Blood vessels in the brain deteriorate in Alzheimer’s, especially in APOE4 carriers. But what drives this damage? Our new study, out now in @CellPressNews , uncovers a mechanism linking APOE4 to vascular fibrosis and amyloid accumulation in the brain. 🧠🧬

Funding call is out from Intercept, tech-funded effort to prevent respiratory viruses. Goal: an invention that will stop 75% of infection w/ path to >60% uptake in population. Ha ha. I think it's called "masks." But they are def interested in drugs. interceptfund.com/apply/broa…

Has AI been a net positive or negative for survey research? In episode 1 of The Signal, Dr. David Rothschild (@MSFTResearch, @AAPOR AI task force Co-chair) joins @andrew_j_gordon on where AI helps, where synthetic data breaks down, and why transparency beats standards.

The human brain is largely inaccessible as diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s develop, limiting our ability to understand the mechanisms that drive neurodegeneration. To address this challenge, we created a multicellular integrated brain tissue, or #miBrain 🧠

Using a multicellular human brain model, our latest study, now published in @CellStemCell, identifies APOE4 astrocytes as key drivers of α-synuclein pathology, uncovering a new mechanism linking genetic risk to neurodegeneration. cell.com/cell-stem-cell/full…

RT @Lily_Stellate: New website for the @SuthanaLab at Duke. Neuroscience in motion — built by @stellatecomms to match the ambition of the s…

The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge has begun! Submissions and the leaderboard are now open. This year's task: multi-context generalization and zero-shot prediction. Models will need to predict perturbation responses in cellular contexts with no Challenge-specific training data. arcinstitute.org/news/virtua…

Excited to share our new preprint identifying THAP12 as the first transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial ETC Complex I and expanding the diseases that may benefit from hypoxia therapy. Led by the amazing Brandon Desousa and coadvised by @KampmannLab biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

Brain-computer interfaces implanted long term could help researchers unravel the mysteries of speech. By @claulopezneuro thetransmitter.org/brain-com…

Start assembling your team because the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge officially kicks off on Thursday, August 20. This is round two of our global competition to understand and predict how cells respond to internal cues and external stimuli. Expect a new problem to solve, a wider range of metrics, and a $100,000 grand prize. We look forward to sharing more details at launch.

The project is “aimed at making respiratory infections like the common cold and flu a thing of the past” time.com/article/2026/06/24/…

People spend ~5% of their lives sick the with cold & flu. Intercept — a $500M philanthropic initiative spearheaded by @stripe — aims to make respiratory infections a thing of the past. We're proud to have helped usher Intercept into the world today 🚀 interceptfund.com/

Intercept, a new nonprofit, will focus on countering the common cold and the flu. trib.al/WIGGohZ

HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @_TheTransmitter has learned. By @callimcflurry thetransmitter.org/community…

Early research suggests that some mental health conditions could stem from metabolic disorders. If so, the findings could change how we treat mental illness spklr.io/6018E3mEI

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

I have long written and spoken about the many ways US immigration policy harms international students and scholars. This has been true for as long as I can remember, including when I first came to the US on a single-entry student visa more than 20 years ago under a process formerly known as muslim registry program. But the current administration has gone much further, through arbitrary policy changes, travel bans, and broad visa processing pauses that leave folks unable to work, travel, or train. These policies affect a minority of scientists, and in the current state of the world they can be easy to overlook. But we should not let that happen. I wrote about the quiet loss of Iranian scientific talent in US labs for @TheScientistLLC: the-scientist.com/the-quiet-…

Lesion network mapping (LNM) has been powerful in linking symptoms and brain functional circuits, but ongoing debates highlight that it is still hard to isolate symptom-specific effects. We came up with a new method, robust LNM (rLNM) — a unified framework combining null models and selective specificity to reveal reliable, symptom-specific networks from background structure. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… @bttyeo @foxmdphd @ndosenbach @club_scan

Researchers at a national primate center in Oregon have formed a grassroots nonprofit to argue against the center becoming an animal sanctuary, a transition the facility’s host university has been exploring since February. By @callimcflurry thetransmitter.org/nonhuman-…

Salaries for workers across universities in Argentina have dropped 30 to 40 percent since Javier Milei took office, creating a scientific crisis that has driven researchers to the streets. By @natmesanash and @claulopezneuro thetransmitter.org/funding/f…