🗓️Nine days left! Postdocs entering the job market: applications for @urneuroscience.bsky.social Neuroscience Commission NeuroYES 2026-2027 close August 14. Click the link below to find out more! neuroyes.urmc.edu
Dr. Jen Rinker
@drjrink.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at MUSC. Addiction Neuroscientist. Dog 🐕 mom. MI (🥶)•DC (👩🔬👩🎓)•NC (🐏🩵)•SC (🔬🧪)
Hey #RSA2026, we have open #postdoc slots on our #NIAAA T32 training grant - apply now!!! medicine.musc.edu/departments/...
NIAAA T32 Training Grant
Trainees are provided with mentorship and direct training, as well as didactic lessons that stress both clinical and basic science aspects of alcohol abuse.
medicine.musc.edu
Support the RSA DSSGP Karaoke Fundraiser! 💙Donate Now: Every dollar counts! Contribute today to see your favorite Guest of Honor take the mic. You can also nominate yourself—or someone else—to sing by selecting the “I want to help fundraise” option. Donate here: bit.ly/3SrjdhT #RSA2026
Big changes coming to the NIH landscape!🧬 NIH is streamlining its grant process. By reducing the number of highly specialized announcements, NIH is shifting the focus back to broad, investigator-initiated science. This means more room for innovative ideas! grants.nih.gov/news-events/... #NIH
NIH’s Path to a Simpler Funding Opportunity Landscape | Grants & Funding
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New research alert 🚨 How can we make clinical trials for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) more effective? A study just out in Alcohol,Clinical, and experimental research by Hoffman et al. (2026) analyzed data from 5 major trials to find what predicts better outcomes 🧵👇
While I’m here in my annual week of re-engaging w/social media, maybe take a second and sign the petition to reinstate Mel Curth at OU, the grad TA who failed the OU student for not doing the assignment. #academicintegrity #highereducation #OU #reinstateMelCurth actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...
Defend OU Instructors and Academic Freedom
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members, The University of Oklahoma made national headlines this month after a routine grading dispute erupted into public controversy, leading OU to ...
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There’s still time to apply to our PhD program in Neuroscience at MUSC - app window closes 1/15/26 - tinyurl.com/mtnskh6e
Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
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Check out this NPP Hot Topic by @seemiller.bsky.social "A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking". Read it here: tinyurl.com/3hrbswkr
A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking
Neuropsychopharmacology - A biological blind spot in addiction research: hormonal contraceptives and adolescent reward seeking
nature.com
First the #RSA 3-min thesis inaugural winner and now the Gordis Award for @kathylindquist.bsky.social #proud-mentor #rsa2025 #rsa_isbra2025 @drjrink.bsky.social
Job is up, consider joining us! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...
Research Technologist - Life Sciences - Crowley Lab
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Dr. Nikki Crowley@nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · last yr.sharing an early heads up that we will be hiring a research technician ASAP. responsibilities will include colony management, ordering, & helping with science. lots of learning opportunities & most of our techs have had independent projects. learn about the lab at www.crowley-lab.org DM me for info
Defending soon? Come postdoc with us - MUSC is a great place to prepare you for your next career move, in or outside of academia!
Patrick Mulholland (He/Him)@mulhollandlab.bsky.social · last yr.The Charleston Alcohol Research Center has an opening for a #postdoctoral fellowship on the #NIAAA T32 training grant - please spread the word and contact me if interested in working in beautiful Charleston, SC @drjrink.bsky.social
Dear science community, an amazing grad student with @drjrink.bsky.social and I lost her belongings in an apartment fire this morning. She and her dog are safe but needs your help. Please consider donating www.gofundme.com/f/kathy-need...
Donate to Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire, organized by Patrick Mulholland
A graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience (Kathy L.) at MUSC … Patrick Mulholland needs your support for Kathy Needs Your Help After Apartment Fire
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Where are the checks and balances - this is the most egregious overreach of presidential power...
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
Want to see the numbers for how NIH funding impacts your state? Remind your Representatives, Senators, and fellow citizens how federally-funded biomedical research advances health, created jobs, and fosters innovation and economic growth. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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"We sure used to be [the greatest country in the world]. We stood up for what was right...made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases...we aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it. It didn't make us feel inferior..." Old but relevant. Deserves a replay.
HBO's NEWSROOM Opening scene "Why America's Not the Greatest Country"
YouTube video by attnjake
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The Michigan girl in me is at least appreciative of the fact that my pleas of “if it’s gonna be this cold the least we could get is some snow” have been properly answered. Tomorrow I just ask that only the snowbirds take to the roads. Locals please stay home. #lowcountry #snowday #jzi
Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...
2024: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Feeling a bit wired
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Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov
Spike sorting biases and information loss in a detailed cortical model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626805v1
I wrote about the National Institutes of Health and the various serious and unserious proposals for NIH reform that have been floating around. It is important to understand how this agency actually functions and point criticism at the right problems. A short 🧵:
Distinguishing real from invented problems with the NIH
How does the NIH work and where does it work well?
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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
🚨 If you haven’t seen it yet… 📢 The NIH BioArt Source provides a library of FREE professionally designed illustrations and icons, available for anyone to use. They can be Downloaded in High Definition. Check it out at bioart.niaid.nih.gov
In the spirit of a fresh start on 🦋, I'm happy to share our lab's first paper, published earlier this year!
The mouse dorsal peduncular cortex encodes fear memory
Campos-Cardoso et al. employ a series of multimodal analyses to demonstrate that the mouse dorsal peduncular cortex encodes fear but not extinction memory. These findings redefine the principles of th...
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Okay @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team the great migration is happening & 3 features Twitter had that you should strongly consider. 1. A save post/content button on others posts 2. Follow back button in notifications so you don’t have to go to the profile if you don’t want 3. Save drafts option for posts