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Kurt Fraser

@kurtfraser.bsky.social

Brain scientist, tall human, dog owner in the twin cities

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At least yours has a number it seems! Mine is in limbo just as R0100000-00 in the system with no contact or anything. Chalked it up to general chaos but maybe given my request to go to a now canceled SS they have just delayed processing

03.03.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like that they seem to have kept but renamed NMB but left BRLE as is lol

03.03.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No clue this seems related to originally CSR restructuring from years back?

03.03.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also this probably explains why my R01 in for cycle 1 has yet to receive a number or relevant information in a month with CSR redoing all these study sections

03.03.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Evaluating Panel Quality in Review (ENQUIRE) New | NIH Center for Scientific Review

See public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...

03.03.2026 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Evaluating Panel Quality in Review (ENQUIRE) New | NIH Center for Scientific Review

They are going from 10 to 15 study sections (surprising) - public.csr.nih.gov/EvaluationIn...

03.03.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Friday

28.02.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the point anymore

26.02.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep forgetting that this app is designed to beam the horrors directly into your brain

25.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."

To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

25.02.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 780    πŸ” 386    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 56
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Frontiers | Regional heterogeneity of striatal cholinergic interneurons: setting the stage for diverse behavioral repertoires Cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) constitute only a small fraction of striatal neurons, yet their dense axonal arborizations and widespread acetylcholine relea...

As promised at the #GRC Basal Ganglia, here is our recent review on striatal cholinergic heterogeneity. I hope people find it useful and inspiring.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

24.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

it makes me more sad that i know what this lol

23.02.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kelly bag When Robert Dumas, son-in-law of Émile Hermès, creates the ladies' bag with straps in the 1930s, Hermès enters the era of boldness and modernism. Yet, its destiny does not end there. To make it a lege...

Be glad you don’t know - 30k starting value for a tiny purse whose clasps don’t work so you walk around with it open all the time. Status icon for all the real housewives etc www.hermes.com/us/en/conten...

23.02.2026 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Dr. Zachary Pennington and Dr. Milan Valyear

Photo of Dr. Zachary Pennington and Dr. Milan Valyear

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. @zachtpennington.bsky.social and Dr. @milanium.bsky.social as Assistant Professors in our Behavioural Neuroscience area and members of the @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social.

Read their Q&As: psych.ubc.ca/news

20.02.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

TGIF am i right

20.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706430v1

19.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

😩

18.02.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Folks, -80 we have may have already bit the bullet and we need to evaluate options. What is the hivemind consensus of best -80 that doesn't die after 1 year and also wont cost me 50K.

17.02.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives In recent weeks, scores of immigrant communities have been targeted by ICE, resulting in arrests and even swift deportations. They are mostly happening under the radar but they are upending communitie...

"ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives"

Harrisburg, Scranton, Erie, Norristown. Even if ICE leaves Minnesota, they still need to be stopped

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/02...

14.02.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

12.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13862    πŸ” 3454    πŸ’¬ 302    πŸ“Œ 132

could you email me the BBR paper? For whatever reason we don't have access to that journal here. This is a topic I admittedly still struggle to grasp

12.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

07.02.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder there are still 2000 active goons destroying our city and kidnapping civilians to such an extreme extent that kids cant even go to school normally

06.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Boyfriend delivers on this front but just isn’t the same

05.02.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota."

Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota."

This presser worked like a charm.

04.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3890    πŸ” 1288    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 49

i have to spend 30 minutes ahead of every teams meeting remembering how the god damn thing works, forgetting logins, not understanding the tabs....cursed app

04.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

04.02.2026 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4344    πŸ” 679    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 24

Loving this evolution in Pharm content

04.02.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

03.02.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes

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