Dan Butts
@neurodab.bsky.social
Research group at UMD combining data-driven models and machine learning with theories of neural and systems-level computation
Are you an aspiring graduate student fascinated with neuroscience and enjoy computation? Apply to my lab at UMD for graduate school: we aim to develop a mechanistic understanding of cortical function using novel computational tools and large-scale neurophys. data. Postdoc candidates welcome too!
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Are you an aspiring graduate student fascinated with neuroscience and enjoy computation? Apply to my lab at UMD for graduate school: we aim to develop a mechanistic understanding of cortical function using novel computational tools and large-scale neurophys. data. Postdoc candidates welcome too!
The Conway Lab (NIH) and Butts Lab (UMD) are seeking a brilliant postdoc to study high-acuity vision combining large-scale electrophys and deep computational modeling. Prior experience (broadly speaking) is recommended: please email Dan Butts with CV and brief research statement.
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Conway Lab (NIH) and Butts Lab (UMD) are seeking a brilliant postdoc to study high-acuity vision combining large-scale electrophys and deep computational modeling. Prior experience (broadly speaking) is recommended: please email Dan Butts with CV and brief research statement.
NIH advisory council meetings are necessary to award the best grant proposals, which is a separate process than scientifically evaluating them. NIH has resumed study sections (scientific ranking), but funding decisions are still not permitted, despite the courts ordering them to resume.
Still not seeing council meetings added to federal register. Some study sections now added but if council doesn’t meet funds still can’t be awarded so the stranglehold on research remains. Also unclear how it is being decided as to what to add to the register @jeremymberg.bsky.social any thoughts?
March 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
NIH advisory council meetings are necessary to award the best grant proposals, which is a separate process than scientifically evaluating them. NIH has resumed study sections (scientific ranking), but funding decisions are still not permitted, despite the courts ordering them to resume.
This is horrific.
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
March 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is horrific.
Reposted by Dan Butts
Today, a collaborative grant we submitted to the National Institutes of Health won't be reviewed. No one's will.
Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section.
Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder.
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Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section.
Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder.
a 🧵
February 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today, a collaborative grant we submitted to the National Institutes of Health won't be reviewed. No one's will.
Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section.
Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder.
a 🧵
Grant reviews have been halted for study section after study section.
Yes, I am mad. But, folks outside science should be even madder.
a 🧵
Reposted by Dan Butts
In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact!
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
In your New Year’s resolutions for 2025, consider public outreach
If every person in the neuroscience community committed to doing one thing, imagine the cumulative difference it would make.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact!
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social.
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Reposted by Dan Butts
More holiday gifts from the lab. Out in Cell Reports, beautiful work by Dr. Karolina Socha reveals how nasal, back-to-front visual motion can trigger arousal-related behavioral state changes that modulate responsiveness and stimulus selectivity in the mouse visual thalamus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
December 20, 2024 at 2:09 PM
More holiday gifts from the lab. Out in Cell Reports, beautiful work by Dr. Karolina Socha reveals how nasal, back-to-front visual motion can trigger arousal-related behavioral state changes that modulate responsiveness and stimulus selectivity in the mouse visual thalamus.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...