🚨 come be my colleague! 🧠 Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9! Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669

‼️ Join us in Neuro at Bowdoin! Looking for a TT colleague in Neuro - broadly defined, but interested in those working with computation, public policy/clinical, mental health, open data, etc. Review of apps starts 9/9 - get in touch with questions! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16648

Congratulations to Alena Lemeshova, one of our RAT lab honors students, for receiving a @sfn.org TPDA to present her work this year in San Diego on the anxiolytic effects of ketamine! Looking for a grad student? Alena is searching for a PhD position here in the states for next fall! A rising star!

Bowdoin College is hiring in Neuroscience and AI with our exciting new initiative for AI and humanity! 🧠 x 🤖 Join amazing colleagues and undergrads in our growing and thriving community! Please share! @blackinneuro.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @ostem.org @outtoinnovate.bsky.social @sfn.org

Bowdoin College is hiring in Neuroscience! Come join a growing and thriving community of colleagues and brilliant undergrads! Please share! @blackinneuro.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @outtoinnovate.bsky.social @sfn.org @ostem.org @acnporg.bsky.social

‼️ Join us in Neuro at Bowdoin! Looking for a TT colleague in Neuro - broadly defined, but interested in those working with computation, public policy/clinical, mental health, open data, etc. Review of apps starts 9/9 - get in touch with questions! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16648

🚨 come be my colleague! 🧠 Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9! Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources! careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669

For every 1 animal used in research, there are hundreds to thousands used for food. Research animals globally: Estimated 50–100 million/year (most are mice, rats, and fish). Animals killed for food globally: Over 70–80 billion land animals per year, plus trillions of fish.

Looking for examples of GRFP project proposals (the 2pg doc) to show my seminar class as they prepare to write up some mock proposals! If you’d be willing to share, please let me know!! Any field is fine (I just want to show ex of layout, justifications, and diff ways of approaching. Thanks!!

I wrote an opinion column for the local newspaper in southern NH where I am from. Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration! Please consider doing this in your hometown! #SciAdvocate 🧪👩‍🔬 www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

Just submitted my first NIH R15 research grant proposal!!!! With everything that has happened with this grant and I over the past 6+ months, just getting here is a huge victory. I’m not sure what’s going to happen now, but I’ll celebrate this small win in a sea of chaos and destruction.

Do we know if @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social approves/assigns DOIs over the weekend? ..just hoping to add a DOI to my biosketch so I can upload it to ASSIST.. 👀 🙏 🙃

A judge has temporarily blocked administrative actions on DEI www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

So R15 AREAs (due Tues) still have the NIH diversity language in the PAR. Soooo… I still have pieces about lowering barriers & supporting my students (also that I have a *clutches pearls* award for DEI/mentoring) And I’m a proud+loud queer/firstgen scientist. How do we even do this friends 😩

Grant due next week so of course the universe blessed me with the flu. This one sucks 😩 Send all your good thoughts to finish this thing

Was in back to back class and meetings all day and just taking a peek and what happened today and NO THANK YOU. 😡

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How are you keeping morale up when working on your grants right now? I feel so frustrated and sad with an upcoming submission and now have two folders for versions: pre and post EO 😔 The time wasted because of an abandonment of support and forward thinking/commitment to trainees is crushing.

Just a little timely discussion about conformity and Asch’s still relevant 1955 experiment today in class 👀

NIH Intramural Research Program has paused interviews/offers for their post-bac program. I have a student who was pursuing this program and they got an email to this effect yesterday. Without training programs and stable funding we are risking the future of science and medicine.

The R15 Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) for Health Professional Schools and Graduate Schools is no longer available on the NIH active funding opportunities webpage. R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions​ awards is still currently available

My #WCBR2025 talk covered how the thalidomide tragedy impacted women in health research. Here is a great piece on how thalidomide led to important preclinical research. Funding research to develop safe & effective drugs is crucial to avoid future medical tragedies fbresearch.org/thalimodide-...

This is insane. CITI IRB training on avoiding group harms.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that the NIH website won’t even let you search the terms diversity, equity, inclusion… Other terms search fine..so far just these three. 👀

NIH’s Notice of NIH interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031) has been removed from the NIH website. This was issued in 2019 and expanded its definition of diversity and included: underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities, disability, disadvantaged background (eg, rural/low-income), women.

Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner: "Revisiting sex and gender in the brain" www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Raise your hand if you’re an assistant professor who has now had to journey through a global pandemic AND a constitutional crisis, all while trying to obtain tenure 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m tired.

This is only the beginning.

I, too, got into science because I didn’t like politics. But guess what? Our entire existence is political. It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.

This should scare everyone. This is potentially devastating for so many people. Jobs, scientific research, ability for many to afford basic needs - all of these are in the balance. And with still no clear understanding of when and how this will conclude.

Happy Monday…just felt my first ever earthquake in Maine…. 😬

Coming fast and hard at blocking programs aimed at educating and lifting up students who should be the future of science.

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...

The rediscovering this week of people from my bird app community that supported me and gave me the advice, opportunities, and confidence I needed to be myself as a queer and first-gen researcher in neuro has kept me going this week despite *waives hands frantically in all directions in horror*

Webinar recordings are also being pulled - National Human Genome Research Institute’s recordings of “exploring the many dimensions of sex and gender in the genomics era” was available yesterday and completely wiped today. We’re witnessing this silencing and erasure in real time.

This is going to make long lasting and devastating ripples. These are essential mechanisms to ensure that trainees and junior scientists are supported so they can conduct innovative and important research and to make sure that everyone’s ideas are heard - making science better. This is terrible.

Did you know there are over 500 species of fish that are known to change sex? Some change once and others go back and forth. There are also fish that have both male and female sex organs at the same time. And the Amazon Molly is an entirely female species. Fish understood the assignment

Whomst among ass profs is not tired of Unprecedented Times? I want a precedent of faculty position straight from PhD and uninterrupted federal science funding for a 50 year career pls.

Never in my life did I think I’d be reading an executive order with my students in a neuro class… but when your class is focused on exploring sex effects in research and discussing the nonbinary nature of sex…. Suddenly such things are now jarringly relevant in their irrelevance to our government.

We were planning on submitting a diversity supplement soon. This is what the NIGMS diversity supplement website looks like today. 🫠

Feeling like a little kid the night before school starts back up again - anxious (but also excited) to be back in the classroom after my sabbatical - I hope my students are ready for the absolutely wild energy I’m about to bring to the classroom tomorrow 🤪 🧠 👩‍🔬 🔬

Any thoughts #scitwitter? Need some advice on a system! #neuroscience

I’m all in on dry Jan and have been exploring mocktails and social tonics and the no-alc scene and loving some of the options! Those also into these - what are your faves?! So far I love: Ghia ginger, wildfolk bees knees, phoney Negroni Hard no: curious 1 and 6, ghia berry (on its own)

Who has an individually ventilated caging system they love? Opinions on Allentown? Techniplast? Are the climate control ones worth it?

Still on the hunt for your suggestions! Looking to dig into our understanding of sex differences in mental illness through animal models!

I’m teaching a new seminar this spring on sex differences on brain and behavior. I’m looking for recommendations for readings that address: -SABV and policy -sex outside the binary -informing policy/policy informing research Also empirical articles exemplifying the importance of studying sex…

👋 I’m Jennifer Honeycutt (aka ohambiguity on bird app)! I’m a queer, first-gen Asst. Prof of Psych/Neuro at Bowdoin College focusing on how early life adversity shapes affective behavior and alters threat responsivity via epigenetic and cell-specific neural mechanisms. 🏳️‍🌈 🐀 🧬 🧠 🔬