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Impact of Sex on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration by Heterogeneous Stock Rats
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717349v1
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jamelle
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this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.
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still pissed at a certain pundit who was incredulous when i said that these people are segregationists
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Don Moynihan
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Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers
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When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy
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Don’t fear the AI?
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When the Unexpected Becomes Life Saving - New Hampshire Magazine
AI Enhances Lung Cancer Detection at Elliot Health System
https://www.nhmagazine.com/when-the-unexpected-becomes-life-saving-ai-enhances-lung-cancer-detection-at-elliot-health-system/
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“I want to use up everything on the planet before I die and my grandkids can fuck off” is a helluva policy principle.
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First legalizing polar bear “take” in the Arctic, now “fuck them whales” in the Gulf of Mexico.
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A new preprint from the Nguyen lab explores the impact of dry-hits, as in when the e-cig cartridge runs out of liquid. It ain't good. Neurobehavioral Effects of Dry Hit Nicotine E-Cigarette Vapor Inhalation in Adolescent Wistar Rats
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A new preprint from the Nguyen Lab has posted: Changes in perineuronal net and parvalbumin expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of male Wistar rats following repeated fentanyl administration
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Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer đź§µ1/
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilead-refuses-sell-groundbreaking-hiv-prevention-drug-msf
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Congratulations to Jacques Nguyen for an award recognizing “Baylor faculty members "who go above and beyond in mentoring undergraduate students."”
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Six Baylor Faculty Members Are Honored for Exceptional Student Mentoring
https://artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2026/six-baylor-faculty-members-are-honored-exceptional-student-mentoring
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Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested.
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I work for you…as you have repeatedly requested.
The political situation in the United States in 2025 has raised the operations of the agencies that fund scientific research to common conversation. Research grants which have been issued by the Na…
https://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i-work-for-you-as-you-have-repeatedly-requested/
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Recent release of NIH fellowship funding for FY2025 reminded me of this post where I addressed the long standing government interest in training scientists and in asking them to do science thereafter. I work for you...as you have repeatedly requested.
tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i...
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I work for you…as you have repeatedly requested.
The political situation in the United States in 2025 has raised the operations of the agencies that fund scientific research to common conversation. Research grants which have been issued by the Na…
https://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/i-work-for-you-as-you-have-repeatedly-requested/
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
28 days ago
New in DADR: Han et al. found sex-specific youth vaping risks and concluded that prevention efforts may benefit from sex-specific strategies. Check it out here:
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadr.2026.100427
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It is important to understand the arguments if we hope to minimize the bad stuff. Not only his testimony but also the punch and Judy show aspect of the questions of Reps.
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WATCH LIVE: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya testifies at NIH oversight hearing before House panel
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/live/r4TFsqL_l8A?si=4R-SNCD4dRBCITAF
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Monica H Green
about 1 month ago
Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige
The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00743-1
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boehninglab
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethginexi/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Dr. Becca
about 1 month ago
Please read this thread. It may feel like things have gotten somewhat back to normal at NIH, but they are most definitely not. American labs are still deeply under existential threat.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
about 1 month ago
Echoing
@docbecca.bsky.social
to please read this thread. I heard something similar from an intramural researcher in December, who explicitly warned me that it was about to get much worse for extramural researchers, given what was happening in intramural labs at the NIH. And it has.
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You can tell when
#zonies
descend on PB. We appreciate your tourist dollars but…
about 1 month ago
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Jeremy Berg
about 1 month ago
New and competitive renewal awards The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies well below the other curves. 1189 awards have been made in fiscal year 2026 compared to 2546 in fiscal year 2024 and 2322 in fiscal year 2025 through that same date (March 6th) 3/4
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UC San Diego
about 1 month ago
Tariff uncertainty may hurt more than tariffs themselves. UC San Diego economist Kyle Handley explains how volatility slows investment, raises costs and could erode U.S. trade credibility for years to come: https://bit.ly/4rQLoDR
#Economics
#TradePolicy
#GlobalEconomy
#PublicPolicy
#UCSD
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Why Tariff Uncertainty May Hurt More Than Tariffs
Q&A with School of Global Policy and Strategy economist on what uncertainty means for businesses, how volatility affects global credibility and what policy choices lie ahead.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
about 2 months ago
the sentiment that everything is getting worse used to skew more to older people but these days it's broken generational containment, because everything is undeniably getting worse
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Of course it's Rama. Of course it is. "something like 500,000 to 3 million would get the administrators excited.”
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UCSD center director VS Ramachandran receives lab funding from Epstein
Emails released by the Department of Justice indicate that Jeffrey Epstein provided funding for a UC San Diego lab led by Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, director of UCSD’s department of psycholog...
https://ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/17/ucsd-center-director-vs-ramachandran-receives-lab-funding-from-epstein/
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Secretary Bobby Jr teaming up with Kid Rock to stop the nationwide threat of leg day was not on my BINGO card.
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Jeremy Berg
about 2 months ago
NIH has a website called NIH Reporter (
reporter.nih.gov
) This site has a reasonable user interface where searches can be conducted. 2/11
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Offs. Removing the pride flag from the *stonewall* monument?
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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is an extreme org that has opposed all animal research since the group’s inception. They have largely existed at the fringe of science/medicine but now have sway w/ NIH leaders. Primate research is their easiest target but they won’t stop there. 🧪
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NPR
2 months ago
Ben Ogden of Vermont skied powerfully, finishing just behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. men's cross-country skier since 1976.
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American Ben Ogden wins silver, breaking 50 year medal drought for U.S. men's cross-country skiing
Ben Ogden of Vermont skied powerfully, finishing just behind Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. men's cross-country skier since 1976.
https://n.pr/3ZuVXQx
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Vaping voles
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A new preprint examines 6-methyl-nicotine levels in oral pouches
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A new preprint examines 6-methyl-nicotine levels in oral pouches
As I mentioned in a prior post, the tobacco / nicotine industry has adopted the analog strategy to stay ahead of government regulation and oversight. This involves, at present, substituting 6-methy…
https://tlneuro.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/a-new-preprint-examines-6-methyl-nicotine-levels-in-oral-pouches/
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Thank you! As your constituent this is exactly the course I want you to purse. Restore the rule of law and our Constitutional protections of civil rights.
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS
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đź§µGood news out of
#NIH
today. (1) NIH is extending
#ESI
and
#K99/R00
eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.
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NOT-OD-26-020: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Eligibility Period NOT-OD-26-020. OD
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-020.html
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Chris Ingraham
2 months ago
And, for completeness’ sake, Dan Ariely asking to add Jeffrey Epstein to his professional network on LinkedIn
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Chris Ingraham
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Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
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Michael Eisen
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Nature's Impact Factor is in the Epstein Files. Really.
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Man is it hot in Sunny Ego today! 75 feels like 80. Maybe I cold adapted after a week at
#WCBR2026
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2 months ago
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Vinny Costa
3 months ago
I swear ski conferences are sadistic experiments cooked up by motor and rehabilitation neuroscientists to remind mid-life academics that motor plasticity is a finite resource.
#wcbr2026
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Jeremy Berg
2 months ago
I wrote again to Director Bhattacharya about the "Reclaiming Science" monstrosity from yesterday. 1/3
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Dr. Connor Haggarty
2 months ago
What an undertaking this was. So proud of the collection
@mayoonthebrain.bsky.social
,
@brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social
,
@cbaunez.bsky.social
and I collected for the “Stress, Trauma and Cannabinoids” special issue in
@psychopharmacology.bsky.social
Editorial:
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EBPS2023 special issue: Stress, trauma and cannabinoids - Psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-026-07017-8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20260131&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00213-026-07017-8
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
2 months ago
I assume a lot of people are going to claim to have been working undercover to expose nefarious goings-on
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With 8 person chairlifts the odds of getting at least one debate over whether gummis or smoking a joint are better snowboarding preparation approaches unity, right?
#WCBR2026
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CBD reduces oxycodone self-administration in a manner that is unrelated to alleviating pain.
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Cannabidiol reduces oxycodone self-administration while preserving its analgesic efficacy in a rat model of neuropathic pain
Prescription opioid misuse is a significant public health concern among individuals with chronic pain. Treating severe pain often requires high doses of opioids, increasing the risk of developing an opioid use disorder. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12808320/
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NGL the prospect of
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#ACNP2026
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Katharina Schmack
3 months ago
Lab member: can I show you some data? Me, 9am: YES Me, 8pm: YES Me, 3am: YES Me, while undergoing surgery: YES
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