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A person | neuroscientist | memory wrangler | sex & gender | immigrant 🦘 | slow at marathons and triathlons 🏊♀️🚴🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️| previously @tronsonlab on Twitter/X Photo credit: Jeff Wilson.
Taylor swift “out of the woods” 🤣 it’s a great mid trail run song
18.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is sick.
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).
14.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 14 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.
14.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
19.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 7119 🔁 2046 💬 138 📌 46Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.
10.06.2025 23:08 — 👍 173 🔁 46 💬 7 📌 7
blue and purple ink painting with neuron and text
blue brain watercolor with text: No thoughts only algorithm
red blood cells watercolor
blue and gray neurons ink painting
Hey Bluesky! Let's sell a painting! #sciart #bsnm www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Originals, not prints, one of each
02.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 59 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website:
bit.ly/4k6tvwQ
bit.ly/4jYmu18
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution.
This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
💔 this is a huge loss for all of us. I’m so sorry
25.03.2025 22:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
25.03.2025 20:41 — 👍 429 🔁 128 💬 59 📌 26Signal-gate and the Social Security scandal show how tyranny works: the regime can do no wrong, and the people have no rights.
They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
1st they came for the immigrants with temporary legal status...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
20.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 23127 🔁 9781 💬 1620 📌 1245Letter from @columbiajournalism.bsky.social rightly notes that "punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship." There are over a million international students nationwide living in fear "that they are no longer free to speak their mind."
16.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 51 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 3so much about this is about control: control over families and children’s lives, control over women and their choices, control over who is considered an expert and what is considered expertise, control over what kind of jobs we get access to…
16.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 51 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0Scientists do not get paid for getting quoted in the newspaper about science.
People know this, right?
Last year I was quoted in about 30 media articles, and I received a grand total of $0 for this.
We do it because it’s important, not because we get paid.
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
This is a critical victory for trans rights.
