at some point the Onion is gonna buy an actual real newspaper and run it really well and everything will change (I MEAN IT COULD HAPPEN RIGHT)

A herculean effort by many, but esp. the first three authors: Ujjwal Rathore, Eli Dugan, and Hunter Thornton working in the Krogan and Marson labs, with a veritable army of collaborators from HARC (harc.ucsf.edu) and beyond.

Press release: gladstone.org/news/scienti... (inc. paper link)

Congrats Jean Bennett! Her story is one of my favorites to teach @upenn.edu undegrads, ala “It all happened here”.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs-_...

The cover of Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”.

If you only read one book this year, read this.
#BookSky

The moment was all, the moment was enough.

- Virginia Woolf

Juan Brufal

Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks differ according to sex.

The work could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females
go.nature.com/48Flrzv

Honored to be named Ernest E. Roth Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. This recognition reflects the collective work of my trainees and collaborators advancing neural interfaces, gliomodulation, and neurocomputation. Grateful to be part of a community pushing translational neurosc forward

This is a handy little website if you want to keep track of how things are going with science funding.

sciencespending.org#overview

Submission Guidelines | Join the Conversation Now — Disability Culture Lab Discover submission guidelines for Disability Culture Currents, an outlet for disabled voices exploring intersectionality, oppression, and disability culture through essays, comics, and art.

Publication looking for writing submissions from disabled authors

When asked on airplane flights what I did for a living, I would often say "I work for you" (not original to me) and then explain. These conversations generally went well.

Side note: Early in my career, I would say I was a chemistry professor. People almost asked to change seats...

👀 👀 cool picture prompts new discovery--one of my favorite kinds of science 🧪

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds over 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across all 50 U.S. states, supporting roughly 390,863 jobs and driving $94
billion in economic activity. I am one of them and am thankful to all who pay the taxes that support this enterprise 🧪

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

Please enjoy 10 seconds of Lynn Creek in North Vancouver.

Quick escape

Our cotton-top tamarin family had lots of choices of what to eat today, but the apple peels were the biggest hit worth sharing! 🍎

📹: Zookeeper Brooke

2 lines into a book: this is the worst. it’s so slow. i don’t know what any of these names mean. what’s going on?

20 chapters into a book: i don’t know how i’m going to continue living when this book ends

A Brain-wide Neuronal Spiking and Behavior Dataset for Working Memory-Specific Activation and Reactivation in Mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Inspired by the way so many classic songs fade out at the end rather than having an actual ending, in my next book, the text will just get fainter and fainter until you can't see it anymore.

The Houseleek on the Roof - Brookline Books Anna Keyser Baker’s diary offers a reflective, vivid account of 19th-century Philadelphia life, faith, and personal observation.Written during the final ye...

As some of y’all know, I’m in a humanities/ STEM mixed marriage 😝. So excited that my husband’s got a book coming out this summer! If you love Philly history, women’s history, or the centennial exhibition, you’ll love Anna’s diary. www.brooklinebooks.com/978195504168...

I do love a fallen dead #Tree in the #Woods they are still beautiful 😍

I KNEW this was Eena's work from just the title 🫁🧠

"Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations"

preprint led by Eena Kosik-Rose with Bradley Voytek (& Christina Zelano too!)

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

#interoception

"This report exposes how universities are embedded in the EU’s border regime, driving the militarisation, surveillance + externalisation of migration control. It reveals a growing border-industrial-academic complex + challenges academia’s role in legitimising + advancing [harmful] policies"

Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Semantic Network of OECS articles.

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available.

What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will.

oecs.mit.edu

For ~100 years, neuroscience assumed electrical stimulation excites neurons. Deliver current, cells depolarize, done.
That assumption is wrong.

A roll of lining fabric. The fabric features a bunch of cats in tailored clothing

the first printed suit lining i've seen that i like. fabric is from carnet. can obviously be used for suits or sport coats. from my friend RJ, a fellow bespoke fan and cat lover

tacky? yes, but no one ever sees the lining and it's cats in tailoring

Stories like this speak to me WAY HARDER than I wish they did ...