Are you a postdoc or student working on a neuroendocrine research project? 🔬 Get up to £8,000 support for consumables/other research costs to enable you to carry out the best possible neuroendocrine research project. Deadline 1 Oct 2025 Apply: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

Do you have any students passionate about science communication and busting myths? Why not encourage them to enter the our Student Media Award to show off their skills. Whether it’s videos, blogs, podcasts, or graphics there’s a chance to win up to £300! bit.ly/SfEStudentMe...

Neuroendocrinologist Gareth Leng, author of “The Heart of the Brain,” unpacks the intricacies of the hypothalamus—a tiny yet powerful structure at the core of what makes us human. 🎧 Listen to Part 1 of his interview on Leafing through Science: @champalimaudf.bsky.social @g-leng.bsky.social

🍽️ Appetite. 😡 Aggression. 🧒 Puberty. 👶 Parenthood. Is there anything the #hypothalamus isn’t involved in? Join our new #podcast #LeafingThroughScience 🎙️ as we shine a torch 🔦 into this deep, dark cave of the brain 🧠. 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥: youtu.be/et_T1gpXoHU @mitpress.bsky.social‬

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

"... how important it is to create a laboratory filled with young scientists from all aspects of our cultural and societal mosaic." @denisebelsham.bsky.social is the Alison Douglas lecturer at @bsneuroendo.bsky.social Bradford, and this is from her abstract. Alison would have been so pleased.

Consensus vs Convergence "Unlike declarations that a consensus exists...a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by inviting discussion of the extent of existing knowledge and the multiple ways in which it was developed” By @holdenthorp.bsky.social

From Nature Index, the top 10 academic institutions in the world ranked by number of papers published in 2023-24 in the most prestigious scientific journals (all fields of science). Harvard is first by a long way; the next 9 are all Universities in China.

Chinese trolling us…

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Finally, there were various comments from viewers about how universities are just ivory ideas discussing abstract ideas and of no use to society. This was my defence of university & higher education

Poets say things best. "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them."

💡 Are you passionate about promoting and championing equity, diversity, and inclusion? Are you interested in doing so within your institutions? Find out how our new EDI Fund could support you! 📆 Deadline is 3 April 🔗 Apply here:

Why is anyone decent still on X! If your Society or Journal or University is - just let them know it's not OK.

In 1938, the American sociologist RK Merton (at Columbia University) drew attention to political attacks on scientific institutions. He went on to ask “How should scientists respond”... www.the-matter-of-facts.com/post/the-imp...

Indeed academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Russia demands to keep captured territory The new Private Eye is out now

Found an interesting conference abroad you’d love to attend but aren’t sure how to finance? Get up to £700 towards your travel costs with our international conference travel grant. Deadline: 1 March 2025 More information: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

Basel, Switzerland

"Scientific work which promises direct practical benefit to the Nazi party or the Third Reich is to be fostered above all and research funds are to be re-allocated in accordance with this policy...the scientific significance of any knowledge is of secondary importance" RK Merton (1933)

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline

Here with subtitles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

Fifty-five of the top 200 universities in the THE World University Rankings 2025 have a female v-c or president, representing 27 per cent and a milestone for the seventh consecutive year #AcademicSky #highered

What is JNE's main strength? "Society-owned journals allow scientists to be in control of publishing research that serves science and society." #LoveMyJNE @rebeccadumbell.bsky.social chatted with JNE Editor-in-Chief @mikelehman.bsky.social to find out more:

Pubmed down for me but Europe PMC is fine

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

Thrilled to announce the creation of the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science Integrity Fund to provide "funding for training programs, grants, or awards for science integrity advocates." Thanks to @science.org for covering this. Help us grow the fund with a tax-deductible donation.

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Rediscovering Robert K. Merton. Here from a 1942 essay

Found a neuroendo lab in the UK or abroad whose work you love? Apply for up to £5000 for travel and accommodation with our research visit grant. Deadline: 1 March 2025 More: www.neuroendo.org.uk...

What is JNE's main strength? "Society-owned journals allow scientists to be in control of publishing research that serves science and society." #YourJNE @rebeccadumbell.bsky.social chatted with JNE Editor-in-Chief @mikelehman.bsky.social to find out more:

I’m thrilled to share our preprint presenting MORSE: a new way to simultaneously & quantitatively track patterns of neuromodulators/neuropeptides in vitro & in vivo using spatially multiplexed 3D imaging of 10+ green optical sensors on a microendoscope biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.26.634931v1

Don't you just hate IKEA? Clear plans, given everything you need, everything fits, and in the end it all works. God I miss science sometimes.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #MetaScience www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

For my application to extend my residence in France (and prove that I am still living with my French wife) I had to provide a HANDWRITTEN letter. This is more than I have written by hand in 20 years, but I found a fountain pen and covered myself with ink. which made me strangely happy.

Looks like Trump might be giving China a helping hand on its way to science dominance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is such a great journal cover (and journal)! https://journal.trialanderror.org/. Cover by Lieve Visser. #journaloftrialanderror #academicpublishing

deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma... This is my first post on Bluesky after leaving the cesspit - using it to express my respect to Dorothy Bishop for her integrity and boldness - and for making me laugh out loud with this blogpost