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Amy C
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likely to be found with nose buried in a Dostoevsky novel
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
My man looks like an Oompa Loompa elder at an open casket.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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scinews.bsky.social
Writing is thinking

"On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models."

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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ljrissler.bsky.social
The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns. Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
amyciceu.bsky.social
atonement for the untold numbers of lab mice I’ve sacrificed over the past few months, let alone days, in the name of scientific progress
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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rolfoldejans.bsky.social
Vladimir Nabokov searching for butterflies
January 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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science.org
The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. https://scim.ag/49G7Zwe
Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science
Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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scinews.bsky.social
Skipping breakfast is associated with increased odds of depression
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
Nothing to see here

Just the NIH Director trashing, um, one of the world’s best respected journals, Science

It makes sense really—power-hungry, power-consolidating autocrats love to criticize the media, it’s one of their favorite tactics
Jay Bhattacharya: It’s true. Science magazine promotes fake news.
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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scinews.bsky.social
Stressing out and trying to be the best as a kid usually makes you worse as an adult.
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
www.statnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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katenautiyal.bsky.social
New paper drop! 🧠💊 Our new paper out in Molecular Psychiatry shows that the serotonin 1B receptor is important for the neural and antidepressant/anxiolytic behavioral responses to psilocybin in mice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - The serotonin 1B receptor is required for some of the behavioral effects of psilocybin in mice
www.nature.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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ianlmorgan.bsky.social
NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.
jonathanwosen.bsky.social Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · Dec 18
A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...
NIH funding rates for early-career researchers plunged in 2025, new data show
A Trump administration change to how NIH awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding.
www.statnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
There’s nothing stopping the people in Washington DC from naming their own things after the president

The Donald J. Trump Dumpster

The Donald J. Trump Port-a-Potty

The Donald J. Trump Municipal Waste Disposal Facility
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Neuroscientists are working to solve a behavior problem in preclinical psychedelics research: Instead of identifying a simple test yielding a universal result, they are designing more nuanced tasks that better reflect human behavior.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

bit.ly/4jc24lW
Psychedelics research in rodents has a behavior problem
Simple behavioral assays—originally validated as drug-screening tools—fall short in studies that aim to unpack the psychedelic mechanism of action, so some behavioral neuroscientists are developing…
www.thetransmitter.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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science.org
An inflammatory cytokine in the brain can drive the addictive properties of methamphetamine by triggering the release of dopamine, according to new preclinical work in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/4aerEUO
TNF-α signaling mediates the dopaminergic effects of methamphetamine by stimulating dopamine transporters and L-type Ca2+ channels
Dopamine release that underlies methamphetamine addiction is driven by the cytokine TNF-α.
scim.ag
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jcb.org
Zhengyang Guo, Guangshuo Ou et al. @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social introduce SynSeg, a method that eliminates manual annotation by training #DeepLearning models on synthetic data from abstracted “primitives” to robustly segment diverse subcellular structures rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Technology
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
CMO TODAY Companies Are Desperately Seeking 'Storytellers' Brands trying to wrest greater control of their narratives are asking for 'storytelling' skill sets-without a campfire in sight drunk Don Draper pitch
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research, writes @alexkwan.bsky.social.

www.thetransmitter.org/drug-develop...

#neuroskyence
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Statement on the Brown University shooting.
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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markhisted.org
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.

There must be consequences.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Nov 22
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
When Davis learned that a breakaway faction was gathering on a Saturday afternoon at the offices of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz to plot a strategy for DOGE’s future, he began calling likely attendees and told them not to attend what he called the “coup” meeting. (The firm did not respond to a request for comment on its role in DOGE’s work.) Those at the meeting who looked at their phones would have seen their fortunes change in real time, as they were removed from Signal group chats — DOGE’s primary status marker of who belonged.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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kumar.bsky.social
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.

It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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markhisted.org
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.

@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.

They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
DRAFT/PRE-DECISIONAL - FOR ICD INPUT, 08.15.25 Achieving NIH's Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies Vision: A consistent and unified NIH-wide approach for funding the most meritorious science, addressing health priorities, and supporting a robust biomedical workforce Purpose: This framework provides a rubric by which ICO funding strategies are to be developed, implemented, and evaluated to achieve NIH's goals. All ICDs, in collaboration with their ICO staff, should review this framework and if needed, adjust respective funding policies and pay plan development processes. Background: All ICOs have funding policies to support the mission of NIH to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Appropriately, ICOs have their own respective, yet complementary, strategic plans to meet their individual ICO missions. It is crucial that there is coordination across ICO strategic plans and resulting funding policies to collectively leverage NIH's successes for the good of the American public. Core Tenets of ICO Funding Policies: Certain core tenets of funding policies should be consistent to ensure that the NIH mission and health priorities are being achieved. Moving forward, ICO funding policies should: • Align with NIH's and the ICO's stated mission and strategic priorities • Prioritize scientific merit, program relevance and program balance • Incorporate the breadth of the ICO's research portfolio and approaches • Consider investigator career stage and sustainability of the biomedical research workforce • Consider the total amount of NIH funding available to the investigator to promote distribution of funding • Align with the availability of funds from the ICO Note that while the score and critiques an application receives in peer review are important factors in determining the scientific merit of a proposal, ICOs may not rely on funding "…
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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alexkwan.bsky.social
We’ve thought a lot about how 💊 drugs act on dendrites of neurons, but what about when it is a 🧬 mutation that affects dendrites?

PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Autism-associated Scn2a haploinsufficiency disrupts in vivo dendritic signaling and impairs flexible decision-making | PNAS
SCN2A is a high-confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder. Loss-of-function mutations in Scn2a reduce dendritic excitability in neocortical...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM