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Both the brains *and* the serotonin cardigans are currently on sale.

Just saying.

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Dr. Jon Morrow ( @jon-d-morrow.bsky.social ) in the news!

From Univ. of Michigan (@umich.edu ) Michigan Neuroscience Institute (@ummni.bsky.social ) 🧠

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”

This is why we should fund science. 🧪

Hire Stephen Colbert? Pleeease....

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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🧠🧬🔬📈 Hivemind - help!

One of our open access pubs has been deemed non-compliant by NIH due to lack of PMCID.😬

It was supposed to be submitted automatically to PMC by the journal.

The editors have been great but are out-of-office.

Can I just submit the .pdf to NIHMS? (as a "free, public server")

Yeah, I almost don't consider my days in the office "work days" - they're at least half as productive as work-from-home days.

I know human interactions matter, but it's hard not to mourn the lost productivity time.

"may" - it already has.
A field that depends on >decade of training and multiyear projects cannot function when funding - including committed funding - is completely unstable and unpredictable.

U.S. science is being devastated. It will take decades to recover.

Increased Reporting of Speech in Degraded Stimuli in Schizophrenia: A Case Control Study with Sine-Wave-Speech AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. People who hear voices may have strong prior expectations of speech, so that noisy auditory signals are resolved as spee

New from the lab - led by Santiago Castiello - patients with schizophrenia detect speech in sine-wave stimuli and those who hallucinate benefit most from the templates: academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

‘We need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war.’

Great, though horrifying, piece by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the Guardian today.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lay down and nap?

This is true for NSF also

You need to make AI guidelines for your lab Here's why you should, and how to start

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it.

open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

2) Being apolitical IS political. Staying out of politics doesn’t keep you “above the fray” but instead endorses the status quo. (Which right now, is bad for both science and democracy.)

3) Politics isn’t dirty. It is simply the process by which we make decisions about running the country. If we tell scientists, doctors, teachers, etc to stay out of politics and not get their hands “dirty,” who is left to run the country? And will we like the decisions they make?

Protect Academic Life in Iran We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.

Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...

#IranWar

One of my favourite things about being a scientist is the ability to ask questions, and the comfort of knowing I don't have all of the answers. 1/4 🧑‍🔬⚛️🧠🩻✨🔭🧲🧪

Trump is openly threatening genocide.
We need the 25th now.

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women.

Maryam Mirzakhani studied there.

If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

UM Chinese researcher dies after alleged questioning by feds China is calling on the U.S. to probe death of researcher after he was subjected to what they called 'hostile questioning' by federal authorities.

There are a lot of layers to this and I'm not sure how to interpret them. Has anyone heard anything more?
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Help save SBE at NSF (and 3 cheers for Paige 💙). Friends in the district Unis ++ have extra influence b/c their reps are on Appropriations. Click! Write!

NYC schools (NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell ..)
Brown
Vanderbilt
U Delaware
U Maryland
UOregon & OSU
Texas A&M
U Rochester
U Alabama
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!!

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

If you can stay home, AWESOME.
If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day.

The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER.

#MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

I love conferences too. Maybe it is a field difference? I'm in neuroscience - the field is fast moving and our talks and posters tend to be pretty interesting.

NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences - current year is the flat red line.

... because why would we need anyone to learn about the economy when we're winning so bigly? 🙄

NSF Biological Sciences - the current year is the flat red line. 😬

🧠🧬🧪📈🔬🧫 Science friends:

If you have *any* ability to accept student researchers in your lab this summer, please do. 🙏

Opportunities are desperately sparse. I just received 173 applications for an unpaid summer internship.

I'm worried we're going to lose a generation of young scientists. 💔

My team has systematically tracked every big team science initiative throughout the history of science.

This is a truly momentous and historical achievement. Congrats to the many researchers who worked together to pull it off.

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this