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Daniel Tobiansky

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Asst Professor of Neurobio @ Providence College | 🧠🐦🔬🧬 | tobianskylab.com | Eamus Catuli! 🐻

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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 06/04/2026
The issue is officially compiled and out, with a very cool cover by @dtobiansky.bsky.social 's student, Tara Barnes-Tompkins anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...
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Thematic Papers: Non‐Model Animal Head Impact and Brain Damage: The Anatomical Record: Vol 309, No 5
<em>The Anatomical Record</em> is an anatomy journal publishing new discoveries in the morphological aspects of molecular, cellular, developmental, evolutionary, and systems biology.
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Kiran Soma @kiransoma.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
New preprint in which we developed a task to measure motivation to exercise in rats! This will hopefully open many doors. 🏃🐀 Big thanks to Prof. Desiree Seib, who led this effort, and @dr-stan.bsky.social !! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A Novel Operant Conditioning Task to Assess Motivation to Exercise in Rats
Voluntary physical activity is a highly motivated behavior with important implications for physical and mental health, yet the neural and endocrine mechanisms underlying motivation to exercise remain ...
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨New paper!! I was lucky to get to collaborate with Becky Cramer, her team from Norway🇳🇴, and researchers from the museum of vert zoology at Berkeley. Unusual Sperm Morphology in Two Sedentary Songbird Species - Cramer - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Unusual Sperm Morphology in Two Sedentary Songbird Species
We describe two dramatic evolutionary shifts in sperm morphology in songbirds, which are independent of but similar to two previously known shifts. Species with this atypical, “tadpole-like” sperm mo....
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
WARNING WARNING WARNING #ResearchAdmini I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.
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a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it
ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to be careful written on it
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Vox has a very good article explaining the mess that just happened at the Supreme Court. In the end, they are ensuring that no matter what happens to the canceled grants, there’s no chance of resolving fast enough to matter for the work or PIs. Struck a death blow www.vox.com/scotus/45886...
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 13/04/2025
NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁
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How Much Vaccination Stops a Measles Outbreak? (Gift Article)
An interactive explanation of outbreaks, vaccines and herd immunity.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it
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Catherine @joshuawoman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is how you truly resist. It fed my soul to hear this young man speak TRUTH to power. We desperately need this kind of passion. Reminds me of the activists I grew up with, back when people were fearless.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond
Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Is it just me, or is Spotify's enshitification recently in overdrive?
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 04/03/2025
I'm the guest editor on this special issue on TBI. Awesome work from the Dean lab 🧪 💀
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
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They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Dr. Cynthia Chang @drcynthiacchang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.
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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Evelyn Quartz @evelynquartz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The speech Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems should have given the day after Trump's inauguration. quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/i-wrote-th...
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I Wrote the Speech Chuck Schumer Should Have Given on Day 1
January 21, 2025.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Lansing, MI #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Buffalo, NY #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Lincoln, NE #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Philadelphia, PA #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Orlando, Ocala, Sarasota, Fort Myers, FL #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tampa, FL #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg, PA #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tallahassee, FL #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Montpelier and Burlington, VT #fiftyfiftyone #50501
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
At the very, very least you should view this as an opportunity to beat Trump instead of an opportunity to gloat.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV.  Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 12/02/2025
Well, I think it's the first time I've been put on a list. I guess studying brain trauma is woke. 🧪
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Holocaust Remembrance Day is now "woke".
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🚨Good news! The Tobiansky lab is moving to Providence College! I'm super excited to move back to Rhode Island and work with great colleagues in the Neuro and Bio departments! A light in these challenging times for research funding. #ScienceIsEssential #ProvidenceCollege #goodnews #biology 🐦🥼🧪🔬
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
„Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis, as I did for my book Serving the Reich, cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders“ 🧪
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH funding supported : *** 412,041 jobs *** *** $92.89 billion in new economic activity*** *** $2.46 for every NIH $1 spent.*** We are a $100B industry. Let's act like it How about, at a bare minimum, we all just call our congressional reps www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
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Annual Economic Report - United For Medical Research
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨🚨please re-post🚨🚨
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 07/02/2025
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Please help support #wikipedia, one of the last bastions of shared truth! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia
Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My intro to bio students loved this paper!!! Thanks for putting some light into the world @evornithology.bsky.social.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For people in DC: go to Treasury department Tuesday at 5:00pm. Ths is where DOGE crew is taking data and attempting illegal impoundments.
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Neil Losin @neillosin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Apropos of nothing, here are 12 #birds that aren't dismantling the democratic order. #birdsky #1: Acorn Woodpecker Once accused of communism. Even used to be called the "California Woodpecker," amirite? And yet, not dismantling the democratic order.
A male Acorn Woodpecker perched at the entrance of its nest cavity. The bird has a streaked breast and a bold, clown-like color pattern on its head and face. This individual has colored bands on its legs, used for identification in a research study.Screen grab of the first page of a paper published in 1924 in the ornithology journal The Condor, entitled "Communism in the California Woodpecker."
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 01/02/2025
Bro what?!?!?!
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Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 30/01/2025
Our woodpecker grant is in! Who knows what will happen to it now... but it's really good! Congrats to a brilliant team: @dtobiansky.bsky.social, @talialm.bsky.social & Aki 🎉 🥳
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a woodpecker with a red beak is standing next to a tree trunk
Alt: a pileated woodpecker pecking a tree very hard
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
All docs in sciencv in my #NCBI are gone like the #biosketch for me and my collaborators. Does anyone know what's going on? What is this craziness!!!
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Daniel Tobiansky @dtobiansky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This will be an amazing resource. Thanks for sharing @evoneuro.bsky.social!
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
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