Mark Histed
@markhisted.org
How brain neural nets do computations; we aim to understand differences in brain wiring, using lasers and neuro-AI.
Lab head, NIH. Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network.
linktr.ee/markhisted; Pers. views; neuro posts: 🧠 /🧪
Lab head, NIH. Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network.
linktr.ee/markhisted; Pers. views; neuro posts: 🧠 /🧪
What can you do?
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What can you do?
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
Speak out on social media, try to get on local news including TV and radio— you can do that in your personal capacity.
They did this by a series of Friday night news dumps. Which means Trump cares about publicity around this! /3
Curing cancer is hard!
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Curing cancer is hard!
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
/2
We don’t want political hires, we want to rely on the best scientists as judged by the scientific community, as judged by peers and experts. That’s the way we do good science.
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
“we will need, the next time we have power, to do serious reform of the Supreme Court and do things like add new states…”
Short detour into history and Grover Cleveland, who in the 1880s and 90s understood they were admitting states into the Union to change the balance of power in the Senate.
Short detour into history and Grover Cleveland, who in the 1880s and 90s understood they were admitting states into the Union to change the balance of power in the Senate.
November 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“we will need, the next time we have power, to do serious reform of the Supreme Court and do things like add new states…”
Short detour into history and Grover Cleveland, who in the 1880s and 90s understood they were admitting states into the Union to change the balance of power in the Senate.
Short detour into history and Grover Cleveland, who in the 1880s and 90s understood they were admitting states into the Union to change the balance of power in the Senate.