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Spamming you with this knowledge of a tariff waiver for scientific instrumentation which you can apply for retroactively! bsky.app/profile/sara...

Haha!!!! Honestly I do feel like having spent so many hours troubleshooting in the past, it’s much less painful knowing I’ve overcome it before!

So I would wholeheartedly agree 💪

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Senate Appropriations has a modest *INCREASE* in NIH funding but it will need to be recconciled with the house cut. If you have not been calling your representative of late now would be a good time to start again
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

Gym knowledge is also surprisingly helpful for mentoring…

We talk about being proud of our “gains” and not comparing ourselves to others, because everybody has different experiences and strengths/weaknesses

And we strive for “failure” everyday bc we are pushing ourselves to the limit to grow 💪

I recently started exercising so welcome to my new era of gym analogies 🏋🏻‍♀️

Using genAI as a student/postdoc is like going to the gym and having a robot lift the weights for you

sure, the weights get lifted but do you get stronger?

Flyer of the SYNAPSES symposium call for applications.

📢 Calling all senior neuro postdocs: SYNAPSES brings postdocs from around the world to Yale to share their work during an in-person symposium on October 23, 2025. Apply today to present your research, talk with faculty members in 1:1s, & interact with Yale postdocs! 🧠🧪 Deadline Sept 7. #neuroskyence

Tomorrow SCOTUS quietly decides if Trump administration can illegally cut grants tied to DEIA. This and today's bombshell announcing no new NIH grants is an orchestrated assault. We need to scream from rooftops.

How exciting!!!! Congrats!

We are so thrilled for this first Stories of WiN in-person event. We are gaging interest of topics to discuss and the demand for an online streaming option. Please fill out the form if you want to provide feedback on this. If you are all in no matter what, just save the date!!

‘Paper accepted.’ Never too old to feel the contentment elicited by those two words.

Thank you for carrying the torch to the finish line! More than ever, it’s important to stand by our values as scientists!

This is unfortunate:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

If people have suggestions about how to get creatively scientifically inspired in these challenging times, I'm all ears.

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open!

📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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This stopped me cold. I just keep reading the headline. It seems literally impossible to me, that this thing that cut through an entire generation has an answer now.

It's impossible to convey how terrifying those years were, how much loss there was, how much pain. My heart. It feels like a miracle.

This is a man-made humanitarian disaster that can end at any moment.

Any leader who refuses to stand up and speak out against this crime against humanity is a coward, disgrace, and unfit for office.

LET AID IN NOW. bsky.app/profile/prem...

85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity.

There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

Director Vought: We write to ask you to fully implement the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, including funds appropriated for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The continuing resolution supp011s NIH initiatives across a range of critical research areas­cancer, cardiovascular disease, rare pediatric disorders, and more. These vital efforts are not only necessary to Make America Healthy Again, but also have a direct impact on American families, biomedical innovation, our economy, and competing with Communist China. We are concerned by the slow disbursement rate of FY25 NIH funds, as it risks undermining critical research and the thousands of American jobs it supports. Suspension of these appropriated funds - whether formally withheld or functionally delayed - could threaten Americans' ability to access better treatments and limit our nation's leadership in biomedical science. It also risks inadve11ently severing ongoing NIH-funded research prior to actionable results. We share your commitment to ensuring NIH funds are used responsibly and not diverted to ideological or unaccountable programs. We are confident Secretary Kennedy and Director Bhattacharya are well positioned to uphold gold standard research by ensuring that NIH awards are grounded in transparency, scientific merit, and a clear alignment with national interests. Our shared goal is to restore public trust in the NIH precisely because its work is focused on results, accountability, and real-world impact. Withholding or suspending these funds would jeopardize that trust and hinder progress on critical health challenges facing our nation. Ultimately, this is about finding cures and seeing them through to fruition. We respectfully request that you ensure the timely release of all FY25 NIH appropriations in accordance with congressional intent. Doing so will ensure continued momentum in curing disease, supp011ing American innovation, and delivering result…

Sincerely, Katie Boyd Britt John Boozman Shelly Moore Capito Bill Cassidy Susan Collins Lindsey O. Graham David H. McCormick Mitch McConnel Jerry Moran Lisa Murkowski Thom Tillis Todd Young Dan Sullivan Tim Scott

From @aaas.org check-in with Sudip Parikh: a letter by 14 Republican senators urge the Office of Management and Budget to release NIH funding. If this includes your state (AL, ME, WV, SC, KY, KS, AR, PA, NC, IN, AK), Sudip recommends contacting & thanking them for being American science leaders.

On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to grant them a stay on the Massachusetts vs Kennedy/ APHA vs NIH ruling. This decision will occur on the shadow docket, with no formal hearing.

We know 14 republican senators are ready to break with their party to support NIH. Tell them this is important. Talk to family. Talk to friends. Repost this video. Don’t let the Trump destroy science. Join us to save it.

Yeah, it doesn’t inspire confidence that the Supreme Court has sided with this corrupt administration every single time so far.

But, we had 14 Republicans break ranks to speak on behalf of NIH this week.

And that was also a first.

Is that mint chocolate chip? Yum!!!

Week 27 July 21-25, 2028 - dinner parties at the end of the world

Each Friday, I summarize what happened this week in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 27:

- Columbia’s $220M settlement
- upheaval at USDA, ag research & Forest Service worries
- more FEMA cuts
- but $5B unfrozen at Dept Ed, some hope on indirects

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Wooohooo congrats!!

Quoting myself is not the norm, but today I am again thinking this.