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So much good science! So many waterfalls! Such good company! Lots of exclamation points! Thank you very much @alexkwan.bsky.social for both the invitation, and the wonderful time with students and then hiking.

The actin-spectrin submembrane scaffold restricts endocytosis along proximal axons Clathrin-mediated endocytosis has characteristic features in neuronal dendrites and presynapses, but how membrane proteins are internalized along the axon shaft remains unclear. We focused on clathrin...

The big one is out! So over the moon to see our latest work with Stéphane Vassilopoulos published in Science. Check out how we reveal the unique architecture of clathrin-coated pits and endocytosis at the axon initial segment: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Whoa!

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

'Blank check to shut down government': Multiple senators are no fans of GOP's funding bill WASHINGTON — The House developed a six-month bill that would continue funding the government and raise the debt ceiling, while making drastic cuts, but some senators aren't fans of the legislation. An...

"I've been clear: the House Republican CR provides, in my view, a continuing of a blank check to shut down government agencies as they're doing right now."

We have a winner...

Thank you Alex!

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

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

Elon Musk's Starlink in line for deal with FAA, raising potential ethical concerns The FAA is testing Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service. That could raise a possible conflict of interest, experts say.

This is blatant corruption from the Trump Administration. Elon absolutely should not be receiving new business contracts while he works in government.

I’ve had enough of Trump pretending that Elon will police his own conflicts of interest.

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

No! Only study sections already announced in the federal register have resumed. Nothing has been posted by the NIH to the federal register since Jan 21.

I am finding it wild how many professors don't know this. Please spread this info to your Universities!

U Chicago just told its faculty to halt non-personnel spending on Federal grants. So this is becoming real.

Update from Mattathias Schwartz

A coalition of states plans to file suit later today challenging the order to freeze all federal loans & grants. “My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” NY AG Letitia James said. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

How do people feel about this new idea/method of citing previous literature? ‘Embedding’ a piece of an article rather than putting in a citation to the whole thing seems like it could have pluses and minuses.

Does anyone else love Miyazaki?

Flyer is on a yellow grid background. Text at the top aligned in the middle says, SURF Paner. Under this text says, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Info Session. On the bottom left is a picture of participants at a Black In Neuro professional development event. Text over the picture says “Join Us” in a yellow heptadecagon shape. Icons of a calendar, clock, and location symbol are vertically aligned in the middle. To the right is a blue bubble that says, January 12 2024. Under this is a blue bubble that says, 1:00-2:15 PM ET. Lastly is a blue bubble under that says, Zoom link. At the bottom of the flyer is a black arrow pointing to www.blackinneuro.com

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) are invaluable opportunities for undergraduates to gain research experience. Join Black In Neuro on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 at 1 PM ET for an information session with universities on the SURF application process. Register now! t.co/MuYLHgnG85 🟦🧠 🧪

There’s still time to apply! We’ve extended the deadline to Jan 1!

Way to go Eve! My wonderful colleague, friend and mentor Eve Marder just won the National Medal of Science!
www.c-span.org/video/?53134...

Are you looking to apply to PhD programs in life and behavioral sciences but wish you had more research experience and someone to mentor you through the process of applying? Come join us at PREP at Brown, a one year postbac program for aspiring PhDs! graduateschool.brown.edu/academics-re...

“throughout the film, there is a sense that caring for each other is a counter force for cynicism, and as long as you care for each other, then you have strengths and you have some power in life.” This quote about Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves by lead actress Alma Poysti makes me want to see it.

Evidence for a role of 5-HT-glutamate co-releasing neurons in acute stress mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.25.568634v1 The majority of midbrain 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neurons express the vesicular glutamate transpor

Evidence for a role of 5-HT-glutamate co-releasing neurons in acute stress mechanisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.25.568634v1

Hello everyone, if you are able, consider taking a moment today to donate to fight hunger in your community, like to a local food pantry/organizer. There is really unprecedented demand this year!

Fighting hunger is the best spice

Huda Akil and Even Marder go to the White House! Even better, they got the National Medal of Science there:

www.sfn.org/publications...

2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by the Trivedi Family Foundation | Royal Society Find out more about the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by the Trivedi Family Foundation.

I just won the Royal Society Science Book Prize! 🥳 royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

My best to everyone at the award ceremony in London. Sharing a celebratory drink with you all even though it’s 11.30am here.

“There may be no such thing as ‘the sweet life’, but it is necessary to find that out for oneself.” A piece by Roger Ebert on his own experience watching La Dolce Vita across his lifetime that captures everything about what it means to be young and what it means to grow as a human being.

It’s definitely going to solve that, “my clothes aren’t fitting well because of all that cash in my pockets” problem!

A beauty!

I really should’ve!