Can't sleep. I miss my Lucy cat. She loved a good bedtime cuddle

Some of you have been with me since the Twitter days My sweet cat Lucy passed away today. She was young and it was unexpected Please hug your pets extra for me

MAHA: Vitamins and supplements are the key to health and longevity. Also MAHA: No, no, not the evidence based prevent your infant from bleeding in their brain one.

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Jackson: "The Court begins with NSF’s failure to articulate any rationale for divesting UCAR of stewardship over the NWSC and transferring its operations and maintenance responsibilities to another entity. This failure is dispositive."

No one who understands the value of expertise should ever have imposter syndrome again

One federal grant was just terminated ($1.3 million from DHS) and one was awarded but not funded ($46,748 from NOAA) due to the new federal administration priorities and executive orders. PIs, how are you addressing these situations on your CVs? 💸

Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

“agencies may consider an applicant’s history of questionable practices based on publicly available and verifiable information.” Potential perma bans for any University which ever supported any type of DEI activity.

It's very warm in Paris ... but there are worse places to experience heat!

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

@sholtodavid.bsky.social Have you seen this WB from ThermoFisher? Still anti-p53 antibody, but another clone (MA-12648 instead MA5-12557). It also looks like that the band in lane 3 was rotated and reused in lane 4. Moreover, it seems that same band was used for the 2 different clones.

Apply for our Paris Miniscope Workshop this summer: July 1-3, 2026. Come learn to record and analyze calcium imaging data with open source Miniscopes! Applications due this Friday May 22. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF) it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support #nzpol

I am VERY disappointed to learn that the Gordon Research Conferences have capitulated to the fascists and ended their long standing "Power Hour" programs where we could speak together as a community about challenges and approaches to address the experiences of all

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

Cat to Human H5N1 transmission. Next time someone tells me I discourage raw food because I’m getting paid off by big pet food I’ll drop this one on them. The veterinarian seroconverted but never had symptoms. None of the symptomatic contacts of the cats tested positive by either PCR or serology.

Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was interviewed by @snehakhedkar.bsky.social for The Scientist about our work using super-resolution microscopy to map the neuronal architecture, and make nice pictures along the way! Check the article here: www.the-scientist.com/super-resolu...

Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help

Hantavirus is *well known* to spread by the airborne route. Mainly, airborne rodent poop and pee. Congratulations to all the mainstream media outlets that have already managed to flat out lie about hantavirus transmission.

Just a shameless networking plug that I would LOVE to connect with you all on LinkedIn, where I barely ever post anyway You can find me here: www.linkedin.com/in/philip-bender-ph-d-2a4b1691

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Update: Paris? Pretty nice Paris when the sun actually comes out? Just a little nicer

Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

Today is my and @scienceetc.bsky.social's birthday. In lieu of birthday wishes, I would like all yall to tell me just how much you detest Apartheid Isr*el and everyone who enabled them to continue destroying my motherland. Ty 🫶🏽

I've had my phd for almost 2 years now and I've not been asked to review a paper at all

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

This rather cryptic tweet apparently refers to a plan to boot SROs off their study section and move them to another one if they’ve served “too long”. Unclear what interval will qualify for this movement. Domain expertise is apparently a bad thing.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Academics of the world, do with this info what you may. Even better, uninstall it from your devices 🧪

Hear ye, hear ye!!! All applicants and/or reviewers for NIH: update to late submission policy, end of continuous submission!!! Because recruiting reviewers wasn’t hard enough. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Cancelling continuous submission for reviewers seems like just about the worst possible idea. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Unless of course breaking the system is the point. Many PIs are already quietly boycotting review. Some not wanting to lend credibility to an increasingly corrupted NIH…

Whelp. NIH just got rid of continuous submission completely. Because it’s “too much work” for them 😩. This is baffling. It doesn’t take months to assign a grant to a study section.

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Hey, would you look at this cool new paper that just dropped? This is my postdoc work from WVU, examining how SOM and PV neurons contribute to corticocollicular pyramidal neuron responses to an oddball task using calcium imaging and optogenetic inactivation www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Actually, also do i know anyone in Europe working in infectious disease/virology? 🥹 Friend is postdoc hunting!

Hi friends, weird ask: do i know anyone, or have a contact by extension, who is working in microbiology in Canada? I have a young family member interested in pursuing post-bacc micro research or doing work as a tech or starting a master's degree, but only in Canada (their country of residence)

The me telling people to apply for something even if they don’t meet all the requirements and the me trying to do the same are very different me’s.

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪