Daniel Dorman, PhD

Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care — by Melissa L. Perreault, Rudi Taylor-Bragge, Hervé Chneiweiss, Andre D. McLachlan, T. Ryan Gregory, Roksana Khalid, Katherine Bassil, Anna Lydia Svalastog, Minerva R. Velarde & Judy Illes

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

Ugghh 🤬

Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...

Looking forward to this book! His previous book, Race on the Brain, was a phenomenal and important read at the intersection of neuroscience and critical race theory.

A promotional flyer for the "Black In Neuro Seminar Series." It features a circular photo of Dr. Brielle Ferguson smiling, with long curly hair, standing outdoors with greenery in the background. Above the photo, bold text reads "Black In Neuro Seminar Series." Below, it lists her name: "Dr. Brielle Ferguson." The talk is titled “The Unlikely Neuroscientist: Creating Space and Finding My Focus” and will take place on Friday, May 2, 2025, at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET. The background is light yellow with orange and yellow graphic accents, and a "Black In Neuro" logo featuring a profile of a woman with an afro is on the right side.

Join us this Friday for our next #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries with @brielleryan.bsky.social ! 🧠✨
Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience!
📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET
Don't miss it! 🔥
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.

One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.

Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases? A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.

Estrogen “the female hormone” literally affects our entire being. Especially our “sense” of being. This is a well-written piece. 🧪🔬🧠🧬

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!

New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

This feels existential for US science:

To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work

(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)

No institution could *ever* comply.

“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥

On it.

Report your terminated NSF grant here:

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And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.

All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.

chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

So, it happened: my funding through the NIGMS K12 IRACDA@TAMU program has been terminated.

This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.

So sorry, this is infuriating

Ugh, so infuriating

😡😢 so infuriating

Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

Damn, this is devastating and cruel. My IRACDA postdoctoral experience was amazing and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 😡😢

This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.

If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.

They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.

We all need to respond.

#GeneralStrike

Mice, Ranked From Least to Most Transgender No matter gay straight or bi, lesbian, transgender mice.

In case you were wondering

www.them.us/story/transg...

Excellent resource here, including a slide deck, for teaching students about science funding! Any similar additional resources out there? I would love to add some graphics quantifying the consequences of the current attacks on science.

This is devastating! I was privileged to do an NSF REU as an undergraduate and it was a transformative experience for my career trajectory.

This is news to me and so disappointing. I’m sorry for the loss to our students and our scientific community 🧪

🚨 LOOKING FOR A STATE LEAD FOR MICHIGAN! 🧪🌎☀️

We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team!

Interested? Email us!

In my systems neuroscience class the week after next, we're going to discuss receptive fields and neural coding. Does anyone know of a basic (and ideally math-light) overview on rate codes, time codes, etc?

This-despite a stellar performance review weeks ago. This-despite receiving an NIMH Director's Award. This-despite being recruited SPECIFICALLY for my subject matter expertise in autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities, clinical trials, and community-based effectiveness research.

After two decades in academic research and advocacy, I was hired to help develop ways to get low-cost, evidence-based mental health care into schools and community settings-so ALL kids could access specialized treatment, not just those with private insurance or parents who could take time off work.

I didn't take the move to NIMH lightly-I went because I believed in shaping the future of autism and mental health research, impacting policy, and ensuring that science actually reaches the communities that need it most. And I LOVED my job. I found that same community in my division.

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

We are dealing with an authoritarian theory of executive power, and the authoritarianism isn’t limited in scope to minority and marginalized communities like it historically has been