Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Each individual layoff notice that was issued to a postdoc in May of 2025 was itself a greater degree of direct government censorship than Bhattacharya has experienced in his entire life.

The NIH director publicly told a fellow he would meet about the changes to our health insurance and then refused to meet with him. He followed up by unilaterally declaring our union derecognized and our CBA void. It’s hard to have a productive conversation with someone who lied to your face!

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Does greater Albania include the Bronx?

It’s the double eagle, mashallah. I’d like to know what kind of financial crimes he did for the Albanians

Broadly, we get at the idea that some interventions such as DR and genetic interventions work more strongly on females than males, and many of the ITP interventions start later in life. It seems like drug interventions miss a critical period for lifespan in female rodents

Okay perhaps “forthcoming” was a little optimistic but six months later and the review is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This work would not have happened without @iisage.bsky.social, and I am grateful for the opportunity!

We discuss how aspects of sex, such as chromosome or hormone status, might uniquely affect aging in male or female animals, and what this means for researchers interested in developing longevity interventions.

Sex differences in response to longevity interventions Interventions to extend lifespan and healthspan are of major interest, but such interventions may affect male and female organisms differently. Whethe…

Pleased to share this review on sex differences in longevity interventions I co-authored with Nicole Riddle and @aewebb.bsky.social. We explore how interventions such as exercise, diet, and drugs affect male and female rodents differently www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excuse you, this is a highly prestigious, gold standard circus

This is the expected curriculum for a clown college

This is extremely fucked up

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Imagine if science postdocs had NIL and a transfer portal.

In academic science, there needs to be longterm certainty for people who aren’t already wealthy or financially secure to pursue it. Reconstruction reforms will need to make it very unlikely that another fascist will shred everything again in four years.

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

There are universities in Iran being bombed, the Weizmann Institute in Israel was bombed, Gaza universities destroyed, and US science and universities under authoritarian attack.

I have friends and colleagues doing neuroscience in or from those places. Across countries, we have much in common.

They call me 2 aleve cuz I got to take 2 aleve before I do anything

A surgery day which means meloxicam for the mice and also meloxicam for the postdoc

Connecticut v the balkans, idk who I’m rooting for

ME: look, a lot went into this set of compensation options. housing. transportation. I'm hoping we can finally end negotiations here - no? God...do you at least have a reasonable counter demand I can actually provide?

SWEET BABY: *stoned facedly slides folded paper note across table*

NOTE: "Mama"

Because it should be obvious to everyone that these attacks on the NIH come from COVID conspiracy nuts who are scapegoating scientists.

And when the NIH director started blaming the NIH for COVID, the fellows walked out of his first town hall meeting

Wonderful to have a catnip plant outside so I can just come inside to my cats and be like honey I’m home I brought drugs

Your flight was a Time Machine back to the dark ages

Nope nothing at all bizarre about government agency now giving time off for Christian observances.

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈

Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."