"After we talked through the experiment, the postdoc said, 'I think it’s time to go home and get some sleep.' He added with a smile, 'Taking a break is also hard work, you know?' Those comments planted the seed of a new approach." #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek https://scim.ag/4n7LNPZ

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...

Wins when we can get them!!!/ We had the most awesome Zaniyah Ward in our lab this summer for 10 weeks. She has made great contributions and won a presentation award for her poster among many different summer scholar programs!

A big thanks to NC Rep. Valerie Foushee for being the first signature on this bipartisan letter urging the House to maintain a strong commitment to funding for NIH in the 2026 Appropriations bill. Is your Representative here? www.aamc.org/research/adh...

good morning friends and colleagues where the sky is blue! Excited to share with you our latest preprint examining #xylazine and #fentanyl! here's a short 🧵of what we did and found. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"efficiency"...just pondering all the lost "man"hours that went into applications for programs that no longer exist. For applicants themselves, for mentors that reviewed those applications, for committees/staff that organized those programs, for faculty that reviewed those applications

Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Join us today, in Raleigh NC and around the nation, as we remind our communities what science brings to the nation--solutions to our toughest challenges, new cures for disease and good jobs that pay a living wage standupforscience2025.org

Super happy to share this amazing work spearheaded by @jbesheer.bsky.social and Brooke Bender, AKA some of the best collaborators to have! Here's a brief thread on the findings 1/n

This is very clear that the president cannot unilaterally reduce NIH indirect rates. So, either one branch of the government will either hold the other to account or we can take yet another step toward anti intellectual authoritarianism.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...