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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 8d

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r... by @spichaksimon.bsky.social @beingpatient.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects

Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Oct 6

At #ispcan2025 in Lithuania. Doing important work here!

ISPCAN @ispcan.bsky.social · Oct 5

Launching ISPCAN NEXT @ #ispcan2025 Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection A global network empowering early-career professionals in child protection. Connecting, learning, leading and making an impact. Learn more here: ispcan.org/working-grou...
#riseuptoendchildabuse

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ISPCAN @ispcan.bsky.social · Oct 5

Launching ISPCAN NEXT @ #ispcan2025 Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection A global network empowering early-career professionals in child protection. Connecting, learning, leading and making an impact. Learn more here: ispcan.org/working-grou...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 10

Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer

COVID-19 booster shots effectively prevented hospitalizations among people with cancer, according to a retrospective study published in JAMA Oncology.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just finished #flux2025 in Dublin and it it good to be back! What a great conference.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excellent analysis of poor science that should not have made it through peer review. Probably should be retracted now by the journal.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)

Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ending the summer having submitted five first-author manuscripts and a response to a published paper.

This K01 and the protected time are the best!

Thank you #NIH #NICHD

Thank you @rcgd-isr.bsky.social #ISR #psychology @umich.edu

Hamilton the musical with the caption "I'm not throwing away my shot."

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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · Aug 11

Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.

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Ashley Kalinski @kalinskilab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hey #neuroscience #neuroskyence we are hiring a Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina (uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190...)

We have a vibrant neuroscience community with extensive university support for research. I am extremely happy here. Come join us!

Peter and Bonnie McCausland Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports
Here is one summarized
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Aug 4

This looks really interesting

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 3

Unique biological, exposomal, economic and sociocultural factors shape resilience and brain health across the globe. A Review in Nature Medicine discusses underlying mechanisms of resilience. go.nature.com/4l76HNh #medsky 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows a resilience model and factors.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Jun 11

Finally received the notice of award for my K01!
Thanks #nih
#nichd
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · Jun 9

Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US

This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Jun 10

As someone who studies child maltreatment it sickens me that this will be ignored. These are often homicides that we could prevent.

Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Jun 9

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 10

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Jun 9

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

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Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social · Jun 9

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is a big reason why the tech oligarch/DOGE world thinks they can blow up NSF and NIH.

We cannot overstate this:
It is so full of shit.

This is not real science or research, which is a creative endeavor. “AI scientists” would not have built CAR-T therapies and will not treat Alzheimer’s.

Nature @nature.com · Jun 5

FutureHouse aims to build an ‘AI scientist’ that can command the entire research pipeline, from hypothesis generation to paper production

https://go.nature.com/3HGQ6lf

Exclusive: Start-up FutureHouse debuts powerful AI ‘reasoning model’ for science

The model, called ether0, outperforms other advanced AIs at chemistry tasks and is a stepping stone towards automating the entire research pipeline.

go.nature.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 29

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...

Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?

Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · May 28

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge.

"...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award"

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-115: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibility for Mentored Career Development Award When an Award Ended Ear...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Temporary Policy Exception to NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) Section 12.3.7 to Permit Continued Eligibi...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · May 29

Astrocytes make up a large proportion of brain cells. They propagate electrical influences without spiking. Brain communication involves more than just spikes and synapses.
bcs.mit.edu/news/overloo...
#neuroscience

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity | Brain and Cognitive Sciences

MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · May 29

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities.
Effective immediately, the following are terminated:
NSF AWARD ID:
2120496
NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.
Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date.
Sincerely,
Jamie H. French, Division Director
Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA) Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 28

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

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

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 28

RFK Jr. plans to bar NIH scientists from top journals like NEJM & JAMA, replacing them with government-run outlets.

This would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research, warns Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · May 29

A fine freaking time to destroy NIH.

www.axios.com/2025/05/29/c...

China's biotech boom leaves U.S. playing catch-up

China has passed the U.S. in clinical trials, marking a turning point in the race to dominate life sciences.

www.axios.com

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · May 26

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

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