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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 9h

@sfn.org please consider hosting your next meeting outside of the 🇺🇸

Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 9h

#SfN25 is packed with amazing science and networking opportunities!

The 2025 Neuroscience Meeting Planner makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for.

Search, explore, and start planning your experience today.

🔗 vist.ly/49qex

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

ICE is out of control. They must be reined in.

A post on X by Paris Schutz (@paschutz
), a CBS Chicago reporter, timestamped 23 hours ago, includes a photo of a car with a damaged hood and text overlay. The post reports that journalist Asal Rezaei was doing her job when an ICE agent shot directly at her car today, unprovoked, with chemicals entering through an open window, causing her to feel sick for two hours. It mentions no protester was in sight, and she was simply driving by to check the scene, about 50 feet from the entrance, an area local authorities and news organizations have been monitoring for weeks. The post also notes this incident follows the detention and release of journalist Steve Held the previous day.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

Disgusting behavior from a so-called "leader."

Trump Slammed For Posting Overtly Racist AI Video Attacking Democratic Leaders After Meeting

www.comicsands.com

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 9d

I have to take this Research Security training to be eligible to submit Federal grants and as I'm going through it the contrast between what is being presented and how the current Federal administration is acting is enraging

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International Behavioral Neuroscience Society @ibnsconnect.bsky.social · 26d

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026!

Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

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Lizzie Manning @drlizziemanning.bsky.social · 9d

Time to get working on your symposium proposals!

📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social

International Behavioral Neuroscience Society @ibnsconnect.bsky.social · 26d

We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026!

Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

Here are the results in terms of the number of projects.

The number of funded projects in FY2025 is 4014 fewer than the number for FY2024.

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A grant showing the number of projects funded for FY2021 through FY2025. The number for FY2025 lagged behind and did not catch up with 4014 fewer projects funded in FY2025 compared with FY2024.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Finally, I’m currently on the job market, and would love to hear about any open faculty positions you have in your department!

I’m interested in tenure track positions both in the US and abroad.

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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 14d

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23d

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 24d

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default).

Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

A graph of the US population that is left-handed, by birth year. It drops from about 5% to a low of a little more than 3% from ~1890 to ~1910. It then rises steadily to about 12% around 1950, and stays at 12% out to 2000.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23d

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020

A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

www.texastribune.org

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 23d

Really proud of huge collaborative efforts from several teams in Translational Neuroscience Division @lieberinstitute.bsky.social w/ labs of @stephaniehicks.bsky.social and @alexisbattle.bsky.social to provide this resource on cell types and spatial organization in nucleus accumbens of human 🧠

Prashanthi Ravichandran @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social · 23d

(1/10) We’re excited to share our new preprint (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), which uncovers the spatiomolecular landscape of the human nucleus accumbens (NAc), by integrating snRNA-seq with Visium spatial transcriptomics across 10 control donors. 🧠 #NAcLIBD #snRNAseq #10xVisium

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 26d

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

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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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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 27d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27d

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27d

The left overwhelmingly has condemned the killing of Kirk and offered condolences to his family in this terrible time. The right has declared “war” and demanded revenge before we even have a suspect in custody.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 28d

Picard Tamarian tip: Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. The river Temarc in winter. Kira at Bashi. Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28d

Three high-ranking FBI officials were fired last month in a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who knew better but caved to political pressure from the Trump administration so he could keep his own position, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/46nMde2

Fired FBI officials sue Patel, claiming he bowed to Trump's 'campaign of retribution'

Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump admi...

www.pbs.org

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Jared Young @jaredwyoung.bsky.social · 28d

thought it had ended on day 1 (January 22nd), no?

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