Last re-up of this thread because I’m hearing lots of similar stories to mine and I do think it’s important. tl;dr If you think there’s any chance AT ALL you may be having a heart attack, go to the ER.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you “Oh buying Canadian doesn’t make THAT much difference, in the scheme of things…”

Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.

I left mine: I simply noted that four different executive orders (three of which have been determined to be viewpoint discrimination) do not provide the basis for ignoring over forty different statutory frameworks enacted by Congress to provide grants.

TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.

Noooooo😢

Up next for the Galea lab at #AAIC26 are 4 posters and 1 talk. Please join us to talk about sex, menopause and APOE4 in mouse models and women! @matejaperovic.bsky.social @sandracorvi.bsky.social

From his unexpected path to broadcasting to the way he helped shape Ontario’s love of classic film, we’re looking back at 5 things you may not know about Elwy Yost, who would have been 101 today! 🎂 Stream #TVOOriginal "Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMD...

It’s 30+ degrees in London, but we are here for a CARE premeeting & AAIC. It was so hot yesterday that I had to fan postdocs @matejaperovic.bsky.social & @mcgovernaj.bsky.social but then again I’d ALMOST anything for them. See some of you at AAIC!

After 60+ years on the market, only 0.15% of studies have examined hormonal contraceptives' effects on the brain. Join Drs. Natalie Tronson, Adriene Beltz & Belinda Pletzer at the womenmind Conference, Nov. 4–5, to explore what's known & what's unanswered: http://tiny.cc/go35101 Liisa Galea

The SO notes from @cihr.bsky.social show why we CANNOT afford to wait a year to defend our grant when the comments are so off. I’m on the cusp again. But one comment was we don’t use appropriate menopause models 🤯 the entire grant is about many menopause’s & models & we should test ALL. 1: /

A new study of people 80 and older with exceptional gaits finds fast walkers have about a 50% lower risk of cognitive decline, showing the connection between physical health and brain health. www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

“There's a piece of NIH's mission Atlas never mentions, because it doesn't fit his story: NIH doesn't just fund experiments, it funds people. Training grants, fellowships, career development programs, and research project grants that carry graduate students and postdocs through their formative yrs”

“Here’s how federal biomedical research fuels our economy. NIH funding doesn't crowd out private investment -- it de-risks early science so private capital can follow it. Independent analysis of NIH's footprint has found that every $1 of NIH funding generates over $2.50 in new economic activity.”

My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Speaking from experience in a current role I'm occupying: for every two you know there are more like ten.

How many times a day do I have to prove I’m human by checking a box??? 😤

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Found an interesting conference you’d love to attend but aren’t sure how to finance? 🔬 Get up to £1000 towards your travel costs with our international conference travel grant. Deadline 31 July 2026 Apply: neuroendo.org.uk/grants

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Note that although the article is US-based the same things happen in Canada. Also many grad students don’t know that if they are on parental leave they no longer receive scholarship $$ and parental supports vary wildly across institutions

A far-right white supremacist group is touring northern Ontario to recruit and spread its message. Experts warn normalizing this rhetoric can lead to violence. Why are hate crimes rising in Canada? Watch Unravelled: youtu.be/WQwZK-bdtcU?...

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

This is the ADA (diabetes org) editorial where the scientists who wrote and circulated it got removed from the meeting by force

SOOO excited to share this new story from the lab, in which we identify a functional influenza-induced immune engram with behavioral and immune consequences, along with a potential therapeutic target within the lung-brain axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thrilled to be in Uppsala 🇸🇪 for #WOMHER2026 filled of talks on women’s mental health. proud of @bonniee-leee.bsky.social @rominagl4.bsky.social @matejaperovic.bsky.social Laura Gravelsins for their great presentations that went off without a hitch (despite some lost luggage)

Firing scientists won’t make us healthy. Neither will censoring scientists. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...

We think of the glass cliff as affecting women at the top of orgs in crisis. But women at any level may be setup to fail. A graphic designer was a scapegoat: "I've been hired for impossible situations, impossible clients, impossible roles that nobody wants." www.yourtango.com/career/worke...

Doors Open Toronto is back at CAMH! This year, we’re highlighting some of the unique programs at CAMH as part of this year’s Doors Open theme, “The World in a City”. Come to CAMH today or tomorrow from 10am – 4pm and join us for a guided walking tour of our Queen Street Campus. #DOT26 #Toronto

Tech abuse is a global emergency. Technology that should make life easier is being misused to monitor and control women and girls. City Hall will deliver a new £6m fund to support victims and survivors and I'll continue to call on big tech to make products safer by design.

Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ve had a shit (& I mean shit) couple of travel days,, & gave a talk in the last symposium of a conference (someone’s got to do it). So I thought screw it. I won’t work on the flight. I’ll watch movies. My seat: #firstworldproblems

Mental illness needs visibility more urgently than almost any other area of medicine and health care. A new award from Wellcome and Nature aims to raise its prominence go.nature.com/3PEPRf0

In the season finale, Dr. Liisa Galea speaks with the Honourable Dr. Kirsty Duncan, former Minister of Science and author of The Exclusion Effect. 📸 Swipe to see a photo from the first time they met. 🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/I50H50XKRwL #WomensHealth #EDI #ResearchFunding

Dr. Liisa Galea hosts Women’s Health Interrupted, a podcast that explores women’s health with equal parts curiosity, science, and rage. Tune in to the first two episodes of Season 3 now, and make sure to follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! ow.ly/hzgm50XbXJR

Here, Liisa A. M. Galea and colleagues outline how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid hormones in biomedical research (£) go.nature.com/3NB3zP9 #EndoSky #MedSky

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

Becker: Estradiol will increase self administration of cocaine in females. And super cool work showing that isolated females will take more cocaine -social housing will decrease cocaine intake in females BUT NOT IN MALES!! #FindAFriend #OSSD2026

Jill Becker waving the “not all sex differences are the same” flag which I LOVE!! I wish more people knew this!! @ossdcomm.bsky.social #OSSD2026. Jill also found that estradiol enhances dopamine release & drug taking behaviors in females.

Art Arnold keynote speaker Boris Novakovic on hormones, genes and environment. Sex Differences in infection (male>) versus autoimmune diseases (female>). What can we learn from omics studies across individuals undergoing GAHT. See current Nature Medicine paper for more! #OSSD2026

Now from @emilyjacobs.bsky.social lab is Ella Murata. Endometriosis affects 10% of females and takes on 5-12 years to diagnosis. And it’s systemic not limited to reproductive system. How does it affect the brain. 85% have mental health issues.

Up next is Shireen Sindi how does menopause and MHT influence risk factors for AD? A meta-analysis showed that Longer repo period, MHT & late menopause is associated with reduced risk. #OSSD2026 premeeting.

Menstrual and estrous cycle related hippocampus plasticity: @liviaruehr.bsky.social does it relate to connectivity? Yes but won’t post non published data. I can’t wait for this to be out!! Both P related and E related changes! @cogneuroend.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Menstrual and estrous cycle related hippocampus plasticity: @liviaruehr.bsky.social does it relate to connectivity? Yes but won’t post non published data. I can’t wait for this to be out!! Both P related and E related changes! @cogneuroend.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Up next #OSSD2026 premeeting. Ann-Christin Kimmig -understanding biosocial constructs of how sex hormones may influence mental health. Empathy -is it truly females> or is it context specific? Specific to affective not cognitive

DYK that heart rate increases by 3 beats per minute & HRV is lower in the luteal phase. These could affect emotional regulation with hormonal transitions. ER & PR are in heart as well as brain! #OSSD2026 premeeting. @jellinap.bsky.social

#OSSD2026 Pre-Meeting focused on Women’s Integrated Health kicks off with a glimpse into the uncharted female brain with Keynote Speaker @emilyjacobs.bsky.social!