John Kubie
@JohnKubie
Neuroscientist, sometimes grumpy
worth reading. gift link. wapo.st/3RWUWg8
Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure. @Milbank brings the receipts. wapo.st/3RWUWg8
Sequential predictive learning is a unifying theory for hippocampal representation and replay biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
CARL SAGAN explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2000 years ago. COSMOS (1980)
We need more compassionate discussions clarifying what constitutes antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism. Link below to a nice example in the @ColumbiaSpec
Do you know that biology does not solve problems by using a lot of energy? Did you know that they are building nuclear plants to power AI? Did you know that brains are smarter and run on 20W? Do you know that this means that brain compute using different principles?
I’ve reviewed the texts and emails the whistleblower supplied to back up his comprehensive report and warning about Trump administration efforts to defy and ignore court orders. 🧵 nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/…
The leader of the free world!
The current leader who best epitomizes the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Wow, what a revelation. It’s almost as if I told you that story myself on national television 7 years ago! Oh wait:
Meet Sandy Cortez (AOC) from Yorktown Heights — the suburbs.
What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)? You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success” ❌ NOPE!!! 1-3% because 80% of the budget is for existing grants New science? Starved Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢 #FundingScienceSavesLives
Jumaane Williams (@JumaaneWilliams) speaking at the NYC Protest in Foley Square against Trump's Travel Ban
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. Link in next post
Doge Day Afternoon
Musk is right: this bill IS a “disgusting abomination”. We shouldn’t give $664 billion in tax breaks to the 1%. We shouldn’t throw 13.7 million people off of Medicaid. We shouldn’t cut $290 billion from programs to feed the hungry. Let’s defeat this disgusting abomination.
This chart made by Peter Gleick shows the proposed cuts to science graphically. This is bad for America. Please ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives
This budget proposes to cut the NIH by nearly half, a 40% reduction. The NIH has been responsible for an extraordinary number of lifesaving cures and has been an economic power engine unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-st… Ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives
Do you remember the movie Awakenings? The miracle drug that treated those locked-in patients was L-Dopa, developed with NIH funding, & the gold standard for treating Parkinson’s disease. publicusaresearchbenefits.com/examples/2025-… Ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives
Harold Koh, Yale Law Professor & fmr State Dept Legal Advisor, lays out the legal stakes of Trump’s attacks on universities: “Where the administration crossed the line with Harvard is: it started to tell them what they could teach, who could be admitted, who could be hired. And…
Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is 'completely certain' he is kyivindependent.com/is-donald-trum…
Is this the fruit of the deferential approach that the university has adopted? Or is this fallout from the leaked faculty meeting? Or the inexorable stepwise demolition of scientific research?
Well, this is going well science.org/content/articl…