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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · Aug 19

We offer automatic forms to tell your lawmakers to ditch Daylight Saving Time! savestandardtime.com/action/

Tell policymakers to ditch DST and restore permanent Standard Time!

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 7

Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

Photos of a starving baby in Gaza shocked the world. Here's how he's doing now

Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jul 31

First highlight...

Senator Capito started of the discussion saying that the bill contains AN INCREASE for NIH.

The details are not available, but the bill will be released ofter the hearing.

This is not a done-deal, but it does show where the Senate is on a bipartisan basis.

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Progress in gene therapy offers hope for long-term knee pain relief

For nearly three decades, Mayo Clinic researcher Christopher Evans, Ph.D., has pushed to expand gene therapy beyond its original scope of fixing rare, single-gene defects. That has meant systematicall...

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Current University of Arkansas System employees, including student employees and graduate assistants, need to log in to Workday via MyApps.Microsoft.com, then access Find Jobs from the Workday search ...

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Amy Poe @poeflylab.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’m hiring another research technician! Recent college grads are encouraged to apply. Please share with anyone who might be interested. uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

Laboratory Assistant

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a man in a green lantern costume is standing in a hanger with a helicopter in the background .

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Jul 29

🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 Our genes/jeans are GREEN tomorrow
To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY (tomorrow) to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor #wearthecolor

Alt: Ryan Reynolds suiting up as Green Lantern. While better known for his role as Deadpool, Ryan will always be Green Lantern to us. Sorry not sorry, Ryan. This will haunt you forever.

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Felix Baier @felixbaier.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

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

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · Jul 23

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.”

There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

Edwin Antony @professorantony.bsky.social · Jul 23

Funding policy for 2025 from NCI. Was just released: 4 percentile…maybe!
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Funding Policy - Research Grants

NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · Jul 24

When two related mouse species are faced with a scary visual shadow that appears to be approaching…PAG neurons in one say “run!” And in the other say “freeze!” Very cool findings. Congrats to the authors. Could evolutionary switches like this underlie nocturnal vs diurnal?

Katja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · Jul 23

Finally it's out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... How flexible are essential innate behaviours and their underlying neural circuits? @felixbaier.bsky.social & I, with Hopi Hoekstra and @farrowlab.bsky.social, addressed this by studying the #evolution of threat avoidance in Peromyscus mice.

The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice - Nature

Visual threat triggers contrasting freeze and escape defensive responses in two species of deer mice as a result of different activation thresholds downstream of the superior colliculus in the do...

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Kepecs Lab @ WashU @kepecslab.bsky.social · Apr 11

1/ Why do patients with late-stage cancer lose motivation & sink into apathy?
🔥 Our new Science paper shows chronic inflammation activates a cytokine-sensing brain circuit that lowers motivation. Huge team effort: Aelita Zhu, Sarah Starosta, Pignatelli & Janowitz labs! 🧵
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A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy

Cachexia, a severe wasting syndrome associated with inflammatory conditions, often leads to multiorgan failure and death. Patients with cachexia experience extreme fatigue, apathy, and clinical depres...

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Hurley Lab @jenniferhurleylab.bsky.social · Mar 31

My department is looking for our newest faculty member. The review of applications starts soon. I hope to see your application in there! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Assistant Professor, Computational Ecology

The Department of Biological Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Computational Ecolo...

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Overlooked cell type orchestrates brain rewiring | WashU Medicine

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jun 9

Astrocytes Take the Lead in Neural Rewiring - this discovery fundamentally changes current understanding about the determinants of brain network communication and activity.

Dr. Thomas Papouin
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Rather than neurons, brain cells known as astrocytes take charge in shaping response to signal involved in vigilance, mouse study shows

$12 million grant funds studies of role of genes in autism, similar diagnoses

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jun 23

@iddrc-washu.bsky.social + The McDonnell Genome Institute @washumedicine.bsky.social secure a $12M NIH grant to form the Scalable Mouse Assay Center. Led by Joseph Dougherty - WU-SMAC will curate models of neurodevelopmental/psychiatric disorders known to be caused by a single gene mutation.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $12 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to deepen understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders that are caused by a single gene mutation.

A unified theory of the mind

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jun 27

Keith Hengen @washuartsci.bsky.social notes that “criticality” - the tipping point between order & chaos - is the key to understanding how the brain works, & how to keep it free from Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

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In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology, suggests a new comprehensive approach to understa...

Sleep data from wearable device may help predict preterm birth

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jul 2

A collaboration among Ben Warner and Chenyang Lu at the McKelvey School of Engineering along with Sarah England and Peinan Zhao at WashU OBGYN shows sleep patterns in people experiencing pregnancy can effectively predict preterm birth.

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An interdisciplinary research team at Washington University in St. Louis has found that variability in sleep patterns in people experiencing pregnancy can effectively predict preterm birth.

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jul 10

The Saint Louis Science Center / WashU St. Louis Neuroscience Outreach invite you to Up Late: Experience Sound on July 19 where @washu.edu ‬grad students will be among the presenters testing the limits of human hearing. #WashUNeuroCommunity

For tickets and more information, visit slsc.org/up-late

Yoo, Sun recognized for developing novel method to study aged neurons | WashU Medicine

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washuonr.bsky.social @washuonr.bsky.social · Jul 11

Andrew Yoo and Zhao Sun of @washumedicine.bsky.social receive Morby Prize @curealzheimersfund.bsky.social ‪for seminal study in @science.org to show skin cells from patients with late-onset Alzheimer’s can be transformed into neurons and reproduce hallmarks of the disease bit.ly/4kxcmf6

Morby prize from Cure Alzheimer’s Fund honors groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research

Dr. Erik Herzog: Creating a Circadian Campus

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · Jul 17

I enjoy interviews by fearless future scientists. High school student, Sanjay Adireddy, honored and challenged me with his excellent questions on his Podcast, #Neurocracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJY0...

YouTube video by Neurocracy

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · Jul 13

Looking for something fun to do in St. Louis, MO on Saturday July 19? neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/calendar_eve...

St. Louis Neuroscience Outreach – “Up Late: Experience Sound” | Office of Neuroscience Research | Washington University in St. Louis

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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · Jul 13

Follow this link to advocate for research, especially on model organisms. www.fda.gov/news-events/...