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."

What neuroscientists want from a new NINDS director The search is underway for the next director of the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who will face a range of challenges, neuroscientists say, but will also have an…

Neuroscientists across the United States shared with @thetransmitter.bsky.social what they hope the new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke prioritizes during their tenure. #neuroskyence

By @helenak.bsky.social

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The NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship by an NINDS Investigator Excellent mentorship and training are critical to the development of exceptional future scientists. To recognize the contributions and importance of outstanding mentors, the National Institute of Neur...

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Text outlining how the NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship cycles through 3 career stages: Junior Faculty: 2018, 2021, 204 Mid-career faculty: 2019, 2022, 2025 Established faculty: 2020, 2023, 2026

To clarify- the Landis award cycles through all career stages. 2026 happens to be the year for established investigators! We do this so we can better compare apples to apples:

#neuroscience #trainees

One more week to nominate your outstanding mentors for the NINDS Landis Award!

Due 4/24:

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Missed my poster on HEAL training opportunities? Message me for a copy!

#neuroscience #trainees
One month left to nominate an outstanding mentor for the NINDS Landis Award!

Nomination form here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

I made a visual sample size calculator to help use our intuitions about how our graphs typically look to estimate the effect size and the required sample size.

I'm looking for input to make it more useful. Or if you spot bugs.

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The NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship Recognizing NINDS-funded investigators for their dedication to mentorship and training.

#neuroscience #trainees

Call for Nominations for the NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship!

This year, NINDS is seeking nominations for established faculty mentors who are more than 20 years from the start of their first TT position.

Nominations are due 4/24!

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The annual €350,000 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the BIH Quest Center for Responsible Research is inviting applications and nominations again

https://award.einsteinfoundation.de

Deadline: 30th April

Individual, Institutional and Early Career […]

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond!

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

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“Please get the truth out about our son.”

On a call with NIH PO this morning - I knew NOSIs were no longer a thing, but wasn't aware they now have these "Highlighted Topics". Not clear how it exactly interfaces with funding and/or how you highlight alignment, but good to keep an eye on!

grants.nih.gov/funding/find...

House and Senate appropriators endorse NIH budget increase, reject Trump’s proposed cuts Congressional appropriations committees offered a near-total rebuke of President Trump’s proposed downsizing and reshaping of the NIH

Congressional appropriators have largely pushed back on Trump's proposals for the NIH:

-Slight budget increase
-No changes to indirect cost payments
-Limits use of multiyear funding to FY25 levels (NOT FY24)

From @jonathanwosen.bsky.social & I

www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/n...

The value of publishing negative data - News Scientific journals love news-worthy results. Editors want to publish studies with novel data that scientists will eagerly read and cite in their own work. Because of this desire for novelty, studies ...

Giving the gift of negative data 🥰

Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them!

Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article!

www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Submissions due 12/19!

Still plenty of time left to apply!

#science #neuroscience #NIH #metascience

Chris Boshoff is the PD

Ultra-rare Gene-based Therapy (URGenT) Network The Ultra-rare Gene-based Therapy (URGenT) program will support the development of state-of-the-art gene-based therapies for ultra-rare neurological diseases, which affect as few or fewer than one in ...

You could also look into the NINDS URGenT program, which is currently funding one of these at Columbia/n-Lorem: www.ninds.nih.gov/current-rese...

We are organizing our #ILoveMethods26 workshop! Sign up here: forms.gle/JcG93NU6NNSj.... Find more information: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods....

Horrible idea. AI will regress all grants towards the mean since AI is trained to produce the average output.

Grants require expertise that ignores bad literature and rejects author assertions if false. no AI review I've seen has ever challenged the author's assertions as fundamentally flawed.

Y'all I am so tired.

Notice of Request for Information; Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on Federal policy updates that aim to accelerate the American scientific enterprise, enable groundbreaking...

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.

This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I plan to highlight:

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!

Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.

Nominations close 18 January 2026.

#AcademicSky #Research

International Community Convenes In Pisa To Advance Coordinated Reform In Publishing And Research Assessment – ASAPbio On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organisations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pisa,

Together with colleagues from @dorassessment.bsky.social, @cwtsnl.bsky.social, and @sciencecouncil.bsky.social, @asapbio.bsky.social hosted a workshop to identify and advance joint actions to strengthen the research assessment and publishing reform movements. Learn more: asapbio.org/internationa...

We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.

Checks out.

IMO I see this issue much more with “open science”. There is so much emphasis on sharing all of our data, but little attention is given to the rigor or quality of the methods used to obtain such data.