Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
A very cool opportunity!
Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: ๐ โท๏ธ ๐ฃ ๐ญ ๐ถ
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on a Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE) award from NSF and the Kavli Foundation (www.kavlifoundation.org/news/kavli-a...).
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We are looking for a new lab manager to join our group at the University of Oregon! Applicants with experience in microbiology, evolutionary genetics, or protein biochemistry are especially encouraged to apply. See the link below for more information: barberlab.org/contact/
Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change.
Please help spread the word!
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here๐
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Lateral septum enthusiast? Interested in learning more about how LS projection populations and their inputs are organized. Check out our preprint in which @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social map out brain wide inputs to 6 LS projection populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TACOsโฆ theyโre delicious, theyโre nutritious, and evidently they piss off authoritarian regimes.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/p...
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
All new research grants have been frozen at the National Science Foundation, Nature reports, as DOGE considers canceling 200 existing grants flagged for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What our world needs now is more punk rock and more Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social
those that want to kill โwokeโ just want you to sleep
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.
That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.
Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Is everyone on schedule? #2025MMM
๐จ The official What's the Deal with Birds? trailer has dropped!!! Yes, it's real, and it's spectacular. COMING SOON! www.instagram.com/reel/DG3g5Ol...
Very happy to share the newest work from our lab, led by postdoc @xinzhao322.bsky.social, with help from many past and present undergrad RAs.
elifesciences.org/articles/94924
Please share!
This what MLKโ s daughter has suggested we do.
Great list.
Some good news:
"The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to what it calls a 'crisis' prompted by the Trump administrationโs freeze..."
www.philanthropy.com/article/maca...
Hi, BlueSky! We are trying to be more active on here. If any SBN members are out there who are interested in joining the social media committee, please drop us a line!
NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
list of banned keywords
๐จBREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
And #2025MMM Educators, you can request materials via this form (and please take the educator survey, it helps the tournament a lot!):
forms.gle/PQcCVNFhaRvk...
WHATโS IN STORE FOR 2025?! Really great storified science, all new classroom animated video recaps, & more! In coming days we will be rolling out lots of pre-season fun...
#2025MMM
In the MEANTIME, overthink this teaser trailer: youtu.be/Uvb0Cic6r9o
A Black history month flyer with a black background and brown fists in the air. Behind the fists are red, yellow, and green stripes with the Black In Neuro logo at the top center.
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! โจ
Theyโll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try.
So each week this month, Iโll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ฌ
