Dr. Jessica Bars😷n (Barson Lab)

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.

Thank you for the to-the-point summary. Appreciate you, Abby.

The correct answer is Bosch.

Or a purple state...

I just came from a (new to me) meeting like this. It felt like I was a grad student in the 2000s all over again

Elmo doing a happy dance in his pajamas.

Really pulling for a "Posters in PJs" session if we get to have an #RSA_ISBRA2025 next year. Let's make it happen!

Immensely proud of Brody Carpenter for his Gordis talk at #RSA_ISBRA2025

I've been following this one closely and can confirm.

FACT CHECK: Did Ayn Rand Receive Social Security Benefits? The "Atlas Shrugged" author called government handouts "immoral," but there is evidence that she accepted Social Security benefits in her later years — and that it was consistent with her worldview to...

But also, even Ayn Rand collected Social Security:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...

an elderly woman wearing glasses and an apron is sitting in a room . Alt: Sophia from Golden Girls making a threatening gesture

The kid who won the Science Fair this year clearly just fully copied my son's experiment from last year's Science Fair, and I never thought I could be this angry at a 4th grader.

Honored to have received the 2025 Faculty Professional Development, Sponsorship and Allyship Award from Drexel University College of Medicine ❤️

Had a great time as an external examiner for the Swarthmore Honors Thesis process. Thank you to (BlueSky-less?!) Dr. Wambura Fobbs for the invitation

Brody doesn't quite look like himself here, but I'm still proud of him!

Hey reviewers:
If you're going to make multiple, factually incorrect statements about something you're reviewing, can you at least not be mean about it? We're all running a little thin these days...

The Shallots The Shallots are a group of simple minded shallots that were planted during Lots of Shallots. The Shallots were planted by Sarah and Duck, living in a patch of soil in Sarah's front garden. Despite be...

Shallots!

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