NIH apparently axing the postbac program that was a launchpad for many thousands of future STEM PhD’s — my wife being one of them — that seeded the best academic and biotech/pharma research labs around the world. One of many pointless cuts that will diminish our influence.

Know any kids in your life who want to be a doctor or scientist, with ambitions to cure cancer or find a cure for Alzheimer's that's afflicting a loved grandparent? No exaggeration, what's happening right now means that many, many, many fewer of them will have an opportunity for

The sky is rarely green. Why? It was fun confronting this surprising question with the smart folks at the BBC.

Super exciting new work out from the Lee lab at ⁦National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)⁩ ⁦NIH Intramural⁩!!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilling work with far reaching implications not only for basic knowledge of how the jelly between your ears works but how to intervene when it doesn’t.

Great nature news article about what is being done to slow, stop, or even reverse geographic atrophy (GA), the advanced form of #AMD. Contributions from NEI’s Tiarnan Keenan and Kapil Bharti nature.com/articles/d4158…

What is the National Eye Institute?

Come join us as a postdoc to do some great science, collaboration between my lab and Dan’s, the best of both worlds (theory and neurophys)! See details in Dan’s post.

The recent paper pertaining to the binding problem implies that there is no functional specialization in the visual system. I am agnostic about whether there is a binding problem, but there is no denying that neurons are typically not both direction selective and color selective

Congratulations on the book Nicole, and thanks for giving us a new and hopeful narrative for science today.