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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in Neuroscience for the 26-27 school year at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, with an emphasis on teaching Neuroanatomy for our undergrad Neuroscience major. More info: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5034 Please share! #neuroscience #neurosky #neuroskyence

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Neuroscience - Visiting Assistant Professor

The Neuroscience Program at Hope College seeks applicants for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in neuroscience beginning by Fall 2026. Primary teaching responsibilities are in Introduc...

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 28/05/2025

Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care — by Melissa L. Perreault, Rudi Taylor-Bragge, Hervé Chneiweiss, Andre D. McLachlan, T. Ryan Gregory, Roksana Khalid, Katherine Bassil, Anna Lydia Svalastog, Minerva R. Velarde & Judy Illes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Despite a global push to recognize Indigenous knowledge systems in research, neuroscience remains embedded in Euro-Western ways of means and methods. Authentic capacity-building will bring Indigenous ...

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Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Looking forward to this book! His previous book, Race on the Brain, was a phenomenal and important read at the intersection of neuroscience and critical race theory.

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Join us this Friday for our next #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries with @brielleryan.bsky.social ! 🧠✨ Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience! 📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET Don't miss it! 🔥 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today. One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Estrogen “the female hormone” literally affects our entire being. Especially our “sense” of being. This is a well-written piece. 🧪🔬🧠🧬 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

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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.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 22/04/2025

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

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New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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ENLACES workshop at SfN 2025 Letter of Support

From the SfN Committee: The idea behind this proposal is valuable and worth pursuing, but the current proposal lacks clarity in a few areas. It would be helpful to define the primary objective more pr...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

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Siara Rouzer @siararouzer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So, it happened: my funding through the NIGMS K12 IRACDA@TAMU program has been terminated. This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/04/2025

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

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Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations

Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Damn, this is devastating and cruel. My IRACDA postdoctoral experience was amazing and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 😡😢

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding. If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will. They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education. We all need to respond. #GeneralStrike

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Excellent resource here, including a slide deck, for teaching students about science funding! Any similar additional resources out there? I would love to add some graphics quantifying the consequences of the current attacks on science.

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is devastating! I was privileged to do an NSF REU as an undergraduate and it was a transformative experience for my career trajectory.

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is news to me and so disappointing. I’m sorry for the loss to our students and our scientific community 🧪

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/02/2025

🚨 LOOKING FOR A STATE LEAD FOR MICHIGAN! 🧪🌎☀️ We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team! Interested? Email us!

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Jimmy Dooley @jimmycdooley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

In my systems neuroscience class the week after next, we're going to discuss receptive fields and neural coding. Does anyone know of a basic (and ideally math-light) overview on rate codes, time codes, etc?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

This-despite a stellar performance review weeks ago.
This-despite receiving an NIMH Director's Award.
This-despite being recruited SPECIFICALLY for my subject matter expertise in autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities, clinical trials, and community-based effectiveness research.

After two decades in academic research and advocacy, I was hired to help develop ways to get low-cost, evidence-based mental health care into schools and community settings-so ALL kids could access specialized treatment, not just those with private insurance or parents who could take time off work.

I didn't take the move to NIMH lightly-I went because I believed in shaping the future of autism and mental health research, impacting policy, and ensuring that science actually reaches the communities that need it most. And I LOVED my job. I found that same community in my division.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

We are dealing with an authoritarian theory of executive power, and the authoritarianism isn’t limited in scope to minority and marginalized communities like it historically has been

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

The segregation moves are about ending democracy for all populations, and restructuring the US government as a total authoritarian institution for all populations.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

They are not simply arguing that minorities should be excluded from public life and positions of access, equal opportunity, & power. They are arguing that the United States should no longer be democratic for *anyone* not even the hetcis white men. They are arguing against checks and balances too.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is some white supremacist BS the Trump/Musk administration is attempting 😡

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025

It is actually a problem that scientists keep marching for science though instead of against fascism and for humanity

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

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Jen @libroloverjen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

You can see the impact of NIH grant funds on your state’s economy by visiting this site www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
Notice Number:
NOT-OD-25-068
Key Dates
Release Date:
February 7, 2025

Related Announcements
None

Issued by
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)

Purpose

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NEW: NIH telling scientists not to review diversity supplements that support students from marginalized backgrounds pursue Ph.Ds; unclear if/how they can reapply. "It is an ugly moment," Donna Ginther told me. New story with @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/t...

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NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science

Applications for a prestigious NIH grant that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are not being funded

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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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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967. I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant. A few notable sections... www.apa.org/topics/equit...

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King's challenge to the nation's social scientists

Full text of Martin Luther King's address to the APA convention attendees in September 1967 which urged a change in society regarding racism.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Seeking text book recommendations for a 300 level neurophysiology course. For context ,students will have already taken an intro neuro course and also take a separate 300 level neuroanatomy course. Any recommendations? #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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Janka Romero @jankaromero.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Biopsychology Colouring Book 2E is now out! 🥳 If your undergraduate students are struggling with biological psychology / behavioural neuroscience, this colouring book is perfect for revision AND a fun and relaxing break from screens! Check it out here: bit.ly/3OAzpIt #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Green book cover of 'The Biopsychology Colouring Book' on grey background with 'Just published' announcement

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Daniel Dorman, PhD @danieldorman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Who originated the idea of computational #neuroscience? I credit Ada Lovelace (1815-1852): “I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short… laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain.”

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Darrin Hunt @benthicbuddy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A narrow list of #PUI researchers. BlueSky provides an opportunity for us to connect, grow and potentially do something cool. Let’s think of big questions from small spaces! Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/RnHK313

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