Lindsay De Biase

ACOG statement: “Recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations significantly impact ACOG’s program goals, policy positions and ability to provide timely and evidence-based guidance and recommendations for care”

OB-GYN group walks away from federal funding - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis The American College of Obstetricians has stopped accepting federal government funding, which supports its programs and contracts, the medical society confirmed to Becker’s on Aug. 1.  “Recent changes...

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“The American College of Obstetricians has stopped accepting federal government funding”

Flyer for the Black In Neuro Conference in-person events. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. In-person events are listed below. Wednesday, September 10 in person events: #PictureABINScientist Poster Session, 3:00-5:00 PM and #BlackInNeuroFamily Social, 7PM to Late. In-person events Thursday, September 11: #BINAwards and Farewell, 4:00-5:00 PM. Below this reads: Black In Neuro Members can register to attend #BINW25 In-Person! All times in Eastern Standard Time. The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner and to the right reads "#5YearsofBIN".

Flyer for the Black In Neuro Conference on Wednesday, September 10. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Sessions listed include: a welcome session 9:00-9:30AM, #BINSeminarSeries lecture 9:30-10:45AM, a NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora symposium 11:00AM-12:00PM, and an #ExploringBIN professional development workshop 1:30-3:00PM. Register to attend #BINW25 Live Streamed Events! All times in Eastern Standard Time. The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner and to the right reads "#5YearsofBIN".

Flyer for the Black In Neuro Conference on Thursday, September 11. The background is a soft peach with vibrant geometric patterns in mustard yellow, coral, teal, and pink at the top border. A bold orange "Black In Neuro Conference" title is centered. Sessions listed include: #NeuroRacism Symposium 9:30-11:00AM, a #BINSeminarSeries Lecture #BlackInNeuroFutures Keynote Address 11:15-12:30PM, a #BINSeminarSeries Lecture 1:00-3:00PM, and an #BlackInNeuroAltCareers Symposium 3:00-4:00PM. Register to attend #BINW25 Live Streamed Events! All times in Eastern Standard Time. The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner and to the right reads "#5YearsofBIN".

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say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Trump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative thinktanks It's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States.

And here’s a piece we published on our blog, with another related take on why Trump and Project 2025 are blowing up US science.

Thank you for this important article @alecmac.bsky.social and @propublica.org

“More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death. Nearly a quarter of adults received mental health treatment in 2023…. We know these things because the federal government collects, organizes and shares the data behind them”

“The survival of that data is now in doubt”

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

www.propublica.org/article/trum... “Every year …workers in agencies that many of us have never heard of have been amassing the statistics that undergird decision-making at all levels of government and inform the judgments of business leaders, school administrators and medical providers nationwide.”

We study microglia (brain’s immune cells) and how they could combat cognitive decline, neurodegeneration, and psychiatric challenges after early life stress. If you know donors who may be interested in supporting this type of work, please send them our way www.debiaselab.org/support-our-...

My lab’s major NIH grant was among those blocked in the attack on UCLA. Because our lab website discusses inclusivity? Because this grant had a diversity-based supplement? Simply because I work at UCLA? Who knows. Feeling a strange mix of unsurprised, furious, and numb.

My quote of the day

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden
UCLA basketball coach
National Champions 1964, 1965, 1967-1973, 1975
Longest winning streak 88 games

Advancements in treatments for leukemia, stroke victims, paralysis, prostate cancer, PTSD, brain aneurysms -- as well as water filtration, nanotechnology, sustainable fuel and batteries. The list goes on and on. Cutting funding to universities like UCLA affects us all. tdg.ucla.edu/industry-inv...

Mapping molecules of an unsung brain cell Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing component that completes for the first time an atlas of the entire nervous sy...

Fred Hutch researchers created a gene-expression map of glial cells in tiny worms, adding the missing component that completes an atlas of the entire nervous system of a multicellular adult animal at the molecular level. @singhvilabglia.bsky.social @manusetty.bsky.social bit.ly/47353c3

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Farm to faculty: How federal research funding changes lives and boosts Minnesota's economy When I was growing up on a farm near Cambridge, I never met a scientist. I didn’t know what scientific research was or how people became scientists. I graduated from

From farm to faculty. Writing home to his community in Minnesota, Prof Jim Magnuson explains that the powerhouse behind U.S. research is the infrastructure, paid by “indirect costs”. “This system has made U.S. science the strongest in the world.” 🧪🏠

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My heart goes out to families struggling due to these changes.

AND as Lisa writes:
“We should also ask what comes next. Will it be withholding access to PrEP, the medication that can prevent HIV? ADHD treatments? Antidepressants? Medication abortion? HPV vaccines? Childhood vaccines in general?”

“this is a nonpartisan panel whose members have undergone rigorous vetting to ensure they have the scientific chops to evaluate complex evidence.”

I hate that this is just swept aside with the accusation that they are “too woke”

An Agreement That Settles Nothing BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The Agreement between the federal government and Columbia University announced on July 24, 2025, has been presented as a settlement of Title VI violat…

academeblog.org/2025/07/29/a... Columbia faculty on the agreement:

“One-off deals that result from coercion are not only antithetical to the rule of law, but also implicate the university in corrupt and authoritarian practices”

Astrocyte specification in the mouse septum is shaped by both developmental origin and local signals - Nature Neuroscience The relative contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic factors to astrocyte heterogeneity is unknown. Using heterotropic transplantation of septal astrocytes with distinct lineage origins, we show that ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to Corey Harwell’s team on this deep dive into factors that regulate astrocyte development!

Human brain vascular multi-omics elucidates disease-risk associations Reid et al. develop MultiVINE-seq to map thousands of non-coding disease variants to genes in human brain vascular cells. Cerebrovascular disease variants compromise vessel integrity, whereas Alzheime...

Human brain vascular multi-omics elucidates disease-risk associations @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

We're hiring a Digital Engagement Manager! 🧪 Learn more about the job opening and application process: laskerfoundation.org/about-us/car...

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social is looking for a Director of Engagement and Marketing to engage neuroscientists with our award-winning content. For more information, please visit: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

#neuroskyence

The glycolytic reaction PGAM restrains Th17 pathogenicity and Th17-dependent autoimmunity Glucose metabolism is a critical regulator of T cell function, largely thought to support their activation and effector differentiation. Here, we inve…

Gratifyingly, our findings complement and corroborate a very cool recent story from @kuchroolab.bsky.social showing that PGAM activity negatively regulates pathogenic Th17 cells www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Uridine phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes | EMBO reports imageimageMetastatic primary tumours upregulate Upp1 in neutrophils, which elevates circulating uracil. UPP1-expressing neutrophils accumulate in the lung where they inhibit CD8+ T cells, promote fibronectin deposition and support metastatic niche ...

And the original publication is here:
Uridine phosphorylase-1 supports metastasis by altering immune and extracellular matrix landscapes | EMBO reports share.google/JXMzGDRzpl0E...

AMAZING place to work/live.

The Numbers Don't Lie: HSI Funding Delivers Results Evidence-based research demonstrates the ROI on the federal government’s investment in HSIs. When colleges receive HSI grants, there is a positive effect on Hispanic students.

HSI funding isn’t reverse racism—it’s closing opportunity gaps. Evidence shows HSI grants boost Hispanic & non-Hispanic student success, including big gains in STEM degrees. Investing in equity works. #HigherEd #HSIFunding #StudentSuccess www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/arti...

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Lab manager position 💪🏻

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Call for Neuroethics Essays The International Neuroethics Society (INS) and the International Youth Neuroscience Association (IYNA) are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the Neuroethics Essay Contest in 2025. Now in...

(1/2) Neuroethics Essay Contest deadline approaching! High school, secondary school, post-secondary students, and postdoctoral fellows or early-career trainees are invited to submit by July 31. Cash prizes!

See contest guidelines. ⬇️

#neuroethics #neurosociety @neuroethics.bsky.social

How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this…

Computational sciences can offer a unique opportunity for democratized access and participation, but we are currently falling far short of that goal, writes @neuromatch.bsky.social's @meganakpeters.bsky.social and Bradley Roberts‬‬‬‬.

#neuroskyence

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