Our lab is discussing this paper tomorrow in lab meeting. It is a tour de force and an important set of results! Thanks for finding and suggesting this paper ✨ @meortega.bsky.social! www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
The order to restore grants applies to 300 NSF grants, not the NIH grant suspensions
The billion dollars is the least of it. It’s universities’ autonomy, independence, and integrity that Trump is really after. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
First first-author manuscript out as a preprint! Look at our cool new effort & delay cost task. 🐀💕 🧠
Beautiful collab across both of my labs @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social and Wikenheiser lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A progressive ratio task with costly resets reveals adaptive effort-delay tradeoffs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....
A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.
Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.
A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
Local LA protest is happening on Friday March 7th at Noon on Wilshire and Veteran! @latimes.com Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
I finally ditched Twitter/X and am excited to be here and connect with other scientists 🥳
