Science friends…is anyone switching to Claude from ChatGPT for writing assistance? Is it better?

Perfectly encapsulates the “failing upward” deterioration of main stream media.

Fertility rates or birth rates? And weren’t we going for this as a society…like, reduce teen pregnancy? I guess, good on us.

We had some this last cycle. I think it has been taboo because when it was 50% the meetings run long. With 30%, even though the meetings are still full days, there is more time for a rescue if it meets the criterion.

Not that this is a solution, but as a standing member, one thing I would say is that SS folks should feel less shy about using their Rescue ability if they feel strongly about making a case for a grant.

This is a very fun book. I keep telling my Neuro friends to read it. That and if Peter Thiel ever comes into your office offering unlimited funding, say No Thank you!

Sorry to everyone waiting on me for shit…all I can handle right now is watching videos of people cleaning carpets.

No War with Iran. Fuck regime change wars, Fuck Trump, Fuck FIFA, Fuck the Board of Peace, Fuck the mealy mouthed Dem leadership that conceptually support this war, but criticizes the process.

What an embarrassment this Richard Axel story is…but it points to a deeper malignancy in the elite class of science that concerns itself with luxury, egoism, self-aggrandizement and star fuckery…rather than, I don’t know, being public servants.

Dang it! This is what happens when we get too honed in on mice/rats/monkeys. I’m mad at myself that we missed this. Bad oversight on our part. I wonder if you can add a comment to the paper or something pointing this out?

Frontiers | Regional heterogeneity of striatal cholinergic interneurons: setting the stage for diverse behavioral repertoires Cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) constitute only a small fraction of striatal neurons, yet their dense axonal arborizations and widespread acetylcholine relea...

As promised at the #GRC Basal Ganglia, here is our recent review on striatal cholinergic heterogeneity. I hope people find it useful and inspiring.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Rest in Power Jesse Jackson 😢💔

Why do we keep losing all the good ones.

I’m ready for some of these evil doers to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Cool! AIS and AnkG is where my career in science began. This is so beautiful.

Congratulations! Important work!

The many roles of Marco Rubio YouTube video by CBS Evening News

Here is Tony Dokoupil glazing Marco Rubio on our own version of Pravda…aka Bari Weiss’s and David Ellison’s CBS. We sunk pretty far from the days of Walter Cronkite.

youtu.be/qfYf-YDgJjo?...

Wow, Bari Weiss’s State TV really found the perfect frontman for their bullshit both-sides narrative.

Murderers! Lawless Thugs!

Same…and dog.

These Fox News fuckers are really just demons. Leave my city the fuck alone.

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Overall…a good day for America. One of the best we’ve had in all year. Celebrated with a second viewing of One Battle After Another.

Just promise me @denisejcai.bsky.social if Peter Thiele comes to you offering vasts sums of money…walk away. It doesn’t turn out very well for folks in the book 🤪

He definitely read some you alls papers, you, Sheena, Steve…have you heard of the book. It’s good…same guy who wrote Dark Matter.

Reading Blake Crouch’s Recursion…wondering if he called up any of our engram SciTweeps for a consult? @okaysteve.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social

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Saddened by Diane Keaton’s passing. She was one of my favorites. Annie Hall is my favorite movie.The ending gets me every time. Baby Boom is a family favorite…and hits as a daughter of single working mother. Plus I can relate to one of best and funny movie freak outs of all time. RIP to a real one.

Ah, my partner and I will be there for the start of our honeymoon. Any suggestions? We’ve never been.

They really think people are stupid….if you call it “reform” and not “cut” it will suddenly be different.

I think she has a penchant for insecure men with micropenis who want to pretend to be tough guys.

I can’t get over this dumpster fire UN assembly. Trump humiliates America in front of the world with that grotesque speech, throws a tantrum along with his lapdogs over a stopped escalator and has the President of France wondering the streets of New York because of his stupid motorcade.

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@reskilab.bsky.social Good time to post the cat/motorcycle video again!!!

Correlation is NOT causation!

Corticotropin-releasing hormone signaling from piriform cortex to amygdala mediates social homophily in opioid addiction Huo et al. report that opioid-withdrawn mice prefer socializing with opioid-experienced peers, driven by heightened social motivation and mediated by a specific brain circuit, APIRCRH-BMA, activated b...

Happy to see this study come out. I have recently found myself disillusioned by a lot of science these days…but this study was really heroic and informative www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...