Matt Brown

Excited to share our new preprint from my graduate work, a collaboration between the @brownlaboratory and @Sriram_S433 and others in the Kolodkin lab! Our study investigated how patterned excitatory connectivity is generated in the development of the cerebral cortex (1/6)

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"A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies." reuters.com/business/world…

Neuroscience voting UnionYES this morning!

Celebratory #FluorescenceFriday this week, with the JNeurosci cover featuring an image from our article on how Mef2c controls intracortical projection targeting

Folks this is why we support unions

UAW Supports Medicare for All 🧵 Every working-class person deserves decent health care. No one should have to choose between seeing a doctor and putting food on the table. But that’s exactly what our current health care system does.

🚨🚨🚨 OMB THREATENS LAYOFFS AT THE NLRB According to Bloomberg, OMB has directed the NLRB to “think creatively” about how to reduce staff, despite President Trump’s appointed leaders of the agency agreeing that ANY job losses would devastate our ability to enforce federal law.

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

Emilya, President of @UAW Local 2750, is concerned about the impacts of DOGE gutting our health agencies. “Nobody voted to end cancer research… If we are not able to do that research, no one else is going to do it.”

By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous to our health and dangerous to our economy. TOMORROW, workers across the country are standing up and demanding: NO cuts to education and life-saving research. Find an action near you: killthecuts.org

@GriffinMahon Damn right

This is the fight whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…

Trump’s proposed cuts to NIH funding jeopardize medical research that benefits millions of working people. On April 8, UAW members across the country are taking action to demand our reps #KillTheCuts and save lifesaving research, healthcare, & education. killthecuts.org @uawregion1 | @uawregion8 | @uawregion6 | @uawregion9 | @UAWRegion9A

@hubermanlab As a naturalized US citizen, I lived in poverty and worked my ass off for this beautiful country and to see it being dismantled by people who are ignorant of the working of science simply breaks my heart. End.

Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!

🧵IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

🧵Statement from UAW President Shawn Fain Condemning Attacks on Higher Education: The UAW represents 100,000 higher education workers, including campus staff, student workers, faculty, research assistants, and postdoctoral fellows, at Columbia University and beyond.

@richard_normal A recent favorite of mine

ads cannot get better on here, man. this lady yells about demonic youtube censorship of her friend “jacob israel” and then calls for mark zuckerberg to be killed