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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 1d

🚀 Early-career scientists: Apply for the 2026 Keystone Symposia Fellows! Gain mentorship, career guidance & join a global network of scientific leaders. 🧬

🗓 Apply by Oct 20, 2025
🔗 www.keystonesymposia.org/program-enri... #KSFellows #KeystoneSymposia #EarlyCareerScientists

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Brianna George, PhD @briannaegeorge.bsky.social · 2d

So incredibly excited to join the NPP team!!

Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 2d

Big news at @npp-journal.bsky.social HQ 👇

We are thrilled to welcome @briannaegeorge.bsky.social as our new NPP Editorial Intern 🎉

We are looking forward to working with Dr. George and are excited to have such a fantastic addition to our team 🤩

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 2d

shout out to all the people putting their troubleshooting and splutions online for openephys/neuropixel stuff!!

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 2d

congrats to Brianna and the team!!!

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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 2d

Big news at @npp-journal.bsky.social HQ 👇

We are thrilled to welcome @briannaegeorge.bsky.social as our new NPP Editorial Intern 🎉

We are looking forward to working with Dr. George and are excited to have such a fantastic addition to our team 🤩

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4d

Powerful and important piece by an outstanding physician, scientist, and human being @kaminskimed.bsky.social

pdf:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 4d

thats good beer

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · 4d

Apply to the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social postdoc fellowships! For experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers interested interdisciplinary understanding of cognition. Competitive salary+welcoming community+world-class facilities+more

Deadline 11.10
wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
#KnowTogether

Information card about the Wu Tsai Postdoctoral fellowships. Featuring a woman pipetting in a lab in front of a microscope.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 4d

congrats Lisa!

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 5d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 4d

There are new horrifying stories and videos like this every day. I don't know how people don't understand that the horrible nightmare regime they fear is coming is already here.

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 6d

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 6d

2 years ago i thought id never do experiments again, im back on my shit

hoping this makes it to sfn poster !

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 7d

"Earlier- & later-diagnosed autism have different developmental trajectories & genetic profiles. The findings have important implications for how we conceptualize autism & provide a model to explain some of its diversity." @vw1234.bsky.social & an international team report today in @nature.com: 👇🧪

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature

A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 8d

DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year

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DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died two days ago on Sunday while in ICE custody at the for-profit Adelanto Processing Center in California, marking the 14th detainee death in immigration detention since the…

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 8d

clowns

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 9d

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Who, specifically, advised this? Is this in writing?

I ask as a white American of eastern European ancestry and a proud SACNAS member. It is a great organization.

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 9d

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 9d

congrats!!

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Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9d

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

www.npr.org

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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