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10 Apr 2025
1/ Why do late-stage cancer patients lose motivation & sink into apathy?
đ„Our new Science paper shows cancer activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit to lower motivation.Great work by Aelita Zhu @sarahstarosta @Pignatelli_Lab @JanowitzTobias &team!đ§”
đ doi.org/10.1126/science.adm8âŠ
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Kepecs Lab retweeted
American science is shrinking.
â©A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. wapo.st/3OgoHKV
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Kepecs Lab retweeted
The proposed FY2027 budget includes a $5.8B (â12.3%) cut to the NIH. United for Medical Research calculated this could cost ~50,000 jobs and $11.6B in economic activity, with 26 states losing >$100M each. A tragedy for science, patients, and the economy. #NIH
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Apr 13
Hungary's next health minister:
orthopedic surgeon by day, dance floor legend by night
Hungaryâs future health secretary dancing on stage last night.
đ„: NoĂ©mi ZalavĂĄri
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Apr 13
If you are wondering about the new Hungarian PM, PĂ©ter Magyar, this thread explains clearly what he just pulled off
Apr 13
okay I guess I have to talk about PĂ©ter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.
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Mar 12
A backup lipolysis circuit to burn normally protected bone marrow fat without the normal adrenaline/noradrenaline stress pathway. Congrats to our collaborators on an elegant study.
Jan 9
Very happy to start 2026 by sharing our new manuscript in Nature Metabolism.âš By studying the constitutive adipocytes in the bone marrow, we identified a brain-mediated pathway that bypasses the SNS to evoke massive fat loss. đ§ đŠŽ
Full article here: lnkd.in/gH7eHv4r
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The science funding system is BROKEN. PhDs and professors are spending their days writing grant proposals rather than conducting research that could transform millions of lives. And the worst part? The system REWARDS predictable, safe, incremental science. It PUNISHES radical ideas and moonshots.
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19 Nov 2025
I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgillu for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
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17 Nov 2025
Scientific family reunion, the funnest part of SfN!!!
@ArminLak @OttTorben & Katharina Schmack
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17 Nov 2025
We prefer the term background neural activity to "photobomb" @GordFishell
16 Nov 2025
Just reconnecting with @bjmarlin and⊠lo and beholdâŠ
who can spot the two neuroscience glitterati enthusiastically photobombing?
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16 Nov 2025
Just reconnecting with @bjmarlin and⊠lo and beholdâŠ
who can spot the two neuroscience glitterati enthusiastically photobombing?
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8 Aug 2025
#ChatGPT5 is a letdown, not because it's not AGI, but because it's slow and then shy about discussing molecular biology "for safety reasons" Just canceled; Gemini's looking better
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31 Jul 2025
Wow, this is truly exciting! Congrats to @KevinJTraceyMD and the whole team...
31 Jul 2025
Congratulations to everyone at Setpoint Medical, present and past, who worked for 18 years to bring a brand new idea for the first time into a clinical reality. This begins a new era for millions of patients needing new options.
businesswire.com/news/home/2âŠ
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17 Jul 2025
We worked so well as a team for the #GRCPsychedelics @VVyazovskiy @MelissaHerman4 @ViditaVaidya
and congrats to @TheBorisLab and @MikaelPalner, who will be the future vice-chairs!
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12 Jul 2025
Reducing animal use is a worthy goal but mechanistic discovery, the engine of biomedical progress, still requires animal models. Translation is vital and challenging and could be improved with these initiatives. Just donât conflate the two.
12 Jul 2025
While Iâm a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biologyâŠthereâs still no replacement for animal research! I wrote an article outlining this in @GENbio
genengnews.com/topics/translâŠ
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30 Jun 2025
Is criticality the common set-point of brain function? Must read Viewpoint by @KeithHengen & Woodrow Shew in @NeuronCellPress marshals a meta-analysis &
evidence that our brains aim for the brink of phase transition âcriticalityâ as a built-in set-point for flexible computation.
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30 Jun 2025
Tbh, iâve been wary of scale-free avalanches etc bc 1/f noise often felt like self-organization trivia with no link to computation or behavior. This article starts to close the gap, casting criticality as a homeostatic target for dynamics. Convincing, must read & discuss!
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26 Jun 2025
Canât believe #GRCPsychedelics is happening in two weeks!
We reached capacity attendance â sorry we could not accommodate everyone. We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting.
w/ @VVyazovskiy @ViditaVaidya @MelissaHerman4
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1 Jun 2025
This chart made by Peter Gleick shows the proposed cuts to science graphically. This is bad for America.
Please ask Congress to save science.
#FundingScienceSavesLives
1 Jun 2025
This budget proposes to cut the NIH by nearly half, a 40% reduction.
The NIH has been responsible for an extraordinary number of lifesaving cures and has been an economic power engine
unitedformedicalresearch.orgâŠ
Ask Congress to save science.
#FundingScienceSavesLives
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