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born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
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Amazing show of unity at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Raleigh yesterday! If you're looking to continue connecting w/ the NC science community, we're hosting a networking event next weekend
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16, 12PM
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
Raleigh, NC
tinyurl.com/2p9hrfe8
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16, 12PM
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
Raleigh, NC
tinyurl.com/2p9hrfe8
March 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Amazing show of unity at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Raleigh yesterday! If you're looking to continue connecting w/ the NC science community, we're hosting a networking event next weekend
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16, 12PM
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
Raleigh, NC
tinyurl.com/2p9hrfe8
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16, 12PM
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
Raleigh, NC
tinyurl.com/2p9hrfe8
Please share! NC science networking event in Raleigh on 3/16.
All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences.
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16 @ 12 pm
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences.
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16 @ 12 pm
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
February 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Please share! NC science networking event in Raleigh on 3/16.
All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences.
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16 @ 12 pm
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
All are welcome - academia, industry, government, or just support the sciences - come have a beer, meet local researchers, & show solidarity for the sciences.
Triangle State of Science Social
March 16 @ 12 pm
Trophy Brewing (Maywood)
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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
docs.google.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
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I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”
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Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives
www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
Funding cuts by state
datawrapper.dwcdn.net
February 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives
www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
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Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed?
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
February 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ever think about how most all the big political actors and dictators of the 20th century personally experienced the horrors of war and bloodshed?
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
Meanwhile, we’re watching a U.S. coup carried out by men who have lived lives softer than that of your average inbred French Bulldog in a sweater.
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“Just as vision turned out to be far more than a hierarchy of feature detectors, we cannot simply combine perception, planning and action modules and expect [agency] to emerge.”
Great essay from @tonyzador.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Great essay from @tonyzador.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social
NeuroAI and the hidden complexity of agency
As we attempt to build autonomous AI systems, we’re discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be more complex than we imagined.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Just as vision turned out to be far more than a hierarchy of feature detectors, we cannot simply combine perception, planning and action modules and expect [agency] to emerge.”
Great essay from @tonyzador.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Great essay from @tonyzador.bsky.social at @thetransmitter.bsky.social
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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
![This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters.
Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sox6xar4qdc3ujhi5h4whtlh/bafkreiazjyxk6foryp6lzxcqbls62uaokwhjrjmnzg5uqpdimg77xrt26a@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.
THANK YOU!
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This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner:
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
Revisiting sex and gender in the brain
To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Thrilled to share my perspective in "The Transmitter" @thetransmitter.bsky.social on how to study the influence of "sex" and "gender" in the brain in a scientifically accurate and socially responsible manner:
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
"Revisiting sex and gender in the brain"
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...