Ricardo Mostany

Karel Svoboda and Jay Shendure elected to National Academy of Medicine The honor recognizes leaders who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and made lasting contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health

Congratulations to Karel Svoboda and @jshendure.bsky.social on their election to the National Academy of Medicine (@nam.edu)! Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in health and medicine. #NAMmtg

More on their journeys to this achievement: alleninstitute.org/news/karel-s...

Latest from the lab. Fantastic work by talented Irene Fernández @irenefu.bsky.social Send us your feedback!

Phil Knight, Ex-Nike Chief, and His Wife Pledge $2 Billion to Oregon Cancer Center Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.

Phil Knight, a co-founder of Nike, and his wife, Penny Knight, will give $2 billion to the cancer research center at Oregon Health & Science University, a gift the institution billed as the largest single donation to a university in the U.S.

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here:

research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc.

Good luck!

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training “I am frightened for the state of the future of our field if this isn't reversed rapidly,” says Joshua Gordon, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and former director of the National…

Neuroscience research and training has taken a $323 million hit in the form of grants rescinded by the U.S. NIH, according to an analysis by @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

a gray italian greyhound wearing a thick, brown fleece turtleneck sits in a car. she looks at you with large brown eyes and a grimace. her teeth bared in embarrassment and maybe even disgust. for some reason her fashion advice holds so much weight.

This is Luna. She didn't realize you were planning on wearing that outside of the house. 13/10

Retrograde and anterograde trans-synaptic viral tracing of neuronal connections reveals local and distant effects of ischemic stroke on dendritic spines - Myrthe Van Sprengel, Jenna Butterworth, Patri... Focal stroke leads to complex neurological disturbances with variable recovery. One explanation for this variability is that stroke disrupts local and remote ne...

Happy to share new paper from MSc grads Myrthe and Jenna. We asked the question, when part of the brain dies during stroke, what happens to local and distant cortical neurons that innervate the stroke site (in S1 cortex) or those that receive outputs? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Home - The Estrogens, Cardiometabolic Health, and Female Cognitive Aging Program Project at Tulane University The Estrogens, Cardiometabolic Health, and Female Aging (ECHFA) program at Tulane University seeks to determine how estrogens impact the brain when healthy and under disease conditions. Results will ...

This study is part of the "Estrogens, Cardiometabolic Health, and Female Cognitive Aging" PPG award our laboratory is funded by www.estrogenppg.tulane.edu

Check out the latest updates on Zach Plumley's @plumley.bsky.social project and give us feedback before we submit! Kudos to him and the rest of the team, including Irene Fernandez Ugidos @irenefu.bsky.social and Jennifer Calvo-Iglesias.

The lab surprised me with a personalized cake for an early celebration. They are awesome!

This is figure 1, which shows the movement patterns for sea lion Ronan and human subject 08 to a 120 bpm metronome.

A study in Scientific Reports finds that a Californian sea lion trained to move in time with a metronome can keep a beat better than some humans. go.nature.com/4lY7mlU 🧪

Speak up! Important to register widespread opposition to transitioning NIH to funding ideologically-motivated science. If you want advancements in knowledge and eventual cures, it is critical that research is steered by knowledgeable scientists, not political appointees

2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions-Kapahi lab - Buck Institute - Career Page The Kapahi lab seeks 2 postdocs to lead innovative projects exploring how circadian clocks & nutrient-responsive pathways influence eye & neuronal degeneration.

Kapahi Lab at Buck Institute for Research on Aging is recruiting 2 postdoccs to lead innovative projects exploring how circadian clocks and nutrient-responsive pathways influence eye and neuronal degeneration. For more info and to apply:
buckinstitute.applytojob.com/apply/xz17Kn... #postdocjobs

Arizona dog found a missing 2-year-old on his nightly patrol that a local rescue team spent 16 hours searching for. 15/10

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Harvard defies Trump's demands and risks $9 billion in federal funding Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to receive almost $9 billion in funding.

Harvard University says it won't comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as a condition for it to receive almost $9 billion in funding.

Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

Women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as men - but scientists do not know why - Nature Medicine Changes to the female brain during menopause, together with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk.

Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men. A feature in Nature Medicine reports how the changes to the female brain during menopause, along with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk. #medsky #alzsky 🧪

✨ Introducing a new #SOTA action recognition large multimodal language model: #LLaVAction!

By @shaokaiye.bsky.social Haozhe Qi, @trackingskills.bsky.social and me!

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2503.18712

🤖 mmathislab.github.io/llavaction/

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How is protesting Tesla domestic terrorism but attacking the Capitol building is not? 🤔

Must watch speech by neuroscientist Kailyn Price at a HHS rally protesting funding cuts to science.

"Cutting indirect costs is like telling a football team to work with only the players.

No lights for the field, no physical therapists for the players, no water for the showers."

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)

I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Sort of interesting to see a fancy academic society send a letter to membership about the IDC cut when their response to NIH cutting everything related to diversity was 🦗🦗.

Estimated Single Year Loss of NIH Funding if 15% Indirect Cost Rate is Imposed Based on analysis of 2024 NIH funding data. Sums are totals of losses in funding to programs if indirect costs had been capped at 15%

Helpful table to determine how much your University or health system is set to lose if the NIH indirect cap is suddenly lowered to 15%. For SJSU it is $374k which is on the smaller end but devastating considering our other budget issues. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/

El promotor del centro internacional de investigación en neurociencia de España dimite por la falta de ambición del proyecto El investigador Juan Lerma presenta su dimisión por discrepancias con el CSIC y algunos referentes internacionales que habían decidido incorporarse ya no lo harán “por la deriva del proyecto”

Juan Lerma, el promotor del centro internacional de investigación en neurociencia de España, dimite por la falta de ambición del proyecto . Algunos referentes internacionales que habían decidido incorporarse ya no lo harán “por la deriva del proyecto”