Impact of Sex on Heroin Intravenous Self-Administration by Heterogeneous Stock Rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

still pissed at a certain pundit who was incredulous when i said that these people are segregationists

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

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 bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

Don’t fear the AI? www.nhmagazine.com/when-the-une...

“I want to use up everything on the planet before I die and my grandkids can fuck off” is a helluva policy principle.

First legalizing polar bear “take” in the Arctic, now “fuck them whales” in the Gulf of Mexico.

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Congratulations to Jacques Nguyen for an award recognizing “Baylor faculty members "who go above and beyond in mentoring undergraduate students."” artsandsciences.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

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...

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...

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: doi.org/10.1016/j.da...

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. www.youtube.com/live/r4TFsqL...

Strawbery Banke

Absolutely essential reading for anyone considering those "unicorn" hiring positions in Canada. Observations from researchers who are already there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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.

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.

You can tell when #zonies descend on PB. We appreciate your tourist dollars but…

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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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

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

Of course it's Rama. Of course it is. "something like 500,000 to 3 million would get the administrators excited.” ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/17/u...

Secretary Bobby Jr teaming up with Kid Rock to stop the nationwide threat of leg day was not on my BINGO card.

NIH has a website called NIH Reporter (reporter.nih.gov) This site has a reasonable user interface where searches can be conducted. 2/11

Offs. Removing the pride flag from the *stonewall* monument?

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. 🧪

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. n.pr/3ZuVXQx

Vaping voles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new preprint examines 6-methyl-nicotine levels in oral pouches tlneuro.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/a...

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.

🧵Good 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.

And, for completeness’ sake, Dan Ariely asking to add Jeffrey Epstein to his professional network on LinkedIn bsky.app/profile/kjhe...

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.

Nature's Impact Factor is in the Epstein Files. Really.

Man is it hot in Sunny Ego today! 75 feels like 80. Maybe I cold adapted after a week at #WCBR2026?

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

I wrote again to Director Bhattacharya about the "Reclaiming Science" monstrosity from yesterday. 1/3

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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I assume a lot of people are going to claim to have been working undercover to expose nefarious goings-on

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

CBD reduces oxycodone self-administration in a manner that is unrelated to alleviating pain. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

NGL the prospect of #ACNP2027 in Sunny Ego sandwiched between #ACNP2026 and #ACNP2028 in the Bahamas generates some imposter syndrome.

Lab member: can I show you some data? Me, 9am: YES Me, 8pm: YES Me, 3am: YES Me, while undergoing surgery: YES