Congratulations Serena Banu Gumusoglu, Ph.D., M.Sc., recipient of a Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Fellowship for the project, "Anti-Angiogenic Mechanisms in Prenatal life as Drivers of ADHD.” @banugphd.bsky.social

Submit your DOHaD abstract by June 30th to be considered for our poster session where you can join trainee and seasoned DOHaD scientists alike in sharing cutting-edge science with an international DOHaD community at the Annual Meeting in Portland, OR!

The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.

More political meddling at NIH: I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires. No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.

The new issue of Science Advances (open-access) has multiple papers on women's health. These 2 are related to menopause, hormone replacement and brain health www.science.org/toc/sciadv/c...

Proud to have a piece in this wonderful special issue.👩‍🔬They can defund us, but we won’t stop fighting for meaningful science on women’s health!

Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools, such as cleanBib, anneslist and others, exist to help researchers counter citation bias across genders and other demographic divides. By Anne Churchland, Felicia Davatolhagh #WomeninScience www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

THAT FLAG MADE OF BLACK FOLK!! WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY

🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

Broader impacts and DEI create better science. More backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives all help us really understand what we’re seeing in the data. These cuts are all so short-sighted. Our world runs on science. 🧪

It's really important for 🧪 to explain this to the early career researchers in their group. Everyone who comes through my group knows exactly where their $ and my $ comes from, in part so they know how the system works.

🧪Here's the script for your senators. If you're in WI, like I am, that's Johnson www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/office_locat... and Baldwin www.baldwin.senate.gov Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

So sorry to my colleagues whose work will be affected, and to all the taxpayers to paid for the generation of this information, and who have a right to it. I’ll share some tips and encouragement from my March for Science training below👇 #GiftArticle 🧪 #BlueSci #PublicHealth wapo.st/4aqfN44

This is so important. Consequences of microglial depletion differ by sex. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Just adding the tag for my other scientists out there having the strangest inauguration week conversations of their lives. 🧪

Pass it on. Text your friends, family, and neighbors.

Jimmy's here in Heaven, and let me tell you, it's rare to meet someone who got the 'love thy neighbor' part so right.

The gut 'remodels' itself during pregnancy and #breastfeeding - nearly doubling its surface area! 🧪 www.livescience.com/health/ferti...

Academic Christmas

Negar Fani brandishing humor and truth at the women’s luncheon #ACNP2024

🚨Important reminder🚨 NIH Directors can not lobby Congress- so it is our responsibility to educate our congresspeople about the necessity of our research!!! 🗣️ Brain health is a priority across the political spectrum #ACNP2024

By popular demand, here is your #ACNP2024 Travel Awardee Starter pack! A photo recap is included below - if you see anyone we've missed, please let us know! (we're still getting our bearings over here, so excuse any accidental oversights!) go.bsky.app/N4AcAWv

Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you live in a red state, now is a good time to call or write your senators and ask them to stand by NIH and oppose the confirmation of RFK and Bhattacharya🧪. If you live in a blue state do it as well! We need to galvanize opposition to the wrecking ball approach to reform

The University of Iowa is interested in candidates focused on understanding fundamental circuits and basic pathogenic mechanisms that go awry in neurodegenerative disease. Closing date: 26th January. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/tensure-...

THREAD: Research we should be thankful for. The chances that we and everyone we know and love would be here today, alive, healthy and thriving without the advances of science and technology are basically zero. Today we look through the research and scientists to whom we owe everything. 1/19

Greatest joy of the job: every day witnessing the growth of the next gen of women in stem 🤩 👸

We’re going to need our science & health journals, our universities, & our health & science academies to STEP UP They need to stop being risk-averse They need to champion science & evidence in the face of Trump’s relentless attacks His picks to lead the health agencies are ghastly & terrifying

NIH research funding supported 412,000 jobs in 2023 & doubled economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep... #NIH #research #funding

Urge Your Legislator to Support the BRAIN Initiative www.americanbraincoalition.org/page/Contact...

🧑‍🔬check out our new work on psycho-obstetric risk! 🔗IDO enzymatic activity links vascular dysfunction & depression in human pregnancy. 🫄🧠This may unite serotonin & inflammatory dysregulation in comorbid psych & pregnancy disorders, including PPD & preeclampsia. ➡️link here: T.ly/ZyJwW

Giving Bluesky a real try! So proud of Dr Helen Chen for getting her tour de force (she did intrauterine recombinant CCL2 injections) published in BBI! Worth the read 👓 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37914098/