chrispotter.bsky.social
Drosophila and mosquito olfaction sensory neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins; likes combining neuroscience and genetics. Professor and Co-Director of Neuroscience Training Program.
https://potterlab.johnshopkins.edu
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Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.
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This is fantastic!
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Great job! Your parents must have been so proud!
I really hope you get your R01 grant funding. The research sounds fascinating and important.
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Proposed new term for members of the Trump administration committing and supporting this behavior
CICADAS
Cowardly Information, Content, And Data Analysis Suppressors
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Great work!
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Wow, this is incredible! Congrats to you and your team! Such beautiful science- a model for how to do connectomics research. 😍
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Granted, not a good message. But as you know, any federal notice that includes DEI language is being replaced to align with executive orders (as we've seen for funding announcements as well). NIH needed to cancel their current Policy to do so, and is (hopefully) working to replace it soon.
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NIH is part of HHS -- so it didn't really need its own policy.
The HHS Scientific Integrity Policy is still robust. I just hope it stays that way. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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Welcome to BlueSky!
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Wow, this is fascinating! Thank you! Looks like the top "Professor" earners are MDs likely bringing in the big clinical dollas. Maybe I should have been an MD instead of a PhD. Oh well. At least I can pipette tiny liquids into tubes.
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Thanks!
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The salaries for vast majority of JHU faculty are a tiny fraction of what you see here. I wonder if these exceptions are mostly due to clinical work?
Can you point me to your source? I'd like to take a closer look too.
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I was also thinking of finance admins having to keep track of hundreds to thousands of IO#s with differening starts/stops for all these line items. It will be extremely challenging for it to run smoothly. Hence the need for F&A to help automate the process. But we'll do what we need to keep going.
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I put this into a post. Please feel free to share. Call your R reps and tell them "I DIDN'T VOTE FOR CANCER!" - and demand they restore funding to the N.I.H. now. 202-224-3121
gregpak.net/2025/02/08/c...
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I was also thinking this as a possible way forward. We'd need non-modular budgets to include many new direct costs. Ironically, it will massively increase the administrative burden to implement.
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Here's the archived page.
web.archive.org/web/20250118...