Ben Saunders

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Super exciting!!

Woo congratulations!!!!!

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thread! 👇🏻

Very excited to get to share culmination of this large-scale project to understand spatial gene expression in schizophrenia. Really proud of the amazing team work here working out lots of roadblocks to deploy these spatial strategies and analysis methods at scale!

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

The SAVE Act and the Election Power Grab The revived bill is a serious threat to voting rights.

The SAVE Act would be the most restrictive voting legislation ever passed by Congress. bit.ly/4qrNeJO

National Institutes of Health faces leadership vacuum as director positions sit open More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came on Friday.

NBC story on NIH Institute Director vacancies...

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It is bad enough that national news networks (well, not CBS) are covering this story,,,

ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives In recent weeks, scores of immigrant communities have been targeted by ICE, resulting in arrests and even swift deportations. They are mostly happening under the radar but they are upending communitie...

"ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives"

Harrisburg, Scranton, Erie, Norristown. Even if ICE leaves Minnesota, they still need to be stopped

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/02...

We continue to see no drawdown today with ICE activity in the Phillips neighborhood, Columbia Heights, and Shakopee.

Our pressure is working as the Senate bill to fund DHS did not pass last night. Keep up the pressure by reaching out to your federal representatives.

How pediatricians found themselves at war with RFK Jr. The AAP has become a leading opponent of MAHA and RFK Jr.'s vaccine agenda.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has become a leader in the effort to reverse RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies.

The success — or failure — of the group's approach will have consequences for kids' health nationwide.

Inside the AAP's plan for the MAHA age:

www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/a...

Already seeing people not from around here saying "Minnesota won" and I just— It's not over yet. We don't know if they'll actually withdraw. And the damage is overwhelming. We need a lot of fucking help here. And there are still people in concentration camps.

Abolish ICE, shut down DHS, prosecute.

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

This looks rad, congrats!

This is a catastrophic unforced error.

It was quite something to hear @ohsunews.bsky.social President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ.

“Teammates” don’t support rivals.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

Scene from the end of the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show. A row of men on a football field walking toward a camera with flags in the background.

This ruled

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.

Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

First of a few postings for jobs in my lab-we are hiring an entry level technician! www.gwu.jobs/postings/124...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Really honored, floored honestly, to receive the faculty mentorship award, which is nominated and voted on by the grad students, today at our annual neuroscience graduate program retreat. I feel a little sheepish posting about it but it really means a lot to me!

The first Bandcamp Friday of 2026 is this Friday, February 6th. From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll be waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels. Mark your calendars and get those wishlists ready. daily.bandcamp.com/features/ban...

How does neuronal gene expression evolve over time in response to experience? CytoTape will help us find out - a major milestone for neuroscience, providing new ways to study memory & aging 🧠

Congrats to the whole team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration on this work 🎉

Rad! Congrats y'all

Reminder there are still 2000 active goons destroying our city and kidnapping civilians to such an extreme extent that kids cant even go to school normally

Take action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."

Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."

This presser worked like a charm.