Lydia Daboussi

There’s a compelling case that as much as Canada wanted it, LA needed it.

This is heartbreaking 💔 to read. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this with us. I want to apologize to you on behalf of real Americans. It’s a painful reminder that we must keep resisting these harmful policies so we don’t lose more people like @wwenneuro.bsky.social, whom we spent over a decade training.

How is the persistence of compartmentalized inflammation sustained in MS?
Our new study in
@cp-immunity.bsky.social
offers some hints.

cell.com/immunity/ful...

Thanks and congratulations to all contributors

New tenure track faculty position in glia and/or neurovascular coupling! Please come join us!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30864

#neurosky #neuroskyence #glia #neurojobs

It’s so exciting to see this. These tools will be game changing.

2025 Study section tracking

Been a rough year for federally funded scientists, and I hate to add another tab to this spreadsheet. So far, the shutdown has resulted in cancellation of 161 CSR study sections. 🧪https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lLEx14q7HKrlYahQYJaN6aHKpMqSMJwX4aenyL5g_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

If you think your field needs a collection of curated reviews and protocols, let me know! Let's create it and help the community.

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first (of hopefully many) reports to come from our collaboration with @hjp.bsky.social

We present a new type of cell fitness assay that allows you to both quantify and explain differences across human donors in cell proliferation and sensitivity to environmental toxicants.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California employees on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-billion penalty against UCLA and federal demands for sweeping campus changes. They argued that the actions are unconstitu...

21 groups representing more than 100K UC employees sued T over the $1.2B fine against UCLA.

#WeThePEOPLE aren't waiting for billionaires to make backroom deals with this fascist regime which only benefit them & screw the rest of us.

Pls sign: tinyurl.com/ucstandup

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants A San Francisco-based U.S. district judge, Rita F. Lin, said she was "inclined" to order the Trump administration to restore $500 million in National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA that the government froze in late July.

Federal judge is 'inclined' to order Trump to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants

YouTube video by neueroadmovies CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE - Clip ROBERT REDFORD: Salk Institute -- La Jolla, California, USA - HD

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks

In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

Yes, that’s a human brain on a cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts under Trump UCLA's researchers go low-tech to plead their case to the public with poster boards and props. The Trump administration has suspended more than $500 million in research grants to the university.

Going on more than six weeks without $500 million in federal research grants cut under Trump, UCLA faculty and students took their cases public this week in the "Science Fair for Suspended Research" -- including demonstrations with preserved human brains: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here’s a copy of the 123-page lawsuit UC faculty associations and unions filed against President Trump today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court.

So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Hierarchical processing of sensory information across topographically organized thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish brain Thalamocortical projections contribute to the spatial organization and functional hierarchies of the mammalian cortex. Primary sensory cortices receive topographically segregated information from firs...

Check out this exciting study led by Anh-Tuan Trinh from our lab, where we investigated how thalamocortical-like circuits in the zebrafish pallium receive, represent, and integrate sensory information:
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Wow! This is really exciting!

Thanks Zoe!

Congressman DeSaulnier Introduces Slate of Gun Violence Prevention Legislation Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman DeSaulnier (CA-10) announced that he introduced three gun safety reform bills to help end the gun violence epidemic – the Local Gun Violence Reduction Act (H.R. 4...

We must work to end the scourge of gun violence. That is why I am cosponsoring @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social's Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act.

This sensible bill focuses on safety & reducing harm – non-gun owners & gun owners alike should support it.

desaulnier.house.gov/media-center...

UCLA research is amazing ✨✨

newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

I love the description of federal grants as a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

🚨
New Preprint!
Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons.

▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Senate appropriators approve Labor-HHS bill with NIH bump The vote and lawmaker comments show that most senators aren't going along with the White House's proposed 40% budget cut to NIH.

BIG NEWS:

“Senate appropriators on Thursday approved an FY26 Labor-HHS bill that included a slight bump in funding for the NIH, with a strong 26–3 bipartisan vote.”

Thank you to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on both sides of the aisle!

www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

I would love to be added if there is still space :)

Hi! I would love to join if there is still space :)

F31 parent is back!
grants.gov/search-resul...

Photo of an academic skills workshop in a conference room.

It was great to co-teach today’s Academic Skills workshop with the amazing @debiaselm.bsky.social 🧪✨