A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue

If you haven't seen it yet, check out our article highlighted Up Front as an editors pick in the @DiabetologiaJnl September issue!

The National Institutes of Health’s budget, and structure, would be preserved under a Senate bill for the 2026 fiscal year.

NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half. www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

"Concerns are rising that President Donald Trump’s administration is finding new ways to shrink the U.S. biomedical research enterprise [right now]" Great article from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at @science.org 🧪

🚨 Required reading for every scientist, academic admin, and member of Congress 🚨 The shift to multi-year funding is a Trojan Horse designed to cannibalize NIH funding with zero congressional oversight The effects will be immediate. paylines will crater, labs will shutter, Americans will suffer. 🧪

Very excited for this review to be out! A dive into PET/MRS techniques for measuring brain glucose concentrations and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose in the context of diabetes and obesity. #neuroimaging #obesity #diabetes #metabolism #neuroendocrinology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

Universities are not passive beneficiaries of government largesse. It is the federal government that depends on universities to conduct the research that keeps our nation healthy, safe and economically competitive.I discuss in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The university endowment tax in the Republican/Trump economic plan sets a dangerous precedent of the government slapping excessive taxes on institutions it disagrees with ideologically. It also will cause cuts in jobs, financial aid and research funding. wapo.st/3HiYtDv

The "Make America Health Again" Report has the word "obesity" in it 51 times and yet the primary US institute that researches the impact and new treatments for obesity (NIDDK) would be sure to have their budget cut under the current spending bill or the White House recs (40% cut to the NIH budget).

It's not a fully formed thought but someone needs to connect the collapse of universities/colleges all across the country with the collapse of the sports (scholarships) industrial complex. I would guess a HUGE economy is kids sports in hopes of playing big time college sports.

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Sworn testimony of NIH officials and internal emails reveal just how much DOGE is calling the shots in killing peer-reviewed biomedical research grants. More bombshell reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social in @nature.com:

"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."

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Opthalmology Chic. Keeping that eye health in check!

Thanks to The Grey Matter Project, Sreya and Prof Sara Schaefer for the invite and organizing! Really fun to talk to the HS students who are the next generation of Drs and researchers about neuroendocrinology. medicine.yale.edu/neurology/ed...

My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

If you have patients or folks you know who have recently been diagnosed with stage 1 or 2 Type 1 Diabetes in the Northeast. Have them contact us! Recruiting for longitudinal PET/MRI studies!

I am excited and proud to share that the full version of my first research article is now available at Diabetes 🥳 Our manuscript shows the effects of cisplatin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent, on pancreatic islet function in mice. diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/art...

How a zero calorie sugar substitute, sucralose, can increase appetite by activating the hypothalamus @natmetabolism.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s42...

Learned a lot from this thread! And Michaelis-Menton enzyme kinetics is the basis of all kinetic modeling in PET imaging!

In our April issue: @liisagalea.bsky.social and colleagues outline how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid hormones in biomedical research rdcu.be/edRF3

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Unless these cuts are stopped this is the end of the post-war university

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

🧠🍽️ #Amylin acts in the central amygdala (CeA) to regulate feeding & motivated behavior We show that CeA amylin signaling is critical for appetite suppression, macronutrient selection & body weight control. Disrupting this pathway leads to hyperphagia & weight gain. #Neuroskyence 🧪 #ObesityResearch

Sharing for visibility www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/n... Thank you @statnews.com

Update... after NIH website chaos(?) over the weekend. Looks like there are a slew of new 01-R01s (91 NoAs since Feb 17) which is now about 50% of the number from the same 2 wk period in 2024 (186). Across many institutes it seems.

Med School Administration still acting like this is all a passing concern... Told to apply for internal bridge funding if you think you'll be in trouble in the near future. Unless those bridges are 5-10 years long, and start now, 100% soft money folks are absolutely SOL.

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

It's stunning how intellectually vapid and immature so many of this billionaires are. Absolutely no understanding of American history and the utmost faith in their own superiority.

This song hit (and still hits) so hard in The White Stripes, Strokes era of punk/pop/rock revival after the sugar coated late 90s/early 00s rock bloat. 🥁 Might be a top ten 2000s song for me.

Don't be a useful idiot puppet for the regime drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/d...

Perusing NIH reporter... It looks like the NIH has issued only 6 first year R01s in the last week. Going by NoA Date. 4 NCI, 1 NIMH and 1 NINDS. In 2024, roughly the same week in Feb the NIH released 79 first year R01 NoAs.

Hey scientists, if anyone out there wants to do this but is unsure about writing for a newspaper/the public, I'm a professional science writer and would be happy to work with you on your piece.

Thank you for amplifying. Let’s GO New Haven!

"NIH admit freezing is illegal, will resume issuing grants" popular.info/p/breaking-n...

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...

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.