"Many labs are dwindling by attrition. Students or postdoctoral researchers leave, and their positions aren’t filled. Many research universities are admitting fewer PhD students, narrowing the very beginning of the pipeline of new scientists."
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good catch Andres! Thanks for calling this out
when he made that shot, I said series over; impossible to defend
Very exciting review article by @tessamontague.bsky.social and @kocherlab.bsky.social. It's an exciting time in neuroscience. Cool to see our naked mole rat preprint highlighted in Fig2, alongside beautiful work from many friends and colleagues.
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Stunning and important work. I've seen some versions of it presented over the years, and glad to see this preprint out.
Very cool! So thats the key to working with you huh? lol
Understood fully. I've run a lab about 8 years now and am a permanent study section member. I think its just getting even worse now.
Thats precisely it @nicolecrust.bsky.social. Anything truly transformative will not be funded from standard R01s, only fool proof established ideas from established investigators will stand a chance.
Getting an NIH grant, when money is released, is getting exponentially harder. You basically will need all three reviewers to score your grant as perfect to have a shot at funding.
You basically need all three reviewers to basically rate your grant as perfect, or you have no shot of funding...
Indeed! It appears you all have so much fun (while being highly productive). We are a bit high strung and uptight on this coast lol
Very cool @nbellono.bsky.social and team! And the cover!
legend, well deserved
Looks like a great time was had, sorry to miss you all. Was at another mandatory meeting.
on my calendar!
Another paper from our awesome lab out today @nature.com. Led by 🌟 PD Jihye Yeon with fantastic collaborators. We show how an ionotropic receptor (related to insect sensory IRs) in a single pharyngeal enteric neuron senses ingested salts and protects the worm from high salt stress.
rdcu.be/fbd4a
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."
New #VosshallLab pre-print! Test your sense of smell, coming soon to your clinic or doctor's office
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
I have my resignation letter written for permanent study section...on the fence about hitting the send button. This is baffling as you say.
I agree. I actually will trust anything from Scott Waddell's lab even more now. Awesome integrity from Gaby Maimon and not trying to expose or ruin their reputation, but just to correct the scientific record. Handled wonderfully by both parties.
Drafting my resignation letter as we speak
Not the news I wanted to see as I gear up for two days of study section review starting tomorrow. Sure, just remove the biggest perk of reviewing 10 R01s per study section, multiple times a year. Very disheartening.
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Much respect to Scott Waddell for retracting the paper after catching a major mistake which made a subset of the data incorrect. And respect to Gaby Maimon for catching the error in the raw data and informing the authors. This is how science moves forward.
Excited to have @rafaelyuste.bsky.social as our third #OptoGRC2026 keynote speaker!
Join us for his talk on how neural circuits & dendritic spines work together to "orchestrate" brain activity 🎹✨
Don’t miss the chance to attend — registration closes 4/12.
www.grc.org/optogenetic-...
Congrats Andrew, well deserved honor!
So exciting! Looking forward to hosting you and hearing more about your work soon.
Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens!
Read it in Science
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As a child, @phosphotig.bsky.social dreamed of being an astronaut, but her curiosity led her to scientific research. Now, she leads her own lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, & studies oxidative stress to find better therapies for triple-negative breast cancer. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Cool! Sorry to miss it, need to be at another mandatory meeting
