Brian Scott

Seriously people. Don't make me have to blow up your figures on my huge screen to try to read your data when I'm reviewing it. This keeps happening. I'm not superhuman, I don't have super human vision. Be reasonable. Small figures save space in grants but they really piss off reviewers!!!

Funded by NIH + NSF. No private investor funds a 16-week mouse study on OL gene biology.

Federal science builds the foundation industry stands on. Neurological disease costs the U.S. $800B/year. This is what the return on that investment looks like.

#NIH #NSF #TaxpayerInvestment #Neurotech

UAB is recruiting neuroscience faculty at two different levels - come join our vibrant neuroscience community!

As NIH moves to parent NOFOs another resource for finding out what topics are of interest. grants.nih.gov/funding/find...

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying.

Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free.

So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.

Kick in a few bucks if you can, but DO NOT SNORT COKE OFF THE TOILET SEATS!!!

NYU's Center for Neural Science is seeking a faculty candidate that would be jointly appointed with our Tandon School of Engineering. We are looking for post-doc applicants with neuroengineering or computational backgrounds.

apply.interfolio.com/182074

“Other things I will need are the pan, baking powder, vanilla extract, and a different personality.”

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

Proud to see Swarthmore has held on.

These scientists saw a future in public service—until Trump’s ‘massacre’ hit Last year’s mass firings of “probationary” federal workers sent researchers’ lives into turmoil

On the anniversary of a dark day for U.S. science, please raise a glass for everyone who has come out stronger and encourage those who are still recovering. Here are five stories. 🧪 🔬 💪 www.science.org/content/arti...

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth The agency’s budget has grown steadily since the 1960s, fueling an industry that creates lifesaving medicines and attracts billions of dollars in investment.

A history of how the #NIH came to be. The purpose of the NIH is to support science innovation. Government support of science grows the economy, brings power and prosperity to the country. This was part of the budget increase after WWI.

It became our backbone.
🧪 theconversation.com/how-the-nih-...

Wow AI is so amazing we should use it for all our scientific diagrams

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Primate dexterous hand movements are controlled by functionally distinct premotoneuronal systems Distinct spinal and cortical pathways coordinate muscle synergies and fine control to support primate dexterous hand movements.

Our paper is out in Science Advances!
What makes primate hands so dexterous?
We show that evolutionarily distinct spinal and cortical pathways work together to balance stability and flexibility, supporting remarkable primate hand control.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's How Many Jobs HHS Has Lost Since RFK Jr. Took Over See the totals from NIH, FDA, CDC, and CMS, too

4,049 people gone from NIH compared to 2024, an 18% loss in staff.

www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

do not skip ahead to "cars" on the NIN/Numan vid! "Metal" is a great song! get hip to Gary Numan's whole catalog!

The 51st is expanding D.C. needs more local journalists. You can help us hire them.

A quick 🧵: @51st.news wants to keep growing, and we need your help!

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The Post's gutting showed us we can't trust a billionaire to do the right thing. If we want local news to survive, we need to help *build and sustain it*.

Good.

But terrible for our country that the DOJ would even attempt to bring these charges.

Every “lawyer” who participated in this charade is an utter disgrace to the Bar and sullies his or her oath!! May they never live down their shame.

YouTube video by University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research Create NIH Biosketch Common Form & Biosketch Supplement in SciENcv for Submissions starting 01-25-26

University of Michigan Medical School Office of Research just released a 40 minute training video for SciENcv:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjtV...
Hopefully it has some answers...

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

FROZEN SOLID DC -- to a degree we seldom see.

CWG photographer Kevin Ambrose (@dcstormchaser.bsky.social) visited and photographed the National Mall on Sunday morning -- after two weeks straight of mostly freezing weather. Here are four of his photos.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why I'm running for Congress Congress today is deeply polarized, ignores the priorities of voters, and fails to check the other two branches of government. But neither party, Democrats nor Republicans, is meeting our moment of ne...

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

We will never get more than what we celebrate Why allowing the Trump administration to reset our expectations will harm US science

As we start the think about F&27 appropriations, unpacking the FY26 budget may help set us up for next year.

We need scientists to engage in the process now - to fight for appropriation law that doesn't just fund NIH but fights to protect science and democracy.
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This is really good.

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6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...