The bill includes a 33 percent budget increase for the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative, which has faced significant funding cuts over the past two years. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

Section 239 would block forward funding and return to incremental funding. Importantly, Section 531 would place deadlines on NIH to post grant opportunities and award funds in a timely manner.

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

I'll tell you what I do like though... Kindness. People who practice kindness in every aspect of their lives are the ones who hold this world together, making it better, safer, healthier, happier, and more peaceful. I look for those kind people in this world, and abhor those who reject kindness.

Apply to the Neurobiology course at MBL! It is supercool. Apps due Feb 4.

Parent and pediatrician here. All vaccines are still available & recommended. Talk to your pediatrician for more info. Know this: Even as our government shifts its recommendation language, I would never forgo the RSV, hepatitis A & B, or meningitis vaccines for my own kids.

Must say, while interviews with established PIs with deep cuts to their funding are important, the principal and longest term effects are on the trainees. An entire generation wiped of confidence.

🧪📣 McGill University is recruiting exceptional researchers through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. #McGillResearch #ImpactPlus #AcademicCareers #ResearchLeadership

We don’t have enough hospital beds to care for the sick kids we already have even without stripping vaccine recommendations. Our PICU is full. Our NICU is full. The pediatric acute care floors are nearly full.

(please share) Immediate #postdoc job opening in the Millman lab at WashU Med (St. Louis, MO). Want to develop next-generation pancreatic islets for the study and treatment of diabetes? Email your CV to apply sites.wustl.edu/millmanlab/

We are starting to see the first #NIHGrant review outcomes of competitive but not discussed. So of course it’s time to bench race strategy. I thought I saw it stated somewhere that the designation would not be on the summary statement.

One of the open positions at NIH is the Deputy Director for Intramural Research. This is an important position (sort of like a dean who coordinates the intramural programs in the various institutes). This position is advertised on Facebook. Here is a winning comment. Not a fan of this timeline...

Updated guidance about study sections and due dates during the shut down. (Given the number of emails about issues with submission/letters of rec I had, this will help with those). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

Multiple interactions with customer support have me convinced that a rush to overhaul/replace infrastructure with "AI" slop has made it nearly impossible for humans to intervene for one another (the way things are supposed to be). Megacorps w/incompatible systems selling products that don't work...

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Why yes, yes I am playing Final Fantasy Tactics on the Switch on our big screen TV while the family is occupied with funner things on a Friday night.

Apparently the postings are up for several NIH director positions. Deadlines between 11/14 and 11/21. hr.nih.gov/careers/care...

Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!

Today I spent: - 4+hours on txt/voice w/major telecom for device replacement via insurance I pay for - 2+hours navigating duplicate subscriptions w/"bundle" contradictions and login loops There has never been a greater need for competent consumer protections (which requires sane governance)

If you are a neuroscientist on the job market and would like to live in a stable and sane part of the country (relatively speaking!) take a good look at this position at Rochester Institute of Technology. Amazing place to work and live.

Happy Halloween from a dad of twin 11-year olds!

I am so saddened to read about the terrible treatment you received in the past many years, and that we as a country have turned our backs on amazing humans that come here to learn, teach, and add positivity to the world we live in. Safe travels and hoping for brighter days for all sometime.

Y'all. I don't mean to brag, but I just typed "experiment" correctly on the first try!

Pumpkins 2025

I am one of them :-(

Despite the mess, we are grateful to be funded, have exciting science happening, and have an opening for a postdoc! If you are interested in sensory biology and esp in cilia, thermosensation, or interoception, and would like to join an interactive & supportive group - please email. Please RT 🙏

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude www.wired.com/story/autism...

👇🏻 Fantastic 3 year postdoc opportunity here at Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So what are the bottom lines? First, a HUGE thank you to NIH staff (particularly grants management specialists but program officers and others as well) for getting this work done in a compressed period with many other stressors. 29/n

More NIH chaos. NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

🇺🇸 These dedicated public servants risked their careers to deliver an urgent message. 🚨 While the 1st amendment grants them the right to speak on matters of public concern, their protection is not guaranteed under an administration hostile to free speech. Please take the time to listen and boost 🔥

The best email you can receive from students right after a really complicated lecture is: "I was just thinking about class, [...] and I just wanted to say that I have been so inspired to learn more. It is so awesome and mind blowing how it all works I am still trying to wrap my head around it." 🥰

As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes: Alcohol Tobacco Cannabis Maternal suicide Maternal homicide Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C) Bacteria (syphilis, listeria) Parasites (toxo)

3 cheers for NIH grant staff! Regardless of everything else, they are heros!

Do you remember The twenty deadlines Of September

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Two solutions that would bring back #MedPeds trained #doctors as well as increase #Pediatrics workforce: 1) pay #Pediatricians exactly same as adult medicine doctors for identical work (eg pediatric vs adult hospitalists) 2) provide same respect as IM doctors (which isn’t much, but more than Peds)

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence. Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

All my afternoon meetings got cancelled, and I’m at peak caffeine vs. typing efficiency. Fifty pages of analyses to write or review. LET’S DO THIS.

Another casualty of the war our govt is waging against itself. Already lost 117 filled positions + 57 open positions, then another 60 to be announced this week. Shaved ad'tl $ by cutting future "grad employees" ie slots for doctoral students to do research/teach www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

This is me, one of those 211. My A1 R01 renewal would have been funded otherwise, and I was even initially told they planned to fund it. Now very unlikely. No more chances with this one. We had so many good things going-how do we keep moving forward? A question many of us will be asking.

The people doing the non-glamorous government jobs right now are really putting in the work. thank you tireless NIH workers. 💕🫡

My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.