Can't agree more!! I'm so excited to see what school is lucky enough to have mark in their department!!!! 🤩
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SO FREAKIN PROUD OF @mdnamba.bsky.social !! The lab he's training to head is going to be AMAZING!
Mark Namba, PhD@mdnamba.bsky.social · last mo.Stoked to announce I’ve been awarded my K99 from NIDA, where I will be investigating central and peripheral immune mechanisms underlying drug-seeking behavior in a novel model of comorbid HIV and opioid-cocaine polysubstance use! Eternally grateful to @jbarkerlab.bsky.social for her mentorship!
Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn
South Philly Food 🙆🏻♀️🥗 Not Bombs 🙅🏻♀️ 💣 Skill Share at the Old Pine 🌲Comm Ctr in Philly June 28, Sunday 3-6pm!! Learn abt native plants w @sarahmackattack.bsky.social and I’ll ‘splain fermentation! Also: bike repair🚲, Know Your Rights😤 — not a place for advertising/sales—just neighbordom 💕
Limiting the number of NIH RPG a person can serve as PI does two things, ~immediately. It kills any interest in MPI proposals that remained after the 6-proposal limit. It kills interest in R03 and R21 proposals.
tenured faculty stop using edtech challenge 2026 faculty union negotiate no edtech vendors clauses challenge 2026
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4mo agoFaculty in CA in the 1990s successfully protested mandatory online components of their classes largely on the grounds of IP and labor intensification. We don’t have to accept this. We can start with abandoning the LMS.
We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
We're hiring a Research Assistant - Hope you'll consider applying if you're interested in a career in behavioral and/or addiction neuroscience! Open to either BS or MS level candidates, ideally looking for 2+ years in this role. Deadline is May 13. careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Philly! I’ve organized People’s First Aid workshop for May 9 at the Falls of Schuylkill Library in East Falls. Please come out and learn some lifesaving skills!
I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research! "What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2
![Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition.
TEXT:
Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not.
A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person.
Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure…
[background sign]: CLINIC
thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition.
[phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr
And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus.
[building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE
For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known.
[handbag]: VINTAGE CITY
“When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP)
Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life.
“The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg)
Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility.
But it wasn’t always this way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qi5vqvpv3oj3ycqac5ypxhw4/bafkreifcbca2xsyihrfo523thmflhbjj27i7s54dzmkebkq6mm2nh6p6tm)
![Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room.
We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges.
Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose.
TEXT:
Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s…
[sign]: HOSPITAL
it was a matter of life and, very often, death.
[sign]: STAFF ONLY
[sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE
For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.”
“Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…”
“…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…”
“and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white)
“It was a fear-filled time… But…”
“…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qi5vqvpv3oj3ycqac5ypxhw4/bafkreigwcb7d4d5qcepsddd2z7pnllma2pp3elb3k4put4bj63tktig4pu)
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
Philly area people: The CHOP garage collapse in Grays Ferry has (probably) killed 3 people, and all the animals at the Grays Ferry Philly Paws location have been evacuated. They desperately need cat foster homes until the shelter can reopen. Please help if you can! phillypaws.org/foster/
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As a reminder: I am hiring a postdoc and at least one research assistant for a project on VTA circuits and cognitive function that starts this summer. Get in touch if interested!
We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?
Asking an LLM to provide step by step instructions on how to disable the LLM is one of only a few legitimate use cases.
If your institution, like mine, complied in advance with the unenforceable "Dear Colleague" letter, I hope you're asking leadership how these programs are being reinstated.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!
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Hi. Yes! mRNA Vaccine technology Carbon removal New water purification systems that work at scale CAR-T therapies CRISPR for rare diseases Renewable energy at scale TRAINS! Hydroponics To name a few…
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6mo agois there a technology that "the left" is excited about? www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups. This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social! App deadline is March 15!
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Discover @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Mentorship Directory, connecting mentors and mentees at all stages of their careers. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/mentorship-d...
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This training was excellent. We did 2 roleplays of an ice raid. We did so much better in round 2. It was helpful both in concrete learning terms but also in confidence building. If you're in Philly & want to hear about future trainings, sign up here instagram.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6mo agoAbsolutely packed house for the ICE out training in East Kensington tonight, put on by @riverwardsdems.bsky.social. I’ll share out things I learn here.
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
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#PA #Pennsylvania #ICE Finally got it neatly in a doc. These are collected from various sources so that way it's in one place Please add on in the replies if you have leads as well. Wishing you safety, PA Peeps #Montco #Delco #Philly #UpperDarby write.ellipsus.com/edit/5d0ddc0...
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I'm trying to figure out what participating in a general strike looks like as an academic scientist in the current climate. Some thoughts, but I'd love to see more - - declining admin tasks (sorry not sorry to Concur) - not placing orders/spending money - working on anti-AI policies for lab/syllabi
“This cruelty will be measured in lives lost… We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows.”
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.
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