Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays
Pretty tired from a 12km loop yesterday from highland base camp to Hveradalir in Kerlingarfjöll. Worth the pain, though.
It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research
www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
UK neuroscience graduates! PhD opportunity here at Glasgow SPN: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date July 4
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!
We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
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In late January, I said we were "still exploring" a cool thing we found in RN.
Well, we're back, and we've got movement kinematics (thanks to @deeplabcut.bsky.social)!
(You can find all the details in our updated bioRxiv paper, linked below)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Today I'd like to honor the memory of my mentor and friend, Roger Tsien, born 1952 February 1. Today would have been Roger's 74th birthday.
Most know Roger for his 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Shimomura and Chalfie. Roger made GFP into the versatile imaging method it is now.
Oded Rechavi
Scott Pluta
Adam Sternbergh
The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
During early postnatal life, cortical motor control emerges from complex interactions between cortical and subcortical circuits. Although activity dependent processes are essential for primary motor c...
Evolutionary expansion of the corticospinal system is linked to dexterity in Peromyscus mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682851v1
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Finally, one more cool thing we found in RN (that we’re still exploring!) In M1, neurons either responded to wake movements or didn’t. But in RN, some neurons showed a “bimodal response” to wake movements. Some wake movements drove the RN neuron, while others inhibited it. What’s going on here?
