Claudia Lopez Lloreda

2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries Three scientists who uncovered how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders while recognizing our own tissues as a friend — won the Nobel Prize in physio...

2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries. Their research helped explain why the immune system does not attack our own tissues.
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Meet the Autism Data Science Initiative grantees The projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes.

The awarded projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes in autistic youth and adults.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

The Xylom’s analysis of data from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) identified more than 13,000 H-1B workers who have joined over 200 four-year or postgraduate-only land-grant, sea-grant, and R1: Very High Spending and Doctorate Production institutions so far this fiscal year.

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

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Abracito a periodistas de ciencia y buen finde de descanso antes de la semana de los Nobel

Exclusive: The 23 studies the FDA based its expanded leucovorin label on The studies include 46 people, mostly toddlers, who have cerebral folate deficiency due to variants in a folate transporter.

The FDA wants to expand the use of leucovorin to treat autism traits, based on an analysis of the scientific research. @thetransmitter.bsky.social has obtained the list of 23 studies.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Covering Null Results: How to Turn “Nothing” into News - The Open Notebook Null results—those that contradict a study’s original hypothesis or fail to find a cause-and-effect link between variables—can be easy to dismiss as non-news but may lead to valuable stories that show...

Covering null results can help reporters contribute to a more accurate view of science and the world, writes @bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow Lucila Pinto in TON’s latest, with insights from @vcallier.bsky.social, @ldattaro.bsky.social, @claricecudi.bsky.social and others. 🧪

Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single-neuron and single-spike re…

Neuropixels Ultra!

By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration

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A chart titled "how phd students rate their experiences". 75% of respondents are satisfied with their phds

3,785 doctoral students across 107 counties told us about everything from supervision practices to workplace concerns

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4gSnYJM

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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A New Bill’s Bid to Bring Better Sunscreens The SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act seeks to revamp the FDA’s review process. Could it usher in more effective sunscreens?

The SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act seeks to revamp the FDA’s review process. Could it usher in more effective sunscreens?

Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs We want to hear from you about the sources of funding for your research.

Hi everyone! We are taking a look at the state of funding in the neuroscience field so we are looking for PIs to answer this survey. Please feel free to fill out and share with colleagues.

Ty!

Experts warn that weakening the NRC could compromise safety. “The thrust of those orders is to essentially strip the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its independence,” said Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists. https://undark.org/2025/09/08/trump-nuclear-renaissance/

It's the white whale of neuroscience - completely mapping the brain and its activity.

Forrest Collman sat down with @samanthayammine.com from the Curiosity Weekly podcast and shared how we are taking on this "impossible" task and the surprising role YouTube videos play.

🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek

Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new ‘embodied’ connectome reveals The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

Flies fly thanks to local circuits of sensory and effector neurons that control specific body parts and enable behaviors such as feeding and walking, new work shows.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Noncitizen journalists face risk from ICE — here’s what newsrooms can do We spoke to experts in immigration and media law about how newsrooms should prepare for ICE detentions of journalists

ICE has already detained one journalist.

Others could be next.

Experts in immigration and media law told us what newsrooms need to do to prepare.

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Gobierno ahoga al Comité de Expertos y Asesores sobre Cambio Climático La falta de presupuesto y las tres vacantes en el Comité han paralizado sus labores a pesar de las responsabilidades que tiene por ley, además de vigilar la implantación del Plan de Mitigación, Adapta...

La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González, no ha llenado las tres vacantes del Comité de Expertos y Asesores sobre el Cambio Climático. Junto a la falta de presupuesto, el comité está inoperante. Lean mi investigación para el @cpipr.bsky.social — periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/09/gobi...

NIH outlines new system for awarding research grants to foreign scientists Scientists seeking NIH funding for projects involving overseas partners will encounter a new grant system starting early next year.

NIH outlines new system for awarding research grants to foreign scientists www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/n... via @statnews.com

#NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines

"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."

My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org

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Graph titled "value of grants awarded in 2025 has caught up to average of previous years." Graph shows average of 2016-24 spending and how much has been spent so far in FY25

Graph titled "Amount of first-year R01 and R21 grants." Graph compares average of 2016-24 to 2025.

It's been a busy time for NIH grants staff — the agency seems on track to spend its budget this fiscal year

But, because of multi-year funding, fewer projects are being funded than in previous years.

The number of R grants has fallen from 5,633 to 3,758

analysis by @jaspar.bsky.social

From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.

George Floyd’s killing in 2020 set off a “racial reckoning” in journalism. News outlets sought out DEI trainings, formed internal committees, and created roles focused on race, diversity, and equality.

In 2025, we wanted to know: What happened to those efforts?

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Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

A photoessay by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social highlights researchers' labor & collaboration: "Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced." www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...

8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified

The landscape of life-altering medicines, the ways we “see” molecular structures, and even the periodic table wouldn’t be the same without chemists with disabilities. They’ve been working & innovating since the age of modern chemistry began in the 18th and 19th centuries
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“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”

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The covert project to (finally) measure hellish subway heat Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

NY subway platforms feel hot as hell in the summer.

Meet Jack Klein, the guy who stealthily collects data about New York’s hottest days underground.

🚇New in @sequencermag.bsky.social

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Scientists take on Trump: the researchers fighting back Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

Often the news happens so quickly that there's little time for it, so we took a step back to talk about the stories of the researchers who have been fighting back against the Trump administration's assault on science.

w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social and @heidiledford.bsky.social

Oxytocin shapes both mouse mom and pup behavior Distressed pups emit distinct cries for help, which depend on oxytocin neurons in their hypothalamus.

Oxytocin controls both sides of the mother-pup relationship in mice, influencing how pups communicate when separated from their mothers, a new study finds.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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This week, @thetransmitter.bsky.social is at the @blackinneuro.bsky.social Conference. If you’re attending, we’d love to meet you! Swing by our booth to find out more about us and our efforts to support early-career researchers. #BINW25

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