Great fun @ #BCISocial at #SfN2025 this week. Had a great turnout, met lots of new BCI researchers, as well as old friends. Thanks to our industry sponsors for making this event possible. Excited and honored to help lead this society in this time of exponential growth!
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PATRIOTS! The Senate’s NIH vote on 7/31 could lock in a disastrous multi-year funding policy, slashing $7B from research. It KILLS jobs in PA, AL, WV, WASTES your tax dollars, hikes healthcare costs, & lets China win in science. #SaveNIH #AmericaFirst
Important and informative article about how many current jobs at hashtag#NIH and hashtag#NSF (including program officers) are being targeted to be political appointees. There is a comment period until next week - submit your comments if you do not want these institutions to be ruined by politics.
Institutionalizing politicized science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Widespread layoffs @ key federal health agencies like HHS, FDA, &NIH could delay progress on critical medical research, including Alzheimer's & cancer treatments. This puts future drug approvals & patient care at risk. The impact on public health is serious for you & your family. #HealthPolicy
1900 National Academy scientists sound the alarm: The current administration’s mismanagement and funding cuts to HHS and NIH will cost countless lives. Critical research into Alzheimer’s, cancer, and other diseases is being stalled, leaving you and your families to bear the devastating consequences.
Congrats! Well deserved!
Going on now:
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) forum titled “Cures in Crisis: What Gutting NIH Research Means for Americans with Cancer, Alzheimer's, & Other Diseases.”
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Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves.
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NIH is effectively facing a cut. While the reduction is modest (0.6%: $280m CURES Act), inflation turns it into a ~5.6% real cut ($2.67b) compared to FY 2024’s purchasing power. The NIH would face reduced operational capacity unless offset by future adjustments or efficiencies.
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Quick summary: Brain computer interfaces (hashtag#BCIs) for speech restoration decode signals from the motor cortices. These amazing results could help people with paralysis communicate. Many more patients can't communicate due to expressive #aphasia, which involves damage to frontal lobe areas.
Thanks to Prashanth, Tianhao (Alec) Lei, Robert Flint, Matthew Tate, Joshua Rosenow, Emily Mugler, Jason Hsieh, Matthew Goldrick, Josh Glaser, Zach Fitzgerald and Jessica Templer.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...
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These signals were distributed widely throughout these areas.
BCIs could help people with aphasia. But first, we must show we can tell when someone is trying to speak, vs. just thinking, so we don't decode people's thoughts. Here, we decoded intent to speak from temporal and parietal signals, areas traditionally thought to be involved in receptive speech.
Quick summary: Brain computer interfaces #BCIs for speech have focused on decoding motor signals from the motor cortices. These amazing results could help people with paralysis. Many more patients cannot communicate due to expressive #aphasia, which involves damage to these frontal lobe areas.
Happy to announce that Prashanth Prakash's paper on decoding #speech intent from signals outside the frontal lobe is out today in JNE!
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Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs
Keep calling your elected representatives to stop this nonsense.
And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
IDC rates of 50-60% are not excessive; they reflect the real cost of supporting research. The new NIH proposal to cap IDCs at 15% would force institutions to either cut support services, subsidize from other sources, or reduce research activities—ending US leadership in healthcare R&D.
The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities.
It's deadly to the US economy.
The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.
Hang in there. hopefully they won't let this impact tenure decisions...though who knows how this will impact things.
