NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

Google wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. Page and Brin started Google based on NSF-funded research they did at Stanford, which has made Stanford, Google, and lots of other people a lot of money. It’s made the rest of us stupid but that’s another topic.

The president is recommending a 40% cut to next year’s NIH budget. This would be disastrous for our nation’s health and economy. Please contact your representatives, especially if they are Republicans, and tell them why this cannot happen. An easy option: 5calls.org

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me. DM me, email [email protected], Signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

As a licensed psychologist I am saying with my whole chest: Gender-affirming care for young people is health care. Medically necessary, age-appropriate, science-backed, life-saving health care, supported by EVERY major medical association. It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.

Have you called your reps to oppose the nomination of RFK Jr yet today? Have you called your reps to tell them the impact the current EOs will have on your research today? Have you called to say how these EOs will affect your neighbors, friends, family? Are you involved in political organizing?

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

My boys wanted me to share their strong opinion that anyone interfering with funding initiatives intended to diversify the scientific workforce can, in their words, "suck it".

Thank you to the UC San Diego Mentoring for All initiative for the Mentorship Program Award!

I keep meaning to listen to be burnout episode but I’m too tired and working all the time and haven’t found time to…oh no.

If you are at ABRCMS, drop by poster B-354 this afternoon (4:15-5:30) to see my undergrad Andrea Melendez present the work she did this summer through UCSD’s Colors of the Brain program. She is interested in neuroscience 🧠 post bac programs!

New job alert - UC San Diego Psych is looking to hire an Assistant Prof using computational approaches to understand behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Apps due Nov 7: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684