Emily Barkley-Levenson
@emilybl.bsky.social
Neuroscience, parenting, hijinks
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
If you ever need to explain to someone what “don’t threaten me with a good time” means
Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran
July 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If you ever need to explain to someone what “don’t threaten me with a good time” means
Yes, this! Plus, every researcher is already applying 3 Rs of animal research (replacement, reduction, refinement). Use fewest animals of least biological complexity and treat them as humanely as possible. Animal research is still essential to advance science/medicine for humans AND animals.
This is so wrong-headed. You could not pay me to take a drug that was not tested in animals, and animal models remain absolutely essential for discovery research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
July 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yes, this! Plus, every researcher is already applying 3 Rs of animal research (replacement, reduction, refinement). Use fewest animals of least biological complexity and treat them as humanely as possible. Animal research is still essential to advance science/medicine for humans AND animals.
For undergrads this shit is an automatic F and an honor code violation, just saying.
When you have a non-scientist faking "science," they commit science fraud and plagiarism:
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-maha...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-maha...
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Included Lots of Bogus Studies
The 73-page document details seven reports that don’t appear to exist.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
For undergrads this shit is an automatic F and an honor code violation, just saying.
In the FY26 proposed budget, an almost 50% cut to funding for mental health and substance abuse research. That “Behavioral Health” bucket includes NIMH, NIAAA and NIDA, but funding is approx what NIMH *alone* currently has.
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May 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In the FY26 proposed budget, an almost 50% cut to funding for mental health and substance abuse research. That “Behavioral Health” bucket includes NIMH, NIAAA and NIDA, but funding is approx what NIMH *alone* currently has.
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This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.
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De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’
NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference ...
theonion.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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More devastating assaults on American science research, this time trying to purge 3200 NIH senior scientists doing cutting-edge research at agencies like the Natl Cancer Institute, Natl Institute on Aging, Drug Abuse, Mental Health, Heart, Lung & Blood Inst, etc.
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
More devastating assaults on American science research, this time trying to purge 3200 NIH senior scientists doing cutting-edge research at agencies like the Natl Cancer Institute, Natl Institute on Aging, Drug Abuse, Mental Health, Heart, Lung & Blood Inst, etc.
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This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.
I get to stand in solidarity with union comrades AND with Bowen Yang? John Early? Maris Kreizman? Julia Fox? Zohran Mamdani? Damon Lindelof? Hari Nef? Truly I will never be this cool again.
new york's hottest club is! reader walkout pledge.
it's got EVERYTHING: cole escola. labor solidarity. reading a gossipy list of names. ella emhoff. and ... you!
nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
it's got EVERYTHING: cole escola. labor solidarity. reading a gossipy list of names. ella emhoff. and ... you!
nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
nymagunion.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I get to stand in solidarity with union comrades AND with Bowen Yang? John Early? Maris Kreizman? Julia Fox? Zohran Mamdani? Damon Lindelof? Hari Nef? Truly I will never be this cool again.
Fantastic, super clear explanation by Dr. Choo of NIH grants process: takes “tens of thousands of reviewers annually on more than 1000 meetings with study sections like the one I should have been sitting in Thursday.” Even if/when the freeze ends, can’t just be restarted with a snap.
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An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.
This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.
www.msnbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Fantastic, super clear explanation by Dr. Choo of NIH grants process: takes “tens of thousands of reviewers annually on more than 1000 meetings with study sections like the one I should have been sitting in Thursday.” Even if/when the freeze ends, can’t just be restarted with a snap.
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There are layers upon layers of devastating policy coming out of this administration, but this one is massive. Freezing meetings includes freezing the study sessions that award new research grants.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
There are layers upon layers of devastating policy coming out of this administration, but this one is massive. Freezing meetings includes freezing the study sessions that award new research grants.
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oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
March 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
Anyone who thinks academics are colluding to perpetuate a global conspiracy about vaccines, climate change, etc. has never spent time with academics. We just spent 45 minutes at a faculty meeting in heated argument about whether a sentence should say “opinion” or “perspective.”
December 4, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Anyone who thinks academics are colluding to perpetuate a global conspiracy about vaccines, climate change, etc. has never spent time with academics. We just spent 45 minutes at a faculty meeting in heated argument about whether a sentence should say “opinion” or “perspective.”