I am exciting to highlight our new study published today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. This work represents over 6 years of effort by an incredibly talented postdoc, Carlos Diaz-Salazar, in collaboration with @krzischlab.bsky.social, @bhadurilab.bsky.social at UCLA and Mercedes Paredes lab at UCSF 👇 🧵

Human-specific SRGAP2 paralogs synchronize neotenic microglial maturation and synaptic development

Using a combination of microglia-specific conditional mouse knockout and knockin approaches and xenotransplantation of human iPSC-derived microglia, Diaz-Salazar et al. demonstrate that the human-spec...

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very excited to speak at this meeting, join us! 👇

VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience@vibneuroleuven.bsky.social · 3mo ago

‼️Speaker Alert 🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026 📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social l University Halls Come listen to amazing talks by Diana Piol (University of Padova) & @franckp.bsky.social (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

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ALT: Here We Go Sherman Bell GIF

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"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

The regime had no idea what it was going up against when Trump decided to invade Minnesota. #NoKings

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 4mo ago

We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

very exciting meeting !👇

Pierre Vanderhaeghen@vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EuroSynapse 2026 This Fall in Leuven with Eunjoon Kim Nathalie Rochefort Bea Rico Ed Lein @franckp.bsky.social @cecilecharrier.bsky.social @bellonec.bsky.social @blibep.bsky.social @fekrijeselimi.bsky.social @fan-liu.bsky.social @pouchelon.bsky.social and more! www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

A timely and insightful perspective written by our former postdoc @justinkohare.bsky.social in @thetransmitter.bsky.social on dendritic integration and the urgent need to develop better ways to bridge molecular/cellular neuroscience with circuit/systems neuroscience 👇

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dendritic arbors provide neuroscience with an ideal opportunity to study how individual neurons interact with their broader circuitry and are the field’s best bet to bridge cellular and systems neuroscience, writes @justinkohare.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/dendrites/de...

The cover says it all:

DHS agents kidnapped Columbia neuroscience undergraduate student Ellie Aghayeva, lying to gain access to the building. trib.al/i0n38SC This comes less than a year after DHS agents abducted Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi and graduate Mahmoud Khalil.

Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning 15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch

A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

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That's fucking right, go Team USA

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Unidos somos América.

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

This is excellent, careful, ruthlessly calm effective reporting from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social in stark contrast to the earlier both-siding bollox from other BBC colleagues.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BBC New's BBC Verify with Ros Atkins Prove that President Trump and Kristi Noem lied When they both claimed that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist As the video evidence which they present, shows otherwise

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

National Weather Service@nws.noaa.gov · 7mo ago

⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain. A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend. 🧵

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Disco@discosaurus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

It’s never been so relevant…

Larrish 💙@larrish.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#MLKDay

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Species-specific Rates of Fatty Acid Metabolism Set the Scale of Temporal Patterning of Corticogenesis through Protein Acetylation Dynamics

Developmental processes display temporal differences across species, leading to divergence in organ size and composition. In the cerebral cortex, neurons of diverse identities are generated sequential...

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Delighted to be awarded the 2025 International Prize from the @fondationfyssen.bsky.social jointly with my long time collaborator @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social for our work on the 'Neurobiological foundations of human cognition': www.fondationfyssen.fr/deux-laureat...

Prix international 2025 - International Prize 2025 - fyssen

Deux lauréats pour le Prix international de la Fondation Fyssen La Fondation Fyssen a le plaisir d’annoncer que le Prix international est exceptionnellement attribué à deux lauréats cette année. Le pr...

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So I guess they can pencil him down for "opting for Polio" 🩺 🤷‍♀️

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 8mo ago

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

Exciting PhD training opportunities 👇 www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...