Marc Slutzky
@marcslutzky.bsky.social
Neurologist/neural engineer/neuroscientist
Professor of Neurology Northwestern University
https://sites.northwestern.edu/sneuplab/
Professor of Neurology Northwestern University
https://sites.northwestern.edu/sneuplab/
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Marc Slutzky
@marcslutzky.bsky.social
· Feb 13
A step towards aphasia treatment: Study maps new brain regions behind intended speech
Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue.
medicalxpress.com
Happy to announce that Prashanth Prakash's paper on decoding #speech intent from signals outside the frontal lobe is out today in JNE!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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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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November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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!
@bcisociety.bsky.social
@bcisociety.bsky.social
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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
July 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
Institutionalizing politicized science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Institutionalizing politicized science
The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Gran...
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Institutionalizing politicized science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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
April 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
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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.
The horror show continues at NIH
I am hearing (reliably) that RIFs have started with entire institute Communication branches being terminated since their jobs not longer exist (reduction in force).
But that is not all...
I am hearing (reliably) that RIFs have started with entire institute Communication branches being terminated since their jobs not longer exist (reduction in force).
But that is not all...
a red warning light is lit up in front of a building
ALT: a red warning light is lit up in front of a building
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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.
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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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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Baldwin Leads Forum on Trump and Musk’s Cuts to Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Cures
YouTube video by Senator Tammy Baldwin
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.”
lnkd.in/gFrwcyc2
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.”
lnkd.in/gFrwcyc2
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Have you registered for BCI2025 yet?
Early bird registration deadline: April 2, 2025
Learn more at
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
Early bird registration deadline: April 2, 2025
Learn more at
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
March 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Have you registered for BCI2025 yet?
Early bird registration deadline: April 2, 2025
Learn more at
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
Early bird registration deadline: April 2, 2025
Learn more at
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
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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.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials
The manipulation of light with structured materials could allow mathematical operations to be performed with compact optics. [Also see Report by Silva et al.]
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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.
rules.house.gov
March 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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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Elevate your organization's presence by hosting a satellite event, gaining direct access to a global audience of BCI researchers and professionals. Deadline: March 7, 2025
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Elevate your organization's presence by hosting a satellite event, gaining direct access to a global audience of BCI researchers and professionals. Deadline: March 7, 2025
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
bcisociety.org/bci-meeting/...
Happy to announce that Prashanth Prakash's paper on decoding #speech intent from signals outside the frontal lobe is out today in JNE!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
(1/n)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
(1/n)
A step towards aphasia treatment: Study maps new brain regions behind intended speech
Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue.
medicalxpress.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Happy to announce that Prashanth Prakash's paper on decoding #speech intent from signals outside the frontal lobe is out today in JNE!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
(1/n)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
(1/n)
Reposted by Marc Slutzky
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
Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments to Unify Data to Feed AI
Oracle Corp.’s co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison said governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by artificial intelligence models, calling this step the “missing link” for t...
trib.al
February 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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.
NIH freeze ongoing. While the explicit "freeze" was blocked and then rescinded, the broader policy environment created by these executive orders continues to make it logistically and legally impossible for NIH to release funds as they would under normal circumstances.
popular.info/p/trump-main...
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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Keep calling your elected representatives to stop this nonsense.
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And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
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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.
February 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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.
Reposted by Marc Slutzky
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.
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.
2. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication.
February 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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.
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.