Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.
The 10th of these, would you believe?
This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more
Enjoy!
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Stand Up For Science, SF! #standupforscience
I hope all interested in science are paying attention: Trump and Vought are bypassing the strong bipartisan support for biomedical science and halting funding thought administrative delays. Call Congress if you want to save American science 🧪
Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read.
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This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.
It does not.
It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.
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Once again, @dereklowe.bsky.social is not holding back and I am here for it.
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🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.
That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.
A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.
A short 🧵
The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.
For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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Science story about today’s Bethesda Declaration report.
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As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …
Follow-up report by current and former agency employees describes ongoing science censorship by political appointees and “culture of fear”
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.www.nature.com
Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
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The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
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AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions, UK trial finds.
Explore the research: spkl.io/63326AsjJ8
The Lancet
Denis Wirtz
The NIH has been holding back grants from funds Congress has already approved.
