Ken Paller

Northwestern University professors urge campus leaders not to make deal with Trump The university has had $800 million in federal funding frozen over accusations that fostered antisemitism. Northwestern faculty are worried the university will follow others and try to make a deal wit...

“Acquiescence to the administration’s tactics would make Northwestern complicit in an assault on institutions of higher education, which are an essential bulwark of civil society,”

www.wbez.org/education/20...

Important read on how the attacks on science are going to destroy a generation of scientists and a generation of opportunities to advance science.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

A very important message for people to see! Way to go @feliciatuchman.bsky.social

Explore consciousness theories and implications A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science.
loc.closertotruth.com
#neuroscience

Research Impact : Northwestern University

Collection of websites I've seen highlighting the impact of federally funded research at various institutions

First is Chicago's very own Northwestern University, which ended FY2024 with $>1 billion in research funding

Northwestern University: Research Impact
www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...

Mayor of Evanston

The Governor of Illinois fighting back

This expert wants us to wake up to the power of sleep for our health Maynooth University’s Prof Andrew Coogan wants to understand how sleep affects human health ‘out in the wild’ of the real world.

Thanks to @siliconrepublic.bsky.social for doing this profile! @maynoothuniversity.ie
www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/r...

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

What is on your mind when you are about to fall asleep?

Help us unravel the diverse ways humans experience this mysterious transition!

Please share your unique experiences by filling up this short online questionnaire: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Cognitive Benefits of Sleep and the Quest to Amplify Them

Details on the talk I’ll give at 3 PM here: www.imtlucca.it/it/eventonew...

Join conversation

Visiting the amazing IMT-Lucca today where they are hosting my seminar on Sleep and its Benefits for Cognition - livestreamed on teams: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor

More leadership from the trenches

Project McClintock
Graduate students writing local op-eds

[Gift link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back. @nidhisubs.bsky.social and Sara Randazzo report. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

Such a rotten outcome - getting an EEE at NSF is so incredibly impressive and rare, I hope there’ll be a day when this proposal will be funded

We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers Nature Human Behaviour - Federal funding of science has been cut, and trainee scientists in the USA face an unstable and uncertain future. Nicole Rust explains how and why we should act to support...

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers"

All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back.

(share link):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

Friends, we are in such a time

Amazing synthesis!

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

Slow wave synchrony during NREM sleep tracks cognitive impairment in prodromal Alzheimer's disease INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) disrupts human sleep architecture more severely than normal aging. However, it remains unclear how AD changes oscillatory neural activity during sleep, and whet...

Sharon et al., Slow wave synchrony during NREM sleep tracks cognitive impairment in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Dear science journalism,

Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.

www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...

and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...

A propos of this fine article by @talkingpointsmemo.com can we begin to assemble accounts by patient groups/orgs on here? Tag any you know in the replies please (or simply reply if you run a patient group account?) Hoping to assemble a list. Thanks!
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

This passage from @joshtpm.bsky.social piece on biomedical research is spot on.

Research suggests sleep—especially slow-wave deep sleep—enhances the memory of the *sequence* of events, though not of the *detail* of the events—an effect that persists up to 15 months:

buff.ly/osEZtGa
via @psypost.bsky.social

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Clear summary of just what got cancelled in the recent misinformation grant terminations - lots of valuable research on how to improve the information environment and ensure that people have easy access to accurate information

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

She reported that in the 1920’s, so memory researchers have talked about it for a long time. Another source on your topic: the book Solvable by Susan Solomon.