Mark Gergues

New paper from the lab, from Jeremy Biane and team, out today, characterizing the principles of stimulus feature coding in populations of ventral CA1 neurons.

"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. And I've never seen evidence of racial discrimination like this."

"How can this be? I don't see anyone pushing back against it??"

Calls out doctors and other senior administration officials as named defendants for not standing up to racial discrimination.

Congrats Marii!! Looking forward to reading 🔥

A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Gonna fact check Jay B on his lies to the Senate in real time. Follow along for what promises to be a deeply annoying time.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

Slow roll it and do the BARE minimum. Like single word sentences

🤷🏽‍♂️ im not doing squat. But thats just me being bitter lol

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.

The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.

www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

^ 😭😭

New Jersey mayor arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting, prosecutor says A federal prosecutor says the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he was protesting its opening.

BREAKING: New Jersey mayor Ras Baraka has been arrested at an ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting U.S. attorney says.

Why does searching in Outlook have to be so aggravatingly ineffective? 😮‍💨

Can you do this either way 😂😂

Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!

The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵

Omg congrats Mari!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.

Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Congrats!!! Very exciting

Congrats Kirstie!!

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Congrats!!

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Say it with me: HIGHER ED IS AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ENGINE FOR OUR COUNTRY

ESPECIALLY PUBLIC HIGHER ED

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👏👏👏 McKnight Foundation statement:

"Despite recent events, actions, and executive orders, we remain steadfast in advancing climate solutions and racial equity across every part of our work, and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values of our Foundation." 💪💪💪

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

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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‘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.

Young researchers are essential for us to improve human health and society.

The fear and confusion caused by current administration has real consequences that real people have to face.

Help tell their story and support science across the US.

#research #science #neurosky #neuroskyence #STEAM #STEM

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Apparently F99/K00 applications have been assigned a new study section after the one meeting a few weeks ago was halted, trying to find out more information

ATTENTION

If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.

I will keep all information confidential.

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If you can, I strongly recommend that you consider “holding space” 💖

I held space tonight for the neuro grad students & postdocs. I ordered pizza/soda and we talked.

I didn’t have any answers. They didn’t expect me to. They just wanted to be heard & to feel that they’re not alone in their worries.

@neuronline.sfn.org has made it incredibly easy to contact your reps and urge them to protect federal funding for biomedical research! Please sign today, it takes about 10 seconds:
www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...