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. 🧪

“Broken down into what government finances would look like as a household budget: “Household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets. $1.3 million in the hole.”

Awesome gift to the research community: a compendium of transcriptomic data for the exploration of neocortical development—gene-level transcriptomic data from ~200(!!!) studies of neocortical development & in vitro models Thanks @carlocolantuoni.bsky.social & colleagues 🙏 @natneuro.nature.com 🧪🧠

A mere $4million per shot. Roughly 1,100 five year NIH grants burned in five days.

Inbox: Trump is announcing the new PCAST membership. It is dominated by CEOs and includes only one academic scientist, John Martinis.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

NIGMS is signed onto the F31 NOFO. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Applications to present in the Early Career Session for the E.A.R.S. seminar series now open! www.med.upenn.edu/pennhearing/... The Early Career Seminar will feature four presentations, selected by the EARS organizing committee from submissions. Deadline: March 31: forms.gle/ScNp8exjEQ3A... .

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

Plenty of academics have already commented on this with the most obvious flaw - grad students aren’t “merely” employees to whom professors outsource running experiments. But even in industry, thinking of junior employees as drones who can be replaced by AI is a problematic fallacy we should avoid.

First author paper from my short American postdoc accepted!

oh yea, look at urea prices [haber-bosch strikes again]

‘My lovely distraction’: livestream of Rakiura the kākāpō & her chicks captivates New Zealand. >100k people have tuned in to watch ‘kākāpō cam’, capturing a rare flightless bird sleeping, tidying her nest & fighting off intruders. 🧪🦜 (link to livestream below) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US." www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Food for thought for conference steering committees.

Recent graduates interested in a project on the very cutting edge of life science: HFSP postdoc grant proposals are opening soon, webinars with info available for sign-up: www.hfsp.org/hfsp-events/... I'd be happy to host anyone with a cool idea who wants to come to Norway! 🧠

Not medical advice, but: checking your titers (e.g., whether you have active immunity) isn’t free, but just getting a measles booster IS free on most insurance. It’s a five-minute appointment at your local pharmacy, and usually you can schedule it online.

Inconsequential science pet peeve: reusing the same image in a paper without mentioning it appears in multiple panels

OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

I stopped Target, never eaten Chick-fil-A, don't go to Starbucks, won't go in a Hobby Lobby. If this feels like virtue signaling, it is. If you think I'm saying my virtues are somehow better than yours, yes, I'm also saying that. Stand up for people, not money. Eat the rich.

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime —Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

"This is not a matter of censorship or 'cancellation' of results that do not square with biases," write Arthur Caplan and Jonathan Moreno. "It is a question of ensuring that there are no incentives for unethical research."

Life is hard, so here is my sweet best friend sleeping on the radiator in her tiny Paris apartment

Can you spot the overlapping panels? Tell me which ones! The first three correct answers (either by illustration or a good description) will win that shiny Emoji Award. It will look so good on your resume! #ImageForensics

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

My weekly NIH update (grants funded through 2/13/26) All projects... 1/4

📣 The February newsletter of the #ParisPostdocsSeminars is out! Don't miss the exciting talks happening next week at @ibensens.bsky.social, #UFR-Sciences, and @institutcochin.bsky.social And save the dates 📆 for the ones taking place in the second half of the month! #seminar #networking #Paris

Do I by chance have any super cool science friends with experience writing a Curie (MSCA) fellowship app who would be willing to share insights and/or materials?

Oooh my first author paper from my short postdoc was just "accepted in principle" so that's cool!

Hey USA friends, how are you all holding up?

Research Spotlight 💡 Wu et al. (*Science*, 2025) report the first human microglia replacement therapy. Bone marrow transplantation replaced defective #microglia in ALSP patients, halting disease progression and improving neurological function. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr1015