Factors like sex & age can affect sensory processing in #AutismSpectrumDisorder. This study shows that prenatal valproic acid in rats (an autism model) alters predictive auditory processing, revealing sex- & age-specific differences akin to those in autistic traits @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4fjpjZ8

HOT TOPICS Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience Jacinta C. Beehner 1 and Shelly B. Flagel 2,3 ✉ © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2025 Neuropsychopharmacology; doi.org/10.1038/s413...

GPER1! Sex differences! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n... via @statnews.com

Shanie Landen, BSc, PhD, will receive the 2025 BoSD-OSSD Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in muscle protein expression and DNA methylation in response to exercise training” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!

Ece Bayram, MD, PhD, will present in BoSD Hot Topics Symposium for research on “Sex differences for clinical correlates of substantia nigra neuron loss in people with Lewy body pathology” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!

Alex R. DeCasien, PhD will receive the BoSD-OSSD 2024 Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!

A vaccine that generates antibodies that bind to cocaine and prevent it entering the brain has shown promise in an initial trial in ten addicts 🧪 #ASGCT2025 www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

Ok science and academic sky— we’re microflyering graduation. www.standupforscience.net/microflyering 🧪🦠

Thank you, @neurosexdiff.bsky.social , for lending your voice to this @nature.com story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.

The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’ www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/n... via @statnews.com

Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding—and no one can fill it | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

Dear Colleagues: Now is the time to scale up public engagement with science I address this letter to scientists, but it is an invitation for fans & defenders of science everywhere to unite & take action! Let's focus a lot more on K-12 ed 🧪 #SciComm #EduSky 👉 civicsciencemedia.org/dear-colleag...

Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Early voting today in Wisconsin

For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration

See national impact of federal health research cuts scienceimpacts.org

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

Concerned mentors wishing we could speak with our senators about attacks on science and students @sarahross1.bsky.social & Michael Gold 🤔

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!

Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate

Publish your sex differences research in Biology of Sex Differences! Win awards! bsd.biomedcentral.com #OSSD #BoSD

Last day for early registration for #OSSD2025

Why is "the study of #sexdifferences fundamental for #science in order to improve the #health of all humans, male and female"? New BoSD Editorial by #OSSD President, Prof Sofia Ahmed, and Editor-in-Chief, Prof Jill Becker: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #sabv #supportscience

📢 Early Bird Registration Fees for our 2025 Conference = postponed until March 30th! 👉 Not registered yet? This is your chance. 👉 Already registered at Full Fees? An email from OSSD Central Office will reach you shortly to start processing your partial refund. www.ossdweb.org/ossd-annual-...

Something for 🧪 🗃 folks and more - please share with your subject hashtags so that more folks learn about this! #academicsky

Well done to the first recipients of the EACR-Mark Foundation postdoc fellowships 🎉🎊 And a happy coincidence that all three awardees are women scientists in the labs of three women PIs 🙌 #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience 👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧪 @themarkfdn.bsky.social @helloeacr.bsky.social @juliemmazet.bsky.social

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I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

Sex Differences Research Saves Lives! #OSSD #BoSD #SBN #SWHR #science please share rdcu.be/ecZXa

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

Government is close to shutting down and Soeaker Johnson just send everyone home for two weeks

Keep screaming! It’s working!

RSVP: bit.ly/march13RSVP

🚨 Trump and Musk want to fire federal workers, gut public services, and hand our government to billionaires. We’re not letting that happen. 📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.

Sex differences research is important! I am excited to share my editorial bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Lack of data and research on chronic conditions affecting women www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/fra...

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

Note: Trump is economically punishing our closest allies while simultaneously proposing that all sanctions on Vladimir Putin and Russia should be eased. Push that around in your head a little bit and ask yourself why that might be.

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

Outside of DC and state capitals, there are lots of places to Stand Up for Science on your lunch or coffee break in cities and campuses across the country. 🧪

🧵13/13: This study was supported by *federal science funding* from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Naval Research, and National Institutes of Health, with additional support from the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Research Consortium and Hope for Depression Research Foundation.

🧠🧬🧪📈🟦 We have a new paper! Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell - in the body and the brain. Could they explain why some individuals are more anxious and inhibited while others are more hyperactive and adventurous? Tweetprint🧵 1/13: w/ @huda-akil.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social