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.

Congrats! Well deserved!

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...
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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.

Hang in there. hopefully they won't let this impact tenure decisions...though who knows how this will impact things.