I had a great time talking to @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social von The Social Academic about overwhelm in academia and how to get out of the vicious cycle of having too much on your plate.

“I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.” Martin Sheen 🇺🇸 (born Ramón Estévez) Son of immigrants Spanish father/Irish mother Lithuania is Europe 🇪🇺 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY 4/5🧵

Not cool: Getting a "this 6 hour assignment is due on Monday" reminder from your society during a Holiday weekend. Either send the reminder before the Holiday or trust that it will be done by your deadline. Monday morning would be another automatable possibility.

“There were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women aged <25 years in 2021 – the first time that this has occurred in data going back to 1982. This remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination.” From report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au #vaccinationsaveslives

😁Excited 2️⃣ join Laughing Impact (@laughingimpact ) &their funny friends 4️⃣ much needed laughs w a purpose! ‼️Dec 2nd @Saturn (@saturnbham) in BHM will be the 3️⃣rd filming of Everything is Great! 🗣️A Town Hall 4️⃣ the People! Part Real Town Hall Part Improvised Parody & lots of fun 4️⃣ all 🕖Doors open @ 7pm

🪧Signs of Fascism/Visibility Brigade 🗣️Join us to fight this authoritarian slip into Fascism!! 📝Sign up here for Visibility brigade docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📝Sign up here for “Signs of Facism” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @indivisiblewestal.bsky.social @indivisible.org @al.com

The 2025-2026 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 92 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/bwEzwHAEehBj... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Our work out in @devbiol.bsky.social, PDGFra is needed for 🧠 perivascular fibroblast development... ⬇️ perivascular fibroblast = ⬇️ perivascular macrophage...cross-talk? 👀 Led by Hannah Jones @hejcell.bsky.social w/ Kelsey Abrams, Sophia Kim, excited for more projects w/ @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!

PDGFRα is required for postnatal cerebral perivascular fibroblast development. Congrats @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social ! #cerebrovascular #fibroblasts #development

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Our lab is looking for a postdoc! We have interesting projects and cutting-edge techniques such as Neuropixels Opto, Light Beads Microscopy and more. We would be delighted to receive your application. Deadline is 25 November 2025. More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/po...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

When we push students to always choose the highest-ranked programs, we make it easier for those programs (or their faculty) to get away with treating students badly. Since that push sends the message that students should just be grateful to be there, no matter the cost.

The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious. Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy. 1/ 🧪#NoKings

U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/

During your PhD you learn to do science...but not to lead people. And later, you're too busy, so just keep going on autopilot. Join us in a FREE class with @glia-leadership.bsky.social + @stefanierobel.bsky.social all about lab leadership & team success. 👉 buff.ly/AzDWf09 #NewPI #TenureTrack

As hard as it sounds...Not every lab member is a good fit 😅 Learn how to spot red flags, raise standards, and lead your research team without burnout. We're hosting a free class with @glia-leadership.bsky.social + @stefanierobel.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/AzDWf09 #NewPI #TenureTrack #AcademicSky

I’ll be riding an endurance race in Mississippi on No Kings Day. So I made a shirt. Hope everyone is planning on showing up on 10/18!

A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"... orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Looking forward to this session on cultivating great teams. Thanks @anapineda.bsky.social for hosting us!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

148 clinical trials have been impacted, with 138k patients due to be enrolled or already enrolled. Once research stops, some won't pick up where they left off. Even when terminated funding was reinstated, things do not go back to normal. There is so much waste happening. 🧪 archive.today/Rii7f

We’re hosting @anapineda.bsky.social from I Focus and Write tomorrow at noon ET. Join us for a walk through 4 mistakes grant writers make.

Last chance to join us today at 1pm ET. Link in thread.

I invite you to let your #NewPI & #FuturePIs know: Tomorrow I’m running a short session on building a lab that can hold up in “winter”—the season when paylines are tight, rules keep changing, and hiring/approvals slow down.

Have you are a New PI and recently thought: "This isn’t the dream I thought it would be." Been there, done that! And you have it way harder right now. But you don't have to do it alone! 📅 Oct 3, 1:00 pm ET From New PI to Tenure: 3 Moves to Launch a Research Program That Survives 🔗 below

🔬 New PIs: this one’s for you. When I started my lab 10 years ago, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I had the training, the passion, the drive. But the reality hit harder than I expected.

Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: [email protected]. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level! Applications Due by October 15, 2025 We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

When I was a kid, due to either neglect, trust in the tv, precognition, or a combination, my parents left me alone to watch 1954’s animated version of “Animal Farm.” I was six. I consider the experience of watching Animal Farm alone as if a Disney cartoon it was, a keystone of my upbringing.

Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars! stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu

Got my Labwork to Leadership book by @jenheemstra.bsky.social today! Can’t wait to dive in #researchteams #researchleadership #PIs

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant is back. Share with your ESI colleagues! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

shocking to read over and over the stories of close colleagues who can't run their lab anymore. I know Karen well and it's heartbreaking. Also #PIinthelab! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

In a Comment article for Nature, Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science. #Academicsky 🧪

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...

Spending a few days to grow my leadership skills by supporting a Tony Robbins event. So refreshing to be i. a different environment for a moment. Super inspiring speakers, lots of info on new technology, awesome participants from all around the world—actually I am supporting the German team, go 🇩🇪

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

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The UI Department of Biology invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in genetics, beginning in the academic year 2026. Review of applicants will begin on November 1, 2025. For more information about the position and to apply, please visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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

This Monday, we’re running a special edition of our New PI Success Workshop. Not the usual one. A version built for this moment. 🗓 Aug 11, 10am–2pm ET Free + Live Just hit reply and say “I’m in.” Here’s why we’re doing this now 👇

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

A longtime colleague and friend is shutting down her research program; there is no hope. I’m crushed on her behalf, just no words to do this justice. She started a gofundme to finish the last study so their findings can be published - please consider donating gofund.me/8bf0f53f