This explains a lot! Trump Diverts All Science Funding Into Locating The Smurfs — theonion.com/trump-divert...

Every scientist and HR professional working with scientists needs to listen to this podcast from the amazing Hidden-Brain series. It’s the reason I’ve never signed out a day’s leave in my life and never will. But it’s also why I make sure I take time off anyway. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Not all grant rejections are equal. Some are more devastating than others. As a researcher, how do you keep going in those moments? The latest Science Without Anguish blog post discusses a topic we need to talk about much, much more! www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/when-a-...

Looking forward to talking to British Neuropathological Society and Edinburgh Neuroscience on Tue 14th April (1-2pm): 'The Overwhelm Trap' What is overwhelm? Why does it happen? How to avoid, or get out of it edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/the-overwhel... See also www.sciencewithoutanguish.com

Delighted to announce the latest preprint from our amazing team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Laura Carlton and Emma Wilson report luciferase mapping of the human NMNAT2 and SARM1 promoters, naturally-occurring human gene variants within them and their functional consequences. 1/5

Today in Science Without Anguish: 'It's not what you know, it's who you....trust'. When knowledge is really trust in disguise. And not absolute but greyscale. Why knowing this helps us cope when our knowledge is challenged. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/its-not...

Today in Science Without Anguish: how we handle experiences that don’t fit our mental map. The many ways that cognitive dissonance plays out in academic research and the problems this causes us. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/to-chan...

Science WITH Anguish? Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on. ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!

Today in Science Without Anguish: Is blame bringing you down? How we shackle ourselves by blaming others, also degrading workplace culture and raising our stress levels. But can we avoid it without blaming ourselves instead? www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/is-blam...

Burnout. @lizandmollie

Today in Science Without Anguish: how failing to notice when the wind is behind us makes us believe the world is against us when things don’t go our way. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/im-good...

In this week’s Science Without Anguish: ‘Short cuts to lost potential’. How confusing the simplifications we make to understand the world with the real thing can lead us astray. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/the-sho...

Science Without Anguish series 3 This week: the mistakes we make understanding our world that we would never make in our science www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/heurist... Coming up next week: how what grabs our attention most and first impressions skew our thinking.

This week in Science Without Anguish: how simplifying our view of the world based on limited evidence can lead us astray. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/heurist...

Science Without Anguish series 3: out now! www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/dont-be... Could clear thinking about research life make it easier? Next week: The short cuts our minds use to make sense of the world and the problems this can lead to.

Science Without Anguish Series 3 in out: Don’t believe everything you think! Confusing our mental shortcuts with reality. Excusing ourselves but blaming others. Not realising we’re doing it and making life harder for ourselves in the process. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/dont-be...

How much of what we think we ‘know’ is just trust in the person that told us? And what price do we pay for confusing the two? Coming soon in Science Without Anguish: ‘Don’t believe everything you think!’ sciencewithoutanguish.com Starts Monday 22nd Sep

Science Without Anguish Series 3 starts Monday 22nd 'Don't believe everything you think!'. sciencewithoutanguish.com How heuristics & biases make our research lives more difficult and ways to reduce this. Stereotyping, snap judgements, confirmation bias, attribution errors, negativity bias….

Science Without Anguish Series 3 starts Monday 22nd 'Don't believe everything you think!'. sciencewithoutanguish.com How heuristics & biases make our research lives more difficult and ways to reduce this. Stereotyping, snap judgements, confirmation bias, attribution errors, negativity bias….

Very exciting opportunity here to work with former member of our group and rising star @andrea-loreto.bsky.social Highly recommended!

Hi @andrea-loreto.bsky.social, welcome to BlueSky!

Morale? I have colleagues there who are leaving NIH for jobs in China, France, Canada, industry, or retiring early. That’s real.

Great to see @maxstetina.bsky.social here. Max did a very productive internship with us last year looking at evolutionary conservation of SARM1 and NMNAT2.

Job alert! Cambridge Neuroscience Administrator (Part Time, Fixed Term) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51034/

I wrote an Article about the Netflix drama, Adolescence. Free version here archive.is/goNeQ

Not sure if to laugh or to cry, but worth hearing either way…

Amazing to welcome HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh, Patron of Race Against Dementia to our lab! An incredible opportunity to showcase our work with living human brain slice cultures and the importance of investing in dementia research. We are very lucky to have her support.

Next up: NASA to review heliocentric model of solar system

Perfect meme doesn’t exi….🤣🎯

Postdoctoral by-fellowships at @churchillcol.bsky.social Closing date next Friday 14th March at 12:00 midday!

Grateful for all the people mobilizing across the US and the world for #StandUpForScience! Many reasons motivating this movement, but yesterday as I was reviewing undergrads applications for summer internships, I was reminded of how important this is for the next generation of scientists.

#standupforscience2025 NYC

Chalfie: “we should recruit those who have traditionally been excluded [into science]. We need their intelligence and perspective. I strongly believe in DEI” #standupforscience2025 NYC

Making our voices heard! Keep at it y’all! 🧪🧠👩‍🔬🫶 #standupforscience2025

Hi @mauramalpetti.bsky.social Great to connect on BlueSky!

Can I tempt some young minds to consider Old York for a PhD? Some days left to apply. Open to applicants WORLDWIDE 🌎.

Hard agree. The integrity of the @royalsociety.org is worth immeasurably more in the long run than any short-term damage from expelling him.

What a fun review to write with @petetheteapot.bsky.social on metabolic dysfunction in glaucoma! It’s out today in Glaucoma Today 😆 enjoy the read at the link below🧪 #glaucoma glaucomatoday.com/articles/202...

Whatever the reasons for today's PubMed outages, it may be living on borrowed time in its present form. This would be like burning the great library of Alexandria. "Will They Come for PubMed Next?"

We will be standing up in South Carolina! See y’all at the state house in Columbia from 12-4pm. This is not a time to be silent and to sit back and watch the destruction. I’m sure going to do whatever I can to fight for the future and fight for my trainees futures. #standupforscience2025

It’s sick! This continent has not forgotten where that leads even if Trump and his opportunist ‘friends’ think an ocean will keep them safe - until it doesn’t!

I am taking the decision today not to attend this year’s @sfn.org meeting in protest at the USA’s treatment of the rest of the world (except Russia!) and especially Ukraine. The USA cannot succeed alone in science, economics, war or anything else and needs to learn this fast.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6.... Starmer invited him? 🤮 Time for the largest ever protest in the UK? I’ll be there!

Fantastic conference, incredible speaker line up. Registration is excellent value and subsidised for students Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Interventions & Recovery 10-11 September 2025, Cambridge, UK Open to all! neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

I'm super excited to share our study in collaboration with @jnpruneda.bsky.social, published today in @embojournal.org! We show that PARPs are modified with a non-canonical ester-linked mono-ADP-ribosylated ubiquitin species for the first time in cells: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🧠 Looking for an exciting lab job? @lyons-lab.bsky.social works on mechanisms of myelinated axon formation, health & function and is looking for a technician (deadline 3/3) and a senior imaging technician to work in the UK Zebrafish Imaging & Screening Facility (deadline 14/3). Links below 👇

You’re doing a great job @clairedurrant1.bsky.social (or jobs!). Hope you also manage to find a bit of ‘me’ and ‘us’ time occasionally to keep it sustainable.🤞

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