Steve Shea
@neuroshea.bsky.social
PI. Olfaction, audition, and autism. Discogs: http://bit.ly/2xlZLbJ Opinions here are mine alone.
It's great to see this spelled out so clearly. Also, the best sci-fi is not about predicting the future but creating imagined worlds to explore the anxieties of the present. Silicon Valley totally fails to get this.
Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 2mo agoTech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’
wrt the argument that the designation “competitive not discussed” gives POs more flexibility to fund meritorious or high priority grants that were not (I guess) adequately appreciated by the study section, does anyone know of an example of this happening? @drugmonkey.bsky.social
me at 15: the Dead Kennedys are right about all of this. me at 30: this is all real nuanced and there’s a lot of moving parts here. me at 45: the Dead Kennedys were right about all of this.
publicly rejecting it, on every social media account you have, and amplifying every other rejection, is also signaling. they’re a weak regime, getting weaker, in a mix of false bravado and panic and fear, and who they fear is us. they should.
David Noll@david.noll.org · 8mo agoThe president is also signalling to his followers in and out of government what the party line on this horrific murder will be. That it's transparently false is almost beside the point. Indeed, publicly adopting the falsehood will fast become a loyalty test.
Separated at birth? Sen. Roscoe Conkling from Death By Lightning and Jacob Mugatu from Zoolander:
Can’t make it tonight? I’ll be presenting this poster again on Tuesday morning (8 a.m.–12 p.m.) in the Sensory Motor Systems poster session, board W13 ✨ @neuroshea.bsky.social @sfn.org
Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award! Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.
TIL that Wolfman in the gaslamp district has karaoke. every. night. You can use that information however you’d like. #sfn2025
Our old friend @parklifeneuro.bsky.social has resurfaced and is already putting some glib, cowardly clown on blast. Just FYI, he is the genuine article, so you can follow him.
ParkLife@parklifeneuro.bsky.social · 10mo agoI sincerely hope that you or someone you care deeply for never get really sick, but god forbid if they did, then maybe you would understand what incredibly stupid shit just flies out of your piehole.
For all the people who think scientists are getting fat off of federal grants, I would just like to mention that yesterday, at the spry age of 52, I bought the first new car I have ever bought in my life. I don't mean to brag or anything, but it's a 2026 base model Corolla.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s face: “oh man give me that sweet sweet copium”
The family says they came to the wrong house on a "tip", demanded to see ID, shot the dog for whatever reason, and bolted, leaving the family as they struggled to save their dogs life. This is inexcusable, but their boss is a known dog murderer. A fish rots from the head. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...
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This article is some of the worst "both sides" trash I have ever seen. It's written to hide the ball from the reader - just have a look at this graph. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
C’mon bro. It’s not exactly subtle. It doesn’t even require a rudimentary grasp of irony, just 4th grade level reading comprehension.
This is astonishingly disrespectful and a colossal waste of resources. This building was purpose built for NSF and completed only in 2016. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building
Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices
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@drugmonkey.bsky.social 14 equally contributing authors. This has to be a new record, right? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Does anyone know anything about what is going on at NIDCD?Council met almost a month ago and I have a top scored grant just waiting to be funded. The whole institute has only issued 6 NOAs since then. I have no information about my grant.
Having an argument right now with @alisa-shea.bsky.social about whether Arcade Fire has “always been like this.”
If you call yourself a scientist but willingly admit to being unable to evaluate a preprint (something I teach my undergrads to do) then you need to stop calling yourself a scientist.
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last yr.There is a lot I disagree with here but perhaps this most of all: “I’ve interviewed dozens of scientists who don’t know how to evaluate preprints, what they can trust, or what they can use in their own research.”
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
