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Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Glimmer of hope: the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee just voted, 26 to 3, to reject the administration’s proposed cuts & instead recommend a $400 million increase to the NIH budget. The House LHHS Subcommittee convenes in September
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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Here are some of the highlights of the appropriations bill that the Senate appropriations committee just approved:

$48.7 billion for NIH, an increase of $400 million

Rejects the proposal to cap
indirect cost rates at 15%

Includes a provision to prevent MYF that would reduce the number of grants

NIH wants to hear from you. No really.

Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Baby Kink wearing a black shirt with magenta text that says Disabled Joy is Revolutionary.

It’s the last day of Disability Pride Month but you should care about disabled folks all the time. Disabled folks don’t need pity, they need solidarity from comrades who care about access.

Money tree plant cuttings

Sharing my office money tree cuttings in celebration of receiving our U24 Yr 4 funds in time!

Likewise, we are asking that you share the link to the survey with your colleagues who may be similarly impacted: www.aclu.org/APHAvNIHform.

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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

What kinds of support do early-career researchers need? Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.

Calling all early-career researchers! @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social want to understand your journey as you become the next generation of neuroscientists. Share your experiences and help us build the resources you need.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Yes, please!

Yes, good points

Yes! I have that data. Great minds🙂

Partial dissection of a human hearing organ

Human cochlea❤️👂We are so grateful to our temporal bone donors and to the NIDCD for funding. This critical resource will help us understand hearing and balance disorders and give us insight into how the human ear functions! #ResearchSavesLives

Friends, I will soon give a 15 min talk about why NIH is a good investment to a Rotary Club in my hometown in PA. Do you have recommendations for digestible graphs or slides to show a bunch of small business owners and retirees? THX! #ResearchSavesLives

A Case of Calcification Discovered Within the Membranous... : Otology & Neurotology history of left-sided hearing loss and balance issues was confirmed by MRI to have a cystic vestibular schwannoma. Interventions Transtemporal labyrinthectomy. Main Outcome Measures Appearance o...

Unexpected calcification and hypertrophied crista found by our temporal bone team in the vestibular organ of a patient with a vestibular schwannoma journals.lww.com/otology-neur...

Are you interested in bat vocalizations and the neural circuits that give rise to their emission?🦇🎶🧠
We reviewed the recent literature on neural activity underlying echolocation and communication calls across multiple bat species in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences:
doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.

"I don't know why people have such a hard time getting papers accepted. Back in my day I published in Nature all the time."

Oh, boy. You will be able to live in a palace in PA!

Labyrinthine Sequestrum: Otopathologic Description of a... : Otology & Neurotology An abstract is unavailable.

Super rare case of labyrinthine sequestrum after labyrinthitis related to chronic conditions and causing extensive inner ear damage journals.lww.com/otology-neur...

I love it when an administrative entity informs me that I should have included information in a form that is not actually asked for or referenced in the form. Sorry, my mind reading bandwidth is nil these days! 😕

Dr. Melissa Caras — Stories of WiN studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning.

Our next profile is here! Dr. Melissa Caras studies the neurophysiological mechanisms of auditory perceptual learning. Follow the link to listen and learn more!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN

Check out our JOVE paper detailing how to harvest live vestibular end organs for immunolabeling! app.jove.com/t/67523/harv...

We would love to ask that question! We have plans to test wild derived species. They are so different in the behavioral tests than lab mice even in quiet!

Key result from Vicencio-Jimenez (@lauerlab.bsky.social):

Background noise levels affect outcomes in behavioral assays like open field test and Y maze (!!!)

#ABS2025
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence

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Scientist and surgeon drilling a human cadaver temporal bone

Friends, I started learning how to drill cadaver temporal bones! It’s great! This will be super useful for our histology😁👂🦴

The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

Powerful story from Kate Zernike from the NYT

Covers the diversity of young scientists targeted by the anti-DEI BS. Definitely worth a read and a share.

[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Can a Medical Device Restore Your Balance? Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an experimental medical implant that promises to restore the sensory machinery responsib...

Very cool story about the JH vestibular implant team’s work, made possible with the support of sustained NIH funding #researchsaveslives #hopkinsmedicine www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/c...

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

If Congress approves the cuts the White House proposed to the NSF budget, it would cut the number of early-career scientists the NSF supports by 78%.

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

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.