Looks like the GRE is being re-introduced as a requirement for some PhD programs, particularly psych: www.linkedin.com/posts/jayvan...
NYU Reinstates GRE for PhD Admissions | Jay Van Bavel, PhD posted on the topic | LinkedIn
NYU Psychology will also be reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD Admissions this year. I heard Yale and Harvard psychology will too. Any others? It’s important to spread the word so PHD app...
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i am super excited to announce i've joined @projectshort.bsky.social's e-board as co-director of outreach! i'm grateful for the trust & the opportunity to help lead a wonderful organization i've been with since i began my phd. dashboard.project-short.com/about/execut...
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This could be very VERY BAD. It looks like a way to remove transparency of peer review, which would enable political apparatchiks to have much more power over decisions on where grant money goes.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago(1) Overall impact scores will be binned into THREE bins: Top 25%, 25-50%, and >50%. (2) Overall impact scores will be retained but will NOT BE SHARED with program officers, advisory councils, or institute/center/office (ICO) leadership. 2/3
in a world of vibe coders, im harsh coding. i am not speaking a single word, overthinking every line, and being extremely critical to myself while doing it
🧠 New paper from UP NExT flips the script on brain implants! Microglia (brain's immune cells) aren't just causing inflammation & scarring around electrodes, they actively monitor & interact with stressed neurons during low-freq stim via Live 2-photon imaging #Neuroscience #BCI
Early career science journalists: Need something to do next summer? Apply to work with me as @science.org's newsletter intern! bit.ly/44yCu4o
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This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host: Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness" Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
SFN 2025 let’s gooo!! Moser group posters are held Wednesday morning (QQ), so if you’re leaving early feel free to come find us to chat :)
Our networking event for trainees is tomorrow! Feel free to reach out to me with any questions! #SfN25 @projectshort.bsky.social
su jin kim@millenialfalcon.bsky.social · 9mo agoAre you a trainee in neuroscience interested in mentoring or meeting other trainees? Maybe you're thinking about graduate school but need guidance? I'm hosting a networking event at #SfN25 with @projectshort.bsky.social! Ballroom 12 @ Marriott Marquis 7-9pm Monday 11/17
Are you a trainee in neuroscience interested in mentoring or meeting other trainees? Maybe you're thinking about graduate school but need guidance? I'm hosting a networking event at #SfN25 with @projectshort.bsky.social! Ballroom 12 @ Marriott Marquis 7-9pm Monday 11/17
We are now recruiting STEM mentors for the 2025-2026 graduate school application cycle! ⏰ Mentor applications close on July 31st, 2025 ⏰ ✨ APPLY HERE: dashboard.project-short.com ✨ Questions? Email us: contact@project-short.com #gradschool #phd #phdapplication #gradadmissions
my f31 just changed from pending to award prepared 🥲 please send good luck my way
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.
Nobody turns one problem into four problems quite like us #ThingsActualScientistsSay
Ever wonder how stress and the estrous cycle affects reward learning? Well we have answers for you in our paper led by @askaneuroscientist.bsky.social published in @npp-journal.bsky.social And huge thanks to the NIH and NSF who supported this research.
Estrous cycle stage gates the effect of stress on reward learning
Neuropsychopharmacology - Estrous cycle stage gates the effect of stress on reward learning
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Cyclic shifts in estradiol levels coincide with changes in dendritic spine density and the activity of place cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in mice, a new study shows. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroendocri...
Spatial learning circuitry fluctuates in step with estrous cycle in mice
Cyclic shifts in estradiol levels coincide with changes in dendritic spine density and the activity of place cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, a new study shows.
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(Plz repost) I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation. pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu Tyvm
Wrote this short piece for our university newsletter (the Hub) in defense of curiosity and the partnership between Universities and federal government
Rejji Kuruvilla@rkuruvi1.bsky.social · last yr.“That's the thing about research: You don't always know where the payoff will be. But if you stop investing in exploration, you guarantee you will not find it.” From my JHU colleague @kishoreneuro.bsky.social hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/08/k...
🦇👂🧠Our first bat paper is out! 🧠👂🦇 How do bats tell navigation from social calls? Led by the fearless Dr. Jenni Lawlor, we used 2P imaging to show that the auditory midbrain encodes categorical primitives. Check it out @natneuro.nature.com: rdcu.be/ehEgz
Spatially clustered neurons in the bat midbrain encode vocalization categories
Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...
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Harvard stands up Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.” From Harvard to Trump admin
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.Harvard stands up Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
The lab has had a hell of a month and I’m excited for some upcoming announcements… …but for now please enjoy these pics as we move step-by-step towards simultaneous ephys and two-photon imaging with our flexible & semi transparent electrodes
The question I've been asked most as we endure the legal dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration is, "What can we do about it when it's not election season?" @timothynoah.bsky.social has an outstanding essay in the @newrepublic.com addressing that question. newrepublic.com/article/1931...
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
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this Wednesday is our webinar! please send to any current or prospective trainees you know who want to know more on increasing and retaining diversity in neuroscience. we'll be sharing what we do with ProjectSHORT, locally at our universities, as well as our experiences in neuroscience.
su jin kim@millenialfalcon.bsky.social · last yr.I'll be part of an @neuronline.sfn.org professional development workshop on increasing and retaining diversity in neuroscience, both with ProjectSHORT and more broadly. Please fwd to any trainees you know who would be interested! April 2nd, 1-2pm. Register here: neuronline.sfn.org/professional...
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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I'll never stop being in awe of the brain. Raster of a single neuron in medial geniculate body responding to auditory tones.
Breaking news: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow U.S. officials to begin implementing a limited plan to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors.
Trump asks Supreme Court to okay limited plan to end birthright citizenship
Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
