SF Karel
@karelsf.bsky.social
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biochemical engineer, scientist, IT guru, university admin, soccer referee, dog walker. Currently Vice Provost for Research at Brandeis University. Opinions expressed on this account are my own, not those of my employer.
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brandeismrsec.bsky.social
The 104th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Brandeis was a wonderful experience to share science and catch up with colleagues! A huge thank you to the E Ink Corporation for helping the MRSEC sponsor this event!
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hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
Brandeis is hiring for this unique interdisciplinary 2-year postdoc/lecturer position in AI and Society. 1 course/semester + collaborative research and mentoring. Great prep for TT positions! Deadline 10/1. Details in the ad. #PsychJobs #HigherEdJobs
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence and Society (2025/10/01 11:59PM) Apply - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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us.theconversation.com
Important information for anyone who uses “Private” or “Incognito” mode browsing: it’s not really that private.

Private browsing mode does not prevent your employer, school or internet service provider from seeing your web activities.

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Private browsing: What it does – and doesn’t do – to shield you from prying eyes on the web
Private mode browsing is a useful way to cover your online tracks. Just don’t read too much into the word ‘private.’
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kavlifoundation.org
Kavli-Grass Fellows Christian Hoffmann & Kyra Schapiro presented on their Grass Laboratory summer research projects at ‪@mblscience.bsky.social‬.

Their work will uncover principles around how nervous systems of marine organisms respond to changing environmental conditions.

https://bit.ly/4lYMQRI
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senguptalab.bsky.social
This below is correct. I just got confirmation as well. Key though is to upload the unformatted version - meaning not the journal formatted PDF but the manuscript version that was accepted. And for several journals - you will have to do the submission yourself (make it CC-BY and link your grants!)
peiferlabunc.bsky.social
You can upload the PMC version the day of publication and that should cover your obligation. Here are the new rules I received from @jcb.org covering it and other Rockefeller Press journals
Choose Gold – Upon publication, RUP deposits the published article to PubMed Central, where it will be immediately publicly available. 
 
Choose Green – the author deposits the peer-reviewed editorially accepted manuscript to PubMed Central upon its acceptance. The final submitted revision of the peer-reviewed and editorially accepted manuscript is ready for deposit to PubMed Central after the author receives the final acceptance decision from the journal via email with the subject line  [JOURNAL TITLE] [ms number] – Formal Acceptance
karelsf.bsky.social
With tape it's all about the software and having someone to monitor it. Think about getting a decent sized library to reduce the amount of man-hours feeding tape
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haganlab.bsky.social
🚨Published 🚨 : Newton 2025 : doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... : @laynefrechette.bsky.social demonstrates how active noise can induce dynamic clustering of colloidal particles that has tunable characteristics. Check it out !
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hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
This is absolutely bonkers and anyone who thinks they've had a problematic (a) peer review experience and/or (b) lab member should read it and realize IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH WORSE. Also, HR does background checks for a reason.
karelsf.bsky.social
making a note to add this as a reference for Responsible Conduct of Research
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hannahrsnyder.bsky.social
Sign of hope on this front: My program just got our NoA for our T32 competing renewal! This came more than a year after submission, thanks to the very delayed Council meeting, but we are delighted that it came!
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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fcoloninfl.bsky.social
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act is one big blow to the nation’s energy system. 📉 Hundreds of gigawatts of clean energy that could be added to the nation’s grid are at risk of being stripped to boost profits for corporate polluters. We explain here. ⬇️
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Is Crushing America’s Electricity System
More than half of all new capacity added to the grid over the next 10 years will be lost if federal clean energy investment is terminated, threatening a failure to meet U.S. energy demands, to raise e...
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ssteingraber1.bsky.social
🧪 NEW STUDY: Canada’s dormant oil/gas wells are leaking 7X more climate-killing methane than assumed by national inventories.

Canada has 400,000+ old wells; 68% are plugged.

The U.S. has 3 million+ old wells; 42% are plugged.

(The U.S. is no longer researching this.)

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Sevenfold Underestimation of Methane Emissions from Non-producing Oil and Gas Wells in Canada
Millions of non-producing oil and gas wells around the world are leaking methane and other contaminants, contributing to increased greenhouse gas emissions and polluting our water, soil, and air. Quantifying methane emissions and understanding the attributes driving these emissions are important for evaluating the scale of the environmental risks and informing mitigation strategies. With our national-scale direct measurement database of 494 non-producing wells across Canada, we find total annual methane emissions from non-producing wells in Canada to be 230 kt/year (51–560 kt/year) for 2023, which is 7 (1.5–16) times higher than estimated in Canada’s National Inventory Report (34 kt/year) and accounts for 13% of total fugitive emissions from oil and natural gas systems in Canada. We show that the role of well attributes in methane emissions is best evaluated by considering the emitting component (wellhead/surface casing vent) and the spatial scale (e.g., national, provincial, subprovincial). Large uncertainties in methane emissions from non-producing wells can be reduced not only with additional measurements but also with detailed well attribute analysis using direct measurements. Identifying attributes linked to high emitters can also be used to prioritize mitigation, thereby reducing methane emissions and broader environmental risks.
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madhupai.bsky.social
The quick answer is No!

Can the US afford to lose its 1.1 million international students?

International students contributed $43.8bn to the US economy last year and created 378,175 jobs nationwide.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Can the US afford to lose its 1.1 million international students?
International students contributed $43.8bn to the US economy last year and created 378,175 jobs nationwide.
www.aljazeera.com
karelsf.bsky.social
Jin Zhao uses Natural Language Processing to determine if the framing of news stories is positive, negative, or neutral. @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social www.brandeis.edu/gsas//news/n...
Geeking Out With...Jin Zhao
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karelsf.bsky.social
I think an AI "do all my Workday tasks" bot is achievable. Laundry would be a challenge.
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wwenneuro.bsky.social
Very happy that this work is finally out in ‪@pnas.org‬! We show that synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity sense distinct aspects of network activity, and can thus be independently recruited by distinct network functions. A thread:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Modular arrangement of synaptic and intrinsic homeostatic plasticity within visual cortical circuits | PNAS
Neocortical circuits use synaptic and intrinsic forms of homeostatic plasticity to stabilize key features of network activity, but whether these di...
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davidimiller.bsky.social
🧪 Basic science boosts the economy:

"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?

The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
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megkirch.bsky.social
A very special 150th episode - I got to interview the one-and-only Eve Marder! Check it out to learn more about her life and science, and highly recommend listening to the interview to hear her many fabulous stories and her words of wisdom, my personal favorite being about how she found her ‘voice’
storiesofwin.bsky.social
Check out our latest profile! Dr. Eve Marder studies the stability and flexibility of neural circuit function. Follow the link below to learn more!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesofWiN #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro