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An announcement that the Senate voted to reauthroize the SBIR/STTR program.

The Senate has (finally) voted to reauthorize the small business SBIR/STTR program.

Not reauthorized yet, but this was likely the biggest hurdle.

Worth a read: de-siloing research is critical for understanding brain function, brain health and innovative treatment and repair paradigms- as noted here, to do so means it’s critical to utilize observed differences and concordance between species and studies #neuroskyence #glia

📰 ISN News Issue 5 is out!

Explore the latest updates, insights, and stories from across the neurochemistry community.

🖼️ Cover image: Silvia Mangia

🔗 Read it here: bit.ly/3OsjMWL

#WeAreNeurochemistry #ISNNews #Neuroskyence #Neurosky

🚨Do we need a large, expensive MRI scanner to map whole-brain networks in the mouse? Not necessarily!

In our new preprint ▶️ tinyurl.com/3a2h4r9f
we show that transcranial functional ultrasound (fUSI) can map connectome-scale networks with striking agreement to fMRI
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Whatever Happened to Jessica Chastain's Show on Domestic Terrorism? Five months after 'The Savant,' Jessica Chastain’s show on domestic terrorism, was set for release, its fate is still uncertain, and no one is talking

Celebrities and talent who do shows for Apple TV should publicly ask the company when SAVANT will be released and why they pulled a show about white supremacists and domestic terrorism? (We know why but pressure them.)

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

#measles is dangerous. ~30% of cases result in serious complications, particularly in children <5 & adults >30.
Bonus: Measles causes "immune amnesia", wiping out ~70% of immune memory cells, eliminating body’s immune toolkit gained in past infections, increasing vulnerability to all infections

“The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not in the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot…”

Could high levels of estrogen, during, say, perimenopause, be a risk factor for stress related cognitive decline and dementia in women? @ajshackman.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social @bangasserlab.bsky.social

Astrocyte CB1 receptors drive blood-brain barrier disruption in central nervous system inflammatory disease - Journal of Neuroinflammation Journal of Neuroinflammation - Reactive astrocytes shape central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and participate in myelin damage and repair mechanisms in multiple sclerosis (MS). Through the...

Astrocyte CB1 receptors drive blood-brain barrier disruption in central nervous system inflammatory disease- link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧪🌎

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests Alex Jeffrey Pretti “loved this country, but he hated what people were doing to it,” his father said from Colorado.

Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Yolk sac and tissue resident myeloid lineages are fun and heterogeneous stuff! Very cool roles for eardrum #macrophages in middle ear development and ear infection susceptibility explored here #immunosky #neuroskyence #neuroinflammation

Biomedical Sciences - Ladder Rank Associate or Full Professor (Tenure) University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

Tenured faculty positions: #Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside. Seeking colleagues examining molecular mechanisms of disease who are committed to collaborative research approaches, and expert in their disease models
#facultyjobs #medsky #academicsky

aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207

Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th

#astrocytes as the real regulators brain plasticity in adulthood. Fun stuff

#glia #neuroskyence

#neuroskyence #glia very needed single cell map of the murine female brain as a function of estrous cycle
Worth a read!

Happy New Year to Democracy Defenders! Protecting democracy in 2026 starts now!

Defend the vote. Call out lies. Register voters.

Hold leaders accountable to the law. Defend a free press. Stand up to corruption & fascism. Participate, organize local rallies!

We can do this!

#DefendersOfDemocracy

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Go Team #glia ! Nice field perspective

#JNC invites submissions to our Special Issue on Neurochemistry of Autonomic Regulation. Explore autonomic circuits, disease impacts, and emerging therapeutic approaches.

Deadline: Apr 30, 2026

🔗 ow.ly/NuVq50XGRJz

#WeAreNeurochemistry #neurochem #neurosky #neuroskyence

The regulatory code of injury-responsive enhancers enables precision cell-state targeting in the CNS - Nature Neuroscience Zamboni et al. reveal how enhancers encode cell-type-specific responses to CNS injury. By combining multiomic profiling, deep learning and in vivo screening, they uncover injury-responsive enhancer lo...

AMAZING PAPER ALERT!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

congratulations to @margheritazamboni.bsky.social, @ellorens.bsky.social, and the rest of the team.
This one is important and opens up lots of opportunityes.

Check this out! Wonderful resource for grant hunting
#neuroskyence #science #neuroimaging

Wisdom from Charles Schulz.

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #Immunosky #microsky #neurosky #publichealth The interplay between the gut-immune-brain axis & #COVID is increasingly recognized as a significant factor in the manifestation & progression of #idiopathicParkinson’s disease.

Worth a read - context is everything. #neuroskyence #immunosky #medsky