

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’ve just come to the shocking self-realization that both my science and comedy writing are essentially the same thing. I bluntly say a bunch of blatantly obvious things that for whatever reason people have sub consciously avoided thinking about. Ironically, I never caught that before myself.

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Regardless of party, can we all agree not to support very bad people? The #whataboutism has got to stop. #goodpeopleoverparty

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

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Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Our study reveals prevalent brittleness in the presence of simple adversarial transformations: leading systems can guess the correct answer even with key inputs removed yet may get confused by the slightest prompt alterations…” #AI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications - Nature Medicine

Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to capture clinically rel...

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Roughly half of intracortical microelectrodes lose recording capability within a year of implantation. The B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab at Pitt is hiring a postdoc to attack the mechanism on two parallel grant-funded threads. 🧵 (1/7)

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Seen on the wall at a local bar:

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A @nejm.org editorial today on the Office of White House Management and Budget (OMB) regarding their new funding proposal and politicization of science www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I keep seeing how #Elon #Musk will be the world's first trillionaire with the SpaceX IPO. If you take the value of all wealth and assets, the whole world is estimated at ~450 trillion dollars. There are ~8.3 billion people. For 1 person to have 1/450 of ALL OF IT is neither sustainable nor ethical.

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The good news is knowing IS half the battle. The bad news is the other half usually involves killing people. #GIJoe kind of glossed over that part growing up.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

They published it at 412 pages on a Friday afternoon, the slot networks call "take out the trash." OMB-2026-0034 lets political appointees override peer review, ban publication funding, and terminate grants without cause. They gave you 45 days. They're counting on you not reading it.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/06/2026

Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

OMB just published 412 pages in the Federal Register (Docket OMB-2026-0034) giving political appointees authority to terminate any NIH grant, override peer review scores, and block you from publishing with federal funds. Comment period closes ~July 13. Thread 🧵

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

⚠️ Late Friday afternoon, May 15, while reporters were leaving for the weekend, HHS quietly cut more NIH staff and began moving senior career employees into "at-will" status under the renamed Schedule F. No press release. No published list. A "first tranche," with more to come. 🧵

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is the slow death of NIH by design. The architect is Russell Vought. He is the man who architected the RIFs & probationary terminations. He devised the multiyear funding and censorship schemes. If you don't like what you see, let's get him impeached: actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought

The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🧠 Half of animals receiving the most commonly used clinical brain stimulation frequency developed seizure-like activity. But only after six weeks. Long past the point where most safety studies stop looking. New paper, final version out in Biomaterials. 🧵

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

🗑️ Every neuron in your brain has a waste management system. When it fails near a chronically implanted electrode, the cell does not die immediately. It accumulates damage quietly, for weeks, before it shows up in your recordings. 🧵

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Kip Ludwig @wildpiguk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I would like to announce that I will also be blocking the Straight of #Hormuz in addition to the #UnitedStates and #Iran. Our dog Lily will be joining me. So now it’s like really, really quadruple blocked. Especially if you are a squirrel. 🐿️

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

🚨 Congress held NIH and NSF budgets roughly flat. Scientists celebrated. Here is what actually happened. NIH awarded 4,641 fewer grants in FY2025 than the 4-year avg. New awards dropped 14%. Over $1.3B never reached investigators. NSF awards fell 22%. The money was there.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026

This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed

roon @tszzl
the private sector has been remaking its own versions of NIH, ARPA etc as these public science institutions have seen structural decline and defunding and it will be supercharged by the funding NPV of machine intelligence and its firepower at allocation decisions

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Isn't this the opposite of draining the swamp?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/03/2026

Extremely cool. We haven’t known very much about how localized neuromodulator signaling is. This data — made possible by new molecular sensor tools — is revealing that it’s quite local, just a few cell-widths in extent. #neuroscience 🧪

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

NIH is accepting public comments on its next Strategic Plan (2027-2031). You don't need to be a scientist. If you're a taxpayer, this is your money funding your health. 2x NIH POs told me: comments will be ignored by this admin, but not by the historical record. Silence will be inferred as support.

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Precision Neuroscience @precisionneuro.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We’re hiring — come build the future of brain-computer interfaces! If you’re excited about building technology that can truly change lives, working at the intersection of neuroscience and AI — we'd love to hear from you! Learn more and apply: precisionneuro.io/careers

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 19/03/2026

NIH has long engaged the scientific community in a democratic way. That's a good thing, and it's under attack. Watch out. New post by me, about why NIH's peer review process and advisory panels are pretty unique across gov't, and why they're so important.

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NIH, NOFOs, and the scientific community

Transparency is good, and so is democratic decision-making

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