Jess Verpeut

Cerebellar GRC with the best colleagues 🧠🧪🐄

The cerebellum is so understudied and the work that has been presented has been incredible.

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Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules

Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

I’m so sorry, that is awful.

Congratulations to all the ASU 2025 graduates!

Showcased here are Carlos and Mariela who will be off to:

Carlos Quintero- Michigan pharmacology PhD program

Mariela Bejan- Neurodegeneration computational fellow (NDCF)

Congratulations to our Barrett honors graduates!! 🧪

They are off to: Mayo, Tufts, Umeå University, and NYUAD!!

WAESO 🧪 (Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities) was just completely canceled. 33+ years and a priceless impact on future generations of scientists gone…😞

We celebrated our graduating seniors (8!) and all lab accomplishments over pizza. Our 8 graduating seniors have obtained positions at various graduate programs and medical school (more posts to come)!! 🎉 🧪

Speaking up works - keep marching and contacting your senators and representatives

Another incredibly disappointing blow

Congratulations - beautiful
Paper!

My amazing honors thesis students at the ASU Barrett Honors Symposium. 🧪

How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These graphs of dramatically reduced NIH funding this year are so depressing to look at. This administration is out for revenge on intelligence. #SaveOurScience

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Let’s go phoenix!!

🥼 Janelia researchers led by @boazmohar.bsky.social @nspruston.bsky.social @rhodamine110.bsky.social & @svoboda314.bsky.social @alleninstitute.bsky.social have developed a new imaging tool that maps brain-wide changes in neuronal connections. 🧠

🔗 www.janelia.org/news/new-ima...

Amid NIH upheaval, how to keep sex as a biological variable Even in the absence of formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold our colleagues accountable for SABV practices.

I wrote a piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... With the fate of NIH-funded research uncertain, it is extra important that the work we do now is most likely to benefit everyone. Adhering to SABV in the lab and in grant & paper review is the right thing to do.

To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...

Here at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out.

tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed.

From me and science colleagues:
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

'Polio, bad': Bill Nye the Science Guy rebukes RFK Jr. over vaccine views Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

“We really try in planetary science to stay away from the politics. But man, it’s really hard right now — this is so extreme.” - Bill Nye

15,000 people were in attendance in Tempe, Arizona tonight for our Fighting Oligarchy tour with Bernie Sanders and AOC.

“The word ‘science’ is in the US Constitution."
Bill Nye gives a passionate speech at the #STATBreakthrough Summit.

overwhelmed is an understatement...

ChatGPT - Palatable Reviews documents for DEIA language and provides ways to change to be compliant with new guidelines

Someone developed a ChatGPT tool to flag "DEI language" and give suggestions on how to make the grant "compliant with new guidelines". It's actually quite good, but such a weird sign of the times. #academicsky #medsky

YouTube video by Dr. Michael M. Crow University research is the "invisible hand" in advancing innovation

Academics are the invisible hand of innovation 🧪

youtu.be/qqfk7-3iN-U

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.


https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

 “ Without facts, we're really just in the dark with regard to what the consequences of our actions are ... science really gives us a way to move forward and build that prosperous future that I think we all want to see.” —Mike Wong

In today's episode, we check in on the Stand Up for Science rallies that spread to 32 cities.

Listen here 🎧:

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Bill Nye at the Stand Up for Science rally in DC:

"What are you afraid of? What is it about the process of science, modern medicine, caring for our neighbors, or Women's History Month, that you all find so scary?"

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As #Trump #Musk #Memoli & #Vought destroy the National Institutes of Health remember these facts. What they are doing is a crime. Thanks to @amfarofficial.bsky.social.