Marco Capogrosso
@mcapo.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @PittNeurosurg & @RNELabs #Neuroscience #Neurotech #Paralysis Founder of @ReachNeuro. What I love most of Science? my friends! 💙 Opinions my own; marcocapo.com
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
May 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
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Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature
Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Our paper is out in Nature.
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By examining various inputs to the motor cortex during learning, we found that thalamic inputs learn to activate the cortical neurons encoding the movement being learned.
Tour de force by Assaf in collab with Felix and Marcus. Congrats!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So, if you are looking for a postdoc in human neurotechnology send me an email, we will be looking for one soon #postdoc #neurotech #neuroscience
April 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So, if you are looking for a postdoc in human neurotechnology send me an email, we will be looking for one soon #postdoc #neurotech #neuroscience
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Bioelectric medicine uses electroceutical techniques to modulate central and peripheral organ function and behavior. Don't miss the latest research at the #APS2025 game-changer session: ow.ly/4v2250VlJQk #WeArePhysiology 🧪@mcapo.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Bioelectric medicine uses electroceutical techniques to modulate central and peripheral organ function and behavior. Don't miss the latest research at the #APS2025 game-changer session: ow.ly/4v2250VlJQk #WeArePhysiology 🧪@mcapo.bsky.social
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DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
www.wired.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland
Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning
ellisinstitute.fi
February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit
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Want to work in another country?
The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025
#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025
#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
www.hfsp.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Want to work in another country?
The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025
#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025
#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
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I know many universities are asking folks not to speak to reporters on the record.
If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me!
🙏
If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me!
🙏
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I know many universities are asking folks not to speak to reporters on the record.
If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me!
🙏
If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me!
🙏
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Chaotic St Valentines Massacre (mass firing across government agencies, VA, NIH, NNSA, etc) puts millions of American lives at risk. There is no vetting if these jobs are important, just blanket firing of everyone they can legally fire.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to...
www.npr.org
February 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Chaotic St Valentines Massacre (mass firing across government agencies, VA, NIH, NNSA, etc) puts millions of American lives at risk. There is no vetting if these jobs are important, just blanket firing of everyone they can legally fire.
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
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Dear Study Section gods,
May you show mercy today.
Please amplify the voices of our sympathetic and inspired reviewers.
Please bestill the cranky reviewer who misunderstood our grant.
Grant us the chance to do our science.
Amen
🙏
May you show mercy today.
Please amplify the voices of our sympathetic and inspired reviewers.
Please bestill the cranky reviewer who misunderstood our grant.
Grant us the chance to do our science.
Amen
🙏
February 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Dear Study Section gods,
May you show mercy today.
Please amplify the voices of our sympathetic and inspired reviewers.
Please bestill the cranky reviewer who misunderstood our grant.
Grant us the chance to do our science.
Amen
🙏
May you show mercy today.
Please amplify the voices of our sympathetic and inspired reviewers.
Please bestill the cranky reviewer who misunderstood our grant.
Grant us the chance to do our science.
Amen
🙏
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
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This is basically saying, yes they are breaking the rules, and we could put them in jail, but because they are the federal government we probably won't. But doesn't that make it even more important that you put them in jail?? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is basically saying, yes they are breaking the rules, and we could put them in jail, but because they are the federal government we probably won't. But doesn't that make it even more important that you put them in jail?? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
As a private citizen and human of the world I am quite worried by this development. What does it mean when officials defy court orders to follow a president?
BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
As a private citizen and human of the world I am quite worried by this development. What does it mean when officials defy court orders to follow a president?
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BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
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If you live in a state that didn't join this suit, you might consider asking your governor why they are not taking concrete action to protect scientific research, workers, the economy, and the people of your state.
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you live in a state that didn't join this suit, you might consider asking your governor why they are not taking concrete action to protect scientific research, workers, the economy, and the people of your state.
Here we demonstrate that neurotechnology can be tailored to change single neuron properties thereby improving motoneuron function in a human motoneuron disease. This opens new avenues for the therapeutic use of neurotechnologies in neurodegenerative diseases as disease modifying interventions 1/2
Hello BlueSky world! This might sound crazy but today we publish in @natureMedicine a paper showing that neurostimulation can revert motoneuron dysfunction produced by a neurodegenerative disease!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
First-in-human study of epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy - Nature Medicine
Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed after electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Here we demonstrate that neurotechnology can be tailored to change single neuron properties thereby improving motoneuron function in a human motoneuron disease. This opens new avenues for the therapeutic use of neurotechnologies in neurodegenerative diseases as disease modifying interventions 1/2
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Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.
@mcapo.bsky.social
Story via @apnews.com 👇
apnews.com/article/spin...
@mcapo.bsky.social
Story via @apnews.com 👇
apnews.com/article/spin...
A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.
apnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger – able to stand and walk more easily – when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.
@mcapo.bsky.social
Story via @apnews.com 👇
apnews.com/article/spin...
@mcapo.bsky.social
Story via @apnews.com 👇
apnews.com/article/spin...
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The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
January 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
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I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My NIH study section that was to meet tomorrow was one of those canceled. This represents many months of work by the applicants and by the NIH staff and reviewers. Devastating is the correct word.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
So happy for the Italian community! Silvestro's and Mortini's team came to my lab few years ago to train to tune SCS parameters and look what they have done! SCS works and it can be replicated easily! hopefully more and more patients will benefit #SpinalCordInjury
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
High-frequency epidural electrical stimulation reduces spasticity and facilitates walking recovery in patients with spinal cord injury
High-frequency epidural electrical stimulation reduces spasticity, enabling protocols to improve recovery in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.
www.science.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So happy for the Italian community! Silvestro's and Mortini's team came to my lab few years ago to train to tune SCS parameters and look what they have done! SCS works and it can be replicated easily! hopefully more and more patients will benefit #SpinalCordInjury
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events?
Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
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Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
1/
December 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events?
Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
1/
Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!
🧵 and paper below
1/
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An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
go.nature.com
December 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪