OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

hope to see a lot of you there! what better way to kick out the winter blues?

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain.

Karolinska Institutet
HHMI

#Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026

Pioneering gene therapy may treat a deadly seizure disorder New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses.

But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n

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Research Technician Research Technician position available in the Grienberger lab at Brandeis University. We are a new neuroscience group studying the cellular basis of learning and memory in the mammalian brain. This is...

We’re looking for a new Research Tech! Our research tech is heading to graduate school (very exciting!), which means we’re recruiting someone new to join our team. The position involves hands-on neuroscience research in a collaborative environment.
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if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

People INSIDE the Trump administration placed bets on a war they knew was coming, and profited.

Aside from the complete moral corruption of betting upon war, this is so unethical that it boggles the mind.

well, at least we all now understand what the profitable use-case for AI is

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

Protect trans kids healthcare as hospitals are canceling essential gender reforming care for trans youth and it is up to our City And state electeds to take action Sunday, March 1 at 1 PM public Plaza across from Nyu Langone 401 E. 34th St.

Join us tomorrow New Yorkers to protect our kids.

fucks?

oh fuck

The US is broadly a country that likes to invest in science. Even among Republicans this is true. But we are governed by an administration that is opposed to science, and is using procedural tools to limit spending and increase political control over the process.

One of the most tangibly lifesaving efforts of @standupforscience.bsky.social to date was to send an on-the-ground investigator to Guinea Bissau to understand the context of the unethical &CDC funded Hep B infant vaccines study.

We presented to a packed room of horrified House and Senate folks.

Families say Mount Sinai ended teen trans health program It is the latest medical center to stop caring for transgender young people after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funds.

Mt Sinai has followed NYU Langone in blatantly violating NY state and NYC law by stopping provision of gender affirming care to trans youth.

Seriously, what are @mayor.nyc.gov, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, and @governor.ny.gov going to do about this?

www.advocate.com/health/trans...

Power outages in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Map Explore this interactive map showing where current power outages are in Massachusetts.

Here's where the power is out in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.

ICYMI: the Trump Admin is now trying to lower the quality of your drinking water through a proposed EPA rule.

This rule would limit the authority of states and Tribes to review water quality and protect state waters from federal projects.

State AGs are fighting back to oppose this rule.

Speaking of which

The utter clown show continues

This makes sense if you think of the university as nothing but a finishing school with a football team.

The KM Lab is hiring!
We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc.

Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community.

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this was fun. lost it abruptly at 1200

Not only is Massachusetts one of six Dem-run states that hasn’t banned ICE’s 287g program (see map below)….

… it’s also the only state where a state-level agency, so one under the control of the governor (@massgovernor.bsky.social) is contracted with 287g: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Welcome! MA professor and neuroscientist here. Please keep fighting for the rights of all our residents in these insanely scary times.

Nature Medicine to investigate study that found cancer treatment is better in morning Nature Medicine starts an investigation into inconsistencies in a study that found it was better to have immunotherapy in the morning.

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i hope they can get the data from the authors. I was told by the editor that data weren’t available because of patient confidentiality- so many authors use that excuse , it makes data sharing policies worthless

We aren’t allowed to have coffee provided when working 9 hour day to review grants for NIH