Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Some people fell for this - including me- how would you take this guy to post office to weigh? And then release 🤣 000
Reposted by Dawn BowersBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2026<sigh> One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript. How do we know? Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth. Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers. 38430124
Reposted by Dawn BowersStephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Let's get negative about scholarly publishing – a new paper (first in a long time for me!) on proposals to tackle the problem of publication bias that emerged from a NINDS workshop held in May last year. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/... [Direct link to paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...occamstypewriter.orgLet’s get negative about scholarly publishing | Reciprocal Space 11814
Reposted by Dawn BowersMark Bowren @markbowrenjr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025The job posting for the RA position described below is live: uiowa.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/researc... Please share with anyone who might be interested!uiowa.referrals.selectminds.comResearch Assistant - Psychiatry - Bowren Lab in Iowa City, Iowa, United StatesThe Department of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa is seeking a highly motivated Research Assistant to join Dr. Mark Bowren’s research team.... 372
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Interesting. Wasn’t aware of these nuances and various implications. A faculty in my dept at UF appealed and her grant was reinstated. 010
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 15/05/2025And I feel the same way- though not as strongly - about offloading my spatial reasoning to GPS. 010
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2025One of our UF faculty appealed the abrupt termination of a prestigious NIH grant. She learned this week was reinstated. Lesson: Be persistent, be bold! 0121
Reposted by Dawn BowersMichael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 31/03/2025How do motivational disturbances (apathy and ICD) and cognitive effort-based decision-making affect Parkinson's? What if you are slow motorically is there a way to truly assess motivation? YEP. You might be surprised as Bonnie Scott and Robert Eisinger at Fixel delight us in their new PRD journal. 182
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Congratulations Dr Bowren! You’ll continue the legacy! 010
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Love this- I feel I’m constantly having to beat into trainees (and some faculty) the difference between theory, hypothesis and prediction. Not sure why this is such a hard distinction. Basic logic. Sigh! 010
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Nope. I’ve had 8 mRNA covid vaccines! Plus no covid yet .. 000
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Congratulations to all on clinical psychology internship match day 2025! Including our 7 UF neuropsychology grad students! From New York to California and places in between. 👏👏👏 240
Reposted by Dawn BowersMelissa Lamar PhD @drmlamar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Contact your POs as well as your government reps www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...thetransmitter.orgFederal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freezeNIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt... 021
Reposted by Dawn BowersAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/02/2025“At the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier biomedical research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees — including promising young investigators slated for larger roles — have been dismissed.” Yes. Breaking cancer research. @sherylnyt.bsky.socialnytimes.comTrump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health LeadersA core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs. 37634
Reposted by Dawn BowersJosh Gertler @joshuagertler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The white house tried and failed to do this 2017, and will fail again. Also, a good exploration of real ways to increase efficiency and reduce waste in NIH grant funding open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...open.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: 141
Reposted by Dawn BowersRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 05/02/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing sunglasses . 072
Reposted by Dawn BowersEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Importantly, these are *civil* actions under the Privacy Act of 1974, i.e. individuals can file suit and Trump can’t pardon defendants. 322181655
Reposted by Dawn BowersAndrew Perfors @perfors.net · 04/02/2025RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB 59734
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I also just got invite to review grants for NINDS. So NINDS is a go for now. 020
Dawn Bowers @dawnbowers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Thank you NIH an NSF. Thank you for being stewards of exemplary science and public health research in our country. We stand with you.country.safety 010
Reposted by Dawn BowersMichael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Does Parkinson's affect the eyes? YEP. Does the optic disc fade in Parkinson's? Apparently YES according to Samuel Gibbon and colleagues in a brand new article in the Journal Movement Disorders. Parkinson's is a disease of the brain and body, and YES that includes the eyes. 153
Reposted by Dawn BowersThe Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Alpha synulcien targeting NPT100-18A rescues mitochondrial oxidative stress & neuronal degeneration in human iPSC-based #Parkinsons; First mechanistic insights into how a compartment-specific antioxidant effect in mitochondria might be involved in MoA bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 031