Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Vaccines 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.ctvnews.caCervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: studyThe 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. 140102673710
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026“The chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026. “ 0126
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...standupforscience.foundationHow To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site TitleWritten By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO 2267171
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Want more peer reviewers? Do not require special characters in their login passwords ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) , . ? \ " :{ } | < > 🤯🥵 010
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/06/2026Incredible! 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) 266147633496
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAmerican Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Sweeping 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… 37243
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026NEW: 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. 🧪🔭⚛️news.chanda.scienceIt's the End of American Science As We Know ItWe have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes. 91428938
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Register for this @standupforscience.net meeting like your life depends on it! 041
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026BREAKING: 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.pdfpublic-inspection.federalregister.gov 44808528
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3 57757
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...act.indivisible.orgTell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE BrutalityEmail 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. 010
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAbby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026FINALLY 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...gwu.jobsPostdoctoral AssociateThe George Washington University Department of Pharmacology & Physiology is an active research department with federally funded programs in neuroscience and development, cardiovascular pharmacology an... 01719
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaTom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Kash 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. 14340
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaWristy @wristroom.bsky.social · 04/05/2026me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever 6790292193
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaZoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I 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 24059
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Can 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/...grants.nih.govMy Application Was Scored as “Competitive But Not Discussed” During Review. What Does This Mean? | Grants & Funding 110
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Can people raise hands / speak up here, if they had a non-discussed-competitive proposal funded? 000
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Discussing 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/...grants.nih.govOne Year Later: How Centralized NIH Peer Review is Strengthening Efficiency, Competition, and Transparency | Grants & Funding 011
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaTracy Bale @thebalelab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This 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! 052
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Absolutely 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. 308159514730
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAaron 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 390127683414
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026NOT-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 111
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/04/2026For 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! 338238205493
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 13/04/2026If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss. 302135902741
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAbby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026As 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! 12026
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026As 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! 21011
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Chemist 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 10753125
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaMichael Baym @baym.lol · 17/03/2026Annual 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 519881
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaKate Nautiyal @katenautiyal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Please 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. 13545
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Yeah, there’s not really much to celebrate 😖 010
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My 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 16833
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026My 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 0397
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026So... 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.media.tenor.coma large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsocALT: a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc 24547237
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Do 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! 🧠🔬👇 032
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10 30675445
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Congress 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. 🧵👇nature.comWhite House stalls release of approved US science budgetsThe US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed. 221131758
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026sooooooo Mercury in vaccines = 🤬 Mercury everywhere else = 😀👍???? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...nytimes.comE.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants 13914
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/02/2026Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents’ Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead? 821740376
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaAmar Sahay @amarsahay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Excited 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 63820
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaLeah Mayo @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Congrats 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...nature.comFunctional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial - Translational PsychiatryTranslational Psychiatry - Functional neuroimaging of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized clinical trial 0215
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Getting into the mood to review a grant 0543
Reposted by Joanna Dabrowskaallen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/02/2026New 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/… 0209
Reposted by Joanna DabrowskaDrug 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. 27150
Joanna Dabrowska @dabrowska-lab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026We’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. 000