This explains a lot! Trump Diverts All Science Funding Into Locating The Smurfs — theonion.com/trump-divert...

Trump Diverts All Science Funding Into Locating The Smurfs

WASHINGTON—Instituting a massive overhaul to the federal government’s scientific grant system in order to find the mythical cartoon characters, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would ...

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Every scientist and HR professional working with scientists needs to listen to this podcast from the amazing Hidden-Brain series. It’s the reason I’ve never signed out a day’s leave in my life and never will. But it’s also why I make sure I take time off anyway. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Unleashing Your Creativity

Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · 1 June · 53min

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Not all grant rejections are equal. Some are more devastating than others. As a researcher, how do you keep going in those moments? The latest Science Without Anguish blog post discusses a topic we need to talk about much, much more! www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/when-a-...

Looking forward to talking to British Neuropathological Society and Edinburgh Neuroscience on Tue 14th April (1-2pm): 'The Overwhelm Trap' What is overwhelm? Why does it happen? How to avoid, or get out of it edinburghneuroscience.ed.ac.uk/the-overwhel... See also www.sciencewithoutanguish.com

Delighted to announce the latest preprint from our amazing team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Laura Carlton and Emma Wilson report luciferase mapping of the human NMNAT2 and SARM1 promoters, naturally-occurring human gene variants within them and their functional consequences. 1/5

Today in Science Without Anguish: 'It's not what you know, it's who you....trust'. When knowledge is really trust in disguise. And not absolute but greyscale. Why knowing this helps us cope when our knowledge is challenged. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/its-not...

Today in Science Without Anguish: how we handle experiences that don’t fit our mental map. The many ways that cognitive dissonance plays out in academic research and the problems this causes us. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/to-chan...

Science WITH Anguish? Grant rejection today. It never stops hurting no matter how successful or how many you dealt with before (this is no. 57). Thanks to my team for helping me handle it today. 😀 Tomorrow we go on. ECRs dealing with rejection: you are not alone! Hot tip: saying this helps me too!

Today in Science Without Anguish: Is blame bringing you down? How we shackle ourselves by blaming others, also degrading workplace culture and raising our stress levels. But can we avoid it without blaming ourselves instead? www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/is-blam...

Burnout. @lizandmollie

Today in Science Without Anguish: how failing to notice when the wind is behind us makes us believe the world is against us when things don’t go our way. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/im-good...

In this week’s Science Without Anguish: ‘Short cuts to lost potential’. How confusing the simplifications we make to understand the world with the real thing can lead us astray. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/the-sho...

The short cuts to lost potential

We know how it goes – a day spent reacting to other people’s emails or “quick chats” while our own to do list remains untouched at the end. Or losing ourselves in the first item on our list...

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Science Without Anguish series 3 This week: the mistakes we make understanding our world that we would never make in our science www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/heurist... Coming up next week: how what grabs our attention most and first impressions skew our thinking.

This week in Science Without Anguish: how simplifying our view of the world based on limited evidence can lead us astray. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/heurist...

Science Without Anguish series 3: out now! www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/dont-be... Could clear thinking about research life make it easier? Next week: The short cuts our minds use to make sense of the world and the problems this can lead to.

Science Without Anguish Series 3 in out: Don’t believe everything you think! Confusing our mental shortcuts with reality. Excusing ourselves but blaming others. Not realising we’re doing it and making life harder for ourselves in the process. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/dont-be...

How much of what we think we ‘know’ is just trust in the person that told us? And what price do we pay for confusing the two? Coming soon in Science Without Anguish: ‘Don’t believe everything you think!’ sciencewithoutanguish.com Starts Monday 22nd Sep

Science Without Anguish Series 3 starts Monday 22nd 'Don't believe everything you think!'. sciencewithoutanguish.com How heuristics & biases make our research lives more difficult and ways to reduce this. Stereotyping, snap judgements, confirmation bias, attribution errors, negativity bias….

Science Without Anguish Series 3 starts Monday 22nd 'Don't believe everything you think!'. sciencewithoutanguish.com How heuristics & biases make our research lives more difficult and ways to reduce this. Stereotyping, snap judgements, confirmation bias, attribution errors, negativity bias….

Very exciting opportunity here to work with former member of our group and rising star @andrea-loreto.bsky.social Highly recommended!

Andrea Loreto@andrea-loreto.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌟 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! 🌟 Join my lab @sydney.edu.au and help drive cutting-edge research in axon degeneration as part of the Snow Vision Accelerator. @snowmedical.bsky.social usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Hi @andrea-loreto.bsky.social, welcome to BlueSky!

Morale? I have colleagues there who are leaving NIH for jobs in China, France, Canada, industry, or retiring early. That’s real.

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

NIH’s new director Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors” in an interview with Science. scim.ag/4mhSMpA

Great to see @maxstetina.bsky.social here. Max did a very productive internship with us last year looking at evolutionary conservation of SARM1 and NMNAT2.

Job alert! Cambridge Neuroscience Administrator (Part Time, Fixed Term) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51034/

I wrote an Article about the Netflix drama, Adolescence. Free version here archive.is/goNeQ

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore@sjblakemore.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote an Article about the Netflix drama, Adolescence. I’ll try to post the pdf because it’s behind a paywall (but you might be able read it for free below) www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Not sure if to laugh or to cry, but worth hearing either way…

Ian Johnson@mrianjohnson.bsky.social · last yr.

This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK

Amazing to welcome HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh, Patron of Race Against Dementia to our lab! An incredible opportunity to showcase our work with living human brain slice cultures and the importance of investing in dementia research. We are very lucky to have her support.

Next up: NASA to review heliocentric model of solar system

Perfect meme doesn’t exi….🤣🎯

Postdoctoral by-fellowships at @churchillcol.bsky.social Closing date next Friday 14th March at 12:00 midday!

Cahir O'Kane@cahirokane.bsky.social · last yr.

Churchill College will appoint up to 16 Postdoc By-Fellows from Cambridge University & associated research institutes, up to 3yrs from 1st Oct 2025. Non-stipendiary, but offer dining rights, access to facilities, participation in academic & social life of the College. A great opportunity.