As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues.

They won't remind you.

I will.

My latest.

Facts matter!

This isn’t about differing political opinions. It’s about a man who has presided over the destruction of American biomedical research. Bhattacharya deserves no homecoming @stanforduniversity.bsky.social. He should be shunned forever. Good riddance.

kind of astonishing that they are giving people TWO WEEKS to apply for the NIH Institute Director position at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Almost as though they want to push through some hand-chosen political hack

Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!

Pluralize a movie: The Matrices

I've just been asked to share this petition to UCSF, which asks them not to put Vinay Prasad back in his old position, now that HHS has given him the boot.

It seems a good ask, so here you go (the guy is awful):

form.jotform.com/260836126659...

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed

Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal

Here is the list of other alumni

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I echo suggestions to say no to things and recalibrate your expectations for what needs to be done.

Also, making time for self care is important. Schedule those activities in your calendar — for yourself or with your family — as though they were work meetings.

Too easy to sacrifice self for work.

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉

What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

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Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me.

I chose to share some of my observations with him.

Hold on...

1/11

SROs apparently only learned about this yesterday. I don’t know who is making these decisions, but I definitely think the review process will further be undermined by this change. 🤦🏻‍♂️

*Deadline tomorrow!* Register for this year's International Society for Microneurography 3rd hands-on Comprehensive #Microneurography Course & Conference, 15-26 June 2026 in Prato, Italy. For more info, see: lnkd.in/duQTXZNE

We know that people impacted by GBS, CIDP, MMN, and other Inflammatory Neuropathies are more likely to be in emotional distress than other people, so if you are feeling worried then reach out and get some support. More information can be found at www.inflammatoryneuropathies.uk/health

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#NoKings

Why can't these folks ever just once say "Mitigation is how we cut down on infections, which is how we reduce variant evolution. Clean air and N95s are effective and variant-proof"?

Let’s goooooo! #CIDP #rituximab #truxima #autoimmune #longcovid #MaskUp

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions? The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Picture of Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

More new results, this time from the amazing Lily Kramer! 🎉
“Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex” doi.org/10.64898/202...
Visual experience unfolds in time. We asked how temporal structure reshapes population activity in visual cortex.
🧪🧵1/

NIH is accepting public comments on its next Strategic Plan (2027-2031). You don't need to be a scientist. If you're a taxpayer, this is your money funding your health.

2x NIH POs told me: comments will be ignored by this admin, but not by the historical record. Silence will be inferred as support.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.

I'm not at all surprised by a 150,000 COVID death undercount. I suspect more than that. It's also going to be more undercounted as chronic and infectious disease sequela start to manifest themselves that were due to COVID get listed as other diseases.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meet Sarah Heilbronner, a neuroanatomist building wiring diagrams to understand the structure of pathways in the brain. 🧠#AskaNeuroscientist @srheilbronner.bsky.social

Please circulate widely!

Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
sites.google.com/site/visionl...

How to Apply:
forms.gle/vWa1PwUrcpWf...
Deadline : March 31 2026

White House lifts hold on NIH research spending Director Jay Bhattacharya tells House lawmakers that grantmaking, hiring are on track

This is some hopeful news… 🙏

www.science.org/content/arti...

Download our updated database of PhD fellowships.

We list 177 fellowships. For each entry, we provide the amount of the fellowship, deadline, eligibility/requirements, description, etc

Download this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Hopeless in Tehran Essays on neuroscience

Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future.

rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...