On a podcast today, NIH Director Bhattacharya said NIH would not renew grants reinstated under the APHA vs NIH ruling by District Court Judge Young - as reported by @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com. This means the studies yet again will be cut off midstream. www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...

Data visualization is a critical step in data analysis. 8 links to bookmark for better data visualization:🧵

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

My parents gifted me my own mug and I love them for it!!! Glad they are a part of Team Resistance!

This has always been one of my favorite Discworld quotes. ❤️💚

Our holidays have included the Christmas Flu going around, but vaccination has seemed to help - for us, it has been much milder than previous years. If you haven't gotten a flu vaccine this year, I recommend running out to get one. The ERs are starting to get hit bad in many places.

Que the end of year lists! #scicomm gizmodo.com/the-weirdest...

How cool!

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Holy shit this actually works 😂😂😂😂

youtube removed it, but

Please don’t rely on this technology for anything important. And double checking AI is always required.

🦠💉💊 A fascinating little bit of ethical controversy. "he may not need FDA approval to get a polyomavirus vaccine into the hands of people who might benefit from it. “If you can eat something, you can sell it as a dietary supplement product” or food" www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...

I *think* I just submitted my award application for the NIH Common Fund Replication Prize... but there doesn't seem to be any confirmation? Except possibly some green check marks? The form still says "Please complete the remaining steps". 😬

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Just in time for the holidays 😁

🧠 @umichresearch.bsky.social University of Michigan Neuroscience in the news. :) www.upworthy.com/time-percept...

“Basic neuroscience hasn’t produced new drugs.” 💊 Not true - zuranolone (PPD), suzetrigine (pain), gepants (migraine), and more... were born out of a long arc of studies in the lab. I wrote a Perspective on why this matters. @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

A long read, but absolutely worth it. Read until the end - the story is only properly told with full complexity. No tldr will do it proper justice.

... and made me wonder if we have anything equivalent in Neuroscience besides the recent events organized by NINDS Office of Research Quality (RigorChampions - @mariahhoye.bsky.social ) and Community for Rigor ( @comm4rigor.bsky.social ).

I had the privilege to contribute a workshop about promoting open discussions of scientific failure at the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology conference (SORTEE). It was fun to see how conferences differ across fields. sortee.org/blog/2025/12...

DNA??? Because what, if someone has 2 copies of the ApoE4 gene in their 30s, they are banned from entering the US because they may get #Alzheimers in 30 years?

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🧠 At home TMS device gets FDA approval - I had no idea that this was in the works! www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

🧠Early career folks: This is absolutely worth doing. The proposals are short and it gives you an excuse to hubbub with other scientists who are passionate about your topic. 🥰 The last two events that I have run have led to collaborative publications.

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

If you haven't already seen: NIH just advertised 12 director level positions on Facebook and is getting brutally roasted: www.facebook.com/share/19tTyi...

🧠🧬🧪🔬🥼 Follow up question: I seem to get a *particularly large* number of review requests at this time of year. Is that because a larger volume of papers are submitted in Nov/Dec? Or because more review requests are turned down in Nov/Dec? (... & is this a bad time to submit a paper?)

This is fantastic

Axolotls are famous for regenerating limbs. Turns out they can also regenerate their thymus—and that may show us how to someday to the same. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year... A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

Lady Marian: "Why, you speak treason!" Robin Hood: (Smiling) "Fluently."

A movie you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, or LOTR.

Day 7 #artAdventCalendar my #linocut horseshoe crab (Tachypeus gigas) in grey, blue-bronze and dark brown on 8” x 8” cream-coloured Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧪🐡 They get their name from their horseshoe like shape but they are not crabs; they are chelicerates, more closely related to 🧵

🧠 Neurofriends: How do you decide which papers you will review? * Do you decide based on the journal? (previously published there, open science policies, impact factor, APCs?) * Are you more likely to review papers that look higher quality vs lower quality? * How many do you accept per month?

We've had quite a few people join our Blue Sky community in the past 6 months. You can use the starter pack below to follow University of Michigan neuroscientists in a single click. 💛💙🧠 @ummni.bsky.social @umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” By @natlash.bsky.social

NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

I imported my former spouse. The interview was both terrifying and no big deal. The backlog was so long we'd been married 4 years by the time we got our interview (applied the week after we we married). The system sucks and is designed to suck and now people are being torn apart because of backlogs.

Well-reported, this story is quite revealing. It seems that RFK, Jr. may be genuinely trying to evaluate scientific evidence, but he cherry-picks evidence to support his preconceived views and dismisses other evidence as corrupt. #ScienceNotScience 1/4

Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.

Political appointees should not be dictating the scientific conclusions of federal science agencies. This is wildly inappropriate of Secretary Kennedy and devastatingly dangerous for public trust in the CDC as a scientific authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Why post a preprint instead of waiting for peer review? You get your work out fast, claim research priority, and protect it against plagiarism. Plus, they’re open access! Boosting your visibility and impact. Curious? Learn how preprints can work for you👇 #Preprints #OpenAccess #PhDsky