@seattledot.bsky.social is this your preferred method for addressing these issues? I’ve been using Find It Fix It with zero response on these same issues. Would you prefer the public blast?

Streetcrafting@streetcrafting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@seattledot.bsky.social this huge 48” construction sign intended for drivers is blocking the pedestrian right of way on the NE corner of Pine & Boren. It’s not passable by people using mobility devices and needs to be removed immediately.

Very exciting work from a great team of scientists, led by @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social. Check it out!

Jeremiah Cohen@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

Going to #COSYNE2026? Don't miss our tutorial on our open neural dynamics data resources. 🗓️ March 12, 9:15-10:15am 🧑‍🏫 Presented by @sejdevries.bsky.social 🔗 More info: https://www.cosyne.org/tutorials @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Marc Dionne@marcsdionne.bsky.social · last yr.

My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

We said goodbye to our sweet pup Hobbes yesterday. We miss him so much.

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

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if a man wanted free reign to attack women he wouldn't try to be seen as a trans woman he would try to be seen as, say it with me class a police officer

Last month, we organized #ODIN2025 @alleninstitute.org (along w Karel, Saskia @sejdevries.bsky.social , David & Satra) with the theme "Integrating Scales & Modalities". See the videos📣👇 Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🎥 Speaker: alleninstitute.org/odin-symposi... youtu.be/N1IMki0RnIc?...

Opening remarks Karel Svoboda & Nima Dehghani

YouTube video by Allen Institute

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If you’re at #Cosyne2025 come check out some of the work from the Allen Institute.

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · last yr.

We're going to be at the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! We'd love to meet you at our #Cosyne2025 posters, talks, and workshops. Some highlights below. 👇🧵

How many authenticator apps does one person need?

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

My speech from #Chicago #StandUpforScience rally today. I wanted to write something that was about why I support science, not as a scientist myself, but as a citizen. This is dedicated to a dear relative, an arborist for the #NationalParkService. 🧵Photos from the rally in Chicago today by Mike Yen.

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

Angie Rasmussen@angierasmussen.bsky.social · last yr.

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target. They will not be spared. www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

On this list: Spokane Not on this list: Seattle

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · last yr.

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux

Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

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“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?

Yes. And You Can Too.

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“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

“More generally, this new effort is a direct attack on universities—independent institutions that provide a location for developing ideas and information that do not accord with, and often promote dissent from, the goals of the current Trump regime.” ☝️☝️☝️ That one sentence all scientists must read.

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Registration for the 2025 @mpfneuro.bsky.social Neurotechniques Course closes this Wednesday! Co-directed by Ryohei Yasuda & @denisejcai.bsky.social and led by an amazing team of experts, this hands-on course is a great opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in neuroscience 🔬🧠

Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Targeted stimulation of motor cortex neural ensembles drives learned movements

During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in the layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern. It is debated whe...

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Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!

Saskia de Vries@sejdevries.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications are open for our Summer Workshop in the Dynamic Brain!! This is a two week computational neuroscience course for grad students and postdocs. Check it out!! alleninstitute.org/events/summe...

I biked 2250 miles this year. 591 was for recreation, the rest was commuting and errands. Compare this to 2951 miles that I drove (half of our shared car’s mileage, probably overestimating my share of the miles)

I am still not over Celine Dion’s performance at the Paris Olympics.

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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This was such a fun conversation on open science and collaboration! Thanks @grimalkina.bsky.social and @analog-ashley.bsky.social for having me on the podcast! 🧠🧪

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Hope is other people" Our newest Change, Technically is about open science but it's also about distributed collaboration and how we get to the science of the future ❤️🚀 Featuring the amazing @sejdevries.bsky.social from the Allen Institute! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...