Kip Ludwig

NINDS has rescinded a policy that required extra Council level review/scrutiny for awards to any PI who had $1.5Million in total- a halving of the payline, possibility of denial, etc

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

Not a great email to get leaving on a Friday. “Really sorry I’ll be out of town so I’ll miss your talk on Monday.”

Me to myself: I have a talk on Monday???

The transition from Assistant to Full Prof may be from being nervous about talks for weeks before to completely forgetting you had one.

Newest paper! mSDF-DFT: An ultra-low energy discrete Fourier transform architecture for closed-loop neural sensing in the Journal of Systems Architecture. Everyone uses Fourier transforms in online neural signal processing. We made it more efficient! doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

Today's anti-science pairing

Department Grand Rounds on documentation for reimbursement today. As a non-MD myself, my MD colleagues kept joking "this must be fascinating for you".

It was fascinating as someone who designs tech to help MDs. But as a non-MD, I'd like to say on behalf of the rest of us:

"I am so, so sorry..."

This is about LLMs and comparing activations to large-scale recording in brains

Five minutes listening to Congress?

Note I give LLMs zero credit for any intelligence; it's all just pretty simple linear algebra at a base level. But I suspected the 'connection' is so obvious it would show up in any weighted search algorithm.

I asked #GoogleAI "What do #Bannon, #Lutnick, #Musk and #Dershowitz have in common?" with zero context.

It immediately made the connection between both #Trump and #Epstein.

Yet the media has missed Trump preferentially works with MANY people with clear ties to Epstein. #kompromat

Let’s see, #Dershowitz, #Musk, #Bannon, and #Lutnick all tried to go to the #epstein island. Remind me, who else do they all have in common? #trump

At this point, there is zero way that is a coincidence. It seems like Trump only hired people with the mutual connection to Epstein in common.

I have a feeling that more American states would vote to join Canada right now than there are provinces keen to head the other way…

Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: pull down your pants and slide on the ice

The irony of all this is, the Trump administration is EXACTLY why the #2nd Amendment was written.

Literally the day and the reason I delete my longstanding twitter account. I could not support someone at ethically bankrupt and fact adverse as Musk.

Precision Neuroscience™ and Medtronic Partner to Integrate Layer 7 Brain–Computer Interface with Medtronic Neurosurgical Platform NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Precision Neuroscience Corporation (Precision) today announced a strategic partnership with Medtronic to...

Precision Neuroscience is excited to partner with Medtronic to advance neurosurgical innovation. The companies will co-develop a solution that pairs our Layer 7™ cortical interface with Medtronic's StealthStation™ surgical navigation system. Read more below.

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Join us in Italy to hear all the latest on Neuroelectronic Interfaces! We have an amazing group of speakers. Only a few slots remains, so apply today!

www.grc.org/neuroelectro...

YouTube video by WyclefVEVO Wyclef Jean, Canibus - Gone Till November (Official HD Video)

My theme song for 2026, for a very specific reason:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6M...

Our new article in Nature Communications, led by Kevin Cheng here at WITNe. Neurotech Reports was kind enough to call this "a solution towards a holy grail of bioelectronic medicine: small fiber selective vagus nerve stimulation."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“It will take decades to undo the damage they have done and the lifesaving cures and treatments they have set back.”

Yes. @murray.senate.gov covers Trump attacks on science, public health, and even on childcare. They must be stopped.

Really sorry to hear this. Can’t stress the importance of having world leading scientists and clinicians direct the institutes and centers at the NIH. Not politically appointed hacks specifically selected because they support party over science.

Very excited to announce the next steps towards translating our Cerebrovascular Pacing technology to human patients:

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

I'm always surprised at how many neuroscience studies are stimulating at levels obviously way beyond the safety limits of the electrodes they use and don't account for it.

Note I had pushed for the title to be: "Stop Doing It Wrong! Neuromodulation Studies Using Microelectrodes are Frequently Mismeasuring and Insufficiently Mitigating the Accumulation of DC Offsets" because it amused me, but my co-authors shot me down :).

(PDF) Systematic Errors in DC Offset Measurement and Mitigation at Neurostimulation Electrodes: Causes, Implications and Solutions PDF | Objective: Neuromodulation therapies are becoming increasingly common as a therapeutic strategy to treat neurological disorders and deficits.... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

We just posted an open access preprint we think is critically important for anyone using microelectrodes for BMIs/BCIs, neuromodulation and/or fundamental science research.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Do your devices address Dunning-Krueger?

Systematic Errors in DC Offset Measurement and Mitigation at Neurostimulation Electrodes: Causes, Implications and Solutions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.691908v1

Come to Canada

Photo from a demonstration: Boy holding a placard: What do we want? "EVIDENCE BASED SCIENCE" When do we want it "AFTER PEER REVIEW" a popular chant and slogan from the March for Science, expressing strong support for rigorous scientific validation (peer review) before accepting research as reliable, highlighting the importance of quality control in science communication and policy, especially in political contexts where science is debated. It emphasizes that good science needs time to be vetted, critiqued, and confirmed by other experts to ensure accuracy and validity. https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/what-do-we-want-evidence-based-science-when-do-we-want-it-after-/51426830

Anyone in favour of science?
#Trump #MAGA #health #protest
#science #research #humor #PhdChat
#HigherEd #medicine #vaccines #AcademicSky

Welcome, David McMullen! We’re thrilled to welcome David McMullen to Neuralink.

This is a really smart move by Neuralink. Dave is fantastic and brings a wealth of knowledge as the director for the relevant FDA CDRH division handling much of neurotech:

neuralink.com/updates/welc...