Dr. Jessica Bars😷n (Barson Lab)

Also, spiders entering the little opening in the smoke alarm can trip it so it thinks the battery is low. Ask me how I know 🫠

a mascot is wearing a birthday hat and holding balloons and says happy birthday . ALT: a mascot is wearing a birthday hat and holding balloons and says happy birthday .

I can't believe I missed their birthday on Wednesday! Happy Birthday, Gritty!

Vermont and Maryland were also added, after the story broke

a cartoon character is giving a fist bump in front of a pink house . ALT: a cartoon character is giving a fist bump in front of a pink house .

When you're reading a paper that clearly got ideas directly from your work but doesn't actually cite you at all:

Oh, yikes. Not as long as that

Moment of appreciation for the reviewers and editors at @psychopharmacology.bsky.social for their extremely kind reviews (!!!). Hoping to have good publication news soon!

Real academic parent moment:

Getting shamed by my 9 year old for having too many tabs open on my computer 🙄

I'll be mourning mine for quite a while.

It was with a PO who has managed my funded grants before, and I had never heard them be more excited about likelihood of funding than this one.

I'm in the same boat. I was told it passed Council in May. Never asked for a JIT 😭

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Oh, my. That is very, very late

I'm seeing them being awarded 8 - 10 weeks late. Are there some that are not being awarded at all?

Looks like a fourth R01 was awarded!

June 2025. American University campus.

Libermandering

As best I can tell, NIAAA in all of 2025 has issued a total of three new R01s and zero new R21s. Do I have that right?

Yeah... so as far as I can tell, NIAAA has *still* only issued a total of THREE new R01s in all of 2025. Not sure that my persistence is going to help me here...

Does anyone else close their office door so they can just eat their lunch like a goblin? Is it just me?

Adding that you can apparently also do this with your child, if they look enough like you. Ask us how we know 😏

🙋‍♀️ Haven't even gotten a JIT from NIAAA about my R01 that scored reasonably well last October.

I remember one year in the early 90s when every single male member of my extended family at different times slapped me on the butt. I was 12.

Here is the application to for duty-free entry of scientific equipment www.trade.gov/sites/defaul...

If you are buying something this summer or fall, this is a good document to look at regardless, so you know what kind of due diligence is required to request the tariff waiver.

Is it Philly Elmo?

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

Congrats on the NoA! They're not yet in RePORTER, so it's great to hear it from the source.

Care to expand on the "starting to get new awards out the door" statement? That's more information than I had right now...

I found it. I found the end of the rainbow.

Presumably this excludes non-competing renewals, right? Because they don't go to Council?

This has always been my response when people say they object to animal research. Treatment of food animals is often far from humane.