Joanna Dabrowska

Recently came back over Atlantic - green card - as smooth as it can get. Was facing more scrutiny when flying national through DC. Good luck! ☺️

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Nature is insane

A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨

Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The 1st time in my academic career, I have two R01 grants 🥳 but.. Oh irony.. I have no money💲(and a growing debt). A non-competitive renewal is significantly delayed (2 months) and the new one is stuck in transit (?). We need💰for basic labs' functioning, and staff paychecks. Release the NIH funds!

Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share!

miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

Sounds great but the link is not working

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and
@salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders.

siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...

that's a good sign that things are moving, thanks!

congrats!!!! after how long? mine is almost 2 months late :(

thanks and actually yes; check out this work by Mario Gil
PMID: 23474276, PMID: 23474276

Haha
Let’s embrace for even hotter day today! See you this afternoon at sex difference/convergences session!

See you tomorrow! Dress lightly.. 🫠😅🥵

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

“Retiring”, ha?

Who thought running the EPM on 28 rats on Friday afternoon before a conference weekend was a good idea? 🙋‍♀️ Please let me know I’m not alone? 🙃

nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

JNE has always been an excellent journal!

hahaha, so true!

Great read!

I am so sorry. “If you wish” makes me furious. It’s time the new NSF and NIH administration understands getting grants is not a capricious luxury for scientists but a hard earned income to pay for expensive research and scientists paychecks.

A screen shot of an email reading: Dear Dr. Gill, Jacquelyn, I am writing to let you know that given the current budgetary projections and recent adjustment of NSF’s over-arching priorities, NSF/BIO will not be making any new awards through the Biology Integration Institutes Program. Therefore, the solicitation has been archived, and NSF has returned your proposal without review so you can re-submit it, or portions of it, to appropriate BIO programs that currently are receiving new proposals, if you wish. Sincerely, Jim Deshler Division Director (Acting) Division of Biological Infrastructure

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed.

With a form email.

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case

Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL”

As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm

Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Yesss, can't wait to hang out with the babies (bigger and small) and @sydneytrask.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social and Raul Andero-Gali in the session! See you at #EBBS2025

Congress shows first signs of resisting Trump’s plans to slash science budgets House panel rejects cuts to agricultural research, and Senators express doubts about cuts to NIH and forest research

🧪Good News!
A key committee in the House of Representatives rejected the administration’s plan to make deep cuts to research programs at the USDA; the leader of the Senate’s appropriations panel called the 40% cut to the NIH’$47 billion budget “disturbing.”
www.science.org/content/arti...