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Kim Tolias

@kimtolias.bsky.social
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Molecular Neuroscientist studying brain development and plasticity in health and disease. Synapse enthusiast. Professor at Stanford School of Medicine. Mom. Views are my own.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 04/09/2026
We already have special research funds for diseases that impact our military. Hegseth has requested a $1.5 TRILLION budget.   Still, the DOD is diverting funds for medical research at NIH.   Stopping lifesaving treatments & cures to help wage foreign wars. This must end.
‘Outrageous’: Pentagon Secretly Working to Divert Billions From National Institutes of Health

“These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NPR story about multi-year funding, few NOFOs, and delays with me, Elizabeth Ginexi, and @docsirianni.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...
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The Trump administration is finding new ways to withhold federal funding for science
Billions in funding were cut under President Trump were restored in 2026. Now, watchdogs say the administration is finding other ways to withhold money – and scientists are feeling the consequences.
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Kim Tolias @kimtolias.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excited to share that I've joined Stanford as Professor in Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine! After ~20 wonderful years at Baylor College of Medicine, I'm deeply grateful to my outstanding trainees, colleagues, collaborators, and staff. Looking forward to this next chapter at Stanford!
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Forbes @forbes.com · 06/05/2026
California Bill Would Create A $23 Billion Fund For University Research
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California Bill Would Create A $23 Billion Fund For University Research
A California bill would give voters the chance to vote on whether the state should create a $23 billion bond that would be used to award grants to university researchers.
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
On my CV and biosketch, I list motherhood (2000, 2002, 2004 - present). Then I wanted my reviewers/critics to know. Now I want ECR women to know. Ask for help. Find your support network. It is critical that us senior women in science support and advocate for ECR #womeninSTEM. PAY IT FORWARD
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good story from Vox on falling numbers of new and competitive renewal R01 grants. [Gift Link] www.vox.com/future-perfe... 1/5
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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else
Revealed in one chart.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔬 Exciting PostDoc Opportunity! 🐁🧠 We - the @sinzlab.bsky.social (sinzlab.org) and @trose-neuro.bsky.social (troselab.de) Labs - are seeking an experimental postdoc to work at @unibonn.bsky.social with cutting-edge miniature 2-photon microscopy and gaze tracking in freely behaving mice.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/11/2025
"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/11/2025
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social. Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring. We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology. Transcript and video here www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...
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Battle between Trump and universities hurting scientific research in need of federal funding
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/11/2025
Scientists point to a long list of findings that emerged out of fundamental research, the type of studies the US government is cutting, and went on to change the world. Nature lists a few of their examples. 🧪
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Edward Kravitz, a Harvard biochemist who proved GABA's inhibitory power, passed away last month. He will "be remembered for his humanity, for his social conscience and his desire to help those less fortunate than he,” says Ronald Harris-Warrick. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social bit.ly/479Ggmo
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Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A functional perspective on astrocyte heterogeneity www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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A functional perspective on astrocyte heterogeneity
Astrocytes are glial cells of the central nervous system (CNS) that perform an array of diverse functions that are essential for brain activity. Studies on the functional diversity of astrocytes sugge...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My quote of the day A Video Quote Medical miracles don't happen overnight. You have to invest in them. Our investments are in trouble. (From Francis Collins on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, July 16, 2025)
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 19/06/2025
I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness. www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
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Nobel laureate on how Trump's cuts are hurting science
Neuroscientist, biologist and 2021 Nobel Prize winner Ardem Patapoutian joined Midday Edition to talk about how the Trump administration's effort to cut back on science spending is impacting researche...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yas! Parent F32 (PA-25-423) and F30s (PA-25-426, PA-25-425) are also published. simpler.grants.gov
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Simpler.Grants.gov
Simpler.Grants.gov is improving how you discover, post, and apply for federal discretionary funding on Grants.gov.
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Jeff Leek @jtleek.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰. Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯 Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?
Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 31/05/2025
It is hard to conceive of a more anti-American policy choice for US innovation and prosperity in the 21st century.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n
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Kim Tolias @kimtolias.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Huge congratulations to @franciscoblanco.bsky.social (PhD) and Topher Cronkite (MD/PhD) for earning their degrees! Mentoring such outstanding students has been a true honor! Can't wait to see the amazing things they'll do next! @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social #BCMGraduation
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/05/2025
David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
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Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
On why we need the NIH. www.physiology.org/publications...
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Why We Need the National Institutes of Health
NIH has historically received bipartisan support. We should all be advocating for continued federal funding for biomedical research.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"The biomedical research cuts when they’re polled are like 70-30 or 80-20 against. But it’s only on the edges of the news. You want to push it to the center of the news...Let’s have that vote. Push this issue to the top of the news feed and make Republicans own these cuts."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/05/2025
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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boehninglab @boehninglab.com · 02/05/2025
Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
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Delia Milliron @deliamilliron.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is chilling. The slowing of grant funding to a crawl could, through recission later this year, result in drastically reduced FY25 funding that provides the excuse for drastically reduced science funding going forward. The copy-paste of this strategy to #NSF and others seems likely. 🧪#ChemSky
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Moreover, these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous. Everything from the internet to pharmaceutical and health care innovations evolved from such investments. We are richer and healthier for the investment.
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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @nihildev.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com
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Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
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Sophia Sanborn @naturecomputes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Join me, @andreastolias.bsky.social, and many of the incredible MICrONS team members in an AI-driven approach to neuroscience discovery Apply here: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... Or email us at recruiting@enigmaproject.ai
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Enigma hiring Research Engineer: Multi-Modal Modeling in Stanford, CA | LinkedIn
Posted 11:42:35 PM. The modeling team at Enigma is seeking ML Research Engineers to build and scale the next generation…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Andreas Tolias @andreastolias.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results! We recorded activity from ~75K neurons in the visual cortex of a single mouse, then mapped its wiring using electron microscopy. nature.com/immersive/d42859-025-00001-w/index.html
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The MICrONS Project
An unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is the way to fight back. Not just rejecting illegal demands, but also arguing affirmatively for the value of university research.
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Sarah Ross @sarahross1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
McCormick and Fetterman were supposed to do a book tour appearance in Pittsburgh, but canceled at the last minute because they heard people would be protesting. We showed up anyway. The book is about mentoring. As mentors, we are concerned. With @ahmarilab.bsky.social and @goldpainlab.bsky.social
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