Joanna Dabrowska

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.

Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...

You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!

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Small shifts in diurnal rhythms are associated with an increase in suicide: The effect of daylight saving Large disruptions of chronobiological rhythms are documented as destabilizing individuals with bipolar disorder; however, the impact of small phase altering events is unclear. Australian suicide data....

“Suicides rise following commencement of Daylight Saving Time, compared to the return to Standard Time.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sleep and infant development in the first year - Pediatric Research Pediatric Research - Sleep and infant development in the first year

"Sleep problems, most notably, circadian rhythm dysfunction, are reported early in children subsequently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD),coinciding with the frequent finding of intrinsic melatonin abnormalities in this condition."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A line graph showing funding curves for all NIH projects awarded grants for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is lagging behind that for previous fiscal years substantially.

My weekly update on NIH funding.

This is for all projects.

The breakdown for competing and non-competing awards will follow.

1/4

better yet, how does one get '0' percentile? 🤔

Dentists don’t even get close..

A picture of NIH Director Bhattacharya at a Senate HELP committee hearing on February 3, 2026 with NIH staffer Janna Norton who had been placed on administrative leave in the audience behind him.

Coverage today with NIH Dir. Bhattacharya testifying before the Senate HELP Committee with NIH staffer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social (who was placed on administrative leave for speaking out against the illegal and immoral actions of the administration) seated behind him.

#BethesdaDeclaration

just talked to a rotating student about science, already feeling a bit better

it just never stops! some things you can try to ignore (learning this skill) but some (like budgets, progress reports, etc) you can't! just 🤯🥵

If I ever quit this job (I am close today), it will not be for lack of love for science, but because of the soulless bureaucracy that left my heart dry (and pounding from adrenaline) #stopacademicbureaucracy #academicchatter #academia

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

a man with a beard is wearing a cowboy hat and a jacket and says howdy . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a cowboy hat and a jacket and says howdy .

Anyone writing neuroscience/Neurodegeneration grants wanna team up for a writing group?

I’d love to get more input and learn from people!

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

🧵Good news out of #NIH today.
(1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino.

They must all resign and be held accountable.

not in my world 😀

We're back for round two. We're taking back our science. I am fighting for science and democracy. March 7th, 2025. Washington, DC. standupforscience.net/march7

We're back for round two. We're taking back our science. I am fighting for science and democracy. March 7th, 2025. Washington, DC. standupforscience.net/march7

We're back for round two. We're taking back our science. I am fighting for science and democracy. March 7th, 2025. Washington, DC. standupforscience.net/march7

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🧪✊🔬
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC.

We're mobilizing the fight for science and democracy. In the face of assaults on our families, freedoms, and futures, we're taking back science!

Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (linked in bio)

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

www.science.org/content/arti...

A line grant showing new and competitive renewal awards made by NIH is fiscal year 2026 compared to 2021-2025. The line for fiscal year 2026 is very close to zero.

My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding.

New and competitive renewal awards.

3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years).

No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR.

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Don’t let Russell Vought trick Congress into destroying science by removing multiyear funding limits from the NIH funding bill.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the United States for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.”

What can the Brain Knowledge Platform do for you? 🧠📈

Join us on Jan. 14, 11am-12pm PT for a webinar on the new features and data in world's most comprehensive brain cell atlas.

🔗 https://alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Le5E4CXGSA2clMJ2VesyBw#/registration

The 24 best books we read in 2025 New nonfiction and fiction titles we loved, plus some older ones that were just right for the moment.

Vincenzo Latronico's slim and unsettling "Perfection" was the top 2025 novel I managed to read this year. Check out why and read my colleagues' top picks www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recently tried it on our published paper (neuroscience, biological psychiatry field, so out of the main @qedscience.bsky.social domain). But still, very impressed with the identified gaps and identified novelty in the field! Can we re-use/paraphrase some of the novelty findings? Highly recommend!

This is a new level:
"Hello Dear,

We are delighted to extend a cordial invitation to you and your wife to participate in the Brain Summit, scheduled to take place from January 14–16, 2026, at Novotel Al Barsha, Dubai, UAE".

Can I come with my husband instead??

The disturbing connection between loneliness and dementia Scientists are studying the effect of “social frailty” on memory loss—and testing whether AI companions can help.

We talk a lot about loneliness.

We don't talk about social frailty. Which is much MORE than that. It can be loneliness, but it's also not enough money to be social, seeing people rarely, or not at all.

And social frailty? Is a risk for dementia. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine the booming market a troubling new market.

A new documentary goes inside the $4 billion industry built on America's school shooting epidemic... in the absence of meaningful gun reform.

I spoke with the filmmakers for @motherjones.com:

just 2 years? it's basically new ab! it'll totally work 🤞