‼️National Postdoc Appreciation Week‼️ ✨A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @veronikakondev.bsky.social on being named a 2025 #LeonLevyScholars! An AMAZING HONOR! Thank you @nyasciences.bsky.social & Leon Levy Foundation for recognizing Dr Kondev & her research! #NPAW2025 Learn More 👉 nyas.org/press-releas...

"We’re all in favor of a gold standard for science. But it’s misleading, & even a little insulting, to say that somehow NIH didn’t already support that. Everything that NIH stands for is rigor in sci...There’s some implication here that NIH has been systematically sloppy. I reject that conclusion."🛟

Had so much fun at the eCB GRC; I love our nerdy community 🫶

Had a great time at #cannabinoidgrc2025 !! Top notch science, great people, and I’m already looking forward to 2027.

we have a new manuscript out! 🧵Lead by @sarayconley.bsky.social with significant contributions by @sarahsizer.bsky.social @madiganbedard.bsky.social and Sara Faccidomo and Clyde Hodge. We describe a tonic excitatory conductance in the BNST! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

There are few reasons to miss the start of classes but making sure I get to attend #cannabinoidgrc2025 is one of the few VERY GOOD reasons! #blackincannabinoids

I’m excited to share the most recent study from the Bruchas lab, which represents the culmination of my postdoctoral work, and serves as the platform for my future research programs investigating the in vivo role of the endocannabinoid signaling system! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Opening keynote of the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Cannabinoids in the CNS about to kick off with @sjo09.bsky.social, Harriet De Wit and @cannabrain.bsky.social!

Hiring: Research Technician and Postdoctoral opportunities! My lab is looking for candidates to join or research in systems neuroscience at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago @uofilsystem.bsky.social. See details below. Please share! lujanlabuic.squarespace.com/joinus

#ResignationInProtest, State Department Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board edition

FRIDAY, May 23, 3pm, JOIN #MSNseminars when hosts Drs. @mrbetocorona.bsky.social & @veronikakondev.bsky.social welcome @uwmedicine.bsky.social 's Dr @davidjmarcus.bsky.social who will present “Endocannabinoids facilitate transitory reward engagement via retrograde gain control". Location: Hess 5-101

On Fri, May 23, 3pm, JOIN #MSNseminars when hosts Drs. @mrbetocorona.bsky.social & @veronikakondev.bsky.social welcome @uwmedicine.bsky.social's Dr. @davidjmarcus.bsky.social who will present “Endocannabinoids facilitate transitory reward engagement via retrograde gain control". Location: Hess 5-101

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

I’m so sorry, Australia.

Extraordinary stuff in new Quinnipiac/CNN polls: 60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers 54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country 62% say cuts going too far On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

While we are all dealing with the Great Destruction — of NIH and US science and the US economy — we have been hearing from NIH people who want to write things for the outside world. If you are an NIH person that wants to share a blog post with the world anonymously, please let us know.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

If you want to check if your study section posted in time, go to www.federalregister.gov and search for your SRO’s last name or an identifying keyword from the panel’s name, then sort by “newest.” Would absolutely love to hear from folks whose panels are *not* there but proceed this week anyway.

Here is the ad the Washington Post accepted and then rejected:

"We need to take a step back and realize that the GOP has become an authoritarian political party. It's either on board with authoritarianism or completely willing to tolerate it." On the pod, Steve Levitsky is highly Illuminating on our slide into autocracy: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

@sherylnyt.bsky.social Do you have a link to the joint statement from "eight officials ...including the heads of the C.D.C., the N.I.H. and the F.D.A. — issued a joint statement denouncing the cuts." cited in your article? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

Emergence of punishment-resistant cocaine seeking occurs in parallel with stabilization of escalated cocaine intake www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also, scientists, what can you do about all this? One thing is to get your colleagues on Bluesky - get others on Bluesky. This is one good place to get info about our new politics. here’s a starter pack — just send people this link. go.bsky.app/2K6jTi5

Excited to JOIN the HUNGER GAMES? On Friday, Feb 21, 3pm, join hosts Drs. Teesta Naskar & @veronikakondev.bsky.social in welcoming @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social's Dr. Han Tan to #MSNSeminars when he presents "The Hunger Games: Decoding Neural & Molecular Networks for Appetite Control". NOT TO MISS!

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

NIH + NSF scientists affected by today's layoffs: C&EN is working on understanding what expertise the government lost today. Give me a ring? (Signal: Laurel_Oldach.07)

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊 Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs. Paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Any students/postdocs at Sinai join us today! @sinaibrain.bsky.social