Jason Keller

Keep The Shuttle Update According to a press release from KeepTheShuttle

Keep The Shuttle Update
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"the KeepTheShuttle team is pleased to report that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors just completed a unanimous and bipartisan vote opposing the proposed relocation of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian."

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in.

Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government 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.

New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"

...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.

Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.

Embodiment is the concept that the function of the brain is inexorably shaped by the body, a lens that is often neglected when neuroscientists study specific brain subsystems, write @bingbrunton.bsky.social and @tuthill.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence #neuroai

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/brea...

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.

As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But I think it’s more important than ever, writes @tuthill.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Single-neuron projectome reveals organization of somatosensory ascending pathways in the mouse brain Ding et al. mapped a single-cell projectome of 785 spinal projection neurons and 1,464 central relay neurons in thalamus, hypothalamus, PB, SCm, PAG, and medulla. They have constructed a high-resoluti...

Some really nice single-neuron tracing here, highlighting the diversity of potential loops between brain and cervical spinal cord. Mostly consistent with previous results from bulk axon labeling, but with more detail about collaterals and all in one place for synthesis: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

An illustration of a mouse on a ball looking at a field of grass displayed on monitors.

Can your AI beat a mouse?

Mice still outperform our best computing machines in some ways. One way is robust visual processing.

10 years ago I decided to work on HARD behavior driven by COMPLEX visual processing. And that risk is paying off now. #neuroAI 1/n

A site dedicated to tangible benefits that came from federally-funded research. Browse the examples, or add another + share it so more people add examples. publicusaresearchbenefits.com

This is a very significant statement from 1,900 leading scientists writing to the public to highlight the catastrophe of the current US adminstration's actions:

Administration is weakening U.S. research cap | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Check out my postdoc work at Ariel Levine’s lab, hot and fresh, describing how you build a dorsal horn!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643370v1

Thank you very much @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and @hhmi.org for inviting me to give a seminar!

That talk was supposed to be today, Tues Mar 11th. I would have talked about @lafosse.bsky.social's work on neural activation functions (con't below)...

But I had to cancel due to the NIH travel ban. 🧪
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Inspired by Francis Collins on guitar and all the wonderful speakers at Stand Up For Science DC today. Keep it up!

Crowd at Lincoln memorial

The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on.

What we are hearing from around the country:
"this is big!"
"biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years"

The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

“Today’s meeting confirmed that the US is now aligned with Russia and against Ukraine, Europe, and most of the planet. I felt physically sick watching the president yell at a brave ally…”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social

The US is marching to authoritarianism and THAT is why they’re attacking #NIH … 1/

I don't really have words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural program. This has to be stopped.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Congruent neuronal modulation across competing actions challenges the role of the substantia nigra in action selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.638935v1

A series of photographs showing a translucent creature with faux ribcage like interior and panda style "head"

Today I've discovered an animal called "Skeleton panda sea squirt" exists. A sessile, filter feeding tunicat.

Apparently the gutting of the National Science Foundation is underway at the moment. "More to come."

One can debate whether cuts are warranted, but the mindless, know-nothing fashion in which they are being carried out is inexcusable. This will damage US science for generations.

thanks!

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Office desk without any personal items or decor

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭

It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

This is completely destructive and heartbreaking. 💔

thanks!

Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera ‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few seconds A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker into its mouth off the Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed in an incident caught…

Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera