Megan Hagenauer
@mhagenauer.bsky.social
"Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain!" Neuroscientist at the University of Michigan. Data Sleuth. #ARM. "Confoundoisseur". Unquestionably eccentric. Views are my own.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
🧠Our proposal has already been publicly reviewed by *10 reviewers*! The reviews are overwhelmingly positive, constructive, intelligent, and useful. I'm a bit daunted at the prospect of responding to all the comments, but how great to receive the feedback now instead of after completing the study?
Megan Hagenauer@mhagenauer.bsky.social · 3w agoThis was fun. ResearchHub Foundation (@researchhubf.bsky.social ) has a small funding competition for neuro-related proposals. 🧠 ...and students can be co-authors. So we just wrote a proposal including writing/input from *our full summer cohort of trainees*. www.researchhub.com/proposal/326...
The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main
STPF Application - AAAS
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“There have been thousands, hundreds of thousands, of comments against it,” Collins said. Hey guys - we did a thing! @standupforscience.net
Megan Hagenauer@mhagenauer.bsky.social · 6d ago"Every Senate Democrat called earlier this month for White House budget director Russ Vought to rescind the proposal. Some Republican senators, including Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, have also been publicly supportive of heading off the regulation"
"Every Senate Democrat called earlier this month for White House budget director Russ Vought to rescind the proposal. Some Republican senators, including Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, have also been publicly supportive of heading off the regulation"
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 6d agoTop senators consider blocking the OMB rule. www.politico.com/live-updates...
"Ohio’s publicly owned MetroHealth began the study in December 2024 but funding was terminated early by the incoming Trump administration. It had been designed to investigate if replacing gas cooking improved asthma for 1,200 people living near Cleveland, Ohio" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
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In this time of stock market losses and economic uncertainty, I encourge investors to sell everything and buy armadillos. Hardy, armored animals are poised to do very well under these circumstances.
Looks handy - has anyone given this a try?
Reference Checker@referencechecker.bsky.social · 2w agoZotero, Mendeley, EndNote — genuinely good tools, and none of them check whether your sources are real. Not a knock on them. They were built to organize and format citations, not verify the paper behind one actually exists.
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
nytimes.com
"The average time to completion for a Ph.D. student is just over 5.75 years. Under the proposed rule, nearly every one of the 528 international doctoral students at our institution … would face the very real possibility of an interrupted education." 🤬 www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...
How the Trump administration's new rules could affect international students
International students could once stay as long as they needed to complete their college degrees, but that's changing, and the restrictions could cut into college budgets.
npr.org
Oh, no. Word is, AHRQ grants are being canceled en masse. 🧪 Source: ahsituationreport.substack.com/p/ahrq-has-b...
9 lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers on how to rescue US science: www.ovid.com/jnls/dartmou... 1. Scientists can no longer safely claim the privilege of being outside of, or above, politics 2. Inaction can be riskier than action. 3. Progress requires work. 4. Do not wait for someone else.
Nine lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers... : Dartmouth Journal of Healthcare Delivery Science
Abstract was not provided for this article.
ovid.com
This was fun. ResearchHub Foundation (@researchhubf.bsky.social ) has a small funding competition for neuro-related proposals. 🧠 ...and students can be co-authors. So we just wrote a proposal including writing/input from *our full summer cohort of trainees*. www.researchhub.com/proposal/326...
Identifying a universal antidepressant molecular signatur...
Identifying a universal antidepressant molecular signature shared by lifestyle and clinical interventions 1. Abstract Lifestyle-based interventions, inc...
researchhub.com
NEW! Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages. Find your next funding source and apply, all in one place! #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...
Neuroscience Grants Funding Finder
Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages.
thetransmitter.org
The public comment period for the proposed OMB rule closed yesterday with more than *340,000* comments. Analysis by @techpolicypress.bsky.social found that 94% of the publicly available comments were in opposition. eos.org/research-and...
Proposed OMB Rule Change Attracts 340,000+ Public Comments - Eos
The OMB is accepting public comments on the proposal until 13 July, and organizations across the country have mobilized to coordinate responses.
eos.org
As OMB is working through comments WE NEED YOU! Use our action center to CONTACT CONGRESS INCESSANTLY: Fight2win.standupforscience.net Call, Email, sign up to volunteer and we can contact you with virtual constituent meeting opportunities. 3/
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Thanks to an EXTRAORDINARILY generous donor, we have a DONATION MATCH up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!! If you’re wanting to donate, now is the moment. It will support our legal and Hill efforts to stop this awful rule. 5/ Standupforscience.net/donate
Fuel the fight! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
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Senator Patty Murray accused the White House of trying ‘to turn the entire federal government into this one big slush fund to reward those aligned with the Administration and punish everyone else.” 🧵 Article: zurl.co/alyUk
341,699 comments as of yesterday. Today is the deadline. Your voice impacts the future of US research & science. Please submit a comment if you haven't already.
Maureen Barr@barrlab.bsky.social · 4w agoPosted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.
Contrary to John Roberts, only a fraction of the Nation elects the president, due to the electoral college. As Scott Walker said in 2014 "The nation as a whole is not going to elect the next president. Twelve states are." It is folly to put a president in full control of gov't funding.
It's not too late to submit your comment to the OMB and contact your reps! Stand Up for Science has links to do both. The comment for the OMB has to be unique and substantive to matter - I recommend sticking with what you know best. I focused on my concerns about mid-award termination.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
The MI cyclospora outbreak has had me wondering about whether I should be avoiding fresh fruit/produce that can't be easily cleaned, worrying about swimming at public beaches, etc. We are still in the dark regarding origin... www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
'Explosive' diarrhea cases near 1,600 in Michigan. Where infections are
Cyclosporiasis, a foodborne infection causing severe diarrhea, is spreading in Michigan and nationwide.
lansingstatejournal.com
cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas
My dad (George Hagenauer) is getting the sale set up in our garage, so I grabbed a few pics of the loot
Megan Hagenauer@mhagenauer.bsky.social · 4w ago📚📖 My dad, George Hagenauer, will be doing his ANNUAL GARAGE SALE this weekend of Comics, Pulps, Graphic novels and a little art When: Friday July 10 4pm-8pm Saturday day July 11 9 am-4pm Where: Our garage: 2191 Harding Ave Ypsilanti 48197 (not far from US 94 and Hewitt) What: 🧵
I should show up with a scientific manuscript 😂 📖 "Once upon a time there was a meta-analysis of the converging effects of different classes of antipsychotics on the frontal cortex transcriptome..."
Ypsilanti District Library@ypsilibrary.org · 4w agoJoin YpsiWrites this Saturday for open mic readings in our downtown library's plaza! 🎤 Bring your poems, your prose, and your half-finished napkin drafts, or just come to support our local writers. (If there's inclement weather, we'll move inside.) Sign up to perform: tinyurl.com/YpsiWritesOpenMic
Another #FluorescenceFriday. When the world is going crazy, I find some peace watching at these myeloid cells (🔴) going about their day. They exist in tissue surrounded by other cells (🔵), and you can see them popping up and down, going in and out of plane as they explore their surrounding.
Are you sick of winning yet?
Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with cyclospora as of Wednesday, though no deaths have been ...
apnews.com
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11mo agoCDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
