A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Required periodic Salk Institute photo☀️

Postdocs applying for K99s, particularly if it's your last opportunity: DO NOT forget to include a foreign justification document if you have any sort of foreign collaboration. Your application will be withdrawn if you don't have that.

Excited to share an important new pre-print from the lab led by incredibly talented postdoc @maureenbiologies.bsky.social, a neurotoxicologist who came to the lab with an ambitious goal of understanding the consequences of toxicant exposure in human neurodevelopment. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so. Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

Update on NIH funding through July (August 1 budget start dates) Non-competitive renewal awards by month for fiscal year 2025 1/7

Excited to have received the NOA for my K99 Pathway to Independence award on astrocytes in neurodevelopmental disorders! I am so grateful for my PI Nicola Allen, and all my mentors, letter writers, and collaborators.

Cool astrocyte paper!

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

don't be fooled that this NIH effort is only about NOFO - listen to minute 21-22 "they are working tirelessly" to "phase out" "existing" funding www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk...

Congratulations to all the new awardees!! Happy to see this program ongoing!

In this entire 4.5 hour video from the FDA and NIH about reducing animal models, I didn't hear any discussion about conducting research developing new treatments for mental health disorders with behavioral symptoms

I'll be presenting at this science fair: I've done many a poster presentation, but never one quite like this!

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

It would be great if other journals did this

Blocks and blocks of San Diegans showing up to protest, chanting ‘This is what democracy looks like!’ 🇺🇸

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.

Admittedly I only did this yesterday… please take a few minutes today to comment!

Leadership in science by a liberal arts college. Will others follow suit? 🧪https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-college-first-decline-federal-science-grants-because-new-dei-language

Inspirational Stand up for Science rally at UCSD today ✊🔬🧬 @standupforscience.bsky.social @fleabrained.bsky.social

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

It's breaking my brain to hear amazing talks that show treatments that help patients developed out of fundamental research, while temporarily ignoring the backdrop of the American science funding disaster

6/ There are steep 75% proposed cuts to NSF's STEM eduction funding as a whole, which spans K-12 to undergrad to grad to workforce and beyond. Early-career scientists will be directly harmed. The request guts direct NSF support for 29,000 undergraduates and 29,000 graduate students.

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly? That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here... Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process? Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪

Trump’s cuts to research programs directly harms scientists from working class backgrounds. Bridges built between the blue collar and ivory tower are collapsing in front of us.

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

See what @minicontreras.bsky.social's thoughts are on what these changes mean for @neurolatine.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...

I’m so upset for all the postdocs that devoted hours to this application only to have it cancelled. 💔 Especially given that this application was due after we already knew NIH funding was in jeopardy so many turned to it in hope of some stability.

A very special 150th episode - I got to interview the one-and-only Eve Marder! Check it out to learn more about her life and science, and highly recommend listening to the interview to hear her many fabulous stories and her words of wisdom, my personal favorite being about how she found her ‘voice’

Amid DEI funding cuts, trainees are losing pillars of support. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing young researchers. @blackinneuro.bsky.social @colorsofthebrain.bsky.social @neurolatine.bsky.social By Paige Miranda www.thetransmitter.org/qa/we-still-...

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

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Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig

BIG THANKS to you, @ascbiology.bsky.social, ASM, and @faseborg.bsky.social for this amazing action--I hope other scientific societies follow your lead. We're learned capitulating and cooperating doesn't protect you--call on your scientific societies to FIGHT back 🧪

Earlier today, ASBMB joined three other scientific societies in leading a substantial, 22-page amicus curiae brief in support of the plaintiffs in American Public Health Association v. NIH. This is a formal public submission to the court. ➡️Read our full message: bit.ly/3RJnWbp.

All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding... I barely have words. Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

“MOSAIC awardees were chosen using a definition of diversity beyond race, gender, and disability. It includes those who grew up in poor households or rural areas or were raised by parents who do not have college degrees.” 🧪

"The grant was created by the first Trump administration to foster a new generation of diverse scientists in biomedical research, then defunded in the second Trump administration's ongoing purge of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs." www.wxxinews.org/2025-04-28/a...

Literally every woman I know with a k99/r00 is going to lose their funding because NIH is cancelling their funding mechanism. Every single one. Read that again.

The Trump Administration was more than twice as likely to fire Black and Hispanic or female scientists than it was to fire white or male scientists www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Imaging these astrocytes on the surface of cleared brains was a blast!

I’m no longer an assistant to the professor. It’s been a long journey to associate professor. I now join the 0.4% of tenured Native American/Alaska Native (AI/AN) faculty! In 2019, there were 50 tenure AI/AN in the sciences. This number still needs to increase! #NativesInSTEM