born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

Amazing show of unity at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Raleigh yesterday! If you're looking to continue connecting w/ the NC science community, we're hosting a networking event next weekend Triangle State of Science Social March 16, 12PM Trophy Brewing (Maywood) Raleigh, NC tinyurl.com/2p9hrfe8

Please share! NC science networking event in Raleigh on 3/16. All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences. Triangle State of Science Social March 16 @ 12 pm Trophy Brewing (Maywood)

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

Carolyn Ibberson@cbibberson.bsky.social · last yr.

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

A useful tool and a great thing to do... 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls

On February 7, the Trump administration moved to cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science …

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Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/

Funding cuts by state

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Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed? Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.

“Just as vision turned out to be far more than a hierarchy of feature detectors, we cannot simply combine perception, planning and action modules and expect [agency] to emerge.” Great essay from @tonyzador.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social

NeuroAI and the hidden complexity of agency

As we attempt to build autonomous AI systems, we’re discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be more complex than we imagined.

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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

CDC Data Are Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts

The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.

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Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner: "Revisiting sex and gender in the brain" www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Revisiting sex and gender in the brain

To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.

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