Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on a Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE) award from NSF and the Kavli Foundation (www.kavlifoundation.org/news/kavli-a...).

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a new lab manager to join our group at the University of Oregon! Applicants with experience in microbiology, evolutionary genetics, or protein biochemistry are especially encouraged to apply. See the link below for more information: barberlab.org/contact/

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Title of section 1 summarizes it: "The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience" The brain as a complex network. Looks like a fantastic book. #neuroskyence

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Lateral septum enthusiast? Interested in learning more about how LS projection populations and their inputs are organized. Check out our preprint in which @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social map out brain wide inputs to 6 LS projection populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

TACOs… they’re delicious, they’re nutritious, and evidently they piss off authoritarian regimes. www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

All new research grants have been frozen at the National Science Foundation, Nature reports, as DOGE considers canceling 200 existing grants flagged for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What our world needs now is more punk rock and more Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social

those that want to kill ‘woke’ just want you to sleep

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Is everyone on schedule? #2025MMM

🚨 The official What's the Deal with Birds? trailer has dropped!!! Yes, it's real, and it's spectacular. COMING SOON! www.instagram.com/reel/DG3g5Ol...

Very happy to share the newest work from our lab, led by postdoc @xinzhao322.bsky.social, with help from many past and present undergrad RAs. elifesciences.org/articles/94924

Please share!

This what MLK’ s daughter has suggested we do. Great list.

Some good news: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to what it calls a 'crisis' prompted by the Trump administration’s freeze..." www.philanthropy.com/article/maca...

Hi, BlueSky! We are trying to be more active on here. If any SBN members are out there who are interested in joining the social media committee, please drop us a line!

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

And #2025MMM Educators, you can request materials via this form (and please take the educator survey, it helps the tournament a lot!): forms.gle/PQcCVNFhaRvk...

WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2025?! Really great storified science, all new classroom animated video recaps, & more! In coming days we will be rolling out lots of pre-season fun... #2025MMM In the MEANTIME, overthink this teaser trailer: youtu.be/Uvb0Cic6r9o

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

First they came for NIH, FDA, & CDC… next they came for ALL Federal Funding… REMINDER: this is only week 2!

"I have a PhD; you have Dunning-Kruger" needs to be on a t-shirt if it isn't already

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Have you ever woken up and thought “damn that was one crazy messed up dream!“ and been relieved that it wasn’t real? I was really hoping that would happen to me this morning

Man, voles just can’t catch a break link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Have you ever wanted to run studies with #PrairieVoles but didn't have access to the animals? Now you can! The Cornell Vole Core is now open and able to ship voles to your lab! The webpage is currently minimalistic, but contact them to inquire. [pls RT] volecore.research.cornell.edu

Context is everything, isn't it? 👁️👂🫀🧠 Nice commentary on the below. elifesciences.org/digests/9152...

If you feel like we missed you (or anyone else) in this *Behavioral and Preclinical Neuroscience* starter pack, please comment below 👇👇 #animalbehaviorl #preclinicalresearch #neuroscience go.bsky.app/7cNykut

AI People! Come work here! UT Austin cluster hire in Advances in AI and Data Science for Environmental Systems. 3 positions, open rank, either in Integrative Biology or Jackson School of Geosciences. apply.interfolio.com/158908 apply.interfolio.com/158862 Pic of Nov blue campus skies for attention

Been taking a break from the socials for a while. But now I’m thinking BSky might be hitting a critical mass for some ‘unknown’ reason. Looking forward to re-engaging if this is 4real www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/t...

How do patterns of gene expression in parts of the social brain change during the life-history transition to motherhood in pairbonded female #PrairieVoles? #oxytocin receptor, #dopamine receptors, #opioid receptors New paper by Santi Forero onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

African giant pouched rats (#pouchies) show no sex differences in #oxytocin or #vasopressin 1a receptor in the brain. But how do they compare to other rodents? Find out in our new paper by Angela Freeman, Samanta Arenas, @dnlee5.bsky.social & Bhupinder Singh www.frontiersin.org/journals/end...

New paper from my group! Monkeys respond to affective touch like people do. This response changes with age and doesn't require consciousness. Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch in monkeys transcend consciousness and change with age www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sad to not follow March Mammal Madness during it's last year at the other place, the Read All About It has the tournament covered. libguides.asu.edu/ld.php?conte...

What if you lesion the hippocampus of male #PrairieVoles and put them in the field? (by: Lindsay Sailer & Caitlyn Finton) Will they bond (yes) Will homerange size change (no) Will it affect monogamous males (not really) Will it affect non-monogamous males (yup!) www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

What happens if the one you love doesn't love you back? Data show widowed female #PrairieVoles don't re-bond, but what if a male is paired with a widow? Will the male bond just as strongly? Find out in this just-out paper by Santiago Forero authors.elsevier.com/a/1i8WV_8a4x...