#WesternU is one of Canada's Greenest Employers, the only #LdnOnt organization to make the 2026 list. The university was recognized for its approach to sustainability on campus and projects like the community garden and Free Store. #GreenEmployers 🌱
Oh I’m squarely a “mid” career scientist these days!
Came here to suggest grant-maxxing!
2026 is Fundmaxxing
Adding the suffix “-maxxing” to a noun and finding six randos who claim to be practitioners does not make It A Thing
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.”
wapo.st/4euUt1c
"For the past 15 years, my lab has been studying long-term cognitive impairments after infections with viruses. I’m interested in understanding how exposure to infection changes normal brain function." - Dr. Robyn Klein, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology
#WesternU
My daughter has a capstone project (for 8th grade) on mocktails and how they have impacted drinking culture. She put together a survey for this project, if you are so inclined to take it, feel free:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Science, at its best, is a community effort.
From lifetime achievement to emerging talent, from research to outreach, there's an award for the neuroscientists who make our field great.
Submit your nomination for a 2026 SfN Award or Prize by Thursday, May 7.
🔗 vist.ly/4z5kf
#neurosky
Can you squeeze your graduate programme into a 40-hour working week? These 13 current and former PhD candidates reveal their top time-management tips to Nature Careers. #Academicsky 🧪
Connecting extinction learning in the laboratory and the wild
Perspective by Patrick Anselme & Onur Güntürkün
go.nature.com/4ckM4fv
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
By designing decision-making tasks that vary along multiple dimensions and truly challenge our animals, we might finally understand how multiple brain areas coordinate to drive decisions, writes @chandlab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/decision-mak...
Circadian Regulation of Taste Sensitivity in Human and Rat Active Periods www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Check out the oitstanding submissions for the @canadianpain.bsky.social’s Art Awards. CPS Members can vote for their top choice.
www.canadianpainsociety.ca/previoussubm...
Looking forward to seeing you all in Quebec City in 2 weeks!
#CanPain26 #CPS_ASM26 #🇨🇦PainSociety
Congrats Massieh! So happy to see this out!
PAIN 20 April 2026
@massih.bsky.social et al. find that baseline circulating endocannabinoid ligand concentrations are associated with individual differences in pressure pain threshold, but not thermal thresholds/tolerance, or temporal summation of pain. Learn more in #PAIN bit.ly/4tEJzdL
🏃♀️ SONA abstract and regular-rate registration closes today at NOON! 🏃♂️
Join us at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social on Saturday, May 2, 2026, for a showcase of Southern Ontario’s leading neuroscience research!
This #NationalVolunteerWeek SfN recognizes the collective efforts of our dedicated volunteers whose hard work, energy, and outstanding commitment, are essential to SfN’s ability to convene, support, and celebrate the neuroscience community.
🔗 vist.ly/4z3rs
#neurosky #neuroskyence #medsky
This sucks Becca! Glad you’re speaking truth to power!
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
More from the Art of the Brain🧠! The @paulkennyphd.bsky.social Lab's Dr. Dina Vázquez Carrillo's intense image, "The Universe of the Brain", shows that we do not just live in the universe... we contain a universe as well! VOTE NOW for #ArtoftheBrain Image # 10 👉 Most 💝s wins!
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Similar to galaxies, the brain remains vastly unexplored. Traveling thru "Galaxies" w/ Neuropathology Brain Bank's Dr. Claudia De Sanctis & Victoria Flores Almazan, we encounter small, solar-like structures, #LewyBodies, hidden deep w/in neurons. VOTE NOW for #ArtoftheBrain Image # 8👉 Most
💛s wins!
American science is shrinking.
A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV
i think it’s SO SUPER TELLING that a lot of this manifesto, which demands that we allow Silicon Valley to enact fascism and endless genocidal violence at home & abroad out of a “moral debt” to the govt that funded its rise, is expressed in the language of anti-wokeness and cancel culture discourse
Bhattacharya, Letai & other politicals at NIH keep trying to to say all at NIH is fine, because they spent the full budget last year. This well researched article from @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social explains exactly why many scientists are still struggling. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
