Dr. Becca
@docbecca.bsky.social
cocktail enthusiast | neuroscientist | SABV influencer | urban gardener | drum learner | she/her
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Dr. Becca
@docbecca.bsky.social
· Nov 10
So many new faces, I love it! If you weren’t following me on the other place, you can expect: cats, cocktails, travel photos, random science musings, things other people post that are funny or important, bouts of anger at the election outcome. Engaging in a new space can be scary but please do!
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Only the administration that invented "concept of a plan" could come up with "permanent pause."
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Only the administration that invented "concept of a plan" could come up with "permanent pause."
Only explanation is that the table on which this woman is sitting was built to have legs that look like human legs
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Only explanation is that the table on which this woman is sitting was built to have legs that look like human legs
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Is the applicant a once-in-your-lifetime talent or a once-in-a-generation talent??! 🙃
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Is the applicant a once-in-your-lifetime talent or a once-in-a-generation talent??! 🙃
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I think this one I stumbled across still wins for its WTFness:
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
The craziest recommendation form I have ever completed
As a professor, you write recommendations for student regularly. One came in this morning, so I started filling it out. First questions were...
neurodojo.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I think this one I stumbled across still wins for its WTFness:
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
neurodojo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-...
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I also never get tired of MIT's conceit--"they might be good but are they **MIT** good--as if it's somehow harder to be a grad student at one of the most prestigious and best funded research universities in the world instead of 10 times easier.
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I also never get tired of MIT's conceit--"they might be good but are they **MIT** good--as if it's somehow harder to be a grad student at one of the most prestigious and best funded research universities in the world instead of 10 times easier.
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My wife says these should be mad libs: "______ is the ______iest student I have known through _______ in ________ years"
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My wife says these should be mad libs: "______ is the ______iest student I have known through _______ in ________ years"
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My personal favorites (derogatory) are Chicago's 'are you the recommender an alum' and 'please rate the emotional stability of the applicant.'
And asking me to rate english language skills, which, toefl exists?
And asking me to rate english language skills, which, toefl exists?
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My personal favorites (derogatory) are Chicago's 'are you the recommender an alum' and 'please rate the emotional stability of the applicant.'
And asking me to rate english language skills, which, toefl exists?
And asking me to rate english language skills, which, toefl exists?
Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Begging PhD programs to agree on a common app with only letters of rec that writers upload once. These inane likert scales when students are applying to 15-20 programs is destroying my soul
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ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Folks they're just going to AI the "research" on the first AI. Not sure y'all understand the motivation college students have to avoid doing real coursework.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Folks they're just going to AI the "research" on the first AI. Not sure y'all understand the motivation college students have to avoid doing real coursework.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
Sue Generous, you say.. <cigarette drag> now there's a name I haven't heard in a looooonnnggg time
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sue Generous, you say.. <cigarette drag> now there's a name I haven't heard in a looooonnnggg time
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Uh hi this seems bad
(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
www.statnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Uh hi this seems bad
(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
(essentially, grant terminations will continue at you-know-who's whim)
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So am I. He ain't special
LeBron 40 years old with SCIATICA
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So am I. He ain't special
A Bijou cocktail for your Saturday night 🥂
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A Bijou cocktail for your Saturday night 🥂
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i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
Me: we absolutely cannot bring in another male stray cat
Also me: I’m naming him Buster Keaton!
Also me: Maybe just a little bed in the basement to keep him out of the cold
Also me: I’m naming him Buster Keaton!
Also me: Maybe just a little bed in the basement to keep him out of the cold
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Me: we absolutely cannot bring in another male stray cat
Also me: I’m naming him Buster Keaton!
Also me: Maybe just a little bed in the basement to keep him out of the cold
Also me: I’m naming him Buster Keaton!
Also me: Maybe just a little bed in the basement to keep him out of the cold
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this is why the humanities should be mandatory
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
this is why the humanities should be mandatory
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If the Trump administration wishes to censor us, they can try.
But it’s a sign they have no actual rebuttal to our points. If they had facts they’d use them to persuade people. They’re not doing that. What’s coming out of the Bhattacharya NIH is instead censorship, and lies.
But it’s a sign they have no actual rebuttal to our points. If they had facts they’d use them to persuade people. They’re not doing that. What’s coming out of the Bhattacharya NIH is instead censorship, and lies.
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If the Trump administration wishes to censor us, they can try.
But it’s a sign they have no actual rebuttal to our points. If they had facts they’d use them to persuade people. They’re not doing that. What’s coming out of the Bhattacharya NIH is instead censorship, and lies.
But it’s a sign they have no actual rebuttal to our points. If they had facts they’d use them to persuade people. They’re not doing that. What’s coming out of the Bhattacharya NIH is instead censorship, and lies.
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This, right here. The best predictor of productivity is funding the damn grant.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This, right here. The best predictor of productivity is funding the damn grant.
A quick formatting PSA from me to you: if you want to use full justification in your grants, turn on hyphenation to avoid weird spacing between words and make your proposal easier to read. This move will also buy you some extra real estate!
a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " do you know " in the background
Alt: "the more you know" shooting star from 80s (?) PSAs
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A quick formatting PSA from me to you: if you want to use full justification in your grants, turn on hyphenation to avoid weird spacing between words and make your proposal easier to read. This move will also buy you some extra real estate!