In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH.
But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔
NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards.
Here are funding curves for each.🧵
Ethanol alters the neurexin landscape in human neuroblastoma cells doi.org/10.1111/acer...
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service
Amazing work and one of the most heartbreaking ends to thread like this that I've ever read. We may never truly know the damage this administration has done to biomedical discovery!!
Link to the lab blog post with more details: www.oliviergeorge.com/post/why-we...
This work was supported by NIDA and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Full paper: Sneddon et al. (2026), Psychopharmacology.
link.springer.com/article/10....
If anyone, foundations, philanthropists, industry partners, is interested in funding fundamental research on female-specific vulnerability to addiction, please reach out. This work is too important to let die because of funding instability.
Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants.
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www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, RSA proudly recognizes the leadership and contributions of Rajita Sinha, PhD, who served as RSA President from 2024–2025. We are proud to celebrate her impact and contributions to the field and to RSA.
#WomensHistoryMonth #RSACommunity #RSA
New postdoctoral opportunity @lieberinstitute.bsky.social working w/ @tsawada1.bsky.social and our Molecular Neurogenetics team using human induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate molecular, cellular and neuroendocrine mechanisms by which impaired placental function impacts brain development
ugh. ugh. ugh.
Viral overexpression of Synaptogyrin-3, a synaptic vesicle protein, in VTA dopamine neurons prevents escalation of cocaine self-administration
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
...is that the paper links to a fantastic open-source software program (developed by @oliviaortelli.bsky.social!) that greatly facilitates the analysis of appetitive and consummatory datasets, using any paradigm that generates high resolution drinking data.
So glad that this paper is out! This review, written by an outstanding graduate student, @oliviaortelli.bsky.social, summarizes a large body of work using Hank Samson's sipper tube operant procedure to study alcohol self-administration. A major bonus....
Nice article on how alcohol impacts your body. I spoke to author about alcohol and brain.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
When I joined @jlweiner.bsky.social ’s lab, I told our lab technician Ann Chappell that I wanted to learn self-administration. She gave me a flash drive with every paper Hank Samson ever wrote. I felt like I won the lottery, read every one, and this paper is the ultimate result. Incredibly grateful!
I loved the halftime show!
The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World. This “Show” is just a “slap in the face” to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History! There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD — And, by the way, the NFL should immediately replace its ridiculous new Kickoff Rule. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show
Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.
loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
American Idiot indeed.
Thanks, Green Day. 👊🏼
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
If we continue to compromise with people whose stated goal is to destroy NIH, then we will not be successful in saving it.
I sure wish we still had a Congressional branch.
Breaking: Kushner and Saudi Arabia are part of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. This could give them control of CNN and more: www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
Todays Republican Party: come for the cruelty, stay for the corruption!
