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Really excited to contribute to this conference! Hope to see new and familiar faces there.

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Menopause is a natural part of aging but often misunderstood. This week co-editor @neuromelody.bsky.social pushes back the stigma to uncover what really happens in the brain during and after menopause. pennneuroknow.com/2025/02/25/t... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧪

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Need to thank @melissajsharpe.bsky.social and @katewassum.bsky.social for letting me invade their spaces, get help from their team to learn optogenetics. This are much easier when you are surrounded by supportive women in science. And amazing to see the effect of ACC inhibition in 2 different tasks

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In short, there are actual data showing that in extramural NIH grant competition, Black PIs have to work twice* as hard to be considered half** as good. DESPITE all of the NIH DEI efforts that were in place at the time. *much more than twice **about 60.5% of the success rate

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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PLEASE SHARE 💜 With uncertainty in federal research funding & hiring, we are offering FREE resume/CV reviews for early-career scientists in the US who have rescinded job offers or who risk layoffs. If you feel this support would benefit you, submit resume/CV here: forms.gle/CCbbu2X5GJwH...

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Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

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hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

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For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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I'm very sad that "I have a paper on this" continues Funding delays of > 30 days lead to, after 5 years: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force (effect concentrated among those born in the US) - 20% decrease in wages - Burden is born by postdocs, grad students, and staff

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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

Several Graduate T32s (G-RISE, IMSD, Bridges to the Doctorate) and the MARC T34 (for undergraduates) training grants now have expiration dates of today, 1/30/2025.

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Tetanus on demand! (not for bioweapons, but for neuroscience research) Tetanus toxin induces paralysis by using a protease to cleave VAMP2, a protein required for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. To harness this toxicity and use it as a beneficial tool for neuroscience,

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news: this got worse before it got better @choo.bsky.social explains what the NIH "pause" means

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My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and waves vaguely this nonsense, and it will impact their productivity. It can't not.

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Hey #neuroskyence! Make sure you submit your abstracts for the first-ever #SPAN2025! Check the line-up below 👇

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Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Grateful when people make open source resources so students don’t need to buy anything. To supplement short videos I made (youtube.com/playlist?lis...), assigning some chapters from this for my Vertebrate Neurophysiology course plus some from this online book nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...

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An essay in Nature discusses how it’s an astonishing achievement that all of statistics and much of science depends on probability considering no one’s sure what it is. 🧪

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'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.' pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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Antibody reliability is a massive problem in research and many companies sell antibodies they know do not work. It is one of the main reasons of the reproducibility crisis. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict. We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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a fascinating and really important talk from my colleague @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social on how we can address colonial biases in animal behaviour research at #ASABWinter2024

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Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. Kids are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Undergraduate research at UCLA is amazing. Consider applying. #glia #neuroscience #brain #CNS #UCLA 🧪

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I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

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Having a difficult day, but I'm glad to have microscopy to inspire me and hopefully inspire others as well. 💔 The brain keeps being amazing. These are neurons in the neocortex #FluorescenceFriday 🔬

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Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...). Paper: A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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There’s still time to register for the first-time reviewers workshop with @reviewerzero.bsky.social! Geared toward people in the 🧠 sciences but useful and open to all ✨ Register 👇🏽 blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989 #Neuroskyence #Blackademics #PhDSky #AcademicSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪

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Alien Planet. Utah's Bentonite Hills are a colorful landscape of banded hills that make you feel like you're walking on Mars. These were formed during the Jurassic period when mud, silt, sand, and volcanic ash were deposited in swamps and lakes. I am in this photo, btw!

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Looking for an escape over the holiday? @meikeesther.bsky.social and I published a ViewPoint looking at the intersection of Developmental and Systems Neuroscience titled “More Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Development” www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

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Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025

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The Center for Neural Science (CNS) at NYU is searching for a new tenure-track faculty member focused on computational neuroscience — please share and/or apply! apply.interfolio.com/157767

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First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

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Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion & tenure decisions, with more negative votes, lower chance of receiving unanimous votes and harsher evaluation of scholarly productivity. URM women experience largest double standards. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"my least favorite thing in life is to be called “resilient,” bc it means that people only see me through the lens of difficulty. They love the idea that I am resilient, but they don’t actually care about any of the things that made me resilient." @kss_phd www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Excited to share our new publication, out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social . Project lead by the amazing @sophiepeterson.bsky.social 🧠 🔬🐀 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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