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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Aug 25

A very clear video of the societal impact of dismantling NIH and NSF. However, I would not be that US centered. These new breakthroughs may still happen, but the patents won’t be in the US, they will be own by China, EU or any other country, in some cases by scientists that were in the US…

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 24

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?"

Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Jun 26

Rajae’s latest work from our lab adds new light on the neuroendocrine mechanisms by which Kiss1 neurons control energy balance🚨

Rajae Talbi @rajaetalbi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Dropping our latest preprint 🚨 We show that arcuate Kiss1 neurons act as melanocortin sensitive regulators of BAT thermogenesis through a glutamate dependent Leptr/CART pathway from the DMH to the RPa. @victor-navarro.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 26

Melanocortin-responsive Kiss1 neurons of the arcuate nucleus drive energy expenditure through glutamatergic signaling to the dorsomedial hypothalamus. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661567v1

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Jun 23

Join us this Thursday at 12pm (ET) for our PANS Early Career Researcher Symposium! Amazing speakers and topics! Register at: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @bsneuroendo.bsky.social @paneuroendo.bsky.social

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Mauro Silva @maurosbs.bsky.social · Jun 2

Calling all neuroendocrine enthusiasts 🤓
Join us for the 2025 Pan American Neuroendocrine Society (PANS) Early Career Researchers' Symposium on June 26, 12 PM EDT! Hear top speakers on Multi-omics in Neuroendocrinology. Invite all trainees in your lab!
Register: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 29

Join us for the next PANS ECR meeting on a very cool topic “omics”! June 26th at 12pm ET. Register for free here: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 22

Congrats to our very own Encarni 👏🏻

Endocrine Society @endocrinesociety.bsky.social · May 22

Encarnación Torres Jiménez, PhD, won second place in our Endocrine Images Art Competition (bit.ly/4j9tCqd) for her image of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus nucleus in a heart-shaped spatial arrangement. View this image in enlarged detail at ENDO 2025. #endocrinology #EndoSky #ENDO2025

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 21

Meanwhile, life in our campus lately... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Federal Cuts Become ‘All Consuming’ at Harvard’s Public Health School

www.nytimes.com

Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 14

TODAY!

Pan American Neuroendocrine Society @paneuroendo.bsky.social · May 7

Register now for our next Outstanding Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology lecture!

partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 11

play.rtve.es/pr/1001068/ a must watch series on climate action (in English and Spanish). Fantastic work.

Hope! Estamos a tiempo: Tus programas favoritos de TVE, en RTVE Play

Emisión del programa Hope! Estamos a tiempo en TVE. Entra en RTVE Play para poder ver todas las emisiones de los canales de RTVE.

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Beth Stevens @bethstevenslab.bsky.social · May 9

Let’s get the word out about the importance of federal funding of curiosity -driven science
We all have similar stories to share

Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · May 7

Protecting the Brain Requires Persistence
@bethstevenslab.bsky.social, NIH-supported investigator of Alzheimer’s and other disorders, explains how one discovery can lead to another.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Taking the long view on Alzheimer’s — Harvard Gazette %

Beth Stevens' work has built a foundation for new kinds of medicines to treat neurodegenerative diseases. "I was just following the science."

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 9

This paper from the lab is finally out! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

POMC neurons control fertility through differential signaling of MC4R in Kisspeptin neurons

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · May 5

This is the way to do it.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5

Europe’s choice is clear.

To put science at the heart of its economy.

To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.

And to welcome talent from all over the world.

I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.

→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 28

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

04/27/2025: NIH, Evidence, The Land of Declining Sons

Podcast Episode · 60 Minutes · 04/28/2025 · 51m

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 26

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases?

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 26

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/h...

What Nearly Brainless Rodents Know About Weight Loss and Hunger

Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congrats to our lab member Rajae! Soon to start her own lab!

Endocrine Society @endocrinesociety.bsky.social · Apr 25

The 2025 Mara E. Lieberman Memorial Grants recipients are Rajae Talbi, PhD, and Inmaculada Velasco, PhD. They were awarded for their outstanding ENDO 2025 abstracts. Learn more: bit.ly/2CdqhEC #ENDO2025 #endocrinology #EndoSky

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Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 23

Drawing the mind, one neuron at a time: A 2022 book walks readers through the life and work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spaniard whom many consider the founder of modern #neuroscience.

Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #WorldBookDay: scim.ag/3RvHDmQ

Cajal’s rendering of a Purkinje neuron found in the human cerebellum captures the beauty and intricacy of this complex cell.

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 15

A deeper dive on how the recent news affect affiliated hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...

www.thecrimson.com

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 14

Very true.

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 14

While this stand on values and principles at Harvard is needed, it makes the freeze (or termination) of the $9B in federal funding more likely, with the consequences that that would have all of us doing science within the Harvard community. We can only hope for the best.

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Apr 12

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Professors worry federal funding cuts to universities will threaten research and democracy

YouTube video by NBC News

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Mar 31

Here we go. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard

The administration has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants and contracts at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

www.nytimes.com

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Mar 21

“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪

Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’

But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own

www.science.org

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Mar 6

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

www.nature.com

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Victor Navarro @victor-navarro.bsky.social · Feb 27

On a request today to my PO for a status update for an R01 application that got a 6%ile in October: “We have no updates or guidance on pending applications/awards. We are awaiting further HHS guidance on how and when to proceed. We will notify you when the guidance is available.” How and when…

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