Michael Saddoris

Cheers to Bob and his CU Boulder team (Will, Russ, Marwa, Cate, Emily, Helen @neuronroot.bsky.social et al) on this important work!
Red LED lights: not very effective for maintaining dark phase in the vivarium, definitely noteworthy for people working with reverse light/dark schedules

Colorado universities brace for plunge in international students due to fears sparked by Trump policies More than 10,360 international students attended colleges and universities in Colorado during the 2023-2024 school year.

CO universities brace for disruptions to international student populations due to the Trump admin's hostility toward foreign-born students.

This could mean higher tuition for everyone, fewer innovations & best & brightest recruited to other countries.

www.denverpost.com/2025/06/22/c... #HigherEd

Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”.

https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

the reissued NOFO for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) is finally published! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Trump’s cuts to more than 1700 NIH grants get court hearing District judge could declare terminations unlawful—or toss suit based on technicalities

On 16 June, a federal court in Boston will hear two cases challenging the terminations of hundreds of National Institutes of Health grants.

In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

If you were planning to submit Neuroscience related T32s to PAR-22-265, PAR-24-126, or PAR-24-108, note those are now expired and you need to submit through PAR-25-168. See this notice: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Exciting news!! I’m joining the tenure-track faculty at University of Colorado Boulder this fall as an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience!

The Sosa Lab will study how memory is shaped by cognitive and physiological demands, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 🧵

A graphic showing that 50.6% of research projects with "LGBT" search terms have been cancelled. 45.8% of grants with "transgender" in the search terms have been cancelled. 45.5% of research grants with "vaccine hesitancy" have been cancelled. 3.4% grants with "HIV" or "AIDS" have been cancelled.

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields

Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV

NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Text copied from website on April 7, 2025 stating "Recruitment of new postbacs has resumed. Please read program information below and use the 'Start your application' link to apply."

Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

F mechanisms (New and Competitive renewals)

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“It feels terrible”: How one CU researcher lost her NIH grant and the impacts that will have The NIH cut a grant for Colorado School of Public Health professor Annie Collier, who was studying vaccine hesitancy among Alaska Natives

“It feels terrible”: How one CU researcher lost her NIH grant and the impacts that will have

Defending soon? Come postdoc with us - MUSC is a great place to prepare you for your next career move, in or outside of academia!

🚨Hiring Alert: Postdoctoral Opportunity!🚨 My lab is looking for a passionate postdoc to join our research in systems neuroscience @colorado.edu @ibg.colorado.edu. See details below. Please share!
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#Postdoc #ResearchOpportunity #SystemsNeuroscience

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

NIH is the best investment there is.

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works on two of the most urgent U.S. health problems and has generally received bipartisan support. By the end of this week, the staff of the agency could be cut by 50%, according to senior staff members.

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

Opinion: The Critical Need for Science Funding | Front Porch As chairs of the basic science departments, we are compelled to address a matter of utmost urgency: the critical need for funding in scientific research. In an era where scientific advancements hold t...

Great piece by the folks at University of Colorado Med/ Anchutz. frontporchne.com/opinion-the-...

Boulder City Council unanimously ends occupancy limits The decision closes a chapter in a decades-long contentious debate over the restrictive housing regulations.

"The Boulder City Council has unanimously repealed occupancy limits that restricted how many unrelated people could live together in a home. The new ordinance, approved on March 6, will take effect in April." #boulder

Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case.

This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

the soul of American higher education is every student who gets an education despite what this country does to prevent it

Neuro Ph.D. programs adjust admissions over funding unease Some neuroscience departments plan to shrink class size by 25 to 40 percent; others may inadvertently take more students than they can afford.

Facing an uncertain financial future, many U.S. neuroscience Ph.D. programs are admitting fewer students. The Transmitter spoke with 20 programs about how the recent changes are affecting their admissions processes.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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The stretch of road connects NCAR, NOAA, NIST and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Homes to people doing some of the most important research on Earth and its warming climate.

I commuted this exact stretch of road on a free bus for 3 years and this video hit me smack in the feels.

Face au maccarthysme scientifique de Trump, l’Europe doit accueillir les chercheurs américains Confrontés à l’imposition systématique d’une vision réactionnaire du savoir aux Etats-Unis, nous, Européens, nous avons un devoir d’accueil pour garantir la continuité de la production scientifique et protéger les chercheurs.

Le retour de Trump marque une offensive sans précédent contre la science. Un collectif de députées et d'élues lance cet appel : l'Europe doit accueillir les scientifiques dont le travail devient impossible aux Etats-Unis.

Leur tribune :

Untangling dopamine and glutamate in the ventral tegmental area https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640201v1

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

More and more scientists are joining the ranks of fired federal workers—and fighting back through protests, appeals, and legal challenges.