My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

HHMI released the official 2027 Gilliam Fellowship details, and a lot changed. Deadline's earlier this cycle: Oct 27. Int'l & MD-PhD students now eligible. Stipend up to 50K. New postdoc pathway adds up to 7 yrs of support. No Journal names!!!! www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...

2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship: New Deadline, Eligibility, and Award Changes — Ya'el Courtney

HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.

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By threatening vital federal research funding without disclosing the standards used to target these institutions & without providing any public evidence of wrongdoing, the govt is bypassing due process. Our statement w/ @aaup.org on the Dept of War's directive 👇 www.aft.org/press-releas...

AFT and AAUP on Department of War Directive Targeting 30 Universities

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Department of War directing 30 universities to b...

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We’re hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology. Please share far and wide!

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Dolly Parton – a life in pictures

The country music star, actor and philanthropist’s long and varied career spanned decades

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The full story is worth a read. Here's another way they documented howThermo-Fisher was lying to customers: fabricated endoresments!

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · yesterday

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...

Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

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Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏

God bless Dolly Parton.

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital to become Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — East Tennessee Children’s Hospital announced that it is becoming Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital due to a partnership with the country music singer. In a vide…

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RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterday

NOT DOLLY PARTON

Oh my god, this is so sweet. I can hear it in her voice as I read it, and I feel a little teary knowing she is gone. We truly lost a good one today. But her light and memory will live on in her good works and amazing music she left us. #RIPDollyParton

Joel@itsjoels.bsky.social · yesterday

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

I also encourage you to look for the partner organizations in your area that make this happen. The Imagination Library does not do this alone. In King Co it is Africatown Community Land Trust. They had to stop some local delivery because of lack of local funding. www.imaginationlibrarywashington.org

Imagination Library of Washington

Imagination Library of Washington's mission is to foster a love of reading among young learners by ensuring equitable access to free monthly books mailed directly to their homes from Dolly Parton's Im...

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BillieB@billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · yesterday

Although I should have done it long ago, I finally donated to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library & encourage you to do the same if Dolly & childhood literacy are important to you. Let's overwhelm them with donations in honor of our angel. imaginationlibrary.com

I feel like any ranting about the "replication crisis" needs a firewalled subsection for antibodies that don't work as advertised.

Apparently we’re calling up angels today. Dolly Parton was the best of us. May her memory be eternal, ζωή σε μας.

anyone else going losing it bc it seems the journals have now created new online log in portals, and now cannot access anything as either an author or a reviewer?

Old Man Lost His Marbles (Hook/Peter Pan)

Alt: Old Man Lost His Marbles (Hook/Peter Pan)

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Also check out the Panel Interest form (and put your info on there) if you want to present at Winter Brain and are looking to put together a panel. parthenonmgmt-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/p/ahinne...

Zoe McElligott@nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gearing up for #WCBR2027! (Please repost!) Helpful links for submission (panels due 9/15/26, posters 10/13/26) and travel fellowships (Due 9/15/26): winterbrain.org/science-of-t... winterbrain.org/travel-fello...

No biggie, just a constitutional crisis worse than any we’ve ever heard of.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · 2d ago

Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.

🚨 New Walton × Bogacz Collab Preprint! POV: dopamine refuses to have just one job.🧠 DLS dopamine carries distinct reward AND action prediction errors — parallel teaching signals that could support value learning and habit formation. Enjoyed working with Yuhao, Juan Carlos, et al. on this one!

@zenbrainest.bsky.social would love to get your $0.02 👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural basis of opioid receptor activation by PCP and ketamine - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Jiang, Han and Fine and colleagues show that ketamine and phencyclidine can directly bind to and activate opioid receptors. Using structural and pharmacological approaches, they showed how these drugs...

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Solar panels are near 1000 times more efficient than corn at capturing the solar energy that falls on a given land area. Electric cars waste only 15-20% of the chemical energy in the battery; 80-85% of the battery energy goes to moving the vehicle down the road. leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

How Solar Could Free Up 29.8 Million Acres of Prime US Farmland

Corn is a Shitty Solar Panel: 160x more energy from an acre of solar than an acre of corn ethanol

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very good thread here

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 2d ago

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

VICTORY: Karen Attiah wins her case against Bezos' Washington Post An arbitrator has now ruled that no fortune is big enough to buy the 1st Amendment. She is REINSTATED @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to rep her w/ @wbng.org in this landmark fight

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Gearing up for #WCBR2027! (Please repost!) Helpful links for submission (panels due 9/15/26, posters 10/13/26) and travel fellowships (Due 9/15/26): winterbrain.org/science-of-t... winterbrain.org/travel-fello...

First day of highschooler. Eeek.

what in the ever loving fuck is "conservative-based" reserach...you think cancer, kidney disease, psychosis, heart disease, etc.... cares about your political identity?

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 5d ago

Trump's pick to lead the FDA, Heidi Overton, says the FDA, CDC, and NIH need to be "reformed" to fund more "conservative-based" research instead of peer-reviewed and evidence-backed medical science. #Trump #Overton #Science #StandUpForScience #FDA

yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery

Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Breaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.

Three more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪

Noam Ross@noamross.net · 4w ago

My comment on NSF-2026-OTR-0001, NSF's obsequious gutting of their own procedures, replacing them with OMB's proposed rules undermining federal grantmaking with their ideological agenda. Need guidance on commenting? @standupforscience.net has you covered: fight2win.standupforscience.net #NSF

Important new paper on the role of LC mu opioid receptors in pain from @jordacular.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@superkash.bsky.social

salamandermeeting2026.bsky.social@salamander2026.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're on Bluesky! The Salamander Meeting 2026 — Regeneration & Development in Axolotls: From Xochimilco to the Lab — comes to Mexico City, Oct 6–8, hosted by UNAM. Follow along for speakers, science, and a bit of axolotl culture. Info: salamander2026.iibiomedicas.unam.mx #SalamanderMeeting2026

University professors generally do not make very much relative to our training levels. Most of us, especially in STEM, could make a lot more in industry (and deal with a lot less bureaucracy). Grant money mostly goes to paying students, postdocs, and staff, and is heavily vetted and scrutinized.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?