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Joanna Dabrowska

@dabrowska-lab.bsky.social
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Scientist by nature, Mom by science. In love and hate relationship with neuropeptides. Center for Neurobiology of Stress Resilience and Psychiatric Disorders @RFU @rfubrainsci.bsky.social‬ www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/…

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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are in good hands! 😍👏🫡
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.
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Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“The chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026. “
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Want more peer reviewers? Do not require special characters in their login passwords ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) , . ? \ " :{ } | < > 🤯🥵
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sweeping draft regulations released by OMB pose one of the most significant threats to federally funded research in decades. The proposal would affect nearly every aspect of the scientific process. Read more: www.ascb.org/science-policy/federal…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Register for this @standupforscience.net meeting like your life depends on it!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
what a show!
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
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Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
FINALLY HR has the posting up for a postdoc opening in my lab ! Particularly interested in folks with electrophysiology, photometry, or behavioral experience. www.gwu.jobs/postings/125...
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Postdoctoral Associate
The George Washington University Department of Pharmacology & Physiology is an active research department with federally funded programs in neuroscience and development, cardiovascular pharmacology an...
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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.
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Wristy @wristroom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever
a photo of a beluga whale releasing air from its blowhole underwater. the bubbles form a shape similar to a miniature mushroom cloud. The beluga whale, like all beluga whales, seems to know just how cute it is
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am looking for a new reserach technician. This is an entry level position ideal for a graudating senior. Please re-post and send candidates my way! zoemce@email.unc.edu
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Can someone explain this to me like I'm 4? I saw NOT-funded 5% applications, while "NIH" staff may recommend competitive-non-discussed applications.."for funding to their Institute.. when considering programmatic priority, portfolio balance.." What is this? 🍒 picking? grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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My Application Was Scored as “Competitive But Not Discussed” During Review. What Does This Mean? | Grants & Funding
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Can people raise hands / speak up here, if they had a non-discussed-competitive proposal funded?
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Discussing Fewer Applications DOES NOT Strengthen Efficiency. Without 50% apps discussion, we are doomed to keep re-submitting and re-reviewing the same proposals over and over Not efficient to grantees or reviewers. @drugmonkey.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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One Year Later: How Centralized NIH Peer Review is Strengthening Efficiency, Competition, and Transparency | Grants & Funding
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Tracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is wholly unacceptable @nih! Congress gave you the funds to support research, so let’s get those NOAs out the door so science can improve America’s health!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2026
"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NOT-OD-26-069 from yesterday: only 30-35% of applications will continue to be discussed (vs. 50%) for October council. URGE the CSR to restore 50%, without scores and guidance, we are doomed for endless re-reviews. This undermines, not streamlines, the review process. 100% harms the grantees. Pls RT
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hear, hear!
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 13/04/2026
If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss.
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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As a reminder: I am hiring a postdoc and at least one research assistant for a project on VTA circuits and cognitive function that starts this summer. Get in touch if interested!
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As a grantee and study section member I urge CSR to restore discussion of 50% of applications. At 33% - one unfavorable score can push a strong grant out. For resubmission - panel feedback is essential! @altnih4science.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social #CSR #NIH @drugmonkey.bsky.social RTpls!
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Done!
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Chemist and physicist Irène Joliot-Curie died #OTD in 1956. Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 (jointly with her husband, Frédéric) for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #WomensHistoryMonth
Black-and-white photograph of Irène Joliot-Curie in a white lab coat at the Radium Institute. Marie Curie’s daughter and 1935 Nobel Chemistry co-winner stands at a workbench lined with beakers, test tubes, and glassware, her expression serious and concentrated amid the tools of radioactivity research.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/03/2026
Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline
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Kate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Yeah, there’s not really much to celebrate 😖
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My weekly NIH update... The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace. 1/4
A line graph of the number of projects funded by NIH for fiscal years 2020-2026. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My quote of the day If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.
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a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc
ALT: a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Do you want to learn about 'Estrous stage-dependent suppression of anxiety-potentiated startle via CRF neurons in the extended amygdala'? - join us at @labroots.bsky.social tomorrow! 🧠🔬👇
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
hahaha
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
sooooooo Mercury in vaccines = 🤬 Mercury everywhere else = 😀👍???? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...
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E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/02/2026
Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents’ Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?
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Amar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Excited to share our study in Neuron led by @travisgoode.bsky.social, a K99 PDF (interviewing for Faculty) and Sahay lab team with collaborators at BROAD, Hopkins, and UW Seattle, defining a neural circuit that links prior experience with feeding behavior. Open Access: sahaylab.com/publications
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Leah Mayo @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Congrats to @pact-lab.bsky.social postdoc @ryanntansey.bsky.social on her recent paper looking at the impact of elevated anandamide via FAAH inhibition on brain function in patients with PTSD What does it do? Well....not much 😬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Functional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Getting into the mood to review a grant
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
😂
One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” 

One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, 

Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions.

Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders.

This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/02/2026
New to using Jupyter notebooks for the Allen Brain Cell Atlas? Join us on Feb. 11 for a beginner-friendly webinar focusing on installation, set-up, and common questions. Register for the meeting link and recording: alleninstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/…
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight. Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what? Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.
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Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We’re still far from Scandinavia, but for the US, our @rfuniversity.bsky.social is pretty cool. Medical, dental, vision plan; Paid parental leave; Disability; Flexible spending; 403(b)plan with 8% RFU contribution, 3 weeks of vacation, 15 sick days, 9 paid holidays, paid ❄️ break, +2 floating days.
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