Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁

I see a lot of people saying "I hope she sues" and she can do whatever she wants and most of all, I hope she lives her life. I hope she finds plenty of moments of beauty. I hope she gets to snuggle her cat in the mornings and breathe.

After a few years of benign neglect I am rebuilding bionames.org, which is a database of 5.4 million taxonomomic names for animals, linked to half a million DOIs and 278K PDFs. Dream is for every species name to be linked to its original publication using a persistent identifier #PID

Ten Black Scientists That Science Teachers Should Know About Help your students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields by providing them with diverse role models.

STEM Black History Fact 9/28

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright pioneered chemotherapy techniques and helped establish personalized cancer treatment as a scientific discipline.

January 28, 1939. When Philly discovered pizza: “What is pizza? Well, it’s just a big open-faced pie, filled with tomatoes, anchovies, muzzarella cheese, peppers, or what have you — and baked while you wait.” #history #NationalPizzaDay #skystorians

A new kalium channelrhodopsin from our collaboration with Wan-Chen Lin's lab at the IBMS Academia Sinica! Strong suppression of axonal excitation and glutamate release from the long-range CA3 input for the critical tests at our hands :-)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

No excuses

Assistant Professor - Biochemistry Assistant Professor - Biochemistry

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social

Principal Research Scientist Remote

Cool/important job alert:

Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity

Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

Labeled cortical neurons projecting to the preBötC, the central pattern generator for breathing

A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the

preBötzinger Complex:

substrates for multimodal breathing control

www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

A statement from the "Science and Technology Action Committee" thanking President Trump for signing the appropriations bill that includes funding for the NIH.

I was shocked to see this statement from a group of representatives from the American scientific establishment...

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I've been singing this to myself all day

I really did just wanna highlight everything 🥺—he was such a brilliant writer and thinker—he made the world a better place and me a better teacher. Hoping for peace and healing for his family ✌🏻

i'm calling it early - this is one of the greatest posts ever made on bsky dot app

Fantastic branding for a conference on the peripheral nervous system #NoBrainer 🧪

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Important thread below by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and worth reading all the way through!

THERE IS NO SCIENCE-AS-USUAL UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM. "​The new Nazi commissar wasted no time on the amenities. He immediately announced that Jews would be forbidden to enter university premises and would be dismissed without salary on March 15; this was something no one had thought possible despite the Nazis' loud anti-Semitism. Then he launched into a tirade of abuse, filth, and four-letter words such as had been heard rarely even in the barracks and never before in academia. He pointed his finger at one department chairman after another and said, "You either do what I tell you or we'll put you into a concentration camp." There was silence when he finished; everybody waited for the distinguished biochemist-physiologist. The great liberal got up, cleared his throat, and said, "Very interesting, Mr. Commissar, and in some respects very illuminating; but one point I didn't get too clearly. Will there be more money for research in physiology?" ​The meeting broke up shortly thereafter with the commissar assuring the scholars that indeed there would be plenty of money for "racially pure science." A few of the professors had the courage to walk out with their Jewish colleagues, but most kept a safe distance from these men who only a few hours earlier had been their close friends. I went out sick unto death—and I knew that I was going to leave Germany within forty-eight hours." ​SOURCE: PETER DRUCKER FOR THE ATLANTIC, "THE MONSTER AND THE LAMB" ​SCIENCE NEEDS DEMOCRACY.

This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech.
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Index of Inspiring Black Scientists | Wiley The Inspiring Black Scientists Index is a curated database celebrating diverse contributions to science. Join us in promoting education and collaboration.

Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Very happy to share a new paper in
@npp-journal.bsky.social I thought I knew what would predict escalation of cocaine use. Well, I was wrong. After tracking behavior daily for weeks, the answer turned out to be the opposite of my prediction, and it changed how I see addiction.

How to be a multidisciplinary neuroscientist Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that.

Neuroscience subfields are often siloed. Embracing an integrative approach during training can help change that, @austinacoley.bsky.social explains.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Students examining brain specimens and asking amazing research questions with our all volunteer Northwest Noggin participants 🤓 JOIN US 😍 #nogginfest is SATURDAY MARCH 7, 1-9pm @ Leaven community center in Portland, Oregon 🎸🧠🎨🥳 Make art! Enjoy music! Discover cutting edge research! Ask questions! Hold BRAINS! This is the largest student-run, accessible, FREE, all ages, public celebration of music, art, brain research and interdisciplinary neuroscience in the Pacific Northwest!

Grant denied 🥹

#nogginfest LIVES 😍

JOIN US 3/7 🤓👉🏼 nwnoggin.org/event/noggin...

@danafoundation.bsky.social @ibroorg.bsky.social JUST said nope - ironically while we talked noggins & art in high school 🫠

But we're scrappy & will make it work (plus failure is essential to learning (& life 😉))

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Few do it better than the @neorsd.org

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joshua Faskowitz, Peter A. Bandettini, and Javier Gonzalez-Castillo:

Mapping high-amplitude fMRI edge time series events across space and time

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Mark your calendars, Science Jawns🧪🦅!

🗓️ On 3/5: We are hosting a teach-in discussing the state of American science one year into the Trump Administration.

🗓️ On 3/7: We are once again hosting Philly's @standupforscience.bsky.social Day of Action Rally and March.

Reasons to Stay - Mental Health Reasons to Stay is a suicide prevention project reaching people at difficult moments through anonymous letters written by volunteers. Each letter on this site was written by a real person and delivere...

Things are dark and hard right now for many. I found this really wonderful website and I wanted to share.

People write beautiful letters for others who need some TLC and to be reminded why the world needs them.

Enjoy and please share widely.

www.reasonstostay.co.uk

This is part of an ongoing assault on higher ed and academic freedom that @penamerica.bsky.social has documented in their new report, "America's Censored Campuses." Join the Feb 12th #DefendResearch webinar with PEN to learn more. www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

Got quoted in the NYT today, ate tacos for dinner. Good day.