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nateurneuro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. All (bad) opinions are my own.
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Oh for fucks fucking sake.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is absolutely correct. Convo I had last week that is part of why I resigned: Much more senior leader: no, we still can't post FRNs. Me: Doesn't that mean we can't proceed? MMSL: correct Me: doesn't that mean we're not in compliance with the TROs? MMSL: ...um...yea, in a way...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is, frankly, a completely unserious level of armchair intellectualism.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

An important point is that NASEM reports are often *congressionally mandated.* As in, Congress wants a report of X on Y, which can include specific language (e.g., they ask about equity). Scrubbing that language because of a Presidential EO is what we in the biz call "a big problem."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, if only there was a growing body of literature that has been looking at climate related issues and their impacts on - say - children’s health. developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/br...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

And yet it moves.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking today of this absolutely bonkers PSA from Eric Adams. youtu.be/sk2Wc4Y5CxE?...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The very first grant on this list is an award to the University of Texas at San Antonio to get more kids interested in engineering by engaging school teachers. Ted Cruz is, quite literally, trying to defund children's STEM education in his own state.

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submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 19 days ago • 420 comments

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

Trying to preprint more, starting with some of our work looking at reactivity to visual stimulation in recent trauma survivors. Findings suggest trauma exposure may induce acute changes to non-affective stimulation. w/ @irosso.bsky.social & @brainstorm12.bsky.social doi.org/10.21203/rs....

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 65 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

submitted 23 days ago • 84 comments

As a reminder for AL friends, UAB - the big medical campus - is the largest public employer in the state and its economic impact is 1/5 the size of AL state revenue. Call your reps. Remind them all of that can go away if the talent has to leave.

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