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How Brain Donation Is Helping Unlock the Mysteries of Alzheimer's

Brain donation is one of the most valuable gifts to dementia research—but not every donation can be accepted.

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A Scientist Couldn't Get His Research Funded. So He Turned to OnlyFans and Meme Coins

Daniel Blumstein says his account, OnlyMarms, is less about cute animals and more about the research funding crisis threatening long-running science.

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Who influences your public health policy priorities? Learn how to identify key decision-makers and build a strategic advocacy plan from @jhadvocacy.bsky.social's "Power Mapping - Actions to Take Before and After Elections." Learn more & register: vist.ly/5derm August 13 | 12-2p.m. ET

I got all excited that I’d be making “6 figures” as a professor. Felt like a lot more than my parents ever made! Then I checked the value of today’s 100K in the year I was 10 years old. It was $53K. 🫠

I’m still working to understand the full implications of this ruling rejecting (one of) the admin’s motions to dismiss and saying NEW priorities can’t be used to terminate previously awarded grants: www.politico.com/live-updates... But it’s definitely good news.

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

The court denied the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 20 states.

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Today I dealt with aspects of 8 different grants that are either funded, waiting for no competing yr NOA, in development, or being submitted now, plus two philanthropic leads. It is not possible for me to manage 8 grants, but this is how we live as scientists amidst the federal funding chaos☹️

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

Don't abolish the #NIH. Fix it.

Don't abolish the NIH. Fix it.

Scott Atlas wants to abolish the National Institutes of Health and let markets take over ("NIH is a government weapon for political power. Abolish it," Washington Post, July 2).

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Taking a little break on the Eastern Shore to think about a big project and a little project. Greyhound approves of the ~360 water views!

#NIH has published the new Parent #F99/K00 #predoctoral to #postdoctoral award. The first due date is August 8, 2026. Please see the website to determine eligibility and submission dates. #sciencesky #medsky #funding

Honored to add this plaque to my wall, but I feel like a hundred other names should be on here with mine! Congrats also to John Carey for receiving the Mentorship award and Kevin Motz for Clinical Excellence #jhotolaryngology

Excited to share a review with @gracecapshaw.bsky.social and @batwoman123.bsky.social in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! Natural auditory behaviors invoke cognitive brain networks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Natural auditory behaviors invoke cognitive brain networks

Auditory processing is traditionally framed as a hierarchical extraction of acoustic features along a canonical ascending pathway, starting in the coc…

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A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science

A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

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The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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In 2025, the number of #NIH-funded investigators declined for the first time in a decade, with the steepest reductions among Black and Hispanic researchers and fellows. ja.ma/4ujDlzG

New NIH Request for Information regarding capping the number of Research Project Grants allowed per investigator. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Open for comments until August 3rd, 2026

Our STEMM-HEAR R25 students (undergrads and one grad) are forming bonds and practicing advocacy while discussing communication disorders research, research integrity, and professional development before going off to work in labs around the US 😊

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Beautiful day for an Oto department picnic on the grounds of Evergreen! Absolutely love being part of this crew😊

Right on the nose.

Laurel Oldach@laureloldach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog: "In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes." More: cen.acs.org/research-int...

For a clear description of what is in the new OMB grant-making regulations, see elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of... 1/2

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

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Each week, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Needed to write Year 2, Week 22 a day early. It is grim. - new NSF grant delays - gut-churning policy proposals on NDA, accreditation, peer review - academic freedom surveys & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Year 2, Week 22

May 23-28, 2026 – by design

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MARK YOU CALENDAR for our EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd at 4pm ET. We will be giving an overview of the rule and assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/YVcXc #Science #StandUpForScience #OMB #SaveScience #Research

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR

President Daniels in WSJ op-ed: Get the federal science money flowing

JHU president, University of Kansas chancellor urge federal agencies to release congressionally appropriated funds to fuel America's research engine

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🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Well. This is startling. “At least one of the NIH’s 27 institutes and centres has lost so many GMSs that it has asked early-career researchers, including postdocs and graduate students, who work in the NIH’s own labs to consider working temporarily as a GMS on a volunteer basis”

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@maxkozlov.bsky.social covered the staffing shortages at NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/3

Check out the lay language paper about our emerging work on 🦇 resistance to noise exposure acoustics.org/do-short-tai...

Do short-tailed fruit bats suffer hearing damage after noise exposure?

Mammals can't regenerate inner ear hair cells lost to loud noise, but short-tailed fruit bats may not need to. After an hour of loud noise exposure, their hearing was the same as baseline, suggesting ...

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We had a great session on the effects of hearing loss and abnormal acoustic experience on cognition and emotion at the #acousticalsociety meeting in Philly, including former JH neurotology fellow Alex Chern