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Laboratory for Affective & Translational Neuroscience, University of Maryland | shackmanlab.org | affective neuroscience | "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
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Carolinians, now that Thom Tillis is free to vote his conscience, you now have exceptional leverage over Senate votes. From now to December 2026, on every issue, light up that switchboard with calls to him. Start by thanking him today for his courage.
And print and save this phone list.
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tho the top-line recommendations are certainly sensible
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More trees. Corridors limited to peds, bikes, skateboards, and delivery/emergency vehicles, a la Madison and Paris
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Also. If you have Cadillac health insurance you may well be screwed when they close your hospital or trim your clinical access. Billionaires can afford personal physicians. Everyone else has to work inside the system, which depends on Medicare/Medicaid dollars for its existence
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Stuck it in the Fall2025 folder. Dunno. (Yet).
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Oh, and it's a patently disingenuous and really quite evil wealth transfer. Screw the rural, the poor, the elderly, the healthcare system, and the renewable energy sector. Forgot to mention that bit.
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Love rack 3
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KitchenAid that contractor prob got cheap. Works just fine. 3rd rack and removable silverware basket. The knives go in the top rack, but I stick em there when I wake up for kids to put away later
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Public library would work too
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Must-haves. Good eco performance and the skinny 3rd top shelf. Complete and total gamechanger. Use your uni library subscription to look at the latest consumer reports review
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There’s a lot of people who graduate university who didn’t seem to learn much, and a lot of people who never got the chance that likely would have excelled. And a lot of it is due to what zip code someone was raised in. Yet, we still pretend that everyone with a STEM degree is “smart”.
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I have plenty of problems with for-profit publishers, but that is not what this is about.
This will limit the ability of intramural scientists to follow the literature and of Program Officers and SROs to follow the literature and to check people and projects.
2/n
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Thank you. That gives me more (cautious) optimism. Tho I'm confident Vought will try for a pocket recission
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Ps. Thanks for taking the time to teach me civics, y'all 🙂
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So does that imply that draconian cuts are unlikely to survive the political and procedural reality?
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Also. The effect sizes in wetlab behavioral neuroscience can be dramatic. No need for stats, just watch this video clip. Which encourages that mindset. Weak associations do not preclude enormous effects with targeted manipulations.
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Extreme reductionism is a rational scientific response to extreme dimensionality. Physics cannot accurately describe the fall of an individual leaf, but simplifications enable us to achieve a lot of practical achievements at scale.
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WRT the push-pull model of emo reg (vPFC regulates dumb ol' amygdala): maybe? but some key contradictory data
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we have made tremendous progress in the past 100+ years of biological psychiatry....but we have also made next to none. does this sound familiar ->
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#reverseInference #constructValidity everyone at the car dealership waiting room is looking at me. i laughed so loud reading the one on the left, which reminded me of the one on the right (which you should read)
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4. reading kendler is better for my mental health than fretting about congressional budget negotiations
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my current best guess is the topline numbers from back in april.....
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I need to go back to high school AP government. I just skimmed the current house and senate versions of the BB Bill and there's no mention of NIH at all. So there must be some base budget that the BB Bill modifies. Is it the admin budget proposal? Something else?