Talia Lerner

Indeed....

Is it true? Can it be true?

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.

Playing Uno on a picnic blanket

Flying a kite by the edge of the lake

Yard games on the grass

Lerner Lab picnic by the lake 🥰

Added you to my Women in Neuroscience list 😊 - welcome!

Ah thanks! Tips about getting it into solution? Also, how careful one needs to be about ambient light. I'm looking at your methods now but any additional detail is great! (I can have my postdoc email you)

Has anyone out there used RuBi-GABA and have tips to share? #neuroskyence help!

Bravo!

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.

This will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.

For the first time in forever ... Leaving on vacation and NOT taking my laptop. Even convinced @noranewcombe.bsky.social to do it, too 😉

Work will (probably) be there when we get back. Byeee 🧳✈️ 💅🏼

Congrats to Lerner Lab grad student Nkatha Mwenda on her Best Poster award at #IBNS2025!!! #proudPI #neuroskyence
I'm sad to have missed this conference - Norway looks 🤩

Great review, thank you!

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Very VERY excited to see this addition to the SCIMaP project.
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social

BOTTOM LINE: Proposed NIH cuts are estimated to result in ~50b in economic losses and over 200k job losses.

But hey! How are those egg prices??

scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Madami stuns Coumo in mayoral primary upset

This should be a very loud wake-up call for the Dem party

An Interview With A Psychiatric Nurse Whose Research Funding Was Cut By The Trump Administration | Defector Laura Mata López was born and raised in a low-income community in San José, Costa Rica. Some of her earliest memories were of the impact poverty and a lack of support for mental health had on her neig...

I have been meaning to share this story all week (but it has been busy)...

[Free with registration]

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Congrats! An awesome list to see!

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I wrote a quick-start guide for people to replicate this across the country. It was, in our experience, a very effective way to get real action in a short amount of time.

People are willing to talk to scientists! And when you provide everything, they are happy to contact their reps too. Try it!

Dopamine Decoded: 5 Myths, 10 Facts What does dopamine actually do? A neuroscientist breaks down the science and clears up common misconceptions.

Dopamine Decoded: 5 Myths, 10 Facts | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/betw...

With yours truly 😊🧪👩🏼‍🔬

Judge Young is beyond livid — and fuming. He has another hearing that was supposed to begin minutes ago, and he's still going.

"I've never seen a record where racial discrimination is so palpable. I've been on the bench for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this."

Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

STAT story about the ruling

www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

The NIH's scientifically illegitimate leadership is acting illegally. There is no negotiated path to restoring funding that does not further degrade universities and undermine science. Courts and elections...that's it.

#NoKings rally in Chicago

We the people serve no king 👑🚫

A crowd out in Chicago!

#NoKings
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Congress shows first signs of resisting Trump’s plans to slash science budgets House panel rejects cuts to agricultural research, and Senators express doubts about cuts to NIH and forest research

🧪Good News!
A key committee in the House of Representatives rejected the administration’s plan to make deep cuts to research programs at the USDA; the leader of the Senate’s appropriations panel called the 40% cut to the NIH’$47 billion budget “disturbing.”
www.science.org/content/arti...

Lerner Lab farewell to AJ Miller-Hansen, who is heading off to San Francisco to Robert Edwards lab at UCSF - we will miss you a lot, AJ!

p.s. look out for AJ's very cool motor learning data as he finishes analysis over the next few months 😉

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Communicating with Congress – FABBS

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Supporting the training of new scientists is getting harder and harder. The United States is facing a lost generation of science if we cannot work things out soon. 💔