Gabe J. Murphy
@drsmurph.bsky.social
I care deeply about: (i) air, 💦, and soil; (ii) the animals and 🌱 that these resources support; and (iii) describing compelling scientific questions and insights to a variety of audiences.
https://ocr.ucsf.edu/people/gabe-murphy
https://ocr.ucsf.edu/people/gabe-murphy
Love that @arcadiascience.com has made and shared these beautiful illustrations.
I'll ask the following on @tuthill.bsky.social 's behalf: might you add a snow fly to the library?
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...
I'll ask the following on @tuthill.bsky.social 's behalf: might you add a snow fly to the library?
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to u...
research.arcadiascience.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Love that @arcadiascience.com has made and shared these beautiful illustrations.
I'll ask the following on @tuthill.bsky.social 's behalf: might you add a snow fly to the library?
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...
I'll ask the following on @tuthill.bsky.social 's behalf: might you add a snow fly to the library?
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/resource...
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Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@megancarey.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Working together to build strong scientific communities - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The scientific enterprise depends on attracting and retaining the very best talent, yet barriers persist that perpetuate inequities in the scientific workforce. Here I discuss the efforts of the ALBA ...
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Wonderful piece by @megancarey.bsky.social on how @network-alba.bsky.social is tackling inequities in (neuro)science and building more inclusive research communities! ✨
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
#DEI #DiversityInScience #DiversityInSTEM #neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroskyence #academia
One of several really thoughtful, honest reflections from Scottie Scheffler.
Being the best golfer in the world is "is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...
Being the best golfer in the world is "is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...
Think you understand Scottie Scheffler? Think again.
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One of several really thoughtful, honest reflections from Scottie Scheffler.
Being the best golfer in the world is "is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...
Being the best golfer in the world is "is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...
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do read the Times— they have enormous resources and great reporters— but read the Politics and Opinion sections with a skeptical eye. And then read indep political news too- TPM, the Prospect, the Guardian, the Inquirer, ProPublica, etc.
April 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
do read the Times— they have enormous resources and great reporters— but read the Politics and Opinion sections with a skeptical eye. And then read indep political news too- TPM, the Prospect, the Guardian, the Inquirer, ProPublica, etc.
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I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
Just completed day 2 of chairing a NIH study section. Brain is tired after intently listening and leading discussions of ~40 apps. So fulfilling to hear the passion people have for others' science, and heartwarming to see so many people who care about the training and environment of others 🫶 (299!)
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
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Oh I'm very into open science approaches that deploy Jupyter Notebooks. I really like what @arcadiascience.com is doing with their new publication efforts & team - research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...
Closing the divide between analysis and publication: The notebook pub
We're experimenting with treating our computational notebooks as publications themselves. This approach reduces publication burden, encourages faster publishing, and builds in reproducibility. Scienti...
research.arcadiascience.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Oh I'm very into open science approaches that deploy Jupyter Notebooks. I really like what @arcadiascience.com is doing with their new publication efforts & team - research.arcadiascience.com/pub/perspect...
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Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
Howard University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production
The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro...
thedig.howard.edu
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
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Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help.
1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting:
60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!)
2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting:
60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!)
2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
February 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Many people, including academics, don't understand what F&A is for. Please share to help.
1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting:
60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!)
2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
1) Translate to "overhead" in common business accounting:
60% IDC => 60/160 = 37.5% overhead (low!)
2) Infographic explaining what it's for, linked here:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
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My wish: That every scientist who is passionately advocating for science here will take their same message and also broadcast it in some other venue.
We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced).
Please consider it 🙏
We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced).
Please consider it 🙏
February 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My wish: That every scientist who is passionately advocating for science here will take their same message and also broadcast it in some other venue.
We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced).
Please consider it 🙏
We need to get the message out to those who haven’t yet heard it (and are not yet convinced).
Please consider it 🙏
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Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Here’s a strategy: 1) establish the frames, what problems will these changes cause, how will they impact communities; 2) inspire people to use those frames to tell their own stories of their families or communities are impacted; 3) amplify those stories.
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Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts.
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
February 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Neuroscientists - your society has a call to action for you and a page for tracking action alerts.
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
It's built to take your location & give you specific support on what to say and who to say it to. www.sfn.org/Advocacy/Adv...
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The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below.
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
February 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below.
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
Please share :)
www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...
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good post
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
good post
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
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So, what can scientists do?
- Talk to the public; try to drive public attention.
- Find other scientists to talk to and work with.
- Get universities and rich ppl involved.
- Work on the science attacks - but weave them together with the constitutional attacks.
More tomorrow. Be well.
9/9
- Talk to the public; try to drive public attention.
- Find other scientists to talk to and work with.
- Get universities and rich ppl involved.
- Work on the science attacks - but weave them together with the constitutional attacks.
More tomorrow. Be well.
9/9
February 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
So, what can scientists do?
- Talk to the public; try to drive public attention.
- Find other scientists to talk to and work with.
- Get universities and rich ppl involved.
- Work on the science attacks - but weave them together with the constitutional attacks.
More tomorrow. Be well.
9/9
- Talk to the public; try to drive public attention.
- Find other scientists to talk to and work with.
- Get universities and rich ppl involved.
- Work on the science attacks - but weave them together with the constitutional attacks.
More tomorrow. Be well.
9/9
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
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
scim.ag
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
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Did you know…
Purple isn’t real.
It’s a pigment of the imagination!
www.snexplores.org/article/colo...
Purple isn’t real.
It’s a pigment of the imagination!
www.snexplores.org/article/colo...
Purple exists only in our brains
Most colors represent a single wavelength of light. But your brain invents purple to deal with wavelengths from opposite ends of the visible spectrum.
www.snexplores.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Did you know…
Purple isn’t real.
It’s a pigment of the imagination!
www.snexplores.org/article/colo...
Purple isn’t real.
It’s a pigment of the imagination!
www.snexplores.org/article/colo...
Now that 'all the scientists are on @bsky.app '...
...I strongly encourage folks to look at @ai2.bsky.social 's new ScholarQA tool.
allenai.org/blog/ai2-sch...
...I strongly encourage folks to look at @ai2.bsky.social 's new ScholarQA tool.
allenai.org/blog/ai2-sch...
Introducing Ai2 ScholarQA | Ai2
Ai2 ScholarQA gives in-depth, detailed, and contextual answers to help with literature review.
allenai.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Now that 'all the scientists are on @bsky.app '...
...I strongly encourage folks to look at @ai2.bsky.social 's new ScholarQA tool.
allenai.org/blog/ai2-sch...
...I strongly encourage folks to look at @ai2.bsky.social 's new ScholarQA tool.
allenai.org/blog/ai2-sch...
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My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...
Proprioception - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My lab has a tradition that each week one person contributes edits to a Wikipedia page relevant to their scientific work, and then presents it briefly at lab meeting (and we clap). A few of my favorites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral...
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Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions.
They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).
They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).
January 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Started off this morning emailing my Senators and Congressman about the NIH and the potential damage being done by unnecessary disruptions.
They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).
They need to hear from us loud and clear. Constituents matter to them as one of the primary purposes of a politician is to get re-elected (and its their job).
I agree with your boss @holdenthorp.bsky.social . One reason to withhold judgement (for a week or so at least) is that the pause in external communications only 'applies until Feb. 1'.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
January 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I agree with your boss @holdenthorp.bsky.social . One reason to withhold judgement (for a week or so at least) is that the pause in external communications only 'applies until Feb. 1'.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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A single act of bravery echoes, soothes, and inspires — and counters an artificial narrative of inevitability, conformity, and resignation to the new administration.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A single act of bravery echoes, soothes, and inspires — and counters an artificial narrative of inevitability, conformity, and resignation to the new administration.
Yep... whether it reduces my environmental footprint or not...
I reuse these as nearly indestructible water/milk glasses after (i) neglecting them (for far too long) on the counter, (ii) cleaning the sticky insides out by hand, and (iii) removing the label (effortlessly) via the dishwasher.
I reuse these as nearly indestructible water/milk glasses after (i) neglecting them (for far too long) on the counter, (ii) cleaning the sticky insides out by hand, and (iii) removing the label (effortlessly) via the dishwasher.
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yep... whether it reduces my environmental footprint or not...
I reuse these as nearly indestructible water/milk glasses after (i) neglecting them (for far too long) on the counter, (ii) cleaning the sticky insides out by hand, and (iii) removing the label (effortlessly) via the dishwasher.
I reuse these as nearly indestructible water/milk glasses after (i) neglecting them (for far too long) on the counter, (ii) cleaning the sticky insides out by hand, and (iii) removing the label (effortlessly) via the dishwasher.
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Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
December 30, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Scientists!
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1.
You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester.
Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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#PubDrop! We've been experimenting with a more scientist-led approach to open publishing at
@arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing
@arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing
December 19, 2024 at 11:25 PM
#PubDrop! We've been experimenting with a more scientist-led approach to open publishing at
@arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing
@arcadiascience.com. After 6 months, here's what we've learned about putting researchers fully in charge of sharing their work… 🧵 1/8
research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-e... 🧪#ScientificPublishing