Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care — by Melissa L. Perreault, Rudi Taylor-Bragge, Hervé Chneiweiss, Andre D. McLachlan, T. Ryan Gregory, Roksana Khalid, Katherine Bassil, Anna Lydia Svalastog, Minerva R. Velarde & Judy Illes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...

Looking forward to this book! His previous book, Race on the Brain, was a phenomenal and important read at the intersection of neuroscience and critical race theory.

Join us this Friday for our next #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries with @brielleryan.bsky.social ! 🧠✨ Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience! 📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET Don't miss it! 🔥 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today. One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.

Estrogen “the female hormone” literally affects our entire being. Especially our “sense” of being. This is a well-written piece. 🧪🔬🧠🧬 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥

On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.

chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

So, it happened: my funding through the NIGMS K12 IRACDA@TAMU program has been terminated. This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

Damn, this is devastating and cruel. My IRACDA postdoctoral experience was amazing and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 😡😢

This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding. If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will. They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education. We all need to respond. #GeneralStrike

In case you were wondering www.them.us/story/transg...

Excellent resource here, including a slide deck, for teaching students about science funding! Any similar additional resources out there? I would love to add some graphics quantifying the consequences of the current attacks on science.

This is devastating! I was privileged to do an NSF REU as an undergraduate and it was a transformative experience for my career trajectory.

This is news to me and so disappointing. I’m sorry for the loss to our students and our scientific community 🧪

🚨 LOOKING FOR A STATE LEAD FOR MICHIGAN! 🧪🌎☀️ We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team! Interested? Email us!

In my systems neuroscience class the week after next, we're going to discuss receptive fields and neural coding. Does anyone know of a basic (and ideally math-light) overview on rate codes, time codes, etc?

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

We are dealing with an authoritarian theory of executive power, and the authoritarianism isn’t limited in scope to minority and marginalized communities like it historically has been

The segregation moves are about ending democracy for all populations, and restructuring the US government as a total authoritarian institution for all populations.

They are not simply arguing that minorities should be excluded from public life and positions of access, equal opportunity, & power. They are arguing that the United States should no longer be democratic for *anyone* not even the hetcis white men. They are arguing against checks and balances too.

What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

This is some white supremacist BS the Trump/Musk administration is attempting 😡

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

It is actually a problem that scientists keep marching for science though instead of against fascism and for humanity

This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

You can see the impact of NIH grant funds on your state’s economy by visiting this site www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

NEW: NIH telling scientists not to review diversity supplements that support students from marginalized backgrounds pursue Ph.Ds; unclear if/how they can reapply. "It is an ugly moment," Donna Ginther told me. New story with @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/t...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967. I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant. A few notable sections... www.apa.org/topics/equit...

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

Seeking text book recommendations for a 300 level neurophysiology course. For context ,students will have already taken an intro neuro course and also take a separate 300 level neuroanatomy course. Any recommendations? #neuroskyence #neuroscience

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

The Biopsychology Colouring Book 2E is now out! 🥳 If your undergraduate students are struggling with biological psychology / behavioural neuroscience, this colouring book is perfect for revision AND a fun and relaxing break from screens! Check it out here: bit.ly/3OAzpIt #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Who originated the idea of computational #neuroscience? I credit Ada Lovelace (1815-1852): “I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short… laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain.”

A narrow list of #PUI researchers. BlueSky provides an opportunity for us to connect, grow and potentially do something cool. Let’s think of big questions from small spaces! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/RnHK313

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY