I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Lucky to be in this fight with you @i270exit1.bsky.social ❤️, thank you for inspiring me and making the world brighter, less bleak, and dare I say, hopeful 😌🌈🌅

A few years ago my friend Erin invited me and about ten others over for a PowerPoint Party. It was awesome! I recognized most of the people there except for one guy who was relatively quiet. But at the end of the night, when it was time to vote on who had the best presentation…

A colleague is having a wonderful year. She finished her doctorate. She got married today, and they are expecting their first child. I'm so happy for her. The world looks bleak, but life goes on. Don't forget about taking breaks to observe life's other beauties.

Spoke to @aniloza.bsky.social about our new Bethesda Declaration report. TLDR Bad News: NIH is in the worst shape it’s been. I’m leaving lab science after I defend my PhD this summer because of funding instability and hits to my morale. TLDR Good News in thread… www.27unihted.org/bethesda-dec...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

For all the scientific societies out there: if you call the cops on your members for spreading information, you will get bad press. Classic Streisand Effect. Shame on the American Diabetes Association.

Many among the scientific community have seen or read about the arrest of scientists distributing information on censorship outside of the ADA conference. Join @kristenboyle.bsky.social and others at ADA this weekend and stand up for science during the presidential addresses!

#StandUpForScience at #ADA! Today and tomorrow during the Presidential Addresses at 9:45am. Audience members stand throughout the talk. 🧪

Gift link provided. This is laughable and does not align with whistleblower protection laws.

This is a pictorial representation of most of the first draft my dissertation. You’ll know I’ve finished when I add a lamp and a window ☺️🪔🪟

Wondering why the NIH has such a slow pace of grantmaking this year? Here’s my breakdown. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-execut...

Excellent blog & fact check of Jay Bhattacharya on status of grants awards & ability to spend FY2026 funding from @27unihted.bsky.social. A great thing to read as Jay goes before the Senate next week. substack.com/@27unihted/n...

@lafosse.bsky.social & team, you’re inspirational! Love thinking about what questions we can ask with your tools that were so recently unaskable

Thinking a lot about the NIH’s rhetoric about “supporting early-career researchers” Currently in the process of making a few figures on the history of the F99/K00 and DP5 awards. Both (to my knowledge) are the only awards that give PhD students leverage for their next step (u take the money w/ u)

Hi reporters, Looking for someone at CDC with KNOWLEDGE OF THE MATTER⁉️ Contact the national public health coalition here: www.nationalphc.org/media-inquiries NPHC @firedbutfighting.bsky.social is a group of fired CDC employees in contact with current CDC staff and CDC alumni

I’m wondering if anyone on here knows of a study that asked participants an open ended prompt similar to, “Tell me about a specific person you know who is receiving benefits from a welfare program.”

If you are a member of the scientific community wondering how to meet this moment, check out this excellent discussion between @holdenthorp.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social. youtu.be/IWNDMwimUP0?...

Neuroscience graduate Rebecca Pomerat's next stop is a one-year postbac at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke! From there, she will move to Canada with the lab to research spinal circuits and plasticity at Toronto Western Hospital's Krembil Research Institute. #UMDgrad

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

After several hours with CTB, I achieved access to email. And there was cake.

Last year I looked at NIH grants for which the the titles had changed in the course of administrative renewal. These title changes were part of the negotiations required between program officers and applicants (a process referred to as "remediation" by Deputy Director Jon Lorsch). 1/5

Jenna - you have only ever lived your truth - I don’t think you know any other way, and the world is better for it. Welcome back to campus. What happened to you was wrong - not just for you, but for every person with kidney disease who is positively impacted by your health disparities work.

We are excited to sponsor the “Future of Public Research for Behavioral Sciences” Town Hall hosted by NIH Alumni & Bethesda Declaration Signers including Saturday, April 25th, 10am, in Chicago following Society for Behavioral Medicine Meeting (SBM) www.27unihted.org/events/futur...

“I can do for you what Martin did for the people.” - Beyoncé to Jay-Z, Upgrade U, B’Day, 2006

Making America Healthier by… *checks notes* Getting rid of WOKE science (clearly is everything done at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) so we can… *checks notes* Have more defense spending!

Proud co-grad student of @cianadeveau.bsky.social , & huge fan of her project on contextual modulation. This work builds off of @lafosse.bsky.social ‘s research which investigates the input-output function which may drive these spatial & temporal transformations pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

These results converge with Deveau et al. (www.cell.com/neuron/full...) on temporal sequence filtering and Lange et al. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126...) on learning-induced redundancy. A consistent picture emerges: (early) visual cortex actively infers the statistical structure of the natural world.

New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?

Come hear from @lauramatalopez.bsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd And other great speakers during our No (Shadow) Kings NIH Vigil! ❌👑 Also rock out to @allstrike.bsky.social 📆Saturday March 28th, 10am 📍Medical Center Metro/Outside NIH Welcome Center 💌 RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/no-sh...

A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

This ridiculous union busting does nothing to help the early career researchers the NIH director claims to support. This is ridiculous.

I know, it's across the government. And it's awful. That's why we need to impeach the mastermind behind much of it! actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

NIH sent notice this week that it will no longer recognize a union of early career researchers on the basis that trainees aren't "employees." My latest for @science.org. www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.

Shoutout to @27unihted.bsky.social for all their advocacy on the SBIR/STTR program.

Great news! Congratulations to @27unihted.bsky.social for leading a big push that helped get this done. And to the many others who advocated for this important program.

We have a rotating exhibit of Cajal drawings at NIH. Along with the drawings, a 3D printed model of the image is printed to make Cajal’s work accessible. I was invited to write captions for the images with a group of NIH neuroscientists but our last contribution, from Dec. 2024, never went up.

Wild. Another thing that stood out to me: Cunhate Na Bangna, the ex-President of the Guinea-Bissau ethics committee, was unaware of documents approving the study that listed his name next to someone else’s signature. He resigned from the committee years ago. Corruption & fraud across continents.

Its kind of wild to watch academic publishing collapsing in real time and the wheels of the system (journals, tenure & promotion committees, etc) just keep moving as tho publishing more and chasing high impact factor journals is gonna help science and society. (Below is not an outlier situation)

Hey all! Thanks for the follow and thanks for organizing the starter pack @tyk314.net. I’m not on here much, so I’ll do a summary… Here is a paper I’m reading: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here is a policy I care about: unitedforcures.org/united-for-c... Here is me and a nice dog I know:

"without fear or favor" "Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats". #standfirm #NIHknows

Logging back on to Blusky to announce that I found out you can Door Dash beer! A lot of things right now are difficult, but receiving beer to your home is not.

Here's hoping that the hearts of Jay Bhattacharya — and all other members of the Trump Administration — grow three sizes this Christmas.

Merry Christmas 🎄🧪! Here's a video I made of the predicted structure for the protein MERRYCHRISTMAS. I used AlphaFold to predict the structure and then colored the backbone (green), amino acids by index (rainbow), and noncovalent interactions (dotted lines). #sciart #science #MolBio

An 🧪 #NIH peer review scientist was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2009. Stalling of clinical trials slows down the development of new drugs. New patients won't be enrolled. Patients already undergoing treatment are put on hold. The cuts affect future patients. via @savehealthresearch on IG

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.