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Neuroscientist, geneticist, educator, mentor, loves C. elegans, puns, birds, sci-fi/fantasy and kinda nerdy. You get my personal opinions here! 🌈
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Clearly, Trump cannot live up to this standard.

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

More complete analysis of NIH outlays (or lack thereof) from grant-watch.us grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Okinawa Institute of Technology is offering safe haven from USA immigration policy madness; they are accepting applications from PhD and Masters students accepted/currently at USA institutions. The scientists and resources there are top-notch, and the campus is beautiful. www.oist.jp/admissions/s...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to spend today with my amazing mom. In 1956, she told the NYU MBA program she couldn’t attend unless they gave her a full ride - because her family in a small midwestern town couldn’t afford to pay her way. They did! My 3 siblings and I were raised by a gutsy lady…

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies. @sarareardon.bsky.social reports www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

I love, love, love using @paperpile.com for citation management, including managing my downloaded PDFs. But…today they sent a poll asking how adding something like ChatGPT to Paperpile would help! 😲🙄😥 Please, please, please - don’t force me to use an LLM. And, you add one, let me turn it off!!

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

“I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to DO my job.” —Andrew Shepherd, “The American President” Too many of our lawmakers are worrying too much about keeping their jobs and not nearly enough about DOING their jobs, if they worry about that at all. It needs to stop.

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

BIG crowd protesting in Rhode Island!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

This is some sick shit

submitted 70 days ago • 5388 comments

www.science.org/content/arti...

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DOGE was never about efficiency. It’s a smash-and-grab theft of data from every government agency… “Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data” www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting. Let’s hope this is true and extends into other aspects of NIH operations www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

NIH freezes *all* research grants to Columbia. Going for the throat now. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

This poem will always have same ending…doesn’t matter which group they target first.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Ben Stein, a commentator on political and economic issues, taught about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the 1986 film, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Watch it tonight on the MLB Network.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I finished reading “it Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis last night. This short novel from 1935 (about an elected US President becoming a dictator) is weirdly relevant to our current situation… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%...

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More attacks in Universities. Rumours that Trump set to hack at Brown’s funds because they had the temerity to stand up for academic freedom.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Expected this to happen eventually… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Faculty across the country are watching. Will Harvard step forward, as the leader they claim to be— and fight back? Capitulation may doom us all… www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Loved the dissertation talk on how hypothalamic neurons help balance hunger versus parental behaviors by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social, mentored by @mikekrashes.bsky.social Great science, and a poised presentation!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent piece today in NYT on the importance of free thought and academic freedom, and why Columbia’s capitulation harms us all. One thing to add: #NIH’s special sauce has been the interaction of the in-house (intramural) research program with the university grants program. 🧵

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments