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If you had mentally filed Stand Up for Science as "sometime in the future", please be aware that it's in a week and a half, so get your act together and figure out where the nearest one is happening. They are doing a massive organizational job on a very tight schedule.

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The tell that all the talk about annexing Canada, Panama, Greenland, or Gaza is just bluster and not real is that Trump hasn’t mentioned invading Cuba once. If he wanted to actually BE expansionist rather than just LOOK expansionist, there’s an obvious low hanging fruit.

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Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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New favorite office art: my brain, 3-D printed from an MRI scan

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Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals www.nber.org/papers/w33495

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🧪For NIH folks looking for what to do next: my department, UD Psych & Brain sciences, is searching for a new chair. Stay in the Mid-Atlantic, start date this year! Please help us get the word out 🧪

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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

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NIH:

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If I was in charge, we’d gather up all the boys in the village and take them to a special hut and make a big deal about teaching them the secret of manhood. In another hut we’d do the same with the girls and womanhood. Then we’d just teach them all statistics.

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BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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We are hiring a TT Asst/Assoc Neuro prof! Research focused position with some teaching in Neuroendocrinol/physiol. Translational neuro research in any sub discipline for human disorders/disease would be ideal. Please RT. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

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They can’t Not Discuss your grant if they aren’t discussing any grants

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It is true that mammals will develop towards the female body plan unless something intervenes to change that. However, the EO claims to define sex by the production of large/small gametes at conception. At conception, a human fetus isn't producing any gametes.

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More #GrantMeTheWisdom The top 25 most male-biased and most female-biased terms to appear in neuroscience grant abstracts. Lots to unpack📦 First, fellow dudes, why is 'catheters' our #1 term? why? Second, I see multiple endocrine disrupting compounds skewing female 🤔

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We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

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Neuroscience is becoming less important, literally. The term whose usages has declined the most in our grant abstracts over the last 10 yrs is "important". The term that's increased the most? To the surprise of no one who has sat on study section recently: "leverage" 🤢 #GrantMeTheWisdom

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“For this proposal, we have assembled an interdisciplinary team with a wide range of methodological expertise”

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I love how the solution to the right wing guys’ fears of a fertility crisis is just them doing dishes

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More #GrantMeTheWisdom, I assembled data from the United States Burden of Disease Forecasts 2022-2050 and compared how many grants (and how much $) we devote to various disorders compared to how much impact those disorders are expected to have. ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-...

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In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages

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Here's another weird set of findings from this #GrantMeTheWisdom project: amongst regions, "striatum", "substantia nigra", "caudate" are all trending downward; "dopamine" is one of the lowest trending neurotransmitters; yet "reward" and "motor" trend up; "Parkinson's" VERY down. 🤷‍♂️

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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This is a great opportunity to repost Nicole Baran's excellent piece on the history of our field nautil.us/how-women-ca...

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Is oxytocin really "a female hormone"? Here's a snippet of something new I've been working on: an analysis of every (EVERY) neuroscience grant NIH has issued from 2013 - 2023. For grants focused on various hormones and neurotransmitters, here is the likelihood the grant had a male PI

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It's so cool finding vintage picture of grad students

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