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jp flores (he/him)@jpflores.rbind.io · 3w ago

We aren’t abandoning academia. We're asking whether academia, as currently structured, deserves our trust. Lauren Chambers and I wrote about what it really means to “save” academia for @insidehighered.com 👇 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... @sciforgood.bsky.social @snapcoalition.org

Many congrats to the second new PhD from the lab this month, Dr. @emilyleptich.bsky.social! A really beautiful talk and a wonderful body of work!

not me, a 90% soft money academic, dismayed at the the high approval for capping at 2 or 3 grants. as if I’m not having trouble just getting one these days lol eff it all.

Nicholas Mancuso@nmancuso.bsky.social · last mo.

Responses to actual cap are free form text, so I asked it to break caps down into unambiguous counts up to >5, and then lump remaining responses into "other". This includes ranges, or more conditional responses.

Here’s the proposed changes to summary statements. 60days to comment.

Elizabeth Sypek@elizabethis.bsky.social · last mo.

Friday drop grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Congratulations to newly minted Arey Lab PhD Dr. Katie Brandel-Ankrapp! A fabulous talk and defense! You are going to do amazing things!

The last 2 years have been disturbingly clarifying, scientifically, politically and organizationally. I have had to focus on what I have control over: organizing at my uni, ensuring the success of trainees in my lab and acknowledging that my approach to research may not align with future funding

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · last mo.

US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1

ESPAÑA!!!

Unrolling worms: Genome Editing to Rewrite Roller Phenotypes in C. elegans #micropublication #biology #data #caltechlibrary #Celegans #PhenotypeData #Methods #NewFinding #MaterialsAndReagents https://micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-002185

La hora de vermut is the best time of day

The Houston Chronical Editorial board isn't holding back in this endorsement of Talarico and I am here for it.

Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 4mo ago

In the Senate contest between Ken Paxton and James Talarico, both Republicans and Democrats should prefer a servant leader over a self-serving crook, writes the Editorial Board. bit.ly/4f8kPXl

Another successful New-Bee 🐝 neuro program in the 📚! We were delighted to host Elkins HS for a day of neuroscience demos and lessons. The future is bright with these future STEM leaders! 🤩 Special thanks to generous support from @bcmneurosci.bsky.social and @rsb.org.uk.

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in… | ...

INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in com...

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The Hoffman Lab at Yale is hiring! We’re currently recruiting for a Lab Manager and Post-Graduate Research Associate positions. If you're interested in understanding the function of neurodevelopmental disorder genes in the developing brain using #zebrafish, we'd love to hear from you! #researchjobs

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Had a fabulous day hosted by @annikabarber.bsky.social and talking science with all her wonderful colleagues that was made better by news of paper acceptance! Something tells me I might actually sleep well tonight.

Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪

Thanks @annikabarber.bsky.social for bringing your Assistant with you to meet me today! He did a superb job of supervising my work in your office.

#Artemis is circling the Moon right now. And later this week, our team's experiment launches to the #ISS. Tiny worms. Defined gut microbiomes. Here's why the two are connected. 🧵 #WormsinSpace #CBIOMES #Celegans 🧪 🪱 🧬 🚀 1/n

I think Neuro could use a PLoS Neuro journal. OA, publishing rigorous work across diverse systems using genetic/molecular to systems/computational/cognitive approaches. Have lobbied for this as a @plosbiology.org Adv Board member but it hasn't happened so far. Thoughts? cc@npariente.bsky.social

So excited to find Select at the liquor store in Houston as we are entering spritz season!

I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test? In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers. nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Me too!!! So excited that this is going to work out for myself and a student!

Monika Scholz@monikakscholz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We'll be there!

just want to state for the record that I am incredibly proud of the althletes representing the USA that are using their platforms to speak out about what is happening here.

Very much worth 3 min of your day.

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Today called for comfort food. Pinto beans cooked in the leftover deliciousness from a last batch of carnitas + jalapeno cheddar cornbread + greens did the trick.

We're hiring! The Hoffman lab at Yale is recruiting for Post-Doctoral Associate and Post-Graduate Associate positions available immediately. Join us! www.hoffmanlab.net/jobs #zebrafish #zebrafishjobs

watching non-Texans discover that there's a town near Fort Worth called "White Settlement" today

a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

ALT: a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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