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I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

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Who thought running the EPM on 28 rats on Friday afternoon before a conference weekend was a good idea? 🙋‍♀️ Please let me know I’m not alone? 🙃

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nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

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JNE has always been an excellent journal!

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hahaha, so true!

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Great read!

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Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

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📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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🧪Good News! A key committee in the House of Representatives rejected the administration’s plan to make deep cuts to research programs at the USDA; the leader of the Senate’s appropriations panel called the 40% cut to the NIH’$47 billion budget “disturbing.” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Our Lab’s five years of work is out! www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🥳 Vasopressin (AVP) excites BNST neurons via oxytocin receptor (and not V1aR or V1bR) 🔬AVP excites CRF-BNST and OTR-BNST neurons 🧠 AVP inputs from SCN and SON excite BNST via OTR 🐁 OTR-BNST neurons reduce anxious arousal in male rats

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#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

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Just in: David Hogg is leaving his position as DNC vice chair after the party voted to redo the role's election. This follows intense infighting, and as Hogg told us, anger with his plan to oust what he called "asleep at the wheel" incumbents in primaries around the US. 🎧 Listen to the ep here.

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Double.

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Better save a copy of this now

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Here is a short script you can use to call your representatives and tell them to demand RFKJ’s resignation.

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The same president who wants to cut $800B from Medicaid and strip health care from 16 million Americans to fund tax cuts for billionaires...is spending $134M to send troops to CA and $45M on his birthday parade in DC. Burning taxpayer dollars to play king. Un-American.

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My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US: archive.ph/Y5WCM

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Our non-competitive renewal still pending - not in the lucky 99 pile! Outrageous! 🤯

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#NIH hearing on FY2026 tomorrow, 6/10/25, at 10 AM ET. 🍿

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CNN Video coverage of #BethesdaDeclaration 1/3

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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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That’s 3x the NIH budget! 🤦🏻

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Did the Tr*mp administration cancel your NIH or NCI grant proposal? Know someone who was affected? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the House wants to hear from you. Please fill out this link and share. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #CancerResearch #OncoSky #CanSky

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Senate hearing on the FY26 NIH budget with Jay Bhattacharya June 10, 10am ET www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

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Judge overseeing the NIH grant cuts lawsuit: "I've just come across this database called Grant Watch which is rather intriguing. Everybody seems to look at [it] for the data concerning NIH grants... This is like a physician's desk reference." 👏 well done @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

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Please call them today like your life depends on it ☎️

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the SECRETARY OF EDUCATION

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My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇 can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

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your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

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Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Scientific societies should be leading the charge when it comes to advocating for science funding, federal scientific employees, and academic freedom in this moment. I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.

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Postdoc positions available in my lab @ki.se Sweden - exciting science, fantastic environment and great quality of life. I take mentoring seriously - 7/7 postdocs that left my lab has faculty positions today. Existing datasets and funds to build new ones available. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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The Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics is recruiting group leaders (open rank). IGMM studies fundamental mechanisms underlying cellular processes and their links to human pathologies. Montpellier 🇨🇵 is an absolutely wonderful place to live. Deadline 31st October. jobrxiv.org/job/montpell...

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Principal Investigator submitting grant proposals for federal funding Circa June 2025

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This 👇

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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For those who don't know Randy Pausch, he was a computer scientist who gave "The Last Lecture" at CMU when he had terminal pancreatic cancer. Lots of inspiration and life lesson. Worth the time to give it a watch (whether or not you have done so in the past. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_...

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