Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

🧪 Philadelphia area Neuroscientists: This is a great opportunity to meet other area neuroscientists and share your work as a speaker (postdoctoral fellow) or with a poster (anyone with data!) www.spinephilly.org #neuroscience #Philadelphia #neuroskyence 🧠

In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.

Read what two Postdocs have to say about Penn choosing to fight its own researchers forming a union in a recent op-ed in @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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How smart is your cat?

mainecatlab.org

Link to questionnaire in the article.

Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction

Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.

Your lab scissors are actually a parafilmase - a highly specialized enzyme that catalyzes the precise cutting of parafilm through a metal-dependent mechanism

I think we all feel a little bit like Henry right now... #catsofbluesky

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there