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nyx (black cat) sitting on a soundbar watching artemis bobbing in the ocean

nyx (black cat) sitting on a soundbar looking at me while artemis bobs in the ocean

nyx says welcome home

Earthset

Earth Eclipse

Stunning. What a view.

WATCH: Artemis II is set to orbit the moon. Here’s what to know In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. https://to.pbs.org/411ctbM

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Congrats, Annika! Can’t wait to read it

A call script for elected representatives: U.S. attack on Iran: YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m a constituent from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: I’m calling to demand [MOC/SENATOR] take urgent action after the United States joined Israel in launching strikes on Iran today. YOU: The Trump administration has again taken military action without any specific Congressional authorization. President Trump has also confirmed that the U.S. has undertaken “major operations” in Iran and has also said “U.S. lives might be lost.” YOU: I am calling on [MOC/SENATOR] to call for the following actions immediately: - Public clarification on the scope of U.S. involvement - Call for and support support the Khanna–Massie War Powers Resolution in the House. - Oppose ANY funding for military escalation without Congressional authorization. YOU: Are we or are we not at war with Iran? Congress needs to answer this question, and do it quickly. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENTS – e.g. Clarify you’d like a written response]

Do it now.

Yes, you can leave a message. Yes, call the DC offices.

Script here again.

🚀 New preprint from the lab! Our first foray into the subiculum uses in vivo whole-cell recordings to show that dendritic plateaus are a prominent, learning-dependent signaling mode of subicular neurons. Feedback is welcome!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy New Year, Wei!

Alex Pretti was a 37 year old ICU Nurse. Alex was just murdered for filming ICE and protecting his neighbors.

And because he had a legal firearm securely tucked away while shielding them from pepper spray, 2A supporters will say he deserved to die.

He did not.

Abolish. ICE.

#AlexPretti

Kidnapped in Minneapolis.
Used as bait.
5 yr. old #LiamRamos has reportedly been taken to TX detention facility by terrorist group I C E.

I should be drawing my own 5 year old, just for fun… not someone else’s that this administration is using as a pawn in their game of cosplay-confederacy

Why Democrats Must Block the ICE Funding Bill Some fights are worth having no matter the outcome

Democrats have been debating how to handle next week's vote on a bill that funds ICE.

With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.

www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-democr...

The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill

The grief the grief the grief.

And the rage and love.

We have it in us to be so much better than this.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, US citizen, was murdered by a Domestic terrorist today. The terrorist group goes by “ICE”.
Kristi Noem and her fascist army must be held accountable.

#JusticeForReneeNicoleGood
#Minneapolis

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

Plateau potentials are instructive signals for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the neocortex Learning occurs via the adjustment of synaptic weights across a variety of timescales. The mechanisms supporting these processes, from single-shot to iterative learning, are unclear. The prevailing mo...

BTSP in V1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you’re at #sfn25 you definitely don’t want to miss this nanosymposium on cilia, tomorrow from 1-4pm! Come learn about neuronal cilia, they do some pretty cool stuff!

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Wei, you probably won’t see how much of an impact you’ve made until you land! But just want to say thank you for being such a wonderful lab mate and friend. The lab won’t be the same without you.

Nothing like a good cry over my morning coffee as Wei heads out 💔. The US is crazy to not do everything possible to keep and treasure people like her. I know she will do wonderful things where ever she lands - this is our loss

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Sharing this not because I need support (I’m fine), but because we all need to be aware of how bad things are getting, especially for people who are foreign, “look foreign,” and/or have an accent, even in very progressive, very blue places. 🧵

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Modular arrangement of synaptic and intrinsic homeostatic plasticity within visual cortical circuits | PNAS Neocortical circuits use synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity to stabilize key features of network activity, but whether these di...

Very happy that this work is finally out in ‪@pnas.org‬! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, just said this of US research into the causes of autism:

“I read the literature and it just looks like people haven’t really asked the question in a deep and honest fashion…what we’re going to do is give an answer that grounded in truth”.

This apparently has to do with the fact that Grants Management Specialists now have to justify every payment (not just every grant, but every reimbursement) and the process for managing this is not yet set up (or at least that it my current understanding)...

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants