@jeffmyau.bsky.social
family guy • neuroscientist in Houston interested in touch, the body, and multisensory processing • views are mine and not my employer’s • he/him • proud immigrant • mask wearer • RT≠endorse #CIDP #autoimmune 🐆
Thanks, Nick!
05.03.2026 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0~3 years ago, I was diagnosed with #CIDP, an #autoimmunedisorder I believe was triggered by #Covid (bsky.app/profile/jeff...). With regular #rituximab infusions, I’ve regained strength and function. I continue to #MaskUp. Stay safe, #covidaware folks! Don’t quit — you’re not alone! #longcovidmonth 😷
05.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.
IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT
NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!
Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
03.03.2026 14:19 — 👍 6315 🔁 2717 💬 245 📌 147FIFA Peace Prize winner becomes first US President to bomb eight countries in one year
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You have until March 3rd to apply for the Cajal summer school on Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and VR at Champalimaud! Come surf and track animals with us 🏄🪰🐟🚶
cajal-training.org/on-site/quan...
I’m sorry that you’ve experienced this too. My CIDP is manageable with regular rituximab infusions and I continue to recover even now. I hope you’ve found an effective treatment!
21.02.2026 20:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new data from NIH about funding trends through FY2025
also a flyby analysis from Claude lol
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
Hauntingly beautiful
17.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At least my AI clone will just post about masking, science, and social issues.
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Heat map form CDC data with PMC estimates of 1 in 71 actively infectious, nearly 700,000 new daily infections.
PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.)
14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.
Minnesota may be at an all-time high.
THREAD 1 of 4 🧵
Heat map using CDC data and PMC estimate of prevalence
Breaking: The CDC reports SARS-CoV-2 levels *quadrupled* in Minnesota in the past week.
Using harmonized wastewater estimates, we project 1 in 12 people in Minnesota are actively infectious. This is equivalent to a 59% chance of exposure in a room of 10 people....
We are here, right now. We are in this moment.
Scientists in Germany said “well, as long as I get to continue my science…” and made the moral trade off while their colleagues were persecuted.
THIS is why scientists must stand up for science and democracy.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Dear Congresswoman @foushee.house.gov, the multi year funding (MYF) in the HHS/NIH bill is normed to 2025 - please propose an amendment to norm to 2024, like the Senate version. As it stands, ~1/4-1/3 of NIH $ will be sequestered by MYF, a big cut to the Triangle's STEM economy!
21.01.2026 13:19 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1![Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd
8h
Two Bluesky scientists gave this nutty interview to podcaster, @mattsheffield.
HHS put NIH official Jenna Norton on leave, and NIH researchers Mark Histed is one of the many Bluesky activists.
Here's Jenna Norton calling Trump voters, including her own mother, a "cult"
NORTON: So I wanted like, I was glad you kind of drew a parallel there between science and democracy, and I wanted to draw this connection because we sort of started the conversation about science being siloed and not being effective communicators with the public and thus sort of like disconnecting ourselves with the public.
And then that being this sort of weakness that I think the disinformation machine saw and used to their advantage. And I think a similar thing happened with democracy as well, where there have been groups of people who have been [00:42:00] excluded from the democratic process to a large extent as well. And so there, there neither, science wasn't perfect and democracy hasn't been perfect.
It's been better, I think, than the authoritarian alternative that's being offered to us at the moment. But there is a real weakness there that I think we do need to grapple with and acknowledge and overcome and address as we move forward. And on the side of democracy, I think where that weakness was is that, certain groups have been cut out of the voting process.
Open versus closed epistemologies
NORTON: Some of that has been very much intentional, right? With like fewer polling sites and, with the allowance of money to sway politics and override, I think public sentiment. And so a lot of people feel very, I see this in my family, they feel very hopeless. And I actually had a conversation with my mother who's a Trump supporter, and I've been actually talking to her almost daily trying to pull her out of what I now see as sort of a cult in](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p66b7zkep57fp4rhrtktsdni/bafkreibk2u4zc2nvndemq3qhcabix2l5avpkqsl5n2z7wfxnidbyrbvmju@jpeg)
Paul D. Thacker @thackerpd 8h Two Bluesky scientists gave this nutty interview to podcaster, @mattsheffield. HHS put NIH official Jenna Norton on leave, and NIH researchers Mark Histed is one of the many Bluesky activists. Here's Jenna Norton calling Trump voters, including her own mother, a "cult" NORTON: So I wanted like, I was glad you kind of drew a parallel there between science and democracy, and I wanted to draw this connection because we sort of started the conversation about science being siloed and not being effective communicators with the public and thus sort of like disconnecting ourselves with the public. And then that being this sort of weakness that I think the disinformation machine saw and used to their advantage. And I think a similar thing happened with democracy as well, where there have been groups of people who have been [00:42:00] excluded from the democratic process to a large extent as well. And so there, there neither, science wasn't perfect and democracy hasn't been perfect. It's been better, I think, than the authoritarian alternative that's being offered to us at the moment. But there is a real weakness there that I think we do need to grapple with and acknowledge and overcome and address as we move forward. And on the side of democracy, I think where that weakness was is that, certain groups have been cut out of the voting process. Open versus closed epistemologies NORTON: Some of that has been very much intentional, right? With like fewer polling sites and, with the allowance of money to sway politics and override, I think public sentiment. And so a lot of people feel very, I see this in my family, they feel very hopeless. And I actually had a conversation with my mother who's a Trump supporter, and I've been actually talking to her almost daily trying to pull her out of what I now see as sort of a cult in
A few months ago @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social and I talked to @mattsheffield.bsky.social about how science and democracy are linked.
That caught the attention of the anti-science crew.
“Crank”* Paul Thacker objected, see below.
But I stand by it. Science and free speech are under attack. 1/
House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now.
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative
text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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15.01.2026 04:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good summary of lack of evidence and potential for harm of components of the recommended diet
www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/08/1... by @jesshamzelou.bsky.social
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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As someone currently living in a malnourished state due to Long Covid complications, the amount of “was” in the qts and the replies by people who I’m rather certain are *still* exposing high risk people to Covid is going to make me tear out what is left of my hair (yep, that’s also from Long Covid)
07.01.2026 00:43 — 👍 141 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 0
Medscape: Where Is the Medical Home for Postinfectious Illness?
"COVID pandemic brought a surge of more patients with POTS & infection-associated chronic illness. What had once felt like a rare or niche diagnosis now seemed to be everywhere, impossible to ignore"
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
A very Happy New Year to you all. If you're still mitigating against infection from SARS-CoV-2 you have nothing but my respect and admiration. Wishing each and every one of you a wonderful 2026.
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📈ALL TIME RECORD—New York State Department of Health announced that NY is experiencing the highest number of flu cases ever recorded in a single week (since recording started 2004). Hospitalizations due to influenza surged by ⬆️63% in one week.
health.ny.gov/press/releas...
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
rdcu.be/eVZ1A
A recent scientific paper included an antigenic map, comparing the immune status of individuals vaccinated with a range of vaccines ("… vaccinated sera"), against a collection of significant variants ("Virus …").
The map was very informative, so I built a quick dataviz project to explore.
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