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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 2d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · 28d

This was a super fun meeting surrounded by beautiful mountains (Austrian Alps). Thank you @parnian-saberi.bsky.social, @markuswohr.bsky.social et al for the invite!

Markus Wöhr @markuswohr.bsky.social · 29d

Another highlight of the @dfg.de-funded RTG2271 Breaking Expectations retreat: Susan Sangha’s talk on behavioral and neural mechanisms of safety learning. Thank you, @sanghalab.bsky.social! Super inspiring!

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Sep 3

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Jun 26

I want to know how long everyone had to stand still waiting for that dog to be in the right position 😆

barbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · Jun 25

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Jun 5

be careful with the fedex tariff bill - I hear that is insane

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Matt Hill @cannabrain.bsky.social · May 23

After an amazing opening plenary on threat and fear at the @canacn.bsky.social meeting got to hang out with some of my favorite amygdala scientists @arrudacarvalho.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social @iordanova.bsky.social @sanghalab.bsky.social & Kerry Ressler

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Mar 11

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts

Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

www.wsj.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 11

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.

This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.

This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

www.nature.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Mar 6

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.

“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

www.nature.com

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Rita Tamayo @ritatamayo.bsky.social · Feb 28

We're now actively rescheduling last week's cancelled study section. Well, there's a Doodle poll anyway...

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fewill26.bsky.social @fewill26.bsky.social · Feb 27

I got an email from my SRO today that we are rescheduling our study section that was canceled last week and are now coordinating schedules. The earliest date allowed for us to meet is March 25.

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Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · Feb 25

No surprise but the Behavioral Neuroscience Fellowship Study Section scheduled for this Thurs-Fri has been postponed. What really sucks is that, while diversity apps were initially removed, they were all added back and reviewed. Hopefully, the rumors of the Fed Register block ending soon are true.

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just adding that BRLE did happen today and day 2 is tomorrow. SRO confirmed it was registered a couple weeks ago so ours must have been on the cusp of this timeline

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Feb 17

I am so sorry this happened!

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Justin Bollinger @bollinger.bsky.social · Feb 16

I am actively looking for a research scientist position or research administration role within the Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area! Please reach out if my background and skillset might fit your labs needs :-) Lots of experience with preclinical models, translational neuroscience, and behavioral analyses!

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Justin Bollinger @bollinger.bsky.social · Feb 16

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 8

A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

media.tenor.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 7

ATTENTION

If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at [email protected].

I will keep all information confidential.

2/n

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Science Magazine @science.org · Feb 6

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education

“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions

scim.ag

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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D. @denisejcai.bsky.social · Jan 15

📣 As promised, here is our protocol paper on chemotagging! This new technique combines calcium imaging with chemogenetics to identify cell types in commonly used Miniscope recordings & can be used to tag ANY CELL TYPE! #Neuroskyence

Read about the technique here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congrats Kevin on the PECASE!!!

Kevin Solomon @drksolomon.bsky.social · Jan 14

So excited and humbled to join this cohort of early career scientists recognized by President Biden with the highest honor for an engineer or scientist in the US #PECASE #NSF www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Nov 21

#Pavlovian2025 will be in Sydney, Australia Aug 7-9 hosted by @melissajsharpe.bsky.social. Submissions for individual talk proposals are being accepted until Jan 31, 2025. Apply here: pavlovian.org/upcoming-mee...

Upcoming Meeting — Pavlovian Society

pavlovian.org

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Dec 16

the best holiday card we ever received was addressed to "Athena's Humans". I still have the envelope, I love it so much.

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Susan Sangha @sanghalab.bsky.social · Dec 16

I love how it goes Maggie (in all 6 photos) -> Orsha (in 3) -> and then ....you 😆

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