This was fun. ResearchHub Foundation (@researchhubf.bsky.social ) has a small funding competition for neuro-related proposals. 🧠 ...and students can be co-authors. So we just wrote a proposal including writing/input from *our full summer cohort of trainees*. www.researchhub.com/proposal/326...

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The public comment period for the proposed OMB rule closed yesterday with more than *340,000* comments. Analysis by @techpolicypress.bsky.social found that 94% of the publicly available comments were in opposition. eos.org/research-and...

As OMB is working through comments WE NEED YOU! Use our action center to CONTACT CONGRESS INCESSANTLY: Fight2win.standupforscience.net Call, Email, sign up to volunteer and we can contact you with virtual constituent meeting opportunities. 3/

Thanks to an EXTRAORDINARILY generous donor, we have a DONATION MATCH up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!! If you’re wanting to donate, now is the moment. It will support our legal and Hill efforts to stop this awful rule. 5/ Standupforscience.net/donate

Senator Patty Murray accused the White House of trying ‘to turn the entire federal government into this one big slush fund to reward those aligned with the Administration and punish everyone else.” 🧵 Article: zurl.co/alyUk

341,699 comments as of yesterday. Today is the deadline. Your voice impacts the future of US research & science. Please submit a comment if you haven't already.

Contrary to John Roberts, only a fraction of the Nation elects the president, due to the electoral college. As Scott Walker said in 2014 "The nation as a whole is not going to elect the next president. Twelve states are." It is folly to put a president in full control of gov't funding.

It's not too late to submit your comment to the OMB and contact your reps! Stand Up for Science has links to do both. The comment for the OMB has to be unique and substantive to matter - I recommend sticking with what you know best. I focused on my concerns about mid-award termination.

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

The MI cyclospora outbreak has had me wondering about whether I should be avoiding fresh fruit/produce that can't be easily cleaned, worrying about swimming at public beaches, etc. We are still in the dark regarding origin... www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

My dad (George Hagenauer) is getting the sale set up in our garage, so I grabbed a few pics of the loot

I should show up with a scientific manuscript 😂 📖 "Once upon a time there was a meta-analysis of the converging effects of different classes of antipsychotics on the frontal cortex transcriptome..."

Another #FluorescenceFriday. When the world is going crazy, I find some peace watching at these myeloid cells (🔴) going about their day. They exist in tissue surrounded by other cells (🔵), and you can see them popping up and down, going in and out of plane as they explore their surrounding.

Are you sick of winning yet?

Oh isn't that nice

🧠 I think a lot of people are surprised when I say that I hate high impact publishing. I encountered a particularly poignant example today while reviewing a paper of why this style of publishing sucks: 🧵

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📚📖 My dad, George Hagenauer, will be doing his ANNUAL GARAGE SALE this weekend of Comics, Pulps, Graphic novels and a little art When: Friday July 10 4pm-8pm Saturday day July 11 9 am-4pm Where: Our garage: 2191 Harding Ave Ypsilanti 48197 (not far from US 94 and Hewitt) What: 🧵

🧠🧬 Our paper is now published in the Journal of Neurochemistry 🎉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.... During the review process, we received *exceptional guidance* from one of our reviewers, which led us to improve not only our paper, but the general Brain Data Alchemy analysis pipeline. Thank you! 🙏💛

The nose of a moose can be shut under voluntary control, which is possibly an adaptation to AQUATIC BROWSING. Moose can dive to depths of 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) & hold their breath for a full minute to pull up plants from the lake or sea bottom. This leads to a very shocking fact...

NIH Grants Management people are truly heroic (as are Program officers)--mine is emailing at 8:50 PM--they are working overtime to keep science in operation in the US.

Same for folks at NSF! Our recent manuscripts had this Acknowledgment: "Our thanks also to federal employees at the US National Science Foundation, for their efforts to support, in as fair and transparent a manner as possible, the scientific community and its work to advance human understanding."

Ra'eed Bhuiyan (the first author for our new antipsychotics preprint) just joined Bluesky to promote the paper and **may have chosen the best handle ever for his account** @whywontmynamefi.bsky.social 😂 ... you should follow him. 😉 @ummni.bsky.social

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Posted for a friend:‪ Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is hiring a Science Complex Services Director (starting salary $75k w/ benefits) Responsibilities: Managing funds, purchasing, waste disposal, supervising techs Ideal candidate: MS or PhD in a scientific field, lab management @jobrxiv.org

One of the oddest things to get across to non-genetics/genomicists is just how weird and varied hetreogametic sex development pathways are. You just ... could not make it up. (eyes sideways to the platypus - in particular you!). So - ribosomal protein as sex determining factor. Just normal crazy.

🧠🧬 How do antipsychotics affect the brain? We ran a meta-analysis of public transcriptional profiling datasets to reveal the converging effects of different antipsychotics on the frontal cortex. Surprisingly, dopamine signaling was not our top finding(!). Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just introduced this to the kids. I thought I would share it here too, in all its glory, for anyone else who missed it the first time around. 0000001 00000011... youtu.be/2IPAOxrH7Ro

Two papers by Max Planck, the legendary Nobel laureate in physics, were retracted by Springer Nature in 2011, likely due to an algorithm flagging the papers for self-plagiarism and copyright infringement. Read on for how stupid it all is. 🧪

They just really want to go full on Handmaid’s Tale. stateline.org/2026/06/26/f...

Our metacheck package now has an online manual! In 29 short chapters we explain how to set up metacheck (running all modules 100% locally if you want), and explain the 18 available modules. www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... We are still in beta, and would love to get feedback!

Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪

Performance gains attributed to sophisticated machine learning models for wearable sleep staging may actually reflect dataset characteristics and evaluation choices, according to a study published ... 💤 https://1ban.news/wearable-sleep-staging-personalization-evaluation/

I recently found this Jurassic Park t-shirt at a garage sale. Today, I've already been stopped on the street by a stranger to talk about favorite dinosaurs. Absolute solid find.

This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪

My friend's NSF CAREER received the highest possible score (Excellent, Excellent, Excellent: High Priority) and it was rejected today. This would have been my friend's first extramural award, 5 years after starting their lab, exactly when grant $ is make or break for an Assistant Professor's career.

Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

The scatterplot 😂

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

“The ultimate deciders of these grants will be the political employees at the agencies,” Duncan noted in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

BREAKING The R Core Team just awarded the prestigious Rousseuw Prize in statistics, stats equivalent of Nobel Prize 🏆 🏆🏆🏆 #rstats A team effort over many years suitably recognized

💙💛 UM friends: Do you know that you can publish in many scientific journals for free due to UM open access agreements? We've saved something like $20,000 this year in APCs 🎉 😮❗ Here's a searchable database of journals: apc.lib.umich.edu ( @ummni.bsky.social , @umichresearch.bsky.social )

"The Six Camps of Metascience", by Caleb Watney and Jenn Gustetic https://www.macroscience.org/p/the-six-camps-of-metascience I haven't seen #openscience classified as a branch of #metascience yet, but it makes sense.

A few of my thoughts on the NIH's new format for the Data Management and Sharing Plan, for those of you unlucky enough to know what that is. In short though, the new template is a big improvement, imho. medium.com/metascientif...