Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

We have the turnout today in the MILLIONS — sourced from handsoff2025.com directly and echoed by @moveon.org and @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Millions. Enormous turnout across all 50 states and globally. Please reinforce that to everyone you know.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

✍️ without any hesitation.

Hi everyone, the lab has been enabling my professional interest in doing weird shit with touchscreens (as opposed to my personal interest) Blessed are the mice, for they cannot doomscroll but here's some recent work you may enjoy if you want to see what mice do with their touchscreens instead

The “who” is impacted by cancellation of NIH “diversity” awards is much broader than “not white.” Eligibility criteria included individuals who are disabled, economically disadvantaged, grew up in rural communities, first generation college students, homeless… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

How does autism affect sleep? To help answer this question, open-source data from the Simons Sleep Project is now available to approved researchers worldwide: www.sfari.org/2025/03/27/s... #science #autismresearch

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

I hope no one ever has to use this story, but here are the key things to know if your grant is terminated: #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five...

They can take the money away, but we are still here, and we must continue to support each other. To anyone able to make a hire, look at the former K99 MOSAIC scholars who did not get a chance to apply for faculty jobs yet, they are SUPERstars. #MOSAICFOREVER

We have been awarded a Fund for Undergraduate Research Internship Programs (FURIP) grant from @ibroorg.bsky.social to fund more undergraduates for the CoB-KIBM scholars program this summer 🥲 thank you @jiannacressy.bsky.social for taking the lead on this!!

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more: #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...

Honoring the life & legacy of Dr. Evelyn Witkin on what would have been her birthday. 🎂✨ A pioneer in DNA repair, her groundbreaking work at CSHL shaped modern genetics & earned her the Lasker Prize. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we celebrate the trailblazers who paved the way. #WomenAtCSHL

i love being bilingual

Verified & Vetted #AltGov

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

LIVE STREAM UP! m.twitch.tv/standupforsc...

Kavli NSI @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social member & former Director Leslie Vosshall has been awarded the 2025 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for her groundbreaking work on the neural mechanisms of mosquito behavior. 🦟🔬 Congrats, Dr. Vosshall! 🎉 #Neuroscience #KavliNeuro mcgovern.mit.edu/2025/03/03/l...

@michellemonje.bsky.social at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and Frank Winkler at Heidelberg University have won the 2025 @brainprize.bsky.social from the Lundbeck Foundation for their work in cancer neuroscience. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/20...

I made a video with @ucdavis.bsky.social on the benefits of federal grants for health science and our economy. Please share with friends/family that could be receptive or better yet, make your own video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjH...

Black and white mitral cell #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🧪

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

Autism program chief is among the 1,000-plus employees cut from the National Institute of Health this week. By @rachelzamzow.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/aut...

An actual photo of me surviving another week in these challenging times & being a few days away from submitting my Hanna Gray app. Good luck to everyone else finalizing their applications. 🙏

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj

Multiple developmental switches in mPFC-NAc and mPFC-BLA pathways that underlie developmental transitions in threat avoidance behavior revealed by circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice mice 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I had been away from X and after I deleted all my accounts, I didn't feel the need to try another social media, but there is too much chaos right now to remain cut off from what is happening. I never thought my first post on this platform would be about this...this is how a lab dies...1/n 👇

You can now submit your Neuroscience Scholars Program application by Friday, February 21! Connect with a community that empowers your scientific journey through mentorship, collaborative opportunities, and professional growth resources. Submit now. 🔗 bit.ly/4ahB0wW #NeuroSky

I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Special shout out this AM to NIH 🧪 grant mgmt specialists, POs, and SROs during this chaotic time - THANK YOU for caring for our grants and uploading scores/summary statements despite the unprecedented challenges you may be facing. You are science warriors and we APPRECIATE & SUPPORT YOU 🫶

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Howard is R1! ….juuust in time for <waves hands at everything>…. #glasscliff

GREAT EFFING NEWS Several sources are telling me that NIH grant management officers are now authorized to start issuing awards! Trying to get more details

Advocacy works. Keep fighting 💪🏾

📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🔬 I made this short comic to explain what the #NIH cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of #overheadcosts are real people, doing important work! #AcademicSky #resist #organize #scicomm

If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office

(Finally, some good news this weekend) GO BIRDS! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

The cancellation of the project for political reasons “is pretty alarming,” says cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman. scim.ag/4b7RZCx

WTF! So starting Monday NIH indirects to all universities moved to 15%. This would cripple schools. This is madness. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has experience staining DRG slices for IB4. Specifically, I am using this IB4 Alexa 647 Conjugate (www.thermofisher.com/order/catalo...), and I am wondering if anyone here has used it before and at what dilution. Thanks in advance #neuroskyence