There are currently 11 acting Institute and Center directors at NIH and this will add another. Two more and the majority of these positions will be vacant.

This is an awesome primer for peer review and also a helpful guide to get people thinking about the quality of their own experimental design! Kudos to the authors!

Congrats @federicamosti.bsky.social and @debbysilver.bsky.social lab! I’m excited to read it!!

I am honored to be selected as an ASCB fellow! SO much thanks to those who nominated me and provided letters of support! And congratulations to the other Fellows selected! 🎉🥳🎊

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Read more here: www.repro4everyone.org/blog/p5zqp5d... Looking forward to getting started! @comm4rigor.bsky.social NINDS Office of Research Quality @mariahhoye.bsky.social

🧠 Tomorrow (6/24: 12-1) I will be doing an interactive webinar with Christophe Bernard and Daniela Schiller to discuss our paper, “Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference”. Come join & submit questions! neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-r...

the reissued NOFO for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Also be sure to read the instructions a Forms I SF424. These Fs will have the new format/review instructions so there are different components from the previous NOFOs.

What happens when scientists discuss mistakes they've made? Here's a lovely paper about developing of a conference series normalizing errors ("Oh Sh*t: Great Scientists Tell Stories About Their Greatest Failures"). #stats #neuroscience #metascience #neuroskyence tinyurl.com/5n96e5em

I love this paper too! The author, Rick Born, is part of the @comm4rigor.bsky.social which is developing educational units on topics like confirmation bias! For anyone interested in learning more, check out the beta form of the unit at c4r.io (and give us feedback so we can keep improving it)!

What does a 40% NIH budget cut mean for funding chances (now ~15%)? You might think “60% of the money left = 9% success” ❌ NOPE!!! 1-3% because 80% of the budget is for existing grants New science? Starved Ongoing grants? Slashed 😢 #FundingScienceSavesLives

If you are a current or former NIHer and want to be in this starter pack, please comment below for an add.

I wish I’d been taught that publishing rigorously conducted null studies is actually essential for the health of science and the extra scrutiny we give to studies with null outcomes stems from unconscious bias. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18199864/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21098355/

Let’s talk rigor. What’s ONE thing you wish you’d been taught earlier about study design, statistical analysis, or data reporting? Drop your lessons & tips for the new generation 👇 #GradSchoolAdvice #RigorInResearch c4r.io

DEADLINE TODAY!! Submissions close at 11:59 pm EDT! Unlike a grant, the submission is relatively short- just six short prompts of ~200-350 words each! There’s still time to submit an entry! www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni... Challenge.gov

NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize- DEADLINE 6/6/25! To recognize and reward individuals and small teams of early-career scientists who are promoting enhanced research rigor! $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 prizes www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...

Just a few days left! Don’t miss your opportunity to win up to $10k CASH for promoting attention to rigor! #Phdlife #postdoclife #ECRs #science #neuroscience #metascience #biotech #pharma

Science is an INVESTMENT with a huge payout.

ONE WEEK LEFT! NINDS wants to recognize YOU for enhancing attention to rigor 🏆 💰 #Phdlife #postdoclife #ECRs #science #neuroscience #metascience #biotech #pharma Respond to six short prompts and you could win one of 11 CASH prizes of up to 10k!!! www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni... Challenge.gov

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Randomization unit dropping soon! Learn how to control for bias and confounders, through proper randomization methods. Sign up at c4r.io/join or in the link in bio to get the latest about our educational materials, events, focus groups, and more. #ScientificRigor #Randomization #C4R

Excited to see the EMU’s work published yesterday in @jscicom.bsky.social! We studied the science communication (scicomm) landscape at NIH (obviously pre-2025). jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi... Congrats to AJ Hilliard, @nicolasugden.bsky.social, and Kristin Bass for their work on this.

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Notice on extension of ESI status for NIH grant applications. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It's a demoralizing time to be a US scientist but that is part of their strategy. My friend Jeff Dangl just emailed our faculty reminding us that NSF and NIH grant review panels are still being held and staff there want us to keep submitting. Stay engaged and keep fighting! 1/n

Yes. The entire Diversity F31 NOFO was terminated. It's not just NIDA. It's not just NIDDK. It's not just NIGMS. They are all being terminated. Reminder: Do not question your self worth! You earned a competitive, merit based training fellowship.

If you’re a trainee and submitting an abstract to the Society for Neuroscience Conference, apply for the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA). 🧪 www.sfn.org/meetings/mee...

Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry! #Phdlife #postdoclife #ECRs #science #neuroscience #metascience #biotech #pharma @futurepislack.bsky.social NINDS wants to recognize YOU for enhancing attention to rigor 🏆 💰 This is NOT a grant; you do NOT need to be a PI or academic to enter!

Community is at the ❤️ of ASAPbio! On our new website, we highlighted how anyone can get involved with the ASAPbio Community. 🎬 Watch this short video to learn more about our Community initiatives and programs. 🔗 Visit the website to learn the details asapbio.org

Congrats @jingliu1129.bsky.social and team! Such a cool story! Excited that it’s out!

What does replicability look like across a national sample of biomedical research? Join us on 5/30 for a webinar ft. members of the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative—a large, multicenter effort to systematically assess replicability of biomedical experiments. 💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award 🏆 More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd! bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025 Please share widely!

📢 Calling all early-career scientists who have promoted enhanced research rigor: The deadline for the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions prize has been extended to 6/6/25! Describe your efforts in six short prompts for your chance to win a CASH prize of up to $10k! Up to 11 awards will be made!

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

We tend to confirm our hypotheses. This is Confirmation bias and it can introduce error into research. Our free, online curriculum can help you learn how to reduce confirmation bias in your research through practical tools like masking 😎 Learn more at c4r.io/units

Stay tuned for the upcoming release of our Randomization Unit. Join our mailing list at C4R.io/join C4R is creating a full, FREE, online educational platform to help you learn, practice, and promote scientifi rigor. Learn more at c4r.io.

If you were planning to submit Neuroscience related T32s to PAR-22-265, PAR-24-126, or PAR-24-108, note those are now expired and you need to submit through PAR-25-168. See this notice: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23. Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 6/n

🧵🧪”Paying taxes can feel like money lost. In truth, it is money shared. When we fund the NIH, we are betting on ourselves and on one another. We are saying that every American life is worth saving, whether that life sits next door or across the country.”

HAPPENING TODAY! The NINDS Office of Research Quality will be hosting a webinar featuring the winners of the inaugural NINDS Rigor Champions Prize. Please join us to learn more about the winners and their efforts to promote research rigor and transparency! REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/42kBZZU

webinar coming up! www.linkedin.com/posts/nation...

My quote of the day (A long one) Of all the traits which qualify a scientist for citizenship in the republic of science, I would put a sense of responsibility as a scientist at the very top. 1/n

Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

Re-amplifying this webinar! #metasci #neuroscience #science This would also be a great opportunity for early-career scientists to learn more about the prize and consider submitting an entry for the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize (deadline 5/2/25)! www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...