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ECRs of my generation

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All those asking about a Stand Up For Science event in NYC, here you go! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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"It was really interesting to hear unfiltered takes on academic life from other faculty who were up against challenges both similar and different to the ones I think about most often." ~Faculty Launch Program Participant Your #FLP cohort will be a source of connecting, support and wisdom.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

SfN joins 600 organizations & more than 3,500 people across the country in @researchamerica.bsky.social's coalition letter urging Congress to protect vital NIH funding. Read the full letter: bit.ly/3XhgFCJ #NeuroSky #NeuroAdvocate

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US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna

submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

With the next FDA vaccine meeting cancelled, concerns are rising about whether flu vaccine will be ready on time for next year. w/ @sherylnyt.bsky.social The stakes are high: 86 kids and 19,000 adults died so far this flu season. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 84 comments

In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth. Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed. This is not greatness.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Gutting research funding on the pretense of rooting out "wokeness" and DEI is gonna cost us. Expect serious economic ripple effects in blue and red states—and in private industry, and crippling of US science leadership and career opportunities. Already some schools have put grad programs on hold.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Esr1-Dependent Signaling and Transcriptional Maturation in the Medial Preoptic Area of the Hypothalamus Shapes the Development of Mating Behavior during Adolescence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640339v1

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“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

In these turbulent times, I am happy to share our NIH-supported paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Led by Zhewei Zhang, we discuss the rigor needed to rule out TDRL models of dopamine function - after all, when you aim at the king, you better not miss🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Sad milestone: As of today more than half of scheduled study sections this year did not meet as scheduled. Sections not meeting as scheduled today (2/26): BCO, CIHB, HHD, LHB, MABS, PMDA, TAG, CDIN, MPPA, ZRG IIDB-F. As of now, the NIH has no new postings to the Federal Register since 01/21/25.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

“Publication-based evaluation has shaped and sometimes distorted academia. The community faces a choice: maintain the status quo, or experiment with new measures that better align with our values,” writes Kelly-Ann Allen in a Nature World View article. #Academicsky 🧪

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Nucleus accumbens dopamine encodes the trace period during appetitive Pavlovian conditioning I will also be curious to know what is the time course of behavior during the trace delay www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Coding of the basic components of subjective value in primate dopamine neurons: subjectively weighted reward amount and probability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.21.639529v1

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Activation of neurons in the medial amygdala and oxytocin-expressing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus drive the impulse to revive an unconscious companion... An innate drive to save a life | Science #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.

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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Hundreds of NYC academic workers and allies came together yesterday as part of a National Day of Action to #DefendPublicResearch funding. They say cut back, we say fight back! ✊

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Interesting discussion:

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Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

#Breaking - HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This hits the #NewPI community hardest if true. No grant reviews delays not just work that needs funding, but the “cycle” of multiple submissions before acceptance. Funded grants build off of feedback on multiple previous versions. Evaluations for tenure and promotion will need fundamental change.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

👏👏👏 McKnight Foundation statement: "Despite recent events, actions, and executive orders, we remain steadfast in advancing climate solutions and racial equity across every part of our work, and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values of our Foundation." 💪💪💪

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 6 days ago • 561 comments

Gender imbalance in citations most pronounced in high-impact neuroscience journals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638905v1

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NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction." www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It’s @katherinejwu.com with the receipts. The NIH memo undercutting the NIH came directly from Trump officials. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Excited that Adam Lowet's PhD work has been just been published in @nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s415.... He has already posted about it on Twitter/X (see twitter.com/Adam_Lowet/s...), but let me re-post his thread here. 1/9

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

A 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

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 11 days ago • 231 comments

With all the carnage being indiscriminately wrought on scientists in the US, remember, a war on science is a lost war. Science doesn’t care what you or anybody else thinks. You either embrace science or you chase imaginary demons. It took us centuries to realize this.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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Exclusive scoop @statnews.com: Trump administration to fire 5,200 HHS employees this afternoon www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - or why we crave dessert, even when we're full! 🍰🍨

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Excited see the final portion of my PhD work with Vanessa Ruta out today in @cellpress.bsky.social, in the midst of everything. In time for valentines day, @rufeili.bsky.social and I describe how competition between males sculpt mating decisions in 🪰🫶. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

If you are wondering where the "NIH? indirect cost "plan came from, I stumbled across it. www.heritage.org/sites/defaul... Indirect Costs: How Taxpayers Subsidize University Nonsense 1/2

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Huge congrats to Cecilia Reyes whose incredible project on illegal evictions was just named a National Magazine Award finalist in public service. You can read her series here: www.businessinsider.com/illegal-wron...

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