James Finley

Share Your “Why” In Support of a Strong National Institutes of Health United for Medical Research (UMR) is launching a campaign called "My Why" to highlight the critical role of NIH funding and its impact on the education and careers of researchers and scientists as wel...

Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it.

If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it.

Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science.

Fill out the form here:
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Our problem is not that our society does not sufficiently appreciate the economic return on investment in science. It is that we value education and knowledge generation only in economic terms.

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

Exciting start to this year's ASNR meeting! Looking forward to kicking off the first oral session in t-minus 30 min

At ASNR 2025 @asnrehab.bsky.social and want to go for a morning run? We have a fun group that meets at 6:30 am in the hotel lobby, please feel free to join us tomorrow!

The image is the cover page of our conference program. It features a photo of downtown Atlanta. The text at the top reads, "2025 Annual Meeting, April 23-25, 2025 | Atlanta, Georgia." The logo for the American Society of Neurorehabilitation appears at the bottom.

Making final preparations for your trip to Atlanta for #ASNR2025? Make sure to visit our website to browse the full conference program, check out the venue, and learn more about our sponsors and exhibitors!

www.asnr.com/files/2025%2...

#neurorehabilitation #rehabilitation #rehab #neuroscience

Big News: The Stand Up for Science movement is growing! Science has the power to solve urgent challenges, improve lives, and build a more just and equitable world. But that only happens when science is supported as a public good, defended, and held accountable by the people it serves. That’s why we’re expanding our mission. We’re launching Science for Good, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that science works for people—not power. This new initiative will strengthen and complement Stand Up for Science, which will continue to mobilize the fight against the attack on science in America. Stand Up for Science will mobilize the fight for science and democracy. SUFS is building a movement to defend academic freedom, increase the pursuit of and access to scientific knowledge, and restore and expand the institution of science as a public good. Because science is for everyone. Science for Good will drive both immediate impact and long-term change. We will support scientists and advocates at the intersection of science and society, amplify voices, organize campaigns, and build a shared vision for a future where science serves communities. Science belongs to all of us.

Announcing @sciforgood.bsky.social!

#standupforscience
#scienceforgood

With every new announcement, it feels like we've somehow entered a race to the bottom in education, science, and health.

NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year.

NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some inexperienced, no name guy won that year, right?

10/10 Highly recommend

Three years ago to the day. Still one of the best ever experiences in my life as a cycling fan.

This may be worth pushing back against, particularly if you can one or more reputable sources that make a case for the benefits of writing from a 1st person perspective.

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

Wow. I just had a discussion about this very issue last week. One of the underappreciated goals of all the recent anti-DEI propaganda is to make you feel as if those who support DEI efforts are on the fringe. Don't believe the hype.

This tracks. With the exception of written equations, abbreviations usually serve the author more than the reader.

Oof. My arch nemesis. Relative changes in the absence of baseline values. The key thing we'd like to know is how these values compare to what would be considered hazardous.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

This is incredibly upsetting. While the effects of these cancellations are clear to academics, we need to ensure that the wider public is not only aware of what's happening, but also understands how much damage this will cause to health and medical infrastructure, tech innovation, and higher ed.

Underline, bold, and italicize sporadically to help the reviewers understand what's most important.

What's always been frustrating about the indirect cost issue as a PI is that we rarely have any idea how the actual rate is calculated. I'd love to be more confident about the actual costs and how close the negotiated rate comes to covering these costs (both averaged across the institution).

Jumps into the line of fire

Perhaps the key question here is what should we, as biomedical researchers, be advocating for in the long run with regard to budgeting for direct/indirect costs?

Aside from assuming a constant NIH budget, the other core assumption here is that indirect rates are truly higher than what is strictly necessary for a given project. If anyone knows of a rigorous financial analysis of true f&a costs, please share.

One possible outcome of a reallocation is an increase in overall funding rates, and an increase in the number of funded investigators.

Setting aside my beliefs about the current administration's long-term goals, is there a potential world in which a reduction in NIH indirect rates could result in more biomedical research? If (big if) the overall NIH budget remains constant, more funding could be allocated toward direct costs.

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Thanks for the shout-out @asnrehab.bsky.social! If you're reading this in the US, please reach out to your representatives to encourage them to support science and defend the federal workers who are critical contributors to the scientific enterprise.

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

"Now you're under control. And now you do what they told ya."