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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · 5d

Please share! 👆🏽@pebyale.bsky.social
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 5d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year!

Links below:

Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903
Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989
Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · May 6

Today is my bday 🎉 , and I celebrated making a donation to #SACNAS. Join my campaign to send more students to #NDiSTEM2025 to connect with STEM opportunities, mentors, and a welcoming community. Our support is now more important than ever! 💪🏽✨ #SomosSemillas connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization...

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Apr 13

I’m not religious. But once upon a time, in my youth, I fell in love with the idea of a Jesus who was a rebel, who defended love and kindness and human rights and justice. Here’s hoping that this rebelliousness awakens in more people. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

Screenshot of NYT oped: “But Jesus never sought to replace Caesar with a Christian Caesar. He came to dismantle the very logic of Caesar: the belief that might makes right, peace comes through violence and politics is best wielded through fear, coercion and control. Instead, he inaugurated a counter-kingdom that aspires to loving kindness, radical welcome, mercy and justice — a kingdom where the vulnerable and the poor are lifted up, and the idols of empire are exposed as frauds.”

Screenshot of NYT oped: “Waving palms on Palm Sunday connects us to justice, public life, discourse and action. We cannot remain silent on behalf of those who genuinely cry out “Hosanna … Save us.” At some point, we have to make a choice about the Jesus we claim to follow. Either he didn’t care about the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed — in which case we’ve built our religion on a hollow figure. Or he did care, deeply, and we’ve chosen to ignore that part because it challenges our comfort, our politics and our priorities.”

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Apr 9

These cut NIH funding programs are the main source of training for 1000s of students at MSIs, PUIs & underresourced institutions across the US. So many scientists at top institutions came through these programs. The demographics of who does science will be set back to the 1980s.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 8

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs

Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

www.thetransmitter.org

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 8

Long-standing training grants for underrepresented minorities have been canceled under Trump’s NIH.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/excl...

NIH nixes funds for pre- and postdoctoral training programs

Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thank you for sharing. I needed his words today and a reminder of what’s at stake.

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Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org · Feb 21

Civil rights hero John Lewis was born on this day in 1940. His life’s mission? Making good trouble to fight racism, protect voting rights, and prevent gun violence.

Let’s honor his legacy with action—because the truth is still marching on.

Opinion | John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation (Published 2020)

Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.

www.nytimes.com

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 13

Update: The UPR has gone back to its
original IDC rate bsky.app/profile/ggue...

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 13

Update: It seems @uprrp is now adhering to the court-mandated pause and is the back to its original indirect rate of 49%. However, this signals a few things 1) we need to make sure institutions are not overzealous in implementing EOs when they don’t have to 1/n

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

Colleagues in #PuertoRico just told me that the pause in funding cuts to grants from NIH does not include US territories! Support for administrative costs (real expenses)
@uprrp.bsky.social is going from 49% to 15%, a huge blow to a system already suffering staggering cuts by @fombpr.bsky.social

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 13

2) The UPR is in a very precarious position given the huge budget cuts previously mandated by the @FOMBPR and the current administration’s agenda to cut funding across the board for research, education and programs that support minority communities.

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 13

Update: It seems @uprrp is now adhering to the court-mandated pause and is the back to its original indirect rate of 49%. However, this signals a few things 1) we need to make sure institutions are not overzealous in implementing EOs when they don’t have to 1/n

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

Colleagues in #PuertoRico just told me that the pause in funding cuts to grants from NIH does not include US territories! Support for administrative costs (real expenses)
@uprrp.bsky.social is going from 49% to 15%, a huge blow to a system already suffering staggering cuts by @fombpr.bsky.social

STAT @statnews.com · Feb 11

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments

www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

Surprise surprise, science education grants in minority communities like #PuertoRico + #USVirginIslands are on the chopping block bc, guess what, populations they serve are predominantly minority. Oh, add to that projects exploring how to improve natural disaster relief & resiliency #HurricaneMaria

Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Feb 11

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!

Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.

NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

www.commerce.senate.gov

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

Research universities are the main social mobility & economic drivers in #PuertoRico & a big part of our health system. Like in other jurisdictions, drastic cuts to IDC would have vast effects. Territories also need to be protected from this flawed policy. @aoc.bsky.social @velazquez.house.gov

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

Colleagues in #PuertoRico just told me that the pause in funding cuts to grants from NIH does not include US territories! Support for administrative costs (real expenses)
@uprrp.bsky.social is going from 49% to 15%, a huge blow to a system already suffering staggering cuts by @fombpr.bsky.social

STAT @statnews.com · Feb 11

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments

www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments.

www.statnews.com

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 12

I just spoke to a colleague at the UPR Río Piedras and it seems the injunction does not apply to Puerto Rico. At least the UPR has begun modifying indirect cost rates from 49% to 15% which would mean a huge blow to a system that was already being gutted by the fiscal control board.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 11

And (I believe) Puerto Rico and other territories...

83 awards in FY2024

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Feb 11

Now 50 states rather than 22.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 11

BREAKING NEWS

Court issued a NATIONWIDE TRO in the action brought on behalf of the AAMC, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health, the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals, and the Greater New York Hospital Association.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Feb 11

I see the same thing for the IMSD, MARC, G-RISE and Bridges to Doctorate programs, but unfortunately the link to NIH's interest in diversity is still inactive (see ex grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...)
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · Feb 11

Relieved that the MOSAIC K99/R00 grants.gov page is no longer expired (updated today), and it sounds like people are able to submit apps again 🧪

grants.gov page for the MOSAIC K99/R00 which used to expire January 30, 2025 and now expires September 7, 2027

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 7

Many NIH FOAs have been taken down and their deadlines cancelled, some as people were preparing to hit submit. Diversity F31 applications have been pulled from the review pile at the last minute. Will these programs come back? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Will they be at all recognizable if they do?

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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · Feb 7

"The scientific community needs to speak up – not just for the sake of science, but of human decency, dignity and morality." www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

www.chemistryworld.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.

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thank you for sharing this. I hadn’t seen this insider report. This is so infuriating.

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