🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it.
The textbook story: immune system sees foreign object, attacks, builds scar. Incomplete. We found microglia monitor what the device does to nearby neurons in real time, then adjust behavior to match. 🧵
🔗 This is part of the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" series on federally funded research that sounded ridiculous but generated enormous returns. Full series archive: bioniclab.substack.com/notes #YourTaxDollarsAtWork
We phenotyped 836, with extended access over several weeks, plus measures of escalation of intake, motivation under progressive ratio, and continued use despite footshock.
A quick breakdown of the results.
And the number of Black NIH-funded folks was already too damned low, and not representative of the population.
Historical NIH success rates show that Black applicants are roughly 10% to 13% less likely to receive investigator-initiated research awards (like R01s) compared to white applicants.
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New paper out! For decades there has been a ‘standard model’ for gamma oscillations. This upends that model - PFC gamma oscillations are not one thing. Rather they dynamically recruit diverse cell type-specific synchrony motifs to implement multiple functions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congrats to the recipients of the 2026 McKnight Scholar Awards!
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TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data.
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The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals.
The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%.
For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.
Starting a petition to standardize brain-region acronym pronunciation based on the precedent that NAc = “knack”
ACC = ack
VTA = vita
SNc = sink
DMS = dims
GPi = guppy
mPFC = m’puffk
LHb = luh-hub
BLA = blah
CeA = see-ya
DRN = durn
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...
Cognitive dysfunction in conditions such as schizophrenia involves disrupted communication between the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the mediodorsal tha…
The number of Black NIH-funded Fellows has plummeted by a staggering 40% from 2024 to 2025; for Hispanic trainees the number has fallen by 33%.
These figures are nothing short of horrifying. The Trump administration is stealing the future of science.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
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Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community.
