Elise Demeter
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Education researcher & cognitive neuroscientist using data for good at UNC Charlotte
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David Blanchflower BSc
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Illustration of the many stars we can't see with the naked eye. 🔭 🧪
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Blake Richards
6 months ago
1/7) Thoughtful article from
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social
here, very well worth a read! I am sympathetic to the argument, but not entirely in agreement (no surprise there, I suppose). Specifically, I take a different lesson from other large-scale science projects' successes and failures. 🧠📈 🧪
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Haunting.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-broke
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Starting the morning strong at
#SciTalk25
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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California Council on Science and Technology (CCST)
8 months ago
Want to use your expertise to engage with science policy? Subscribe to our Calls for Experts and receive opportunities to serve as panelists, moderators, peer reviewers, and more for our briefings and studies. Subscribe:
lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/h6gfVf6/E...
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CCST Calls for Experts
Sign up to receive our calls for experts.
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/h6gfVf6/Experts
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Katie Wilkinson
9 months ago
Heading back from
#FASEBOnTheHill
and want to share what I learned and why I think all scientists need to be setting up meetings w their reps to talk about the impacts on science of the current chaos.
#AcademicSky
#NeuroSky
@faseborg.bsky.social
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
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I have a book chapter in Meta’s AI model. I didn’t even get a copy of that book as an author 🫠
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Good mentoring is critical for early-career researchers. We can improve our mentoring skills through formal training & experience mentoring diverse individuals 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BKNP4...
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Developing faculty research mentors: Influence of experience with diverse mentees, gender, and mentorship training
Effective mentoring is crucial for early-career researchers, and formal mentor training programs have demonstrated benefits for participating faculty. To determine how mentor training generalizes t...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BKNP4S7PX277KGI4937H/full?target=10.1080/08989621.2023.2280234
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
9 months ago
🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists
#StandUpForScience
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A needed boost for
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A thread worth reading on NSF funding.
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This is the narrative 👇. We need to tell the stories again & again of how NIH & NSF funding benefits our neighbors. 🧪
#scicomm
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Hit up the thread below folks 🧪
#scicomm
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#scicomm
Way to go
@flagel-lab.bsky.social
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Usha Lee McFarling
9 months ago
BREAKING NEWS from
@jonathanwosen.bsky.social
Cuts to indirect costs blocked by judge
www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...
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Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments
A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/nih-indirect-costs-lawsuit-federal-judge-extends-order-blocking-trump-cuts/?utm_campaign=breaking_news&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8xz_FJar1LCCx0-nU3HXErC1itULsOl19kNl4a7QFwIJeGFW7cWQ_JS0JZCIjMWT-IzggxL79w4Lbq-KZb2TltyRbxGrXPX7qhaPXU8ezIBJoeYr8&_hsmi=350293457&utm_content=350293457&utm_source=hs_email
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#scicomm
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Pup’s first snow ❄️ ❄️
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resources from
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I was happy to speak as a parent at my Town Board meeting today in support of our local children’s science museum. They seek additional space to expand their exhibits & reach a broader age range. 🧪
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Jonathan Lambert
10 months ago
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
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Rick Huganir
10 months ago
I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all.
time.com/7216299/nih-...
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Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science
The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.
https://time.com/7216299/nih-budget-cuts-science-research-funding/
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Jeff Jackson
10 months ago
Update:
www.wcnc.com/article/news...
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North Carolina AG wins legal battle over Trump's birthright citizenship order
He joined more than 20 other attorneys general back in January to fight the ban in court.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/north-carolina-ag-wins-legal-battle-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/275-ca26c67b-bedb-4d24-a070-3306bd4c2a50
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Marco A. Maximo Prado
10 months ago
My group would take at least 2 people interested in neurodegeneration as post docs
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Candace Winstead
10 months ago
This is outstanding!
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Katie Mack
10 months ago
I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️🌈♾️
10 months ago
The NSF Broadening Participation webpage has been quite gutted. There used to be articles on the left side, including indigenous initiatives... and now they are all gone. The paragraph is also smaller than it used to be.
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@jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social
thank you for understanding the assignment. NC is a major recipient of federal research funding.
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Greg Pask
10 months ago
Today is our first day of class, would really appreciate if some of you amazing biologists would be willing to speak with my students!
#iTeachBio
#GeneChat
#SciComm
#cellbio
🧬 Here's the link to sign up again, and please check out the thread below for more details!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Thank you
@jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social
for protecting North Carolinians.
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Nicole Rust
10 months ago
News that makes me smile: I just matched via
@skypeascientist.bsky.social
with a group of middle schoolers interested in psychology. I'm looking forward to our chat. If you too want to participate in this type of low-burden, uplifting! science advocacy, here's the link:
www.skypeascientist.com
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SKYPE A SCIENTIST
Skype a Scientist matches your classroom, scout troop, or library with scientists for Q&A sessions for free!
https://www.skypeascientist.com/
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Dr Craig R McClain
10 months ago
Let's call this
#praiseascientist
. And how about the awesome work of
@jopabinia.bsky.social
delving into the macroevolution of marine invertebrates. Her work offers profound insights into the evolutionary processes that have shaped biodiversity.
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Stellate Communications
10 months ago
PLEASE SHARE 💜 With uncertainty in federal research funding & hiring, we are offering *FREE* resume/CV reviews for early-career scientists in the US who have rescinded job offers or who risk layoffs. If you feel this support would benefit you, submit resume/CV here:
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
10 months ago
If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread
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“We are closely monitoring the situation”
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Dan Garisto
10 months ago
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...
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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00365-z
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What’s working well these days to support grad student participation and engagement at events, talks, & workshops? 🧪
#edusky
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Usha Lee McFarling
10 months ago
NEW: NSF payment freeze ends — but worry over what’s ahead for science doesn’t. By
@ericboodman.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/n...
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National Science Foundation restores payments after five-day pause, but worries over science funding persist
The NSF said on Sunday that its payment system was back on line, after it froze out researchers and sparked financial worries.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/02/nsf-national-science-foundation-payments-resume-after-trump-freeze/
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Out of all the online circles you’re a part of, which is the most contentious & zealous? For me it has to be my fb native plant group. Great content but the judgement is fierce!
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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
10 months ago
Why Scientists Should Care About Social Media? For a long time, scientists were told to “let the research speak for itself.” But in today’s world, that’s not enough. Whether we like it or not, science communication is happening on social media—with or without us. 🧵1/7
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Registered for Science Talk ‘25 and excited to meet
#scicomm
folks and see their awesome work
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Jeremy Berg
10 months ago
A special Bluetorial about one of my mentors Ruth Kirschstein Among Ruth Kirschstein’s many contributions to American science was the development and expansion of programs intended to increase participation of people from groups underrepresented in biomedical research.
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Society for Neuroscience
10 months ago
Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants The White House's pause on federal grants threatens our nation’s scientific progress. Read SfN's full statement urging this Administration to lift the freeze to protect the health and security of our nation:
bit.ly/4gq9i2I
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Call to End Freeze on Federal Grants
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Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD
10 months ago
“What can I do to break into science communications?” I get asked this question almost weekly by PhDs who reach out for career chats about
#AltAc
jobs. They want to know, “What can I do to stand out? What do you look for?” 🧵
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Sheren Gaulbert
10 months ago
Excellent article: ❌ 'if we're always just arguing against their points, we are helping to keeping their ideas atop public discourse' ✅ 'flood our spaces with positive work, with good ideas, with rigorous science communication and translation'
#SciSky
#AcademicSky
#SciComm
#Equity
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Celia Ford
10 months ago
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.
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Excited to ✈️ to Denver tomorrow for my 1st AAAS meeting. We are starting a new
#scicomm
program for grad students at my uni & I am looking forward to getting some great inspiration & connecting with others in the field. 🧪
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