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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am truly heartbroken by the news that Barb Finlay passed away on Saturday after a long illness. Barb was a maverick who challenged the field to think differently and to go beyond the mode de jour, and instead to think deeply about the true roots of brain function.

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Sarah Ross @sarahross1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community. Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A very cool opportunity!

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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pwashlab.bsky.social @pwashlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A POSTDOCTORAL POSITION ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to work on a Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE) award from NSF and the Kavli Foundation (www.kavlifoundation.org/news/kavli-a...).

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Kavli and NSF Announce New Grant Awards to Advance Neurobiology in…

An initiative to explore how nervous systems function and evolve in dynamic natural environments

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a new lab manager to join our group at the University of Oregon! Applicants with experience in microbiology, evolutionary genetics, or protein biochemistry are especially encouraged to apply. See the link below for more information: barberlab.org/contact/

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View of the University of Oregon campus from nearby Hendricks Park Lab Address:322 Pacific Hall5289 University of OregonEugene, OR 97403 Lab Phone:541-346-1537 Joining the lab Lab Manager: We are c…

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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Title of section 1 summarizes it: "The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience" The brain as a complex network. Looks like a fantastic book. #neuroskyence

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Malu Murugan @malu-murugan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Lateral septum enthusiast? Interested in learning more about how LS projection populations and their inputs are organized. Check out our preprint in which @jennisisaac.bsky.social and @soniakarkare.bsky.social map out brain wide inputs to 6 LS projection populations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Organization of brainwide inputs to discrete lateral septum projection populations

The lateral septum (LS) is anatomically positioned to play a critical role in directing information from the hippocampus and cortex to downstream subcortical structures, such as the hypothalamus. In f...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/04/2025

All new research grants have been frozen at the National Science Foundation, Nature reports, as DOGE considers canceling 200 existing grants flagged for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

What our world needs now is more punk rock and more Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social

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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

those that want to kill ‘woke’ just want you to sleep

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Is everyone on schedule? #2025MMM

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🚨 The official What's the Deal with Birds? trailer has dropped!!! Yes, it's real, and it's spectacular. COMING SOON! www.instagram.com/reel/DG3g5Ol...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Sarah DuRant @durantlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Please share!

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Sharon Wheeler @swheeler23.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This what MLK’ s daughter has suggested we do. Great list.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Some good news: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to what it calls a 'crisis' prompted by the Trump administration’s freeze..." www.philanthropy.com/article/maca...

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MacArthur Foundation to Increase Giving for Two Years in Response to ‘Crisis’

The move was prompted by the Trump administration’s freeze on federal foreign aid and the now-suspended freeze on federal grants.

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SBN on Bluesky @sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Hi, BlueSky! We are trying to be more active on here. If any SBN members are out there who are interested in joining the social media committee, please drop us a line!

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders

The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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March Mammal Madness @mmmletsgo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And #2025MMM Educators, you can request materials via this form (and please take the educator survey, it helps the tournament a lot!): forms.gle/PQcCVNFhaRvk...

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March Mammal Madness @mmmletsgo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2025?! Really great storified science, all new classroom animated video recaps, & more! In coming days we will be rolling out lots of pre-season fun... #2025MMM In the MEANTIME, overthink this teaser trailer: youtu.be/Uvb0Cic6r9o

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March Mammal Madness 2025 Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by Katie Hinde

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

First they came for NIH, FDA, & CDC… next they came for ALL Federal Funding… REMINDER: this is only week 2!

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"I have a PhD; you have Dunning-Kruger" needs to be on a t-shirt if it isn't already

A guy arguing there are "only two biological sexes" is corrected by a scientist. When his retort is "fillow the science," Dr. JEY McCreight responds "I did, I literally have a PhD in human genomic. You have Dunning-Kruger"

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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looks like the following programs in #NSF BIO have been 'archived': BRC-BIO - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... BIO-LEAPS - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... PRFB - new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Have you ever woken up and thought “damn that was one crazy messed up dream!“ and been relieved that it wasn’t real? I was really hoping that would happen to me this morning

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Bill Nihilist @wmkenkel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Man, voles just can’t catch a break link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Alexander Ophir @alexophir.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Have you ever wanted to run studies with #PrairieVoles but didn't have access to the animals? Now you can! The Cornell Vole Core is now open and able to ship voles to your lab! The webpage is currently minimalistic, but contact them to inquire. [pls RT] volecore.research.cornell.edu

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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

If you feel like we missed you (or anyone else) in this *Behavioral and Preclinical Neuroscience* starter pack, please comment below 👇👇 #animalbehaviorl #preclinicalresearch #neuroscience go.bsky.app/7cNykut

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

AI People! Come work here! UT Austin cluster hire in Advances in AI and Data Science for Environmental Systems. 3 positions, open rank, either in Integrative Biology or Jackson School of Geosciences. apply.interfolio.com/158908 apply.interfolio.com/158862 Pic of Nov blue campus skies for attention

View of UT Austin tower behind a building with blue skies in background.

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

New paper from my group! Monkeys respond to affective touch like people do. This response changes with age and doesn't require consciousness. Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch in monkeys transcend consciousness and change with age www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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