2025 Neuropixels course A free online course on Neuropixels, 22-24 October 2025

Join the 2025 UCL Neuropixels course (free and online!),
22-24th of October:
Day 1 and 2: Get started with the basics and the latest updates on hardware & software.
Day 3: Focus on how to analyse the many neurons you recorded.
More info and to register:
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/...

Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement

Grants available for department and institution leaders at U.S. institutions who are willing to reimagine hiring, promotion, and tenure practices in ways that reward open science, team science, and diverse contributions to knowledge. Deadline January 8, 2026. www.ma3challenge.org

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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OneNeuro's August #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest winner is "Cellular Subtype Composition of an Amphetamine-activated Ensemble in mPFC," by Suhaas Adiraju from @martinowk.bsky.social at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social

View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/

I am beyond excited to host a stellar group of scientists for the first installation of our series: Brain Talks on The Isthmus. Thank you to everyone who contributed by spreading the news, submitting abstracts, reviewing the submissions, and offering kind words of support. I am grateful and smiling

Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Four Johns Hopkins scholars selected for Simons Foundation collaborations The highly competitive projects bring together experts from a range of disciplines to explore promising topics of fundamental scientific importance

Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...

The winner of OneNeuro's June #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest was submitted by Victor Omoniyi at the Marie Hardwick and Lauren Jantzie Laboratories. @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social

View the complete gallery of OneNeuro BRAINART images here:
www.oneneurojhu.org/...

Protect NIH and NSF Funding – Your Voice Is Urgently Needed - ASCB In the next six weeks, Congressional committees will decide how much funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will receive for Fiscal Year 2026. While ...

Thank you to @ascbiology.bsky.social for the action alert and easy instructions to find the appropriations committee member in your state, with an example script. I just called, it takes max 3 minutes.
www.ascb.org/society-news...

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com

#neuroskyence

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Universal dimensions of visual representation Probing neural representations reveals universal aspects of vision in artificial and biological networks.

The most brain-like representations of visual neural networks are also the most universal ones, i.e., they are largely independent of a network’s architecture or training. Cool new work by Chen & Bonner in #ScienceAdvances! #neuroAI
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Research funding cuts: What's at stake Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started?

In this essay in Hopkins Magazine, I talk about how NIH budget cuts will delay or stop the translation of basic science to the clinic and impact kids with intellectual disability, autism, and epilepsy. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

I just submitted a comment it was super easy - I urge you to as well. All of our lives depend on having serious vaccine researchers at the CDC, not RFK's crackpots.

😍😍😍

My office and government relations co-organized "Hopkins on the Hill", which allowed our researchers to present their federally funded programs to lawmakers, staffers, and agencies...and hopefully figure scientists and engineers.

Huge success!

More here: hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.

4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.

The total funded was 99!

Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.

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I think the #BethesdaDeclaration has substantially changed the conversation about what is happening with biomedical research and science more broadly.

The courage of the NIH public servants that allowed them to stand up is contagious.

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As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.

Article Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Thank you @sfn.org for providing some normalcy during these trying times. 😏 #SFN2025

"How to take action for science" written in a retro bubbly font above a bunch of canva clipart test tubes and beakers filled with colorful bubbling liquids

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm

The proposed 45% cut to the NIH by the current administration will preclude new awards, and even terminate (more) existing awards.

This means a catastrophic decline in the development of new treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and infectious diseases

How is that good for the US?

Falls kill more seniors than any other injury. New research on inner ear balance systems could prevent many of these deaths—but funding cuts threaten progress. www.oneneurojhu.org/2025/05/29/r...

The sense of sadness and despair that many of us who left countries, where science and research were not valued or that simply there were no resources, feel about the wanton and deliberate destruction of US science (a beacon for the world) is immeasurable.

Hopkins on the Hill!

Johns Hopkins faculty will showcase the value of their federally-funded research on the Hill in Washington DC, talking to US representatives and their staff

June 11, 5:30-7:30pm, Rayburn House Office Bldg, DC

AI, health care, space exploration, public health, education, etc

Grant Cancellation Web Form WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration?

Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪

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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

NYT: Doctors fixed a baby born with a life-threatening genetic disorder using a customized, gene-editing therapy.

"Researchers emphasized the role govt funding played in the development.

The work...began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems." Gift link!

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...