Some professional news: In mid-May, I was appointed to be the Associate Director of Scientific Strategy & Innovation at @nbri-ucdavis.bsky.social. One of my tasks in this role is to facilitate other people's science. If you are interested in working with our 🐒s or other resources, please reach out!

Eliza Bliss-Moreau@eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 3w ago

Time flies! Today is my 18th anniversary at @ucdavis.bsky.social! I arrived as a new social psych PhD ready to learn 🐒🧠 anatomy. 18 years later, I'm the Associate Director of Scientific Strategy at @nbri-ucdavis.bsky.social and Chancellor's Leadership Professor of Psych @ucdavispsych.bsky.social!

Time flies! Today is my 18th anniversary at @ucdavis.bsky.social! I arrived as a new social psych PhD ready to learn 🐒🧠 anatomy. 18 years later, I'm the Associate Director of Scientific Strategy at @nbri-ucdavis.bsky.social and Chancellor's Leadership Professor of Psych @ucdavispsych.bsky.social!

Exciting new work characterizing a 🐒 model of ADOA vision loss by @sarathomasy.bsky.social's group. We looked at old behavioral data for 2 🐒 from my lab w the heterozygote ADOA genotype to show had behavioral signs of vision loss, long before we knew to look at their eyes.

National Biomedical Research Institute @ UC Davis@nbri-ucdavis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in rhesus macaques and can lead to a better understanding of autosomal dominant optic atrophy, or ADOA, and potentially to new treatments. www.ucdavis.edu/news/identif...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

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University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Instead of analyzing the IBL dataset, use your computational skills to analyze this dataset and your results will be 1,000 times more translationally relevant

Rudebeck Lab@rudebecklab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This.

Vinny Costa@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m just frustrated with how cog neuro loves to move fast and break things while standing on the shoulders of preclinical animal work, while in parallel also saying look we don’t need preclinical animal work anymore because in cog neuro we can move fast and break things.

This. is. amazing.

Vinny Costa@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test? In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Also for people who bemoan "tenure doesn't make people bolder"... I think it's that tenure doesn't make people bold. But IME tenure (and the promotion to full and the promotion to a chair, etc etc) makes the already bold even bolder.

Eliza Bliss-Moreau@eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We'll see how this flies with the editor...

We'll see how this flies with the editor...

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McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6mo ago

"Most people, probably, but everyone? Nobody can know that. Not me, not you, not even God. Yet that didn’t stop me from writing that I poop, you poop, and God poops every Sunday and on the major holidays. It was crazy that nobody flushed out the truth."

While this is true, immigration should not be solely a story of exceptionalism.

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Not on my 2026 BINGO card: checking authors' names in the Epstein files before I cite their work in scientific papers.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

LMFAO as I teach a partially async online class...

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6mo ago

"As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning, I want to address a growing concern on campus: the rumor that asynchronous online classes are 'basically a scam.'"

I am so thankful that I am teaching an *amazing* grad class this term. I learned from @baleslab.bsky.social that one way to teach a grad seminar was pick a topic and write a publishable paper as a team. It's been a lot of fun and we've all learned a lot. Highly recommend!

This is a catastrophic unforced error. It was quite something to hear @ohsunews.bsky.social President Shereef Elnahal equate the shambolic lies of fringe groups (“others”) with the heartfelt & credible testimony of the scientists & veterinarians in his employ. “Teammates” don’t support rivals.

Science Magazine@science.org · 6mo ago

Breaking news: One of the largest monkey research centers in the United States has taken the first steps toward converting itself into a primate sanctuary, a seismic change that would affect biomedical research across the country. https://scim.ag/4bH2COV

Just gonna leave this here so hopefully people can connect the dots from reducing the numbers, type, and quality of nonhuman animals available for ethical biomedical research to what comes next... www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-exp...

New Report Details ICE’s Expanding and Increasingly Unaccountable Detention System - American Immigration Council

In just one year, the number of people ICE is detaining has shot up by over 75%, with a record 73,000 people detained as of mid-January.

americanimmigrationcouncil.org

Eliza Bliss-Moreau@eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.

There's a special place in hell for people who benefit daily from state of the art medical treatment and then argue that the means to discover the next state of the art treatment should be eliminated.

It's really a mindf*ck to be a generally "on top of it" person and be so swamped with unpredictable work and work chaos that I am so far behind on everything - including commitments to collaborators - that I am honestly not sure I can dig out and catch up.

We're about to start a new circuit manip experiment and I'm deep in the chemo/optogenetics lit. I can't stop thinking about whether money related to child SA and the explotation of women funded the development of that tech.

Eliza Bliss-Moreau@eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Recognizing that there are a lot of ways to be in the Epstein files that are totally benign (e.g., cited in a paper sent to him), there is a lot of evidence in the files that high profile scientists were engaged morally questionable (at best) behavior. Universities really need to take a stand.

Recognizing that there are a lot of ways to be in the Epstein files that are totally benign (e.g., cited in a paper sent to him), there is a lot of evidence in the files that high profile scientists were engaged morally questionable (at best) behavior. Universities really need to take a stand.

Eliza Bliss-Moreau@eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Would love to see MIT take the same sort of action vis a vis high profile players in the Epstein files (beyond the Media Lab situation)

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "No, really, I am certain. They do not throw poop."

Sarah Tuttle@niais.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Sadly, not aliens."

“Nerd tunnel vision” apparently includes narcissism, misogyny, and a defunct moral compass. This behavior just scratches the surface of want (most? many?) women in science deal with on a daily basis.

The Verge@theverge.com · 6mo ago

From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

The Venn diagram of “psychologists & neuroscientists that women said were creeps” & “psych and neuro dudes in the Epstein files” isn’t a perfect overlapping circle. The latter is nested within the former. We’ve been screaming this for ages & there more out there. For the love of god, trust women.

"Momma, why you so sad? You angry? You frustrated? I give you hug and make you happy?" Soul crushingly on repeat from my (almost) 3 year old this weekend, blissfully unaware of the world he's growing up in and how his namesake fought in WW2 to ensure this wouldn't be the world order.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Let’s be clear about what the Trump regime is saying to Minnesota: “We will continue murdering your citizens unless you help us rig your election.”

Peg Kerr@pegkerr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

Hope. Maybe a tiny bit of hope.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou

Reworking an assignment for my big undergrad class and checking the questions in dif AI monsters and this is new (compared to a year ago)...