Saskia de Vries

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Agreed!

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯

Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.

This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

A very loved dog being held by his moms on his last adventure to the beach.

We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

if a man wanted free reign to attack women he wouldn't try to be seen as a trans woman he would try to be seen as, say it with me class

a police officer

YouTube video by Allen Institute Opening remarks Karel Svoboda & Nima Dehghani

Last month, we organized #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.org (along w Karel, Saskia @sejdevries.bsky.social , David & Satra) with the theme "Integrating Scales & Modalities".
See the videos📣👇
Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎥
Speaker: alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi...
youtu.be/N1IMki0RnIc?...

Grackle?

If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.

How many authenticator apps does one person need?

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

Happy International Women's Day

My speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Compare and contrast the emails from McKnight (left) and Chan-Zuckerberg (right). Proud to be part of the McKnight community.

On this list: Spokane
Not on this list: Seattle

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans.

By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social

bit.ly/42Wifxr

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.”

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

“It’s important to see the big picture...
[The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.”

This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪

“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.”

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That one sentence all scientists must read.

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Registration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social
Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday!

Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠

A poster advertising the TREND CAMINA summer school.

Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa.

📆Applications open until 15.01.

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trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

Targeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movements During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whe...

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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What’s your mundane superpower? Mine is accurately pinching a teaspoon of salt.

Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!