A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Too bad no mention of the Crespi Effect, dependent on basolateral amygdala. Classic 🏆 ibotenic lesion and lidocaine inactivation papers by Salinas, Packard, and McGaugh, 1993; Salinas, Parent, and McGaugh, 1996 could have been cited. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...

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

Another beautiful sunset in the Oregon coast But days are getting shorter Winter is coming 😞

Replacing “duration of status”, eg while enrolled in graduate studies no matter how long it takes, with a fixed term. Note that most US biomed grad programs run average time to PHD of 5-6 years, not four.

The #NIH turns discovery into health. This is not political. Let us do our jobs. #FEDSTRONG

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."

Approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in, yes, the mid 1990s. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

You all sound like you have not sat on dean’s tenure committees arguing with folks from Math, economics, and English departments. Just write a strong letter if the applicant is deserving and don’t whine about it

shout out to the journal of the society (That I am a member of) that I review a bunch for charging 5200 for open access via springer nature. was a fun ride, but I am done.

I miss the old brand #CDC

The statement by Caroline Kennedy about RFK Jr has aged well www.youtube.com/shorts/fm0-a...

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

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October submission got me thinking bout this. Anyone got a hidden fishing hole that doesn't involve selling my soul?

sounds great but in practice not practical when near perfect grants have to be resubmitted. If a study section has 20 amazingly innovative and technically flawless grants with outstanding scores from previous review coming back, how are you going to spread the score among those 20?

there are 2 NOFOs. This one does not require human participants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

There is the theory that the rights of the author are irrelevant because the feds have a right to do make the accepted manuscript available on PMC w no embargo, because that is a T&C of NIH funding. This all ends if NIH funded researchers stop reviewing for SpringerNature.

From the Section toward the end, "2024 NIH Public Access Policy" in this grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Found as a link from here grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c...

Very excited to share this major update to our paper delineating VTA GABA neuron encoding of valence and decision conflict. Studies led by the amazing @margestelzner.bsky.social. We leaned in here, taking the opportunity to add a lot of cool new data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to announce our new paper in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eBpGY We show how CRH in the thalamic reticular nucleus modulates NREM sleep, helping to understand how stress impacts sleep Congrats to Loredana Cumpana and team, in work led by Simone Astori! @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social‬

A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.” Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.

New lab paper by @merridee.bsky.social identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility GABA, but not dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Because it’s time for warcoffee and a treat. Life goes on in Kyiv. We don’t need red carpets to feel strong.

Glutamate is everything What do you think tells dopamine what to do?

I'm updating my advice that everyone should take a tests and measurement course in grad school to add a course in budgeting and finance, based on some of the commentary on here.

This is great news for cancer research and treatment in Portland. The $2B gift from Phil and Penny Knight (thanks y'all for buying Nike!) pays for a "self-governed Institute" with its own board of directors and president, and with clinical care managed by OHSU’s clinical cancer services

Yum I’ll see you, and raise you berry clafoutis for dessert

Unbelievable that the HHS Sec pressures a top medical journal (annals of internal medicine) to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper with n=1.2M

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

Excellent piece from a former NIH colleague and #BethesdaDeclaration co-signer. She highlights the ongoing censorship at NIH and calls for the following three actions: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Just a standard reminder that statistics is a stand-alone discipline because it’s really hard and it is very easy to get catastrophically wrong. (This example is p-curves, beloved of the reproducibility/scientific fraud warriors, absolutely indefensible in practice)

The University of Arizona is holding an open-rank neuroscience faculty search, multiple tenure-track positions available! Positions will be in the new Department of Translational Neurosciences at the College of Medicine in Phoenix. tinyurl.com/42t8tcey

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I'd argue that the complete story bullshit is not only slowing progress but is harming translational neuroscience Perfect stories on molecules and "circuits" that cause depression, addiction, PTSD and loneliness in mice using crude mouse behavioral phenotypes, have not been clinically translatable

Love seeing the faces of our young talent! Future of behavioral pharmacology is strong 💪 Kudos to all and especially to our very own @merridee.bsky.social

Delighted to be back to Ernst Strüngmann Institute to learn and present at what should be an amazing meeting on psychedelics and consciousness www.esi-frankfurt.de/newevent/

So happy to see people taking this issue seriously. I wrote about this months ago on Synergies. synergies.substack.com/p/the-potent...

Strong and sobering signals that need to be understood …

Yeah dopamine encodes reward but what about when contingencies shift and behavior needs to be flexible? Turns out VTA GABA neuron activity plays a role, check it out in my first postdoctoral research article here!👇

New lab paper by @merridee.bsky.social identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility GABA, but not dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@coolzonemedia.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social went over his life and how he conceived the scheme in their podcast. My colleagues and research friends were shock when I told them about this. More people in research need to know about this. youtu.be/g1H5NNFdpF8