Eric H Chang

Paylines suddenly go from 4% to 0%.

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Budget cut to $0 Sesame Street Budget increased to $400,000,000 ICE Any questions ?

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins

If you haven't seen this wonderful interview with Dr. Francis Collins, it's worth your time. Send to family and friends and #RT. #devbio @c4lifesciences.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9c...

It is a crisis.

NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute “Scientific Elite” Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 billion academic publishing industry and bolster scientific debate.

NIH Director say journals "bully scientists into paying large fees".

No. Academia is a prestige economy in which scientific leadership chose to make journals the currency & Gold OA was deemed 'the way'. Publishers just cashed in; you don't have to pay $10K

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

“Our brains run on music.” 🎵 - MIT’s Earl Miller argues the cortex fundamentally computes with waves, that consciousness arises when its computations generate waves patterns that unify cortical activities. Overheard here at The Science of Consciousness in Barcelona 🇪🇸 #neuroscience

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

🚫 What’s being cut:

– NIH: –$19.5B
– CDC: –$4B
– Cancer research: –$3.1B
– SNAP: –$30B
– Education: –$12B

💰 What’s being funded:

– ICE detention: +$45B
– Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years

This is the trade.

I spent a long time saying bagels were overrated and this Jewish friend of mine from NYC was so outraged he actually came up here with bagels to prove me wrong and much as it would have been hilarious to keep the bit going, he was right, those things are just a different experience entirely

Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science Neuroscientist, biologist and 2021 Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian joined Midday Edition to talk about how the Trump administration's effort to cut back on science spending is impacting researche...

I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness.
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Brightly labelled pyramidal cells in the mouse retrosplenial cortex. Blood vessels are visible of various thicknesses in darker colours.

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience!

Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia.

Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

What standing up to ICE looks like.
#Resist

Excited to share our latest story in Nature. We developed a high-throughput cellular stretch system to look for genes regulating membrane rupture under tension, and found an amazing small protein called NINJ1 that weakens the membrane for rupture! H/T to Zozo, my 10-y.o. for her artist's impression😃

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year

And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor

And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

I count 55 emails back and forth between 8 people to make a simple computer purchase. 35 of those emails concern a $30 difference in price because of a backorder.

When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.

OK, read this thread. And then, perhaps, like me, you will think: WTAF?
Yes, "Uncertainties over the science budgets for next year, coupled with cancellations of billions of dollars of already hard-won research grants, is [sic] causing an exodus of researchers from the U.S."
And the solution?.../1

How cool is this? I have been thinking about this capability for many years.

Now to extend to longer wavelengths so ww can see thermally!

www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00...

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

How far has the US fallen in just a few months? China is critical (rightly so) of our policies on openness and freedom. China wishes we would support free speech. China.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Geoffrey Meissner and the FlyLight Team at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social created this video which shows a progressive rainbow of neurons in the brain of a fruit fly – but this is just a small sampling of the more than 135,000 neurons in a typical fruit fly’s brain.

"Harvard, but with stupider people."

Our lab has submitted to this. Looking forward to a great meeting on all things neuro-immune!

The disruptions to NIH and NSF since January 21, 2025, have likely cost taxpayers $10 billion annual economic impact due to reduced research activity. Long-term costs could reach tens of billions if the U.S. loses its scientific edge.

House passes Trump's deficit-swelling tax bill, with big Medicaid changes The House proposal would enact Trump's major campaign promises while dramatically changing Medicaid, food benefits, income taxes and border security.

The amount allocated in the proposed tax bill for defense spending is 3X the entire NIH budget for research in 2024.

Our government is choosing missiles over cures for disease 😞

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I don't think I posted about this yet. COME WORK WITH US AT NATURE METHODS! This is a rare opportunity, and we can't wait for our new colleague. Feel free to contact me with questions.

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

This is why it's so damaging for the media to keep calling illegally withholding congressionally appropriated, contractually obligated funds as "cuts", which implies some rational and legitimate budgetary process.