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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks, Teon! Hope all is well with you!

Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you!!! Yes, it’s a lot, but so far so good. Luckily folks at UT and Berkeley have been very helpful with the (many!) logistics.

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you!!

Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 4

Looking especially for folks with interest in computational/systems neuroscience, language development, neural networks/ML, population coding, intracranial recordings, clinical/translational neuroscience.

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Aug 4

Excited to announce that my lab has moved to UC Berkeley Dept of Neuroscience and Dept of Statistics! I will be continuing to collaborate with colleagues and students in TX at UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine, and will start new collabs in the Bay. Will be taking new grad students this fall!

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · May 29

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration?

Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Grant Cancellation Web Form

WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP?

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · May 21

Hi, I have not been affected but have colleagues who have, if you’re willing to share with me so I can show them I’d appreciate it! I hope it works out for you!

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · May 20

Please read the thread and consider submitting a comment!

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 20

From various sources, it appears that the plan with regard to NIH is that all Institute and Center Directors (as opposed to now where it is just the NIH Director and the NCI Director) would become essentially political appointees as would most or all division directors.

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · May 20

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

(please share widely)

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

lacns.github.io

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · May 9

Now they are gutting NSF. This is radical destruction.

The Trump goal is to end scientific research in America. Our sense is that few people, even inside the government, have actually grappled with this reality.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

www.science.org

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · May 3

📣🧪
$25k grants for those who:

1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and

2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.

Early-career scholars prioritized

500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · May 3

🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · May 3

I have reviewed many times for #NSF grants and I see the innovation, technical challenges, and important ideas put forth by early trainees and established investigators alike. Halting NSF funding (current and future) is short sighted and helps no one.

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · May 3

My 1st experience working in science was at UNAVCO, an #NSF funded geosciences org. now part of @earthscope.org. So much technical knowledge I use in my neuroscience (!) lab was from that early experience. My PhD was then funded by #NSFGRFP. Ending NSF funding will devastate careers and innovation.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 2

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Apr 24

It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.

www.nature.com

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Mar 31

This is amazing! How did you get involved in this?

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Mar 23

hi, cis folks!

if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.

~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.

that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Mar 23

What this administration is teaching Universities is that even if you comply - punish students for protests, ban masks, remove DEI from websites and classes - they will still defund you and try to break you apart. Basically, there is no point in complying.

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Mar 23

School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 21

POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Mar 19

But one wrinkle is the role of the Heschl’s gyrus. It clearly has a role in responding to speech+sound, but stimulation and ablation studies show that it can be resected without changes to speech. How to reconcile these findings? I try to address this in the commentary, but would love more thoughts!

Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Mar 19

Overall, I report that Binder et al’s results are largely concordant with the invasive and noninvasive neuroimaging literature showing localization of functions for speech perception across the auditory cortex, including representations of manner features, voicing, and pitch

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Mar 19

Here’s their original paper, in a cohort of 73 individuals with chronic left hemisphere stroke, with valuable behavioral data on acoustic phonetic perception to match the neural lesion analyses academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Lesion correlates of impaired acoustic-phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke

Binder et al. studied speech perception in the human brain by testing 73 individuals with stroke. The results pinpoint the critical regions involved in dis

academic.oup.com

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Liberty Hamilton @libertysays.bsky.social · Mar 19

This was an interesting commentary to write on work by Binder et al. regarding impaired acoustic phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Converging and conflicting evidence for left temporal lobe regions in acoustic-phonetic perception

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Lesion correlates of impaired acoustic-phonetic perception after unilateral left hemisphere stroke’ by Binder et al.

academic.oup.com

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