On X earlier today, I mentioned that America does not own the Moon. Which is accurate and true. Nobody does.
I received over 500 of the most vicious, vile, stupid and disgusting replies from Americans. Only 3 were civilised.
What the hell America!
What has happened to your once great country 😔
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Save the date – see you in Seville!
The organizers gave us a discount code to share. If you would like to attend and receive 50% off your ticket, please use the code Speaker11. Please note that the code is limited to three uses!
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I'm looking forward to speaking at the Orchard OCD Conference in London on 4-5 June. I will be joining the panel "Advances In Neuromodulation and Neurosurgical Strategies for OCD" with Ludvic Zrinzo, Rebecca Prices, and Elsa Fouragnan.
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I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.
A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
Breaking News: The Trump administration will pay a French energy giant nearly $1 billion to abandon its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.
The Trump administration reached an agreement to pay $1 billion to French energy firm TotalEnergies to stop developing two offshore wind farms off the coast of New York and North Carolina, instead directing the investments to oil and gas projects.
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers
Soulless sociopath says what?
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…same thing for TMS to make you more motivated 🤗
Ehm no, deep brain stimulation spread. Knowing electrical conductivity of tissue from noninvasive measures would be huge for our field!
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We are looking forward to seeing you in Geneva!
The organizers: Andreas Horn & Christian Lüscher
The deadline for:
Abstracts & travel grants submissions: March 30th 2026
Participants' online registration: May 10th 2026
Please spread the word about our exciting meeting #OptoDBS2026!
We will select additional speakers from the submitted abstracts. Please be sure to declare your interest when registering. We also have several travel grants for early-stage participants.
Registration is open! Please visit www.optodbs.ch
You will find all the exciting information (program, posters, travel, continuing education) on the website.
Lennart Verhagen, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social, Hartwig Siebner, Alan Mardinly, Jerome Lecoq and Jonathan Downar – all eminent leaders in their respective fields of neuromodulation.
We are particularly thrilled to announce talks by @julianneumann.bsky.social & @yttrilab.bsky.social, Minmin Luo, @littleneuro.bsky.social, Carine Karachi, Jean-Francois Aubry, Elisa Konofagou, Meaghan Creed, Robert Chen, …
As last edition, the scope has been widened beyond DBS and optogenetics and will include talks by leaders in the non-invasive stimulation field and other modalities, as well. The latest results from preclinical presentations will interleave with clinical studies from leading experts.
OptoDBS 2026 will present cutting edge science across all modalities of neuromodulation to enhance our understanding of neural circuit dysfunction in behavioural diseases to inspire novel stimulation protocols.
Dear neuromodulation enthusiasts!
Please join us at OptoDBS 2026, which will take place at the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 10th to 12th: www.optodbs.ch
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Super cool. Any chance you can also infer conductivity & permittivity?
I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next!
Have you heard about the primacy of movement over sensation? Why is action the ultimate source of knowledge?
Check it out in our brand new episode with none less than György Buzsáki here:
stimulatingbrains.org/76-gyorgy-bu...
I had a lot of fun – and learned a lot – talking to the one and only György Buzsáki on @stimulatingbrains.org the other day – check it out here 👇👇
The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi.
To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Happy to share results ASAP.
Still working on the stats.
Game of Electrons.
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