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Jean-Paul Noel

@jpnoel.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota. PI noel-lab.org. Causal inference, hidden state inference, multisensory integration, navigation, peri-personal space, computational psychiatry, ecological neuroscience

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another study finds no link between taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy & autism or ADHD The study examined data from 7 meta-analyses involving more than 3 million participants I wish RFK Jr & Trump would stop terrorizing people about this drug onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Prenatal exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An umbrella review and meta‐meta‐analysis
This meta-meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Crude analyses suggest small associations with autism and ADHD, but these attenuate subs...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead” www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
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White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears 'dead'
A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.
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shivashriganesh.bsky.social @shivashriganesh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re excited to share BrainWideBench, a new benchmark for evaluating how models of neural activity generalize across animals and tasks! 📄 Check out the paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2609.22064 Special shoutout to @alx-adr.bsky.social, who contributed equally as co-first authors!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experientia...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 31/08/2026
NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Jean-Paul Noel @jpnoel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First Noel Lab Pre-print! If you are into "peri-personal space" and feel like we need more single cell recordings, this one is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An egocentric map prioritizing peri-personal space in the mouse rostro-lateral visual area
All physical interactions between an organism and its environment occur within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding its body, its peripersonal space (PPS). This space has been extensively...
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Department of Psychology at University of Minnesota seeks an Assistant Professor working on computational approaches related to cognition and/or perception (broadly). This would be in my area of the department and I’m happy to answer any questions. Posting : hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Computational Approaches to Perception and/or CognitionDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Minnesota, College of Liberal ArtsThe Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities announces a search for an outstanding scholar to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to perception and/or cognition. This full-time position in the Department’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CAB) Training Program will begin in Fall 2027.Applications are invited from researchers who would extend or complement our historic strengths in combining experimental and computational approaches to perception and cognition. Examples of desired research topics include, but are not limited to, computational approaches in human and/or non-human animal models to study perceptual function and sensory loss, learning, motivation, emotion, and/or higher cognition. While we expect the primary appointment to be in our CAB area, there is  potential for cross-affiliation with other departmental areas.The appointment will be 100%-time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May) and will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary and start-up packages are competitive. The successful applicant should have and is expected to maintain a strong research program, advise graduate students from a variety of different backgrounds, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses, including core courses within the graduate training program. A strong record of teaching and mentorship is desired. The individual will also be expected to contribute to the service needs of the department, college, university, and profession.A successful candidate's application will demonstrate scholarly distinction, a record of publications, teaching commitment and, if applicable to the research program and the candidate’s career stage, evidence of success in securing and/or pursuing extramural funding.Applicants are invited to review the Workload Principles and Guidelines for Regular Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts, as well as the Standards for Promotion and Tenure in the Department of Psychology.
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Nicola Grissom @nicolagrissom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You know how the old saying goes, COME to Minnesota for the tenure track opening in Computational Approaches to Perception and/or Cognition in the Department of Psychology STAY in Minnesota for the amazing quality of life Details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Aditya Krishna @adikrish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fantastic new work from Nikita Finger in the lab, investigating sensory conflict in Egyptian fruit bats by fitting them with prisms!!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
America is apparently no longer safe for scientists. The Republican contrived and completely baseless war on science is extending to individuals now. If you are a scientist in America, you should be scared and angry.
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Cris Niell @crisniell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very happy to share our new review on visual computation in the cephalopod brain, with @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social, out now! We discuss exciting recent advances in understanding how the radically different brain of cephalopods processes the visual scene. 🐙🔬👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For the enlightenment of the 💩🤡s going after Fauci:
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
don't want to speak out of turn, but I think a little DEI might have been of some use to this state department working group www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You can tell a lot about a leader by listening to the people who worked for them. Those who worked for Tony Fauci uniformly respected him. Today’s congressional hearing was a witch hunt, part of a larger effort to undermine science and scientists. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-led US Senate COVID hearing
Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination and accusing R...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Morgan @larubia22.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
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Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our lab is re-opening the search for a postdoc! The candidate we chose this round unfortunately had to withdraw (2-body problem). If you or someone you know is looking for a postdoc in ephys + spatial navigation + neurodegeneration, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io
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Welcome to the Aery Jones Lab!
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735
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A Snarky Grandpa (Bruce) @asnarkygrandpa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Is anyone really surprised that Trump was outsmarted by a single-cell organism?
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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 16/06/2026
In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: bit.ly/49YfgaE
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The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) seeks to uncover general principles of brain function through an ecological perspective: studying perception, cognition, and action in the c...
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
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The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness
Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Adam Hantman @adamhantman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The lab has been at full capacity, but with team members moving to their next career steps, we have open postdoc positions.
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Jeremiah Cohen @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Excited to move to the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota in the fall. We will continue our work on neuromodulators and behavior. Positions available in the lab. Please get in touch if interested, and share broadly! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374...
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Kurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'm looking to hire a research technician/lab manager. This role is ideal for someone looking to gain experience and independence after undergraduate research on their way to graduate school. Please encourage anyone interested to apply: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374... (job code 374183)
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The Fraser Lab at the University of Minnesota (https://fraserlab.psych.umn.edu/) is recruiting a full-time research technician to support the lab. As a part of the Department of Psychology we are involved in the greater neuroscience research community at the University of Minnesota which provides excellent access to training and professional development. The Fraser Lab is interested in the neurobiological basis of motivated behavior and investigates how defined brain circuits contribute to behavioral regulation. We make use of modern neuroscience approaches to record and manipulate neural activity in real-time as rodents perform complex behavioral tasks to relate precise aspects of neural activity to well-defined psychological processes. To do so, we regularly use optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging, biosensors, pharmacology, and immunohistochemistry. Our ultimate goal is to decipher the neural mechanisms regulating behavior and to characterize how these are altered in psychiatric illness, such as addiction, or by differences in lived experience, such as after early life adversity, to potentially identify novel therapeutics. We seek a team member who can play a lead role in lab operations, collaborate closely with the PI, and engage in team-building and growth.Duties:Laboratory logistics, maintenance and operations (30%):
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Matt Beckman @daphsci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Thanks for your recent piece. I think those with power (even on left) are either oblivious to this or they are against it but are not being vocal because it is unpopular. Here's an analysis I published on this for Minnesota's US House and Senate candidates: minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/13/s...
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Science is under attack and Minnesota politicians are asleep at the wheel • Minnesota Reformer
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar recently rolled out some preliminary plans for Minnesota in her campaign for governor with a focus on fraud. Notably absent from her list of priorities: science. Leaders in Was...
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro
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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hillscape cells: Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior #neuroskyence @roddy-grieves.bsky.social Eleonore Duvelle and Jeff Taube: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior
Place cells map terrain geometry, not behavior, revealing a surface-based brain code for real-world navigation.
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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NIH Seeks Input on Framework for Next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan | Grants & Funding
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D. @desrocherslab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I remember the first time I learned about affordances and what the brain does with them - our learning about how we relate to things in the world. So cool! Check out the latest by @sci_toons explaining them: 🧪 🧠 youtu.be/cs3Clg5Syf8?...
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Affordances: How our Bodies and Environment Shape Thought
Imagine you are building a robot to clean your room. The robot needs to overcome a number of challenges in order to complete its tasks, including: perceiving things from changing perspectives,…
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”
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NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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Maria Geffen @geffenlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Looking forward to the inaugural Lurie Autism Institute Symposium: www.lurieautisminstitute.org/2026-lurie-a... today.
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Aery Jones lab is recruiting another postdoc! If you're interested in neural mechanisms of spatial memory, high-density recordings, cool tasks (like cricket hunting), and/or aging and Alzheimer's, come check us out: aeryjoneslab.github.io. Please pass along to your friends :D
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Pynapple @pynapple.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚀 New workshop before FENS in Barcelona! Join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a hands-on workshop on pynapple & NeMoS. Learn to analyze and model neural data with open-source tools. Accommodation & meals included. Details ⬇️
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Chris Zimmerman @czimmerman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢📢 My lab at @utah.edu is officially open and I'm RECRUITING — especially techs/specialists and postdocs! Our research focuses on the neurobiology of interoception and learning & memory using tools from systems/comp neuro. Please share! 🧠🏔️🏜️ Apply/more info: zimmerman-lab.org#positions
University of Utah Health Campus at sunset. Image courtesy of the University of Utah.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 05/03/2026
Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain? We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals. More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a
Drawing of the "Aeon" project, an open-source platform to study the neural basis of ethological behaviours over naturalistic timescales.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.
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Michael Pereira @meaperei.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445
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Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness
Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...
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Esther Krook-Magnuson @kmlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The KM Lab is hiring! We're looking for both a new technician (makes a great post-bac like experience) and a post-doc. Come do fun science. Come join an amazing community. Learn more: sites.google.com/site/krookma...
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