Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Finally, we identified signatures of regulatory element evolution at the MAFB and EMX2 loci, providing a mechanism for co-option into song-dedicated neurons. 010 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Overexpressing the transcription factors controlling these networks, MAFB and EMX2, in the chicken brain partially drives song neuron-specific gene expression programs, indicating that a molecular component of song circuit specialization lies latent in the genomes of distantly related avians. 120 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026By comparing the transcriptional and gene regulatory differences between song-dedicated and ancestral neuron pairs, we found that song-dedicated projection neurons have co-opted gene regulatory networks from inhibitory neurons and astrocytes. 120 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Using single-nucleus RNA and ATAC-seq in songbird brains, we found that each projection neuron type in the birdsong circuit has a sister cell type in adjacent sensorimotor areas and that these sister cells are similar to neurons in the brains of chickens. 110 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Excited to share our lab's first preprint! "Gene regulatory co-option drives birdsong neural circuit specialization" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by grad student Arturo Marquez and a massive collective effort from the members of the lab. 391 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I tried to read it a few years ago, and stopped for the same reason. Just weird props/foils 000 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittMiriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...facultypositions.stanford.eduStanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology 23633 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittScience Magazine @science.org · 27/09/2025NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. scim.ag/3KlQkQkscience.org‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcryThe announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded 2139113 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittMari Sosa @marisosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The Sosa Lab website is now live! www.sosaneurolab.com We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.sosaneurolab.comSosa Lab 09337 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1218553 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor-NeurobiologyAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 02132 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittMaria Antonietta Tosches @matosches.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7biorxiv.orgEvolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ NeuronsIn the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu... 15122 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittLucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 20/08/2025We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩🏫 15246 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittAnne West @ennatsew.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu. 15751 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/06/2025🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...actionnetwork.orgADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH StaffJoin the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now. 017957 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/06/2025For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States. 16638284 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪calmatters.orgAnother casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careersAt least 24 UC and Cal State campuses lost science research training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of $12,000 or more. 39448 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025"Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda. The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent." 🧪🔬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comNow is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel MalinskyThe administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent 14423 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.whitehouse.govRestoring Gold Standard ScienceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United 10024491047 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...lookout.coTrump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act nowThe Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too... 415175 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittProf Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity 15777171914 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy 15668146 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Looking at grant funding time for all years from 2015-2025 Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_ 1/2 310749 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration 413273 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying 515672 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/03/2025We have a pro- fraud regime 531346383 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/03/2025“How are you going to reform how politics works in this country if you won’t reform how it works inside your own party?” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America (Gift Article)The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for. 051 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday. I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing. jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...jeremymberg.github.ioNIH_since_1_20_25 16412243 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDrew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)nature.comDual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - NatureDopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear... 213139 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This gets to the heart of RIFs and impoundment. RIFs are supposed to eliminate unnecessary roles or functions. But who decides? For small cuts, defer to the executive. But when you are gutting the statutory purpose of agencies and its ability to spend money, surely Congressional intent matters. 325074 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time... 18566308 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Yesterday, the NIH abruptly terminated all grants focused on vaccine hesitancy. This kind of work is critical as vaccine misinformation proliferates on social media. One of my last papers showed that many people who refused the COVID19 booster did so because they had incorrect information. 9650169 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittArghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 28/02/2025Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house researchPolicy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs 23972302659 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Bluetorial on Diversity Supplements A glimpse into my process in documenting the demise of another program aimed at increasing representation and diversity in the American biomedical workforcemedia.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson holding a cardALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card 29539 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/02/2025The Department of Health and Human Services has pressed the NIH to ignore court orders, dismissing NIH lawyers' advice to resume business as usual, @katherinejwu.com reports. As of this week, some institutes and centers are still not issuing any new grants: theatln.tc/MVl9uWmjtheatln.tcInside the Collapse at the NIHAdministration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now. 12326121 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.media.tenor.coma poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on itALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it 92514446 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n 8799395 0
Brad Colquitt @bradcolquitt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Phenomenal! I was very excited to see these preprints out. Looking forward to reading the finished versions. 010 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite." 24899374 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come. 40847427 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittAmy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I've felt lost on how to react to the big funding changes announced Friday. I decided it's important to get my thoughts further outside of my science bubble. So I wrote a public Facebook post. Please share if you think your networks may benefit from this message. www.facebook.com/15500301/pos...facebook.comAmy OrsbornHi folks, Important things are happening that motivate me to break my long hiatus on here. I am a scientist. A big part of my job is performing research to create technologies that can restore... 2174 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 08/02/2025Great analysis of the indirect cost rate announcement by @stuartbuck.bsky.socialopen.substack.comIndirect Costs at NIH . . .I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night: 310042 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025ATTENTION 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 jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n 8193269 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittAnita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination. 822091 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittUsha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Many scientists upset with HHMI's decision to stop funding and scrub websites of a program that promoted inclusive evidence and helped diversify STEM. The are listed as the second wealthiest philanthropic organization in the U.S. with an endowment of $22B. Private philanthropy will not save science. 19140 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittBrooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comDoge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threatsMembers reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ 1018787 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDavid Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025@science.org EXCLUSIVE: In a radical break with tradition, the NSF has begun to search through billions of dollars of grants on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized... wreaking havoc across the academic research community.science.orgEXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s ordersGrantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review 031 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittJessica Tollkuhn @tollkuhn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome is hiring a Group Leader to work on Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation. This is a fantastic opportunity, please repost! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Rom...embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.comGroup Leader - Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental AdaptationWe are seeking to recruit a highly motivated scientist to establish and lead an independent research laboratory at the EMBL Epigenetics and Neurobiology Unit in Rome. EMBL provides a unique environmen... 23627 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2025Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck. This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever. AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH. 10745195 0
Reposted by Brad ColquittDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.” 268145143341 0