Today, we face a new obstacle when it comes to our children’s education: cell phones. If you ask just about any educator, they will tell you that they are a distraction in the classroom – and making it difficult for our kids to learn. 📱

This summer course is going to be awesome! Please repost and tell your students/postdocs/everyone to apply. We have lots of excellent faculty as well as lectures on #connectome modeling by yours truly and Jonathan Pillow

America is finally being run like a business: a business acquired by private equity that’s being stripped for parts before being liquidated.

📣 The 11th Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data (SAND11) workshop will be held June 11-13, 2025 in New York at the Flatiron Institute with generous support from Simons Foundation! Submissions for talks+posters are due March 21. See our website for details 👇 sandworkshop.github.io

As we speak, scientisists across the country (including myself) are trying to to take care of simple administrative tasks related to the grants that we have recieved from the National Institutes of Health... 1/n

🧠 On the #ClearAndVivid podcast, @AlanAlda speaks with professor Mala Murthy about her research mapping an entire fruit fly brain to better understand diseases of the human brain. Listen in: bit.ly/4hE50pS

NIH's ability to fund new grants is frozen indefinitely 👇 Sabotaging NIH funding makes no sense. Nearly every medicine or treatment you've ever received has roots in NIH-funded research, and every dollar of NIH spending generates $2.46 in returns. nytimes.com/2025/02/21/sci…

I'm quoted in this article on how NIH is still blocked from funding new grants. This sabotage makes no sense. Nearly every medicine or treatment you've ever received has roots in NIH-funded research, and every $1 of NIH spending generates $2.46 in returns. wbur.org/news/2025/02/2…

NIH Brain Initiative funded multiple studies on closed loop brain stimulation for a number of neuro/pscyh conditions including Parkinson Disease. Now FDA approval granted for device that adjusts stimulation based on a person's neural activity. medpagetoday.com/neurology/park…

I stand with science. No ceding global leadership in technology and medicine to China or Russia. Cures for our kids. Treatments for the vulnerable and first responders. Sharing the joy of discovery with our students. Contributing to development of civil society. Democracy now.

In case anyone was wondering, we are here:

Very cool new book from Nachum Ulanovsky on "Natural Neuroscience" at The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. Looking forward to checking it out! weizmann.ac.il/brain-sciences…

I met with the American Alzheimer’s Association and Bronx families that have been deeply affected Alzheimer’s. The Bronx has the highest rate of Alzheimer’s in the country. Yet Donald Trump is defunding critical Alzheimer’s research—at the very moment when our aging society can

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