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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!

Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a scientific community that focuses on sex differences across fields of study, and in basic and clinical research and public policy!

This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”

NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).

Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

Hey Bluesky! Let's sell a painting! #sciart #bsnm www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Originals, not prints, one of each

The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website: bit.ly/4k6tvwQ bit.ly/4jYmu18

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected] docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution. This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.

“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.

Signal-gate and the Social Security scandal show how tyranny works: the regime can do no wrong, and the people have no rights. They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

1st they came for the immigrants with temporary legal status... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Letter from @columbiajournalism.bsky.social rightly notes that "punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship." There are over a million international students nationwide living in fear "that they are no longer free to speak their mind."

so much about this is about control: control over families and children’s lives, control over women and their choices, control over who is considered an expert and what is considered expertise, control over what kind of jobs we get access to…

Scientists do not get paid for getting quoted in the newspaper about science. People know this, right? Last year I was quoted in about 30 media articles, and I received a grand total of $0 for this. We do it because it’s important, not because we get paid.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

“It's a reminder to decent people to reach out to friends and family finding themselves in the path of Musk's scythe. Fascist online hoards cheering the misery of these government workers can't be the only voices they hear” @dennycarter.bsky.social bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-un...

When Smith said in Aug/23 someone should've raised red flags - I guess "someone" doesn't mean lab workers, union, or researchers. We knew. And she knew *before* the May/23 election. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Do you need some reproductive health and justice zines, to read or to share? I gotchu.... Here's a printable set from Barnard College: library.barnard.edu/news/downloa...

These days Plan B packs are very cost effective. Just a few dollars and the last for something like 4 years - something that should be in most medicine cabinets, to use or share. Maybe get some and share with friends?

Hi all! It's a terrible day! Amongst terrible days, I suppose. Just a heads up that if you're a person who can get pregnant, this is a good time to consider getting a solid contraception plan if needed. Did you know you can also get abortion pills in advance?

And a lot of us don’t *want* to move to other countries. Emigrating to a new place is not an easy thing to do.

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

It’s difficult to overstate how asinine this is. mRNA vaccines have been the most revolutionary development of vaccinology in this century and are uniquely well suited to address many limitations that other vaccine technologies cannot (e.g., CD8 T cell responses in immunocompromised people).

Yeah. I said it. When the legislative and judicial bodies do nothing but endorse the executive, every institution is advance complying with repression, and unelected oligarchs are replacing civil servants, we have a dictatorship.

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women www.medievalists.net/2025/03/1100...

This is the best thread I have ever read h/t @nanopharmnc.bsky.social

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

The American Institute for Economic Research, funded by a rightist intl. conglomerate and run by people without roots in this town, and housed in a secluded mansion up in the forest, had the audacity to call their bizarre pamphlet "Barrington Declaration". Nobody here had anything to do with it.

having been in many rooms where protests are initially orchestrated, i can say sights like this are a highly desired outcome. protests are inherently theatrical & part of that is triggering state actors to unwittingly adopt the role they were born to play.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.