Spotted at the independent bookstore near my mom's house @drtraceyshors.bsky.social

We can't work with foreign collaborators, but they can send money to a foreign PI to conduct an ethically questionable study in a vulnerable population in another foreign country? This is what corruption looks like.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

The RFK, jr effect.

Are you a business that's colluding with ICE? Caving to the biased attacks on DEI? Funding this administration for tax cuts? Guess what? #WeAintBuyingIt Nov 27–Dec 1, instead we are putting our money where are values are.

This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind. This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies. Abortion is healthcare. How many more women have to die? 🧪

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

SBN is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Forger, Professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, is the recipient of the Larry Young Mentorship Award. 🥳

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Excited to have my piece on perimenopause published @thetransmitter.bsky.social "Perimenopause: An important—and understudied—transition for the brain" We need more studies & better education -we need this to be mainstream- knowledge is power! #WomensHealth www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Scientists point to a long list of findings that emerged out of fundamental research, the type of studies the US government is cutting, and went on to change the world. Nature lists a few of their examples. 🧪

Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.

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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

Uh huh...

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

"Dad, were you on the side that tried to help people snatched off the street or the side that shot priests?"

This, and the $100,000 H1B visa. I think destroying science is part of their point.

Interview with @pegmccarthy.bsky.social on the *evidence* related to Tylenol and pregnancy nam.edu/news-and-ins...

"school shooting industry"

Again, I do this for a living: If you're going to take action against RFK Jr, if you're going to spend your time and energy on opposing this fucking monster, the time is now.

The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments. Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions. And please share! apply.interfolio.com/173031

I am so so so proud to have been part of this effort. Climate change is already a major threat to human life, health, and thriving. It is important that we get the most accurate science on the record to delineate that threat, so we can build a better future. www.npr.org/2025/09/02/n...

The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

I've noticed a trend in requests for tenure reviews, asking letter writers to compare candidates to other "top" scholars at the same career stage. Can we please not do this?!? Making tenure a moving and competitive target risks ratcheting up increasingly untenable expectations for productivity.

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper. www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is how a real leader acts. A real leader does not quit and run. www.chronicle.com/article/gmu-...

And now for an update on my office window. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

It’s part of an increasingly nasty and virulent strain of anti-city/anti-urban politics in America, fueled in no small part by contextless social media videos.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Today in "You can't unplug 1/4 of the budget of research universities & do the same things, & there doesn't seem to be any backup plan other than to cancel things, & WHERE ARE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY & COLLECTIVELY ABOUT THIS EXISTENTIAL CRISIS?" bsky.app/profile/mcop...

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

Sending all our best wishes and solidarity to our colleagues at CDC. 💔 It is important at this moment to hold people accountable. The Supreme Court helped do this. The Court conservatives share responsibility for every shooting in America. They rewrote the Second Amendment in 2008, in Heller v DC.

The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Christmas has come early....SSIBlings in a box! #SSIB2025 Oxford, UK

Congratulations Kevin Myers for the #ssib2025 Hoebel Prize for Creativity award!