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What kinds of support do early-career researchers need? Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.

We want to hear from you! @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social are teaming up to better understand how to support early-career researchers. Make sure your voice is heard.

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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

"The Mamdani campaign’s identity is the work of a tiny design co-op called Forge, and specifically its designer Aneesh Bhoopathy, formerly of Queens and now living in Philadelphia" — a little bit Bollywood, a little bit bodega :)

a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. he’s wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. he’s got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

the best thing I’ve read all year— my fav writer, writing about one of my fav topics 🖤

Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.

"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

Seasonal reminder: thousands of college students are currently selling very gently used items on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and it's a great time to pick up stuff like a TV, office chair, desk, and other home goods

NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.

“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Inspired by others on here I wrote a short op-ed in support of federal research funding for a local newspaper in small town PA where I grew up

So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now—

—While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

Opinion: Shut down—don't sell—the Atlanta City Detention Center Doctor Mark Spencer argues that the City should shut down its jail and invest in efforts to reduce jail populations.

excellent piece on the need to shut down the Atlanta city jail immediately and to make good on the promise to transform the building into a community resource center instead!

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New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.

❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*

*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.

HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

Dear Decaturish - Public science matters to Tucker Unfortunately, public science is under attack, with major science agencies facing massive layoffs and unprecedented funding cuts.

My #sciencehomecoming op-ed was just published in my hometown paper. Thanks @cantlonlab.bsky.social for the prompt!

the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies" wrote Dr Marks.

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."

- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

23 and he knew to leave a death note.

it is truly terrifying when this level of international fame doesn't offer any protection. If a recent Oscar winner can be attacked and disappeared like this, we can make assumptions about what happens to people who have no international friends and support.

How dare princeton be the ivy with a bit of spine. Y'all letting the uni with eating clubs outshine you at standing up against authoritarianism?

As I understand it, most people who love AI hypothesize that some sort of natural equilibrium will be achieved between the exponential input AI needs and what we need of it. As far as I can tell — and I swear I’m being fair — it’s very much “invisible hand of the market” type wish fulfillment.

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A running list of folks who have recently lost their jobs and are looking for something new: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

h/t to @kssphd.bsky.social for circulating this doc

Breonna Taylor

REST IN PEACE TO BREONNA TAYLOR (June 5, 1993 – March 13, 2020)

Michel Martin, my friends.

A group of protesters two of whom are holding signs calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

A protester holding a sign that says Hands off our students, ICE off of our campus.

There were a bunch of folk holding martyr signs depicting people killed by bombardment. Quite sobering.

Folks came out in support of Mahmoud Khalil! And a ton of media so we will see how things get covered. I have more photos but these aren’t showing anyone’s face, so these are the ones you get.