DLRamamurthy

Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

Cartoon of two investigators looking at a brain with magnifying glasses

I wonder if researchers who study attention and researchers who study emotion are aware about the strong parallel controversies regarding the theoretical targets?

Let me describe them.

Mentor Registration Form — GRFP Workshop Are you interested in helping students write a stronger NSF GRFP application? We hope you will join us as a mentor in this BSA-organized GRFP workshop, where you will work with 4-6 applicants to help ...

🌱 Calling all mentors!
The BSA Early Career Committee is bringing back the NSF GRFP Workshop. Sign up to be a mentor if you are a:

✅ Grad student who already received a GRFP or
✅ PI, postdoc, senior researcher

Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/sQUwhVryYHJK...

#NSFGRFP #botany

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Excited to share this update to our paper investigating the role of superior colliculus inputs to the ventral midbrain in learning and movement. Studies led by the amazing Dr. @carlipoisson.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters.

Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill

Flyer for the Boston College and Marginalia Science 2025 event on Oct 24. Applications are due Sept 10, and participation is free. Follow the link in post for more info.

Call for submissions: Boston College and Marginalia Science will be hosting a one-day conference highlighting diverse perspectives in psychology and social science research. Apply for a featured talk (with travel award), data blitz, or poster presentation! More info: forms.gle/TdB2esuePVN3...

Re-terminating the Mass v Kennedy/APHA vs NIH grants will further damage trust in NIH that Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are currently decimating.

"DEI-linked grants" can be cancelled by a new administration = if you are a marginalized scientist we can and will just destroy your life's work / and if anyone's work dares to care about specific inequities in our society, we can and will destroy it

thehill.com/regulation/c...

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate $783 million in NIH grants linked to DEI initiatives By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to allow the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to […]

SCOTUSBlog story about NIH Grant Termination case

www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/supr...

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources Di Bello et al. reveal that some neural resources in lateral PFC are shared between motor and attentional systems, enabling focus to flexibly shift in response to internal goals or external demands.

Endogenous and exogenous attentional interplay through mixed prefrontal cortex resources CurrentBiology

Uncertainty and reward histories have distinct effects on decisions after wins and losses bioRxivpreprint

"NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails. You can use Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities." 🧪

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Important note from inside NIH

New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st.

Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.

Evolution is more like a tinkerer than an engineer. New things happen not by perfect engineering but by working with what's already available and repurposing existing objects through recombinations and modifications. This is a classic lesson for any kind of innovation, including that of new ideas..

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Bowdoin College’s Program of Neuroscience invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2026, with a prefere...

‼️ Join us in Neuro at Bowdoin!

Looking for a TT colleague in Neuro - broadly defined, but interested in those working with computation, public policy/clinical, mental health, open data, etc.

Review of apps starts 9/9 - get in touch with questions!

careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16648

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

Important new document available regarding SCOTUS and NIH grants.

scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-s...

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Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal. Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

The 900 grant reinstatements from @apha.org v NIH and Mass v Kennedy ruling are a huge win.

But it’s not a simple or complete fix.

Not surprisingly, turning research on, then off, then on again creates major complications, chaos and inefficiency. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

A sensitive orange fluorescent calcium ion indicator for imaging neural activity Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) are vital tools for fluorescence-based visualization of neuronal activity with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, current highest-performance...

#OCaMP is now on bioRxiv and reagents are available on #Addgene! 🧪

A sensitive orange fluorescent calcium ion indicator for imaging neural activity

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Have you listened to any audiobooks lately? I would love to hear your thoughts on audiobook narration via the link above.

Hi everyone,

As part of my dissertation, I am researching audiobook narration.

If you have listened to an audiobook within the last two years, or have previously been a frequent audiobook user, I would really appreciate your thoughts!

You can find the survey here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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...

Call these 14 senators.

Thank them for supporting #NIH.

Remind them that supporting NIH is meaningless if NIH cannot function.

This stay would:

1) Enable censorship of science.

2) Disrupt NIH’s ability to fund any research.

If the Supreme Court grants this stay, not only will it let NIH to get back to what Reagan appointee Judge Young called the most palpable discrimination he’s seen in his 40 years on the bench.

It will also put ALL NIH science at risk.