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Diana Williams

@dlwilliams.bsky.social
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🧠🧪Neuroscience professor & mom, recently moved from a FL R1 to a CA SLAC. I study neuroendocrine control of eating and energy balance. 1st-gen. 🌈 she/her

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NIH published an RFA & the strike through changes to censor the RFA were somehow left in. They removed the word “diverse HFpEF cohort” & “accrual goals for women, minorities, and individuals of all ages.” Screenshots attached as they may update the link. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
Text of an RFA showing the words “diverse HFpEF cohort” struck through to mark for deletion. 

Full text shown: The overall objectives of HeartShare 2.0 are described here along with their associated components:

Expand and complete HeartShare 1.0's enrollment, phenotyping, and longitudinal follow-up of a diverse HFpEF cohort participant cohort that reflects the population for results that are generalizable to the U.S. population (CCs, DTC).;
Continue to collect and analyze myocardial, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue through molecular profiling (CCs, DTC);
Pursue experimental validation and translation of mechanistic signals (DTC); and
Create a framework and conduct precision clinical trials (CTC, CCs, DTC).
This NOFO describes the objectives of the DTC, while the CTC and CC objectives are described in a companion NOFO (RFA-HL-27-008).Text of an RFA showing the words “accrual goals for women, minorities, and individuals of all ages” struck through to mark for deletion. 

Full text shown: The primary role of the DTC will be to provide overall management and oversight for the HeartShare program, including coordination and communication across all subsections and cores of the program. The prospective component of the study will continue in HeartShare 2.0 with ongoing cohort enrollment, follow-up, and tissue/sample collection/analysis for up to 6 years. The DTC will provide oversight for timely completion of HeartShare’s prospective component, tissue profiling, experimental validation of targets and mechanistic signals associated with HFpEF, and research training in addition to administrative, data, and biostatistical support for future HFpEF clinicals. The DTC will be expected to work with future trial investigators to meet NHLBI's expectations for performance-based, milestone-driven study designs with metrics for overall recruitment/enrollment and retention goals, including demographic accrual goals to ensure results are generalizable to the U.S. population. accrual goals for women, minorities, and individuals of all ages. Future trial investigators will be required to include either the CTC, DTC, or both components in their study infrastructure.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
All my friends are SO COOL! Monika and her lab assure us you can build this cool scope in <4 hours and use it to explore not just her favorite organism 🪱, but also mine 🪰, and also tardigrades! Wanna calcium-image your lil wiggly guys while they do their thing? Now you can! 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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A modular multi-color fluorescence microscope for simultaneous tracking of cellular activity and behavior - Nature Communications
Researchers present a low-cost, modular fluorescence microscope built entirely from commercial parts for research and education. Demonstrations include muscle dynamics in Drosophila larvae, stride ana...
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Just out of the oven and it seems a little wet, really hoping it thickens as it cools!
Photo of an apple pie in a ceramic dish on a baking sheet resting on a stovetop.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
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Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 17/09/2025
Meet MapMyCells! This tool saves neuroscientists precious time by comparing their data to massive, high-quality reference datasets, incl. our whole mouse brain multi-omics atlas and Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas. 🔗 portal.brain-map.org/atlases-and-... 🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
From yesterday: I talked with a bunch of NIH employees about what it's like inside the assault on government science, and how they feel about the potential for a shutdown. Spoiler, they're basically for it. Please subscribe, it's free!
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'The Walls Are Collapsing': The View From Inside NIH as Shutdown Looms
Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe! The public and Congressional attention focused on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in rec...
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SSIBsociety @ssibsociety.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The 2024 SSIB Special Edition of Physiology and Behavior is now available! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Over the next few days we will be highlighting articles from this issue. Let us know which one you want to see covered first.
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Physiology & Behavior | Proceedings of the SSIB 2024 Annual Meeting | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
We are excited to introduce this Special Collection of Physiology and Behavior, featuring outstanding and innovative research showcased at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Inges...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This point cannot be over-emphasized enough. When I left the FBI in June, I said that if the destruction stopped that day, it would take a decade to repair. Talking now to friends still there, I think I was being too optimistic. We are witnessing the self-immolation of a great country.
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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
One of my favorite things right now is when my 10-yo tells me something he learned at school, I act like I’m not really familiar, and then he teaches it to me. He just gave me a great lesson on prime vs composite numbers. At some point he’s going to wonder how I can possibly be a science professor.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’ll be blunt: no respectable media outlet should be providing a platform for Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. He is nothing but a factory for anti-science propaganda. He has nothing of worth to convey to the public.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 31/08/2025
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025
What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
We have finally navigated the endless red tape and gotten the donation site to support the US FlyBase groups up and running. bsky.app/profile/flyb...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Read this. In this political climate, it is our duty as scientists to collectively mobilize, reveal the deceit & the malicious misrepresentation of science happening here. This is why we have op-eds, letters of dissent, petitions & public statements. #Pinks 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“This is a bad day for science,” said Scott Hensley, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has been working to develop an mRNA vaccine against flu…With this move, the department is “undermining our ability to rapidly counter future biological threats,” said Rick Bright, a flu expert”
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Trump Administration Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Contracts
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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/07/2025
BREAKING: Trump wants to illegally cut off $15 billion in lifesaving NIH research. Research to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so much more is on the line. These people are LYING about waste, fraud, and abuse at NIH to justify attacking medical research—we all need to say so. My full statement. ⬇️
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Senator Murray Slams Trump Admin for Choking Off Lifesaving NIH Medical Research - Senator Patty Murray
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on reports today that President Trump’s Office of Manageme...
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
College freshman son just played me a death metal song he wrote about gruesome injuries. His inspiration? Lab safety training. ☠️
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NIH staff are literally being asked to screen candidates' social media for negative sentiment aimed at the administration. This is *not* government efficiency.
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
You have about 24 hours to voice your opinion, please do! 🧠📈
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family. Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My department is hiring multiple TT positions in biochem or organic chem and materials chem (open rank) and molecular bio (asst/assoc)! Check us out if you are interested in research intensive SLAC life. Chem ad here, bio next in 🧵 1/5 #scijobs #LGBTQSTEM #academicsky #chemsky #chemjobs 🧪👩‍🔬🧬
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Claremont McKenna College Online Faculty Employment Application - Faculty Opening Details
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · 25/06/2025
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal. This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.
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Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal
Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
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Dan Brierley @drdanbrierley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Finishing your undergraduate and interested in neuroscience research? The Neuroscience streams of our Biosciences MRes degree provide a unique opportunity to conduct a year-long research project in any UCL neuro lab, plus taught modules to prepare you for a PhD. 🧪🧠📈 www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Applications are now open for our fall internship program! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
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Science Reporting Intern, The Transmitter
The Transmitter offers up-to-date news and analysis of neuroscience and is dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Our award-winning news team is seeki...
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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/05/2025
🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjU
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Multiple deaths reported in Somerset and London due to late night tornadoes UPDATED
The towns of Somerset and London have been hit particularly hard with many homes and buildings damaged in the early morning hours.
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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Science teachers of the South, don't forget to sign up for our evolution workshop coming up in Athens, #Georgia on June 20! It's totally free to attend -- we even pay out stipends. Hope you can come! 😊 forms.gle/w3ootwfzf791... #TeacherEd #TeacherSky #EduSky #iteachbio #SciEd
Flyer for teacher workshop. Text reads Sign up for NCSE's Evolution Teacher Workshop! All day on June 20. Athens, Georgia. Includes $75 stipend. Using Authentic Phenomena to Engage Students in Evolution. Image is of a group of teachers exploring one of NCSE's evolution student activities.
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#sciencejobs
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Job opening in my department: 50% vivarium manager (it’s a small facility!) and 50% teaching lab coordinator. This will be a good position for someone who appreciates lab animal research, has lab animal care experience, and enjoys working with undergrads. Happy to answer any questions! 🧪🧠
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Integrated Sciences Laboratory/Animal Manager
Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination Statement In addition to its commitment to a harassment-free educational and working environment, the College is an equal employment opportunity employer. The C...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025
92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Just had my last class meeting of this academic year. In all the stress and uncertainty of our current political situation, the attacks on science and education, working with these students was a real bright spot. So grateful that I get to do this job.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations 

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Nerd version: I met legendary neuroendocrinologist Mary Dallman at a conference when I was a grad student and she was so cool. She treated me like a colleague and asked insightful questions about my data in a supportive way.
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Diana Williams @dlwilliams.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
My baby went to senior prom last night! Here he is, on the right, with his date.
A couple holding hands walks away, their backs to the camera. The woman on the left is dressed in a black long-sleeved gown with lace and ruffles, and her dark hair is styled in a bun. The man on the right is wearing a black suit with long tails, and has long light brown hair. They are walking in a park through grass near plants and trees.
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Here's a database from UCLA on Non-NIH funding opportunities ranging from grad students to faculty from a wide range of biological and medical disciplines: biofund.healthsciences.ucla.edu/crt-funding/...
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BioFund - a Non-NIH Funding Database | crt-funding
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