David J. Linden
@davidlinden.bsky.social
Neurobiologist and author
It was a delight to speak with Dr. Faris of Dubai on his MedEmpire podcast. We discussed many of the topics covered in my 2020 book "Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality." www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBTt...
Genetics & Human Individuality – Johns Hopkins Leading Neuroscientist | Dr. David Linden
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September 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It was a delight to speak with Dr. Faris of Dubai on his MedEmpire podcast. We discussed many of the topics covered in my 2020 book "Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality." www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBTt...
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A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
August 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
Oy! Again with the fascism? I signed and I hope that my fellow Johns Hopkins yids will join in.
July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Oy! Again with the fascism? I signed and I hope that my fellow Johns Hopkins yids will join in.
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Pour one out for Tom Lehrer for keeping it real
![In 2012, rapper 2 Chainz sampled Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", on his 2012 debut album, Based on a T.R.U. Story. In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his song sampled "literally sixty years after I recorded it". Lehrer went on to describe his official response to the request to use his song: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" (35)[67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r67diaplizv44lt6tcbmurwr/bafkreigc4svclnsmkega27xhkxsiqnvek7g3t34isu624qgu36mcugx4lu@jpeg)
July 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pour one out for Tom Lehrer for keeping it real
The conversation ranged from the neurobiology of love to the disaster of science funding under the Trump administration. Please do have a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G4Y...
July 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The conversation ranged from the neurobiology of love to the disaster of science funding under the Trump administration. Please do have a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G4Y...
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New collaborative study out with Mark Wu’s group identifies a thalamic reuniens-zona incerta circuit as both responsive to induced sleep deprivation and essential for mediating recovery sleep. Further perspective on this work follows./1
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep
Prolonged wakefulness leads to persistent, deep recovery sleep (RS). However, the neuronal circuits that mediate this process remain elusive. From a circuit screen in mice, we identified a group of th...
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June 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New collaborative study out with Mark Wu’s group identifies a thalamic reuniens-zona incerta circuit as both responsive to induced sleep deprivation and essential for mediating recovery sleep. Further perspective on this work follows./1
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
April 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
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Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations.
Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
April 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations.
Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
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Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
A modest proposal: USA gets Greenland and Denmark gets Texas. Win-win!
December 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
A modest proposal: USA gets Greenland and Denmark gets Texas. Win-win!
Read this.
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
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December 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Read this.
At a time when support for biomedical research has never been more uncertain in the USA, we have 766 applications for 16 places in our Neuroscience Graduate Program here at Johns Hopkins. I suspect that other neuroscience programs are seeing a similar situation.
December 20, 2024 at 3:06 PM
At a time when support for biomedical research has never been more uncertain in the USA, we have 766 applications for 16 places in our Neuroscience Graduate Program here at Johns Hopkins. I suspect that other neuroscience programs are seeing a similar situation.
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Please read this extraordinarily honest & moving piece about assisted dying, motor neurone disease, palliative care & a beloved father’s death from his daughter’s perspective. There is nothing more profound you will read all week. Thank you, Sarah-Jayne. Sending warmest wishes to you & your family.
I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Free version of the article in the next post
Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
What my dad’s death taught me about the assisted dying debate
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and her sisters knew their father, the neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore, had always planned to go to the Netherlands in the face of terminal motor neurone disease. But the real...
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Please read this extraordinarily honest & moving piece about assisted dying, motor neurone disease, palliative care & a beloved father’s death from his daughter’s perspective. There is nothing more profound you will read all week. Thank you, Sarah-Jayne. Sending warmest wishes to you & your family.
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Good morning, my people
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Good morning, my people
Euan Ashley on E Topol's podcast "if you look at this very big study of .5 million people and look at their physical activity over the course of years and correlate it with their likelihood of being alive or being dead, then it was clear that 1 minute of exercise bought you 5 minutes of extra life."
Euan Ashley: Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known
Listen now (48 mins) |
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November 15, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Euan Ashley on E Topol's podcast "if you look at this very big study of .5 million people and look at their physical activity over the course of years and correlate it with their likelihood of being alive or being dead, then it was clear that 1 minute of exercise bought you 5 minutes of extra life."
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The bossa nova cover of Black Flag’s Too Drunk To &$#% by Nouvelle Vague is epic: youtu.be/DElRqo8u1vQ?...
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck (Full Track)
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August 31, 2024 at 1:12 AM
The bossa nova cover of Black Flag’s Too Drunk To &$#% by Nouvelle Vague is epic: youtu.be/DElRqo8u1vQ?...
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<FACEPALM> Dead Kennedys.
August 31, 2024 at 1:16 AM
<FACEPALM> Dead Kennedys.
I'm totally enthused about this Walz guy for VP.
August 7, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I'm totally enthused about this Walz guy for VP.
Is it weird that my new piece in Aeon about sexual sensation is framed by a discussion of my father's psychoanalytic practice? Yes, it is. aeon.co/essays/what-...
What explains the variations in sexual sensation between us? | Aeon Essays
What makes touch on some parts of the body erotic but not others? Cutting-edge biologists are arriving at new answers
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August 1, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Is it weird that my new piece in Aeon about sexual sensation is framed by a discussion of my father's psychoanalytic practice? Yes, it is. aeon.co/essays/what-...
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Don’t let them fool you. RFK, Jr. received his funding from big Republican donors.
Steve Bannon urged him to run!
Why? Because he’s there to play spoiler.
Democrats shouldn’t fall for it. A vote for RFK, Jr. is a vote to help Trump win, plain and simple.
Steve Bannon urged him to run!
Why? Because he’s there to play spoiler.
Democrats shouldn’t fall for it. A vote for RFK, Jr. is a vote to help Trump win, plain and simple.
March 28, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Don’t let them fool you. RFK, Jr. received his funding from big Republican donors.
Steve Bannon urged him to run!
Why? Because he’s there to play spoiler.
Democrats shouldn’t fall for it. A vote for RFK, Jr. is a vote to help Trump win, plain and simple.
Steve Bannon urged him to run!
Why? Because he’s there to play spoiler.
Democrats shouldn’t fall for it. A vote for RFK, Jr. is a vote to help Trump win, plain and simple.
Was the architect of the Palacio Postal in Mexico City actually M.C. Escher?
March 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Was the architect of the Palacio Postal in Mexico City actually M.C. Escher?
This is a total power move. Jessie Weinreb Benedict from my lab takes questions at the end of her excellent public dissertation talk with her toddler son, Elias, on her hip. Congratulations Dr. Benedict!
February 24, 2024 at 2:01 PM
This is a total power move. Jessie Weinreb Benedict from my lab takes questions at the end of her excellent public dissertation talk with her toddler son, Elias, on her hip. Congratulations Dr. Benedict!
From the NYT: “From 2010 to 2016, each of the 210 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration was connected to research funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to the scientific journal PNAS”
January 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM
From the NYT: “From 2010 to 2016, each of the 210 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration was connected to research funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to the scientific journal PNAS”