Dr. Vincenzo Fiore

Grazie, Musk, per la forza e l'impegno che dimostri, quotidianamente, nel dimostrare quanto sia falso il mito che i miliardari siano dei geni.
Ogni volta che scrivi qualcosa, è un naufragio intellettuale nell'immensità dell'ignoranza.
Che cosa spettacolare.

Buon 25 Aprile!

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
if only Europe had a plan...

Starting Grant Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could b...

Personal grants that require an affiliation with EU (or EU-associate) institutions:
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erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...
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for early and mid-career PIs and established PIs. These require relocation in the EU (or EU-associate).
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Early-Career Awards – Funding for Early-Career Researchers | Wellcome The Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme provides research funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.

Personal grants that require an affiliation with a UK institutions:
wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
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for early and mid-career PIs. These offer long-lasting support, and require relocation in the UK.
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Wellcome Discovery Awards - Funding for Established Researchers | Grant funding | Wellcome This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could imp...

This requires a collaboration with a UK institution:
wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
For established PIs, with very flexible support in terms of duration and funding.
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Synergy Grant Proposals will be evaluated on the sole criterion of scientific excellence which, in the case the ERC Synergy Grants, takes on the additional meaning of outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect.

This ERC call requires a collaboration with a EU (or associate) institution:
erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...
This is low success rate/high budget. This is targeted for PIs who are very well established in their field.
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This might be helpful for all of the PIs (or postdocs aiming at PI positions) currently in the US.
*None of these calls require UK or EU citizenship to apply.*
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Columbia University caves to demands to restore $400m from Trump administration Measures include empowering security officers to arrest people, and reassigning control of Middle East department

A very sad day for research independence and academic freedom
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding Twelve EU capitals want programs to bring over American scholars.

A group of European countries is devising a strategy to poach researchers in the United States in response to American government cuts in education and research.

The Data Rescue Tracker The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help re...

This is becoming useful to a lot of researchers:
www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...

Yay!

Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protests

it is the irony of history for the neofascists to use antisemitism as a justification for their assault on freedom of speech and freedom of political association www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

Hudson on ice.

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Mmmh... I like the smell of trolls in the morning.

As an atheist, I think it is telling that the first act of defiance and resistance to the Trump administration came from Rev Mariann Budde, when she said “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now.”

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

I am looking for a Clinical research coordinator to perform data collection and study coordination within a project investigating behavior and brain activity (fMRI) in OCD. Starting date: early 2025.
If you are interested, please send a CV and letter of interest at vincenzo.fiore@mssm.edu

Elon Musk ha affondato una finanziaria (breve) in USA con un Tweet.
Miliardari sempre piu' fuori controllo.

Just a reminder to anybody reading that the only time in which hostages have been freed has been during the only brief ceasefire. Netanyahu, Trump and the other fascists like them do not care about the hostages.

take your trolling somewhere else. I hear Twitter is a good place for that.

Oh right, the president for peace.

A needed humanist position.
Restiamo umani.

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

This is validating
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

I have now a Lab Logo (v1): a messy jumble of symbols and references blended with the self-confidence of someone who has little to no understanding of graphic design.
The Computational PUNK Lab, or Computational Psychiatry of Unstable Neural Kinetics Laboratory.

Science is neither red nor blue Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...

I don't know whether this is delusion or misplaced wishful thinking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Even without knowledge of the past several decades of work in Philosophy of Science, it is obvious that any human endeavour is inescapably political in its origins, methods and objectives.

This will be a great meeting if it is anything like the two previous ones... Please register and submit symposia!