Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing Presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a community of scientists across fields (including basic and clinical work, and in public policy) that focus on sex differences!

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦‍♀️ You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches #sfn2025

NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.

Did you know that there are sex-biased changes in several memory modalities as early as middle-age? www.nature.com/articles/s41... #sabv #ossd #sexdifferences #humanhealth #memory

Day 122. Luna and Izzie would like you to know that it’s okay to work together for the greater good at times, even if you normally wouldn’t do so. Like looking at the interesting thing outside. #UglyDogs

Still some time left to stop by @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social ‘s poster X15! Check out her new single cell study showing how reproductive state - the estrous cycle and OVX - affects the hypothalamus! #SfN25 @sfn.org

Sunday funday, 121 day! Izzie would like you to know that the most fun a kitty could have is simply sleeping in, taking on whatever liquid shape you can, wherever you can. #UglyDogs

At the pre #SfN @storiesofwin.bsky.social Symposium. Inspiring, entertaining, motivating, and encouraging to hear all these honest stories from these women scientists who truly are making an impact on their environment and science in general.

Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for. Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

Final version published here in @cellpress.bsky.social: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...

Day 120. Here’s Luna just being a silly puppy. That’s good for a Saturday, or so I’ve heard. #UglyDogs

🚨🚨🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨🚨🚨 We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...

check out the @okaysteve.bsky.social lab’s posters (for both neuron and glia enthusiasts) at #SfN2025 on Saturday PM! especially say hello to @siriacoello.bsky.social who is applying to grad school this cycle✨

#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

The lab is presenting at #SfN2025 Come check out the amazing science being conducted by postdoc Nina Baumgartner @nbaumgar.bsky.social and grad student Alexa Jo Tellez! I am also recruiting a postdoc so please spread the word. #neuroskyence

Day 119. Izzie says, don’t let your humans go to work today. Sleep on their laps instead because cat law prevents them from leaving. Thank you, Izzie. #UglyDogs

In all seriousness, lock her up. (Lock them all up, of course, but her too.)

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is a hero. We owe her a debt of gratitude. bsky.app/profile/dday...

Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

I just got an email from a former mentee telling me that one dinner conversation changed how he writes papers♥️ I told him: “just write the paper, get it out—the next one will be better, and the next even better.” Perfectionism is a trap (and a way to procrastinate...:))

We are starting to interview some ✨️spectacular✨️ candidates! Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research in a highly supportive and nurturing training environment! Apply now!

Day 118. Luna would like to thank everybody for their demands for belly rubs. Here, she shows you her “belly up” trick, as well as how good it is to get said belly rubs. Legend has it, the belly rubs continue to this day. #UglyDogs

Unpredictable stress boosts perceptual learning and alters glucocorticoid and norepinephrine receptors in rats’ dorsal hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PMAT enhances sexual dimorphism of fear behaviors and facilitates female mice’s generalized contextual fear extinction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Said it before, will say it again, the Epstein Files are THE story. Not the only story, but it's the story which can and will weaken and possibly bring down Trump and now the GOP and even many powerful man who have escaped accountability for years. Keep pushing and digging.

If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

117 days so far. Izzie would like to know what makes you think your game is more important than giving attention to her. Consider my attention all yours, kitty cat! #UglyDogs

Sickness engrams modulate anticipatory immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686140v1

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I finally got confirmation that ICE agents have been getting paid this whole shutdown. Only people who’ve had guaranteed pay this whole time are the lawmakers responsible for the shutdown and kidnappers

We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

Today is day 116. Seen here: a belly-rubs wanter and a belly-rubs demander. #UglyDogs

From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president. The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.

Be a leader or get the fuck out of the way or we will remove you.

Thank goodness! 🏳️‍🌈❤️ (Gift link!)

Day 115! Izzie is still in her uncooked shrimp form. I think I’ll join her. #UglyDogs

Ohhh, that looks cool, also quite a few nice refs to the immune role of neuropeptides, including in the gut

Do you want to suppress Democratic voter turnout in 2028? Because this is how you suppress Democratic voter turnout in 2028.

Hey @schumer.senate.gov, a 'promise' from Republicans? WTAF? Are you a child? Even you can't be that naïve. Don't you dare do your kabuki theater with hundreds of millions of lives hanging in the balance. If you can't play hardball, resign. Immediately.

Day 114 is a special one, everybody. I caught two rare photos of elusive Lunicorn! So majestic… and sleepy. #UglyDogs