Meghan Gallo

What a dynamic duo! I enjoyed tuning in today

Great job, Anna!

Awesome interview @annadarling.bsky.social!

So grateful for this opportunity! @investnscience.bsky.social

1. Are you an emerging aging research scholar? Consider the Butler-Williams Scholars program. The summer session is now accepting applications! The deadline is 2026/03/31, and the program will be 2026/08/03-2026/08/06. Qualified applicants must hold a doctorate (e.g., Ph.D., M.D., D.O., Dr.P.H.).

The language on multiyear funding (MYF) is ineffective.

Final bill anchors MYF to 2025 instead of 2024. This means MYF will likely continue at the same rate we saw last year, where NCI's payline from ~10% to 4%.

This is incredibly harmful to the US research workforce - especially early career.

We couldn’t get people interested in science - until we started speaking their language In 2020, Puerto Rico faced a misinformation crisis. Melanie Ortiz Alvarez De La Campa reveals how five STEM undergraduates created a sci-comm organization that helped pass legislation, educated thousa...

The Caribbean scicomm organization that I co-founded, Ciencia Pa' Todes, was featured today in #TheMicrobiologist by @amiposts.bsky.social

We have done so much as a small group and I'm proud of the impact we continue to have every day 💜

Check out our work at: cienciapatodes.org

#scicomm #stem

How Memories Might Be Used to Help Heal the Brain In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

"I hope that the wearing-my-humanity-on-my-sleeves part at least continues to normalize the process of 'You’re going to have great days, and you’re going to have atrocious days in life.'"

It does, @okaysteve.bsky.social. It really does.

(via @undark.org)

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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave. TikTok video by Jenna

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

🚨🚨 @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is a force. Her voice carries power, truth, and courage—threats to the regime.

The only thing authoritarians fear more than a voice they cannot control is a chorus. So let’s give them one: speak up, speak loudly, and don’t stop. Stand with Jenna. ✊🇺🇸

While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.

As many of you know, more than one million federal employees have been furloughed since October 1, 2025. However, we never stop serving the people, near and far. @27unihted.bsky.social has collected 2,000 pounds of food and $20,000 for DC area food banks. #FEDStrong #NIHStrong

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@investnscience.bsky.social — from the questions that drive your work to the breakthroughs that inspire you. We are a group of scientists highlighting how science benefits everyone.

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I have been a passionate researcher from the first time I touched a pipette, but my work and the work of hundreds of other scientists is at risk of ending because of the anti-DEI and anti-science rhetoric of the current administration. #neuroscience #postdoc 🧠

Someone asked me the other day*:

How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?

The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
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Not all treatments for depression work: Mel studies promising alternative drug pathways.

#depression #depressionTreatment #novelTheraputics #investNscience #neurosky

a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

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Can the way we sense and detect pain change? Julia's work aims to help people with chronic pain.

#neuroscience #pain #chornicpain #neurosky #neurobiology #academicsky #investNscience

What causes cerebral palsy? Connor studies how strokes early in life can change brain architecture.

#cerebralpalsy #neuroscience #neurosky #academicsky #healthyfuture #investNscience

Aiee. We have also heard lots of rumors about this “multi-year funding” issue, and @baldwin.senate.gov, @drugmonkey.bsky.social, and @jeremymberg.bsky.social have all talked about it.

This is very bad. “One weird budget trick” that will cut the number of grants this year in half! 🧪

Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

How a researcher from Medfield created the go-to database of federal research cuts - The Boston Globe A lawyer-turned-Harvard scientist built what was known as Grant Watch from a Google spreadsheet over a matter of months.

Grant Watch — now called Grant Witness — is the leading watchdog of lost research dollars from the NIH and NSF. I wrote about how the site came to be and about Scott Delaney (@scott-delaney.bsky.social), the Harvard research scientist who helped make it happen: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/b...

Could there be a better treatment for IBD?
@srudas.bsky.social
studies treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease using therapies to regrow gut lining - addressing the root cause of the disease and using the body to heal itself.

#academicsky #researchsky #IBD #IBDtreatments #investnscience

Beautiful piece! Great work!

I wrote a quick-start guide for people to replicate this across the country. It was, in our experience, a very effective way to get real action in a short amount of time.

People are willing to talk to scientists! And when you provide everything, they are happy to contact their reps too. Try it!

Could a simple blood test help diagnose Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease? Allison studies how neurodegenerative diseases develop with an eye towards tools for earlier detection.

#neurosky #academicsky #parkinsons #alzheimers #dementia #earlydetection #diagnosis

Anxiety helps us stay alert, but too much can interfere with daily life. Camila studies how trauma and stress can change the brain and make anxiety spiral out of control.

#anxiety #stress #trauma #amygdala #neuroskyence #investinscience

My quote of the day

(Three parts from Elias Zerhouni on being a leader)

First you have to have a big heart. Because if you don't have a big heart you will never be able to lead....You have to have a passion. You have to believe in some things that are your core values.

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Is Schedule Policy/Career a Risk for Federal Statistical Agencies? 4/23/25 Erica L. Groshen, Cornell University--ILR Introduction This brief examines the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then called “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making them easier to remove from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. The impetus for this brief is that on April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. Background on Schedule Policy/Career • Original Effort: On October 21, 2020, the Trump administration introduced Executive Order 13957, which created "Schedule F" within the civil service. This aimed to reclassify federal employees in positions of a "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policyadvocating character." The stated goal was to increase agency head flexibility and accountability. • Biden Administration Rescission: The Biden administration rescinded Schedule F via Executive Order 14003 on January 22, 2021. In April 2024, the Biden administration adopted a regulation named "Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles" that allows employees to keep existing job protections even if their positions were reclassified, preventing most of the effects of a reinstatement of Schedule F. • Current Status: On January 20, 2025, the second Trump administration issued Executive Order 14171 to implement similar policies to Schedule F, now referred to as "Schedule Policy/Career." This order is titled "Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce." The Biden Administration’s rule about reclassifying employees delayed implementation of the new order by several months. On April 2…

Every single scientist in America should submit a comment saying this is bad. That's you! You can do it! You should. It's easy. Scientists are good writers.

This is the Schedule F attack on the civil service, now renamed Schedule P-C by Trump. History here

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