I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Our department is recruiting a new tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor. Come join the #1 physiology department in the country and some awesome colleagues doing high impact science and training the next generation of scientists jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674815/a...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

What they are doing to NIH defies all logic and reason. This admin is needlessly, irreversibly destroying one of the greatest resources our country has ever built. A few quotes from yours' truly are in the video below. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for covering www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

@ssibsociety.bsky.social check out this position at UM!

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Nature story about the Executive Order... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Christmas has come early....SSIBlings in a box! #SSIB2025 Oxford, UK

Kicking off SSIB 2025! #SSIB2025

The countdown is on! Who's headed to Oxford for #SSIB2025! Join us for cutting-edge science, networking, and the historic charm of one of the world’s oldest universities. Stay tuned for updates throughout the week. 🇬🇧 #IngestiveBehavior #Neuroscience #Oxford #SSIB

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

My department is hiring multiple TT positions in biochem or organic chem and materials chem (open rank) and molecular bio (asst/assoc)! Check us out if you are interested in research intensive SLAC life. Chem ad here, bio next in 🧵 1/5 #scijobs #LGBTQSTEM #academicsky #chemsky #chemjobs 🧪👩‍🔬🧬

Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods – and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $40 billion in aid to rebuild from January’s devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans – not just those who voted for him.

The National Cancer Institute has led the fight against cancer — delivering cures, extending lives & giving families hope.
 Trump’s assault on science threatens to reverse decades of progress against this disease.
 It’s stupidity, not efficiency, and it will cost lives. We must reverse these cuts.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Excellent debunker of some of RFKJrs misleading statements about vaccines by @jakescottmd.bsky.social

Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months:

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

AOC: They’re giving people crumbs and they are taking away the whole loaf.

Ted Koppel interviews my Hopkins colleague Prof. Liz Jaffee, world expert in pancreatic cancer, about the devastating cuts and slow roll out of cancer research funding by the NIH. See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...

Can’t believe #GRCPsychedelics is happening in two weeks! We reached capacity attendance – sorry we could not accommodate everyone. We look forward to seeing many of you at the meeting. w/ @vyazovskiy.bsky.social @viditavaidya.bsky.social @melissaherman.bsky.social

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

This is what we are talking about when we say NIH funding saves lives. Specifically these researchers stepped in created a therapy that may well save this child's life. It is amazing. This is what is at stake. If NIH goes away, we lose all of this, for at least a generation.

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Thx Angie @avaskham.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social for paying attention to what’s happening to 🧠 research in and outside NIH. This all got personal real fast.

FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!

At least four neuroscientists received termination letters this week dismissing them from NIH advisory boards. “This is unusual and unprecedented,” says @thebalelab.bsky.social, one of the terminated board members. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/4hM0Xa3

This is terrible news & just one part of a bigger picture. Prepare yourself for ongoing updates about the “reduction in force” this month and more again in April. Talk to your community about it. They may not believe it at first - it sounds unbelievable! But we must bear witness & explain.

I was delighted to have an editorial in my hometown paper on the administration's threat to the NIH and what it means for the health and welfare of my peeps. For the good it may do, I urge you to also write one @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social Bonus: It's cathartic to write a scream into the void.

NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23916 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/23944 uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/24010

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

Interview with me about impact of NIH budget cuts on the American people. It will have ripple effects not only our health but also on state economies across the country. March in support of science tomorrow! apnews.com/article/trum...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Cartoon by David Sipress.

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...