Casey Schneider-Mizell

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Applications are now open for the San Juan Winter School 2027 on Connectomics and Brain Simulation! Join us to learn how to analyze and simulate connectomes. sjcabs.com

We're thrilled with the publication of the Male CNS Connectome! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Also check out this (growing) collection of companion papers: www.cell.com/consortium/m...

Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

I know this isn’t a new thought, but so many people at the NIH do such vital and transformative work under the most difficult and uncertain conditions, it makes me so angry that this feckless coward coopts the respect those people have earned to lie again and again and again.

Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.

Not coincidentally in a period where VC and billionaires are poaching researchers to do connectomics in private, for (in my view) tenuous connections to building AI products.

I am impressed that I can describe a half-remembered neuroscience paper to Claude, getting a few details wrong and with no authors mentioned, and so far it is 2/2 at both finding the right paper and correcting my recollection.

👇👇👇 And don’t miss the appendix, especially if you’re a fellow bumpologist. They saved some cool ideas for the end. It’s a great read.

Interneuron aficionados — is there any published record of supernumerary axons in wild type cortical interneurons in vivo? They aren't as rare as I would have imagined...

I'm enjoying the heck out of the World Cup this year, in no small part because every game is happening during my waking hours. But a surprise bonus is how nice it is that every stadium has been stripped of its stupid corporate sponsor name for a few weeks.

My hot take is that not only should we have additional congressional districts, but there should also be psuedodistricts based on things other than geography. Age ranges, gender, income ranges. Each person should have several representatives who each represent different facets of people.

Heartbreaking to hear Sean Eddy (@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social) talk about how arbitrary cuts to his lab's NIH funding have decimated his lab Sean's lab has built computational tools that enable so much important biology research also quotes by @jeremymberg.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n...

The antipodal auroras!

Seeing discussion elsewhere about whether The Rich should be able to access public services for free even tho they're rich, and like, why are we so focused on whether people "deserve" things?

Airlines should be required to show you a big warning banner when you select flights on Daylight Savings transition days.

In what world is it even helpful to treat this guy like he's not a vicious, churning, petty, malignant, Internet-rotted psychopath

This seems important when thinking about all of the people (especially academics) who stayed in Epstein's orbit. Not that all would agree in the details per se, but that they were not repulsed by deeply held misogyny, expressed in so many different ways

From @bdpedigo.bsky.social: a super efficient, highly reliable, and very generalizable method for mesh structure classification, applied here to spine detection across basically every synapse onto a cell in the MICRoNS dataset.

There are lessons from WaPo’s destruction for science too. Public funding (via NIH, NSF &c) built in the US a science superpower in large part b/c of democratic values: agencies are accountable to the public through Congress, not controlled by whims of a billionaire. Autocratic control…

Excited for the publication of our recent work on how pyramidal cells shape the identity of interneurons in the Cortex! Big shout out to @artofbiology and Sherry Jingjing wu! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please apply. Amazing opportunity to dive into connectomics datasets for research, educational initiatives, outreach and whatever else your heart desires. Feb 2nd deadline.

Hard to think of a person who brought so many good emotions to so many people as Rob Reiner. What an upsetting end to an upsetting weekend.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Connectomics has a great presence here, with several instructors from our team! Apply if you want hands on training and feedback on working with cortical connectomics (and whatever else we might have available by then...)!

How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm? Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg. w @bingbrunton.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I had heard this was coming, but it’s still an amazing indication of how far we’ve come in the last decade or so!

The thing I love about No Kings as a theme and as practice is it cuts to the heart of it: this admin is a nonstop flood of the most unamerican bullshit and to wave the American flag is to protest.

I love this piece! It shows the many ways a connectome can be put to use, AND the many complementary modalities that are needed, beyond the connectome, to answer real questions. And it makes me feel good about having helped to generate the thing. :)

Calling out political extremists for being hypocritical (“they claim to value free speech, but actually try to censor speech they don’t like!”) is like calling out a football team for playing both offense and defense. They’re not trying to embody fixed standards, they’re just trying to win.