8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

🧠 Neurofriends: Who is going to SfN this year? Would anyone like to help me run The Confound Hour on Tuesday night?

Mapping Open Science in Neuroscience - A collaborative initiative with FORRT @forrt.bsky.social ReproducibiliTea Bordeaux Team invites you to contribute to this project! More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut... 1/16

Please be sure to check your kid's candy VERY carefully. I just found an unbalanced centrifuge in a Snickers bar. 🍬☠️💥

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Interested in #graduateprograms in #neuroscience? Come learn about our Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Michigan. We are offering virtual and in person opportunities to do so in October and November. #SfN2025 #SACNAS #ABRCMS See flyer below and #GoBlue! 👇

Humanity’s history is a continuous battle between us and the microbes. For most of our history, we were on the losing side. It wasn’t even close. We were losing very decisively.

Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🧠🧬 New preprint! Our meta-analysis of the effects of chronic stress on prefrontal cortex gene expression has gone live.😁 Jinglin Xiong is the first author. She completed this work *as an undergraduate researcher* and is currently applying to PhD programs! 🎉

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

The Python Software Foundation was recommended for a $1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation. The terms of the award said PSF could not work on DEI, whether or not the grant funding was used for it. PSF therefore declined the funding. Science suffers, but commitment to core values remains

🧠🧬🦠🥼🧪📈🔬 I should add: If you have other ideas or advice for researchers who are needing to wrap up their projects prematurely, please add them to the comments section of our article. Tapping the hivemind... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧠🥼🧬🧪🔬 Last year at @sfn.org I ran a workshop on "Opening the File Drawer" with Ben Kolber, Stacey Winham, Paul Sternberg, & Alex Freeman (@alexandrafreeman.bsky.social). We've shared the resources that we compiled for that workshop in this new paper. ❤️ @comm4rigor.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

Become a financial contributor for Data Rescue efforts! opencollective.com/datashelter/... #MDLS25

COVID19 mRNA vaccines may improve response to some cancer treatments. It’s a shame that the Trump administration cut funding for mRNA vaccine research and that RFK Jr. and his minions keep lying about them.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Estimated turn out: 7 million #NoKingsDay

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Ypsi representing! #NoKingsDay

We're ready for #NoKingsDay!

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

8/ They gutted the CDC—our first line of defense against outbreaks and biothreats. Surveillance gone. Communication channels destroyed. On October 18, we rise. For science. For truth. For our future. 📣Join the #NoKings protest. ➡️ www.nokings.org

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You can help make Saturday's No Kings the biggest day of protest in modern American history. Find an event near you and raise your voice for the facts, evidence, and truth we need to protect our democracy. #NoKings

THIS WEEKEND! Join us for No Kings Day nationwide, across 50 states, in DC and Puerto Rico, and internationally! We're standing up for science and democracy, and in solidarity with fired federal workers. #standupforscience #nokingsday

Who is Russell Vought cutting at our health agencies? The data people. The scientists. The comms people. Project 2025 is a war on truth. We are fighting an information war. Sources of reliable truth are who they are after.

"The Trump administration ended the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture survey on food insecurity, just in time for Republicans’ cuts to SNAP to take effect."

Make an effect size prediction! @jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52) Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.

🎃 This Halloween, the real horror? A future without trusted public health agencies. When the CDC and science are under attack, even the skeletons start protesting. Trust science 🔬, not scare ☠️ tactics. Share your Halloween decorations with us.

How about a 2×2 design? (4 words + 4 numbers) Ctrl Expt Batch1 1 9 Batch2 9 1

Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

I'm pinning this here so that I remember it. "The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Even though English is my one & only language. #ADHD Speaking/writing, for me, is often like when you're loading a Power Point presentation & some of the image files won't load, or the text is corrupted into identical squares because the computer forgot where that particular font is stored.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

🧠 🧬 Our paper "A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models" is now out in the Journal of Sleep Research! Very exciting. Congratulations to all involved! 🎉 @cosetterhoads.bsky.social @huda-akil.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social

🧠🦠🧪🥼💉 "People treated for a type of inflammation of the brain called viral encephalitis were 31 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease" www.sciencealert.com/a-study-of-5...

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19 percent this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit. 📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) #OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky [1/3]

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Yet again, the GOP supermajority steps in to allow Trump to break the law. The case will be decided on the merits later, it says, when the damage cannot be undone. But in the meantime it is giving the Trump administration a green light to engage in impoundment.

👏 We initiated this open letter re: #GRFP yesterday, before the solicitation came out. We updated this morning, and are working on additional response & actions focused on the eligibility change. Please sign/add stories/share this letter if you can! AND call your reps! bsky.app/profile/jaso...

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial