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Working through data with surprising but hard-to-explain results Engaging puzzle or classic head vs. Wall?

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Ok Philly people. Where do you find out about events? Both online and IRL. Summer is hard to get people to come out to events and I need to do a better job of getting the word out. HELP.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I cannot recommend Matthijs enough!

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#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience! Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia. Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Rough science day for me

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Congo to create world’s largest tropical forest reserve cosmosmagazine.com/earth/congo-...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

To everyone in PA, I know there is a ridiculous amount going on right now BUT, please take a minute (a literal minute) to contact our state reps about funding septa. Transit is absolutely necessary for a functioning Philly, and for meeting climate goals. www.transitforallpa.org/takeaction/

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a clear and present danger to every person in the United States, and in fact in entire world. He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

Gearing up for #MARC2025 at NEOMED in a little over a week to chat about my current research on auditory processing in the cortex, so if you're going to be there we should grab a coffee!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like a uniquely American brand of stupidity to try and mobilize troops for the battle of Home Depot

submitted 8 days ago • 232 comments

Your safety is the top priority. Peaceful protesters have already been harmed for doing nothing. The story they’re selling isn’t legit. Please film everything, document everything.

submitted 8 days ago • 219 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 8 days ago • 632 comments

Canceled health research: “The N.I.H. “regularly examines its research portfolio” to determine which projects are “the most meritorious,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for [HHS], said…” What nonsense. gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I remember how it kicked off the whole conversation that stopped them calling this shit “non-lethal” when Boston cops killed a college kid with one in 2004. These things shouldn’t be legal.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 13 days ago • 321 comments

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1300 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 16 days ago • 464 comments

RIP my favorite lab pen

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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

RFK Jr. just announced the CDC will drop COVID vaccine guidance for healthy kids and pregnant women. This isn’t public health. It’s performance. The science didn’t change. The politics did. Expect more preventable cases, more hospital beds filling up, and more chaos this fall.

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

….whatthefuck.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Why are my lasers so expensive?

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

A heated exchange between Van Hollen and Rubio: "Writing an op ed to the Tufts newspaper is disrupting the foreign policy of the US? That's pathetic, Mr. Secretary."

submitted 27 days ago • 1286 comments

It happened to me: a product I use every day in the lab was discontinued 💔

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 29 days ago • 162 comments

Cryptid and supernatural hunting shows are my guilty pleasure

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Life is keeping me busy lately for sure, most of it is very exciting Some of it though, I just want to nap through

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

submitted 34 days ago • 32 comments

Thanks for another fabulous EARS season. As we're preparing for next year's edition, we are soliciting feedback and suggestions. Please fill out this survey with your suggestions by 5/20/25: forms.gle/R64F9V3Wz7uf...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Why are tetrapods with ZZ/ZW sex-determination systems more male-skewed than XY/XX?. Phylogenetic analyses of a large dataset of wild #tetrapod species reveal that #SexDetermination systems influence adult #SexRatio via sex-biased adult mortality @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43qTysJ

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's NIH Already Cut 694 Grants: These Centers Lost the Most www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really proud of the science I've been doing lately and really excited to share it with you all as a finished product

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I know a lot of us are struggling in the sciences right now, but I have a friend with a PhD in neuroscience and years of policy and outreach/communication experience (including jobs and policy fellowships) who is looking for work in science policy, preferably remote or in the greater Pittsburgh area

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Hey friends are any of you at/near NeoMed or Akron? Or perhaps even planning to attend MARC 2025?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations. There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our millions scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.

submitted 43 days ago • 34 comments

I can’t even understand why people are arguing with Karen about this. There aren’t jobs in the rest of the world to sustain American scientists, “American science“ can’t just be transplanted abroad either.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

The funding cuts to scientific research aren’t like little annoyances or something. People are losing their careers, homes, and financial security because Robert F. Kennedy will do literally anything to keep people from realizing what a fraud he is. Anything.

submitted 45 days ago • 29 comments