Parenting in 2026 is like: “we have Olivia D’s birthday on Saturday and Olivia H’s birthday on Sunday morning but we have to miss Olivia R’s party in the afternoon because of the Abolish ICE protest and zine workshop”
Emily Barkley-Levenson
@emilybl.bsky.social
Neuroscience, parenting, hijinks
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
If you ever need to explain to someone what “don’t threaten me with a good time” means
Sam Thielmonster@samthielman.com · last yr.Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
Yes, this! Plus, every researcher is already applying 3 Rs of animal research (replacement, reduction, refinement). Use fewest animals of least biological complexity and treat them as humanely as possible. Animal research is still essential to advance science/medicine for humans AND animals.
@LaBonneLaB@labonnelab.bsky.social · last yr.This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
In the FY26 proposed budget, an almost 50% cut to funding for mental health and substance abuse research. That “Behavioral Health” bucket includes NIMH, NIAAA and NIDA, but funding is approx what NIMH *alone* currently has. 🧪🧠
This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.
More devastating assaults on American science research, this time trying to purge 3200 NIH senior scientists doing cutting-edge research at agencies like the Natl Cancer Institute, Natl Institute on Aging, Drug Abuse, Mental Health, Heart, Lung & Blood Inst, etc. 🧪🧠
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
science.org
This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
David F. Warner@dwarnersoc.bsky.social · 2y ago⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
I get to stand in solidarity with union comrades AND with Bowen Yang? John Early? Maris Kreizman? Julia Fox? Zohran Mamdani? Damon Lindelof? Hari Nef? Truly I will never be this cool again.
Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 2y agonew york's hottest club is! reader walkout pledge. it's got EVERYTHING: cole escola. labor solidarity. reading a gossipy list of names. ella emhoff. and ... you! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
Fantastic, super clear explanation by Dr. Choo of NIH grants process: takes “tens of thousands of reviewers annually on more than 1000 meetings with study sections like the one I should have been sitting in Thursday.” Even if/when the freeze ends, can’t just be restarted with a snap. 🧪
Esther Choo@choo.bsky.social · 2y agoAn explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
There are layers upon layers of devastating policy coming out of this administration, but this one is massive. Freezing meetings includes freezing the study sessions that award new research grants.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
science.org
oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
Anyone who thinks academics are colluding to perpetuate a global conspiracy about vaccines, climate change, etc. has never spent time with academics. We just spent 45 minutes at a faculty meeting in heated argument about whether a sentence should say “opinion” or “perspective.”