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St Louis, MO Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD@EricJNestler·
I had the honor of a lifetime this evening by being inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. I want to thank the many PhD students and postdocs in my lab over the past almost 40 years whose hard, creative, and impactful work made this possible. @SinaiBrain @IcahnMountSinai
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post@washingtonpost·
American science is shrinking. 
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. wapo.st/3OgoHKV
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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD@MiriamMerad·
The proposed FY2027 budget includes a $5.8B (−12.3%) cut to the NIH. United for Medical Research calculated this could cost ~50,000 jobs and $11.6B in economic activity, with 26 states losing >$100M each. A tragedy for science, patients, and the economy. #NIH
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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
@silvirouskin Wow, nuts but also says you're doing something truly unique!! Worth reaching out to POs early... or apply for TR01 My closest experience: one Aim + money cut from a funded grant (3 percentile) because it didn't match institute priorities. PO said I should've checked first🤷‍♂️
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Silvi Rouskin
Silvi Rouskin@silvirouskin·
Apparently my R01 is so interdisciplinary that no known branch of NIH is qualified to review it. I spend months writing it, and it was bounced off 3 different sections until it was WITHDRAWN. We are soon submitting this work to Science. Great support of innovative research. 💀
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Anna Gát 🧭
Anna Gát 🧭@TheAnnaGat·
I always tell my rw friends in the US who are eager to tweak how the system works for their own benefit: whatever you change, someday it will be used against you.
Kraut@The_Davos_Man

TISZA got 53,6% of the vote, but it translates to 70% of seats in parliament. That's how broken the Hungarian electoral system is. Orban's nasty creation was used against him. It's important that Peter Magyar now gets rid of it for good by rewriting the constitution.

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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
@SuryaGanguli And the Hungarian Algorithm to explain the strategic matching behind the scenes.😉
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Surya Ganguli
Surya Ganguli@SuryaGanguli·
Just wanted to point out that recent geopolitical events provide a pedagogical example for teaching the max-flow min-cut theorem.
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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
A backup lipolysis circuit to burn normally protected bone marrow fat without the normal adrenaline/noradrenaline stress pathway. Congrats to our collaborators on an elegant study.
Scheller Lab@schellerlab

Very happy to start 2026 by sharing our new manuscript in Nature Metabolism.✨ By studying the constitutive adipocytes in the bone marrow, we identified a brain-mediated pathway that bypasses the SNS to evoke massive fat loss. 🧠🦴 Full article here: lnkd.in/gH7eHv4r

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis·
The science funding system is BROKEN. PhDs and professors are spending their days writing grant proposals rather than conducting research that could transform millions of lives. And the worst part? The system REWARDS predictable, safe, incremental science. It PUNISHES radical ideas and moonshots.
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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
@doristsao @AsteraInstitute Wow, that's a plot twist! Congratulations Doris, seems like an incredibly opportunity. Still thinking about what you showed at WashU a few months ago, some of the most exciting systems neuroscience results I’ve seen, can’t wait to see more!
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Doris Tsao
Doris Tsao@doristsao·
I am deeply excited to share that I will be joining @AsteraInstitute to start a new effort to understand how the brain generates consciousness and intelligence.
Astera Institute@AsteraInstitute

We’re launching Astera Neuro, a new neuroscience research effort led by @doristsao as Chief Scientist. Our aim is to unravel a profound scientific mystery: how the brain transforms sensory inputs into conscious experience. Advancing this work could illuminate the computational principles that drive perception and cognition and inspire approaches for neuroscience-informed AI research, potentially generating new pathways to AGI. Astera will support this work with $600M+ over the next decade. Read more: astera.org/neuroscientist…

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Paul Masset
Paul Masset@paul_masset·
I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgillu for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
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Kay M Tye PhD
Kay M Tye PhD@kaymtye·
Just reconnecting with @bjmarlin and… lo and behold… who can spot the two neuroscience glitterati enthusiastically photobombing?
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Blake Richards
Blake Richards@tyrell_turing·
4/4) Keep your eyes out for what our Paradigms of Intelligence team will be producing in the coming years! I’m pumped about the work and I’m confident that this group will produce some major breakthroughs in the near future to make AI more efficient and robust. 🙂 🧠 🤖
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Liset M de la Prida
Liset M de la Prida@LMPrida·
Proud to take on this challenge: building the new @InstitutoCajal @CNC_CSIC @CINCnews into a space where neuroscience crosses boundaries and transforms how we understand the 🧠!! Honored to take the lead after @MoratallasLab and @JuanLerma1 @CSIC
Centro de Neurociencias Cajal - CSIC@CNCajal_CSIC

1/ 🧠 La neurocientífica 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗻é𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘇 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 (@LMPrida) ha sido nombrada directora del nuevo 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗹 (𝗖𝗡𝗖) del @CSIC Su misión: lanzar un programa de investigación ambicioso y multidisciplinar.

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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
@cshperspectives Congrats, incredibly well deserved! Your work has transformed how science is shared 👏👏👏
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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
#ChatGPT5 is a letdown, not because it's not AGI, but because it's slow and then shy about discussing molecular biology "for safety reasons" Just canceled; Gemini's looking better
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Kepecs Lab@KepecsLab·
@KordingLab "correlation (science/notScience) to isRCT is pretty high?"
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Kording Lab 🦖
Kording Lab 🦖@KordingLab·
We can now define a set of rules of good science and automatically flag violations, and help users avoid violations. But we may kill creativity in the process. Which rules should we enshrine? How should we manage a system where some need rules and others are stifled by them?
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@madras_bertha @EricJNestler @SinaiBrain @IcahnMountSinai @silvirouskin @TheAnnaGat @SuryaGanguli @doristsao