Patrick Forcelli
@paf1984.bsky.social
Neuropharmacologist @ Georgetown University, Prof & Chair, Dept of Pharmacology & Physiology. Preclinical epilepsy researcher & basal ganglia nerd. 🏳️🌈
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OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply
card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"
WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply
card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"
WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"
September 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply
card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"
WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply
card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"
WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"
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Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.
Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
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Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
1/3
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
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I tried something similar using ChatGPT 4.o.
"I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.)
Could you help me choose papers?"
Here's the result.
"I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.)
Could you help me choose papers?"
Here's the result.
June 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I tried something similar using ChatGPT 4.o.
"I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.)
Could you help me choose papers?"
Here's the result.
"I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.)
Could you help me choose papers?"
Here's the result.
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It has been more than 15 years since the RDoC recommendations were published. The RDoC recommendations have had no impact on psychiatric drug discovery to date.
zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...
zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...
R.I.P. RDoC?
Part 1: Is it feasible to develop new psychiatric medications using RDoC guidances?
zendudest.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It has been more than 15 years since the RDoC recommendations were published. The RDoC recommendations have had no impact on psychiatric drug discovery to date.
zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...
zendudest.substack.com/p/rip-rdoc?r...
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Senate Democrats Host Forum on HHS: Day 2
YouTube video by Senator Peter Welch
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May 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Excited to have a new preprint describing the seizure circuit in a CNS infection model of temporal lobe epilepsy- great work from Alexandra Petrucci (not on bluesky.) #epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Seizure Circuit Activity in the Theilers Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus Model of Infection-induced Epilepsy Using Transient Recombination in Active Populations.
Epilepsy affects one in twenty-six individuals. A major cause of epilepsy worldwide is viral encephalitis. Central nervous system infections can provoke seizures in the short term and increase the ris...
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Excited to have a new preprint describing the seizure circuit in a CNS infection model of temporal lobe epilepsy- great work from Alexandra Petrucci (not on bluesky.) #epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hear why neuroscientists 🧠🧑🔬 should be valued, globally 🗺️! Prof Helen Scharfman 🤩 explains to us her #epilepsy research using mossy cells and the potential understanding them further may bring to people with anepilepsy and #anxiety! 👇🏻
▶️ YouTube youtu.be/KHBqEYT1ThY
🎙️ Podcast shorturl.at/e7XWY
▶️ YouTube youtu.be/KHBqEYT1ThY
🎙️ Podcast shorturl.at/e7XWY
May 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hear why neuroscientists 🧠🧑🔬 should be valued, globally 🗺️! Prof Helen Scharfman 🤩 explains to us her #epilepsy research using mossy cells and the potential understanding them further may bring to people with anepilepsy and #anxiety! 👇🏻
▶️ YouTube youtu.be/KHBqEYT1ThY
🎙️ Podcast shorturl.at/e7XWY
▶️ YouTube youtu.be/KHBqEYT1ThY
🎙️ Podcast shorturl.at/e7XWY
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At its 29th World Law Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 6, the World Jurist Association (WJA) presented both #GeorgetownLaw and Dean William M. Treanor with awards recognizing their efforts to defend and advance the rule of law.
Georgetown Law and Dean William M. Treanor Honored for ‘Upholding and Strengthening the Rule of Law’
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May 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At its 29th World Law Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 6, the World Jurist Association (WJA) presented both #GeorgetownLaw and Dean William M. Treanor with awards recognizing their efforts to defend and advance the rule of law.
Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology are looking for new colleagues. See the ad below.
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April 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology are looking for new colleagues. See the ad below.
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BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
April 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
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The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process.
They may not do that.
But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.
They may not do that.
But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process.
They may not do that.
But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.
They may not do that.
But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.
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Abstract submission for #AES2025 is OPEN! AES is the optimal venue to share your #epilepsy research with a global audience. Learn more and apply by 6/9: buff.ly/Zg7WM2T #brainscience #neurology #epilepsyresearch
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Abstract submission for #AES2025 is OPEN! AES is the optimal venue to share your #epilepsy research with a global audience. Learn more and apply by 6/9: buff.ly/Zg7WM2T #brainscience #neurology #epilepsyresearch
John Green did an amazing job with Everything is Tuberculosis. He manages to tell "people stories", inform on the history of medicine, and make a clear argument for public health policy in just over 200 pages. Well worth the read.
Everything Is Tuberculosis will have a SECOND WEEK as a #1 New York Times bestseller. Incredible. (Also, the audiobook is a NYT Bestseller!)
I am so, so grateful to everyone who has read and shared that little book.
I am so, so grateful to everyone who has read and shared that little book.
April 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
John Green did an amazing job with Everything is Tuberculosis. He manages to tell "people stories", inform on the history of medicine, and make a clear argument for public health policy in just over 200 pages. Well worth the read.
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New paper from the lab: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Optogenetic stimulation of the dorsal striatum bidirectionally controls seizures | PNAS
Despite a century of development of antiseizure medications, up to a third of people
with epilepsy do not achieve seizure freedom with drug therapy...
www.pnas.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New paper from the lab: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Well done Columbia leadership and Paul Weiss...
Trump: "You see what we're doing with the colleges and they're all bending and saying, 'Sir, thank you very much, we appreciate it.' Nobody can believe it, including law firms that have been so horrible. Law firms that nobody would believe and they're saying, 'Where do I sign? Where do I sign?'"
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Well done Columbia leadership and Paul Weiss...
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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Circling back on this…
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Circling back on this…
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Very proud of this paper, which spans three decades of work. (1/17) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Piriform cortex is an ictogenic trigger zone in the primate brain
Objective Area tempestas, a functionally defined region in the anterior piriform cortex, was identified as a crucial ictogenic trigger zone in the rat brain in the 1980s. However, whether the primat...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Very proud of this paper, which spans three decades of work. (1/17) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Scientists: Columbia’s leaders are not on our side.
Their incentives are neither to preserve US science or US democracy.
Their incentives are neither to preserve US science or US democracy.
A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Scientists: Columbia’s leaders are not on our side.
Their incentives are neither to preserve US science or US democracy.
Their incentives are neither to preserve US science or US democracy.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
NEI council: April 21
NIAAA council April 17th.
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NEI council: April 21
NIAAA council April 17th.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
NEI council: April 21
NIAAA council April 17th.
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
NEI council: April 21
NIAAA council April 17th.
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...