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STAT @statnews.com · 2d

2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries. Their research helped explain why the immune system does not attack our own tissues.
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2025 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for immune system discoveries

Three scientists who uncovered how our body keeps our immune system in check — enabling it to fight off dangerous invaders while recognizing our own tissues as a friend — won the Nobel Prize in physio...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5d

The awarded projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes in autistic youth and adults.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

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Meet the Autism Data Science Initiative grantees

The projects plan to study gene-and-environment interactions in people, stem cells and organoids, as well as predictors of positive life outcomes.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 9d

The Xylom’s analysis of data from the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) identified more than 13,000 H-1B workers who have joined over 200 four-year or postgraduate-only land-grant, sea-grant, and R1: Very High Spending and Doctorate Production institutions so far this fiscal year.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 6d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

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Pampa García Molina @pampa.bsky.social · 5d

Abracito a periodistas de ciencia y buen finde de descanso antes de la semana de los Nobel

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 5d

The FDA wants to expand the use of leucovorin to treat autism traits, based on an analysis of the scientific research. @thetransmitter.bsky.social has obtained the list of 23 studies.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Exclusive: The 23 studies the FDA based its expanded leucovorin label on

The studies include 46 people, mostly toddlers, who have cerebral folate deficiency due to variants in a folate transporter.

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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 8d

Covering null results can help reporters contribute to a more accurate view of science and the world, writes @bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow Lucila Pinto in TON’s latest, with insights from @vcallier.bsky.social, @ldattaro.bsky.social, @claricecudi.bsky.social and others. 🧪

Covering Null Results: How to Turn “Nothing” into News - The Open Notebook

Null results—those that contradict a study’s original hypothesis or fail to find a cause-and-effect link between variables—can be easy to dismiss as non-news but may lead to valuable stories that show...

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 8d

Neuropixels Ultra!

By @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, who led a big collaboration

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Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings

To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single-neuron and single-spike re…

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Nature @nature.com · 9d

3,785 doctoral students across 107 counties told us about everything from supervision practices to workplace concerns

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4gSnYJM

A chart titled "how phd students rate their experiences". 75% of respondents are satisfied with their phds

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Nature @nature.com · 13d

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

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What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13d

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 14d

The SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act seeks to revamp the FDA’s review process. Could it usher in more effective sunscreens?

A New Bill’s Bid to Bring Better Sunscreens

The SAFE Sunscreen Standards Act seeks to revamp the FDA’s review process. Could it usher in more effective sunscreens?

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Claudia Lopez Lloreda @claudia-lopez.bsky.social · 14d

Hi everyone! We are taking a look at the state of funding in the neuroscience field so we are looking for PIs to answer this survey. Please feel free to fill out and share with colleagues.

Ty!

Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs

We want to hear from you about the sources of funding for your research.

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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 28d

Experts warn that weakening the NRC could compromise safety. “The thrust of those orders is to essentially strip the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of its independence,” said Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists. https://undark.org/2025/09/08/trump-nuclear-renaissance/

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 21d

It's the white whale of neuroscience - completely mapping the brain and its activity.

Forrest Collman sat down with @samanthayammine.com from the Curiosity Weekly podcast and shared how we are taking on this "impossible" task and the surprising role YouTube videos play.

🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14d

Flies fly thanks to local circuits of sensory and effector neurons that control specific body parts and enable behaviors such as feeding and walking, new work shows.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new ‘embodied’ connectome reveals

The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15d

ICE has already detained one journalist.

Others could be next.

Experts in immigration and media law told us what newsrooms need to do to prepare.

Noncitizen journalists face risk from ICE — here’s what newsrooms can do

We spoke to experts in immigration and media law about how newsrooms should prepare for ICE detentions of journalists

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

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Luis Joel Méndez González @mjoel17.bsky.social · 21d

La gobernadora de Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González, no ha llenado las tres vacantes del Comité de Expertos y Asesores sobre el Cambio Climático. Junto a la falta de presupuesto, el comité está inoperante. Lean mi investigación para el @cpipr.bsky.social — periodismoinvestigativo.com/2025/09/gobi...

Gobierno ahoga al Comité de Expertos y Asesores sobre Cambio Climático

La falta de presupuesto y las tres vacantes en el Comité han paralizado sus labores a pesar de las responsabilidades que tiene por ley, además de vigilar la implantación del Plan de Mitigación, Adapta...

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 20d

NIH outlines new system for awarding research grants to foreign scientists www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/n... via @statnews.com

#NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

NIH outlines new system for awarding research grants to foreign scientists

Scientists seeking NIH funding for projects involving overseas partners will encounter a new grant system starting early next year.

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 21d

"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."

My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org

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Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students

After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 26d

It's been a busy time for NIH grants staff — the agency seems on track to spend its budget this fiscal year

But, because of multi-year funding, fewer projects are being funded than in previous years.

The number of R grants has fallen from 5,633 to 3,758

analysis by @jaspar.bsky.social

Graph titled "value of grants awarded in 2025 has caught up to average of previous years." Graph shows average of 2016-24 spending and how much has been spent so far in FY25

Graph titled "Amount of first-year R01 and R21 grants." Graph compares average of 2016-24 to 2025.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 27d

George Floyd’s killing in 2020 set off a “racial reckoning” in journalism. News outlets sought out DEI trainings, formed internal committees, and created roles focused on race, diversity, and equality.

In 2025, we wanted to know: What happened to those efforts?

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From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline

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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 23d

A photoessay by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social highlights researchers' labor & collaboration: "Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced." www.quantamagazine.org/photos-captu...

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Sep 1

The landscape of life-altering medicines, the ways we “see” molecular structures, and even the periodic table wouldn’t be the same without chemists with disabilities. They’ve been working & innovating since the age of modern chemistry began in the 18th and 19th centuries
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8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history

Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified

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