Megan Hagenauer

🧠 Did you have an experiment that tanked this year?
Now is your time to shine!

Join us for The Confound Hour!

When: Tuesday 11/18, 7-9 PM at #SfN25 #SfN2025.

Where: The Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina (hotel next to the conference center) in Marriott Grand Ballroom, Salon 9

Please share! 😁

Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

Weird thing happening where I + my colleagues, same convo on repeat: can't think about next year, next month, even next week. All I can do is wait for the next days or next hrs, close projects, write more grants that wont save us, sit in misery. This is what the fed govt is doing to science

Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute Precision Medicine Project - Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility

We are recruiting a fully-funded 3.5yr PhD student to examine the potential genetic relationships between autism and hypermobility. Full details of the project and how to apply here ⬇️

usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.

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Bluetorial-Jim Watson

I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.

What follows is my personal perspective.

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8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM).

Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21).

Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree.

hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference The annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting is a bonanza of scientific achievement: famous keynote speakers, beautiful scientific results, and award ceremonies. This focus is exciting and invigo...

Btw - The Confound Hour is one of the events discussed in our recent paper:
www.eneuro.org/content/12/3...

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🧠 Neurofriends:
Who is going to SfN this year?
Would anyone like to help me run The Confound Hour on Tuesday night?

Mapping Open Science in Neuroscience - A collaborative initiative with FORRT @forrt.bsky.social

ReproducibiliTea Bordeaux Team invites you to contribute to this project!

More details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please share.

Food stamp delay hits Michigan: Residents ration, pantries scramble - Bridge Michigan The Trump administration agreed to resume partial SNAP payments but warned it could take "weeks" for reduced benefits to reach people. Michiganders are already grappling with the delay.

bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Thank you for promoting our work!

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My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

New profile pic?

Fantastic! Thank you so much!

After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.

There's definitely some other work that suggests that tylenol may be helpful as an adjunctive to antipsychotics - I'm about to head to bed, but I can dig for the paper in the morning.

The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is officially open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in:
Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

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It's an unbalanced centrifuge rotor in a candy bar. Some sick freak is out there putting all the weight on one side of the rotor. Just horrifying these people are allowed to walk among us.

Please be sure to check your kid's candy VERY carefully.

I just found an unbalanced centrifuge in a Snickers bar.
🍬☠️💥

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share!

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Interested in #graduateprograms in #neuroscience? Come learn about our Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Michigan. We are offering virtual and in person opportunities to do so in October and November. #SfN2025 #SACNAS #ABRCMS

See flyer below and #GoBlue! 👇

A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence with Existing Human Data Background Chronic stress is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Chronic stress can cause structural alterations like grey...

Here is a link to the preprint that doesn't route you through LinkedIn:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Infectious diseases before and after a vaccine became available Three stacked time-series charts comparing disease burden before and after vaccine introduction, showing steep declines after vaccines. Top chart — Deaths caused by smallpox as a share of all deaths in London, 1700 to 1900. Middle chart — Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths in the United States, 1910 to 2010 Bottom chart — Reported cases of measles in the United States, 1921 to 2015. Data sources and credits, as listed in the footer: - Smallpox: Our World in Data based on Guy (1882) and on publications of the Registrar General between 1848 and 1903. - Polio: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Service (1900 to 1951) and U.S. CDC (1960 to 2010). - Measles: Our World in Data based on U.S. Public Health Reports, the Public Health Service, and the U.S. CDC - Chart licensed under CC-BY by Our World in Data

Humanity’s history is a continuous battle between us and the microbes. For most of our history, we were on the losing side. It wasn’t even close. We were losing very decisively.

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12848260 Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences Organization: Nature Portfolio Locations: New York, Jersey City...

Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🧠🧬 New preprint! Our meta-analysis of the effects of chronic stress on prefrontal cortex gene expression has gone live.😁

Jinglin Xiong is the first author. She completed this work *as an undergraduate researcher* and is currently applying to PhD programs! 🎉

Yeah, I definitely wrote the paper while wondering whether my 100% soft money job was going to continue to exist...

Thank you for sharing our paper!

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”