As a both a PI that received a Diversity Supplement to support a student on my R01, and a PO that reviewed them, they were never about "handing out money at the end of the year based on race" and always about the training potential and commitment.

Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Really excited to have this come out. I was super fortunate to work on this with some amazing folks. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

"Prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship & advising a foreign graduate student or postdoc. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding." Dictators despise science.

I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment

After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

7yo: Dad! He’s got a 6-7 brain rot with a taco on top! Me:

Just disgusting.

Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Adding up the NIH R01s lost to Multi-Year Funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/a...

A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.

Sea Level https://xkcd.com/3135/ They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies. Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3135

I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions

No really. Tell me more about literally anything about Kamala Harris that makes this the better option.

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

Just got attacked by some sparrows. How’s your morning going?

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

not sure how many different ways these guys can demonstrate their utter contempt and disrespect to artists

To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

I’ve sat on numerous faculty searches looking at a stack of outstanding candidates. His paper retractions alone would have landed him in the bin.

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing). lfpress.com/news/local-n...

The final score is in from the CBO.... What a shitty piece of legislation.

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

WGBH building in Boston today

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

A little concerned about the nightmare creature that obviously escaped into my house during the day

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

BREAKING: Trump's Justice Department just fired one of the Epstein prosecutors. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

“Let me repeat that: Trump has sicced a billionaire wrestling promoter, currently fighting allegations she overlooked sexual abuse of boys, who has absolutely no expertise on education, on school children.”

No way this ends poorly…

This is why it's exhausting to be told political attacks on science are a failure of sci comm or any aspect of scientists' behavior. It has nothing to do with science or scientists. It's an entirely top-down right wing elite program, but sci policy is intangible and doesn't motivate voter behavior.

Homan tries to walk his words back: "I want to be clear because my words were taken out of context. Physical description cannot be the sole reason to detain and question somebody. That can't be the sole reason to raise reasonable suspicion. It's a myriad of factors."

#ICYMI, my disgust with the NYT is once again refreshed. Oh, now that it affects white scientists we are super concerned drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/o...

This is exactly what I would have expected. It’s like when your standing over someone’s shoulder trying to show them how to do something on a computer only to say “hey, let me drive for a minute” except the other person is a computer. You’re trying to teach a computer….to use a computer.

I just learned about the plan to move NIH funding to an “upfront funding” model. We are going to look back fondly on paylines of 7%.

This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.

I’m all for more NAMS, but it has its limits. There are no LLMs or organs-on-a-chip that can model viral pathogenesis, vaccine efficacy, or candidate drugs. We only use animals when there is no other choice. This will only stop more lifesaving research. www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...

Question for my photometry friends: Anyone able to do 2-region recordings (from the same animal) with a TDT RZ10X? What rotary joints are you using? Any tips/tricks to make it easier, especially in rats? Pls RT!

Am I the only one amazed that CPSC still exists given all of the actions of the administration to date?