Ethan Solomon
Instructor on K99/R00 in psychiatry @ Stanford, MD/PhD @ Penn, SB @ MIT. Interested in the neural electrophysiology of cognition, perception, and psychiatry. ethanasolomon.com
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- Reposted by Ethan SolomonJust published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...
- New paper from @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social in collaboration with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes at UIowa! We explored how TMS to the DLPFC changes neural activity in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, a key mood regulator. 1/
- A big (unanswered) question in the TMS field is: Does it matter that we hit the "right spot" on the DLPFC to treat depression? Many believe that we need to hit nodes of anticorrelated connectivity in order to suppress aberrant sgACC activity, but we're not sure if that actually happens. 2/
- Fully agree!
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- From @coreykeller.bsky.social's amazing team, led by @chrisclineneuro.bsky.social: x.com/DrCoreyKelle...
- Would love some insight into what has happened to @nytimes.com. Is a president embroiled in a child sex trafficking scandal with underwater poll numbers on a "winning streak"? Is Trump usually cool, calm, and collected, only now "displaying his volatile side"?
- Even if you think these deals are worth the tarnished academic integrity and freedom (they're not), paying an extortion fee to get your grants back doesn't make much sense when the rest of the government is working hard to gut NIH/NSF/etc on a larger scale anyway.
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- Excited to announce award of my K99/R00 "Theta burst modulation of hippocampal-cortical rhythms in schizophrenia," under amazing mentors at Stanford including @coreykeller.bsky.social! We will ask whether hippocampal oscillations can be systematically influenced by stimulation in schizophrenia.
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- Keller lab is an awesome place to work! Great science, great mentorship, amazing group of people at a world-class institution.
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- Why is Stanford not a signatory? President Levin has already publicly supported Harvard's stance against the administration -- strange he would do that yet find this objectionable. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
- Plainly unconstitutional.
- Wherein the NYT parrots Trump talking points, leaves claims of "campus antisemitism" entirely devoid of correction/context, and *not once* mentions that the unilateral cancellation of grants is *illegal*, instead framing it as an "aggressive stance." Unreal stuff from our paper of record.
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- When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonScience is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...
- What will university leadership do to allow early career scientists to thrive? What resources can be marshaled to support young scientists even as the NIH retreats? www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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- Reposted by Ethan SolomonWe are excited to announce that nominations are open for our “Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025 report. We seek to feature early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to community-building. Submit a nominee here: bit.ly/4bsoBXD
- ""Many of us didn’t think all of this would be so drastic, or happen so fast. But here we are. The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep.""
- Thought-provoking piece on how scientists may need to pivot to survive and thrive in a new world. Even if you think the status quo will stay more or less intact, this is worth a read.
- #standupforscience in San Francisco! Amazing turnout and great speakers from UCSF, Stanford, Berkeley, and more!
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonCompelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonFrancis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonTed Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonSam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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- First Democrat with a national profile to get arrested resisting Trump/Musk --> instant contender for 2028 nomination. Maybe even frontrunner.
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonThis breaks my heart 💔 Some of my most incredible trainees were Pitt PhDs, and I helped run the neuro grad program (CNUP) for a few years - one of the best and largest in the country I know this is the fiscally responsible thing to do but still, it is infuriating
- Excellent piece by @samwang.bsky.social with actionable recommendations for how scientists can push back. Highly recommend for anybody in academia.
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonA large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8
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- "10 minutes of resistance a day": The changes over the past 3 weeks have been so distressing that many just tune it out, for the sake of their wellbeing. It's OK to feel this way. But we also have obligations to help those who have already been hurt, and to protect the world we want to live in. 1/
- Reposted by Ethan SolomonJUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
