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Student SAN satellite symposium at INGEBI in Buenos Aires. Starting off the day with medialunas, mate, and coffee🙂🇦🇷🧠👂

Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nature preserve next to the Argentinian Neuroscience meeting at UBA! A good place to take a break from talks and posters

Water view of the La Plata River in Buenos Aires

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today we’re having cakes to celebrate Philippe Vincent’s first funded NIH grant! And he made that fancy looking cake himself! Get yourselves some French colleagues who bake, my friends. It makes the lab meeting so much better 🤣

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy National Research Administrators day! I’m so grateful to our JH Oto research admin team for helping us during this chaotic funding time. They’re essential for keeping the lab afloat and navigating increasingly complex paperwork 🙂

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are so grateful to the donors and their families for their extraordinary gift, and we look forward to sharing this resource with the research community.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Through many trials, navigating logistics, building a flexible interdisciplinary team, and drilling, drilling, drilling, we facilitate analysis of inner ear tissue at the cellular and molecular level, overcoming longstanding constraints in translational research in hearing and balance disorders

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

CONCERNING NIH NEWS Administrator's access to ERA Commons has been taken away! Please share and confirm if true. Please correct me if I am getting bad information 1/3

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Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'

ALT: Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'

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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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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why must writing budget justifications for grant proposals be such a soul crushingly tedious task? Why can’t we just say “I need the money to pay people and buy the supplies to do the experiments, plus a little to disseminate the results.” Promise, no luxury trips to Hawaii!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Insights from inside NIH on the proposal to hide scores and instead bin applications into broad score categories. Please read and comment on the RFI. 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-... Link to RFI: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...

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NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No, no, not Dolly. This is a national catastrophe!

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Down the street from Chez Lauer

Deer standing on garage roof eating tree leaves

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just accepted the 2nd study section invitation for this autumn/winter. If you can serve on study section, please accept when asked. The SROs and the POs are working so hard to get good science funded.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you send me an email expressing interest in doing research in my lab that was obviously generated by AI, I am not inclined to interview you! I want original humans who I can trust to do their own thinking. At least try to make it appear like a warm-blooded creature wrote it🙂

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APHA @apha.org · 03/08/2026

Who influences your public health policy priorities? Learn how to identify key decision-makers and build a strategic advocacy plan from @jhadvocacy.bsky.social's "Power Mapping - Actions to Take Before and After Elections." Learn more & register: vist.ly/5derm August 13 | 12-2p.m. ET

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I got all excited that I’d be making “6 figures” as a professor. Felt like a lot more than my parents ever made! Then I checked the value of today’s 100K in the year I was 10 years old. It was $53K. 🫠

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m still working to understand the full implications of this ruling rejecting (one of) the admin’s motions to dismiss and saying NEW priorities can’t be used to terminate previously awarded grants: www.politico.com/live-updates... But it’s definitely good news.

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Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

The court denied the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 20 states.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

But then I also feel lucky that I have enough funding to sustain my small lab when others are in much worse shape

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And every day I worry that any one of the grants I do have could be stopped at any moment for no good reason, the philanthropy won’t come through, the costs of doing research will continue to rise while the awards are trimmed, etc., etc.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today I dealt with aspects of 8 different grants that are either funded, waiting for no competing yr NOA, in development, or being submitted now, plus two philanthropic leads. It is not possible for me to manage 8 grants, but this is how we live as scientists amidst the federal funding chaos☹️

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2026

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

The graphic displays an image of Russell Vought and the logos of Stand Up for Science, teh American Association of University Professors, and the American Federation of Teachers. The graphic reads: "VIRTUAL & ACCESSIBLE, REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO! OMB DEADLINE DAY, Monday, July 13th, 2 - 3PM ET, The Fight is Just Beginnig, Learn what comes next in the fight, Hear from scientists, experts, and MoCs, Learn how the proposal will effect you".

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Taking a little break on the Eastern Shore to think about a big project and a little project. Greyhound approves of the ~360 water views!

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 17/06/2026

#NIH has published the new Parent #F99/K00 #predoctoral to #postdoctoral award. The first due date is August 8, 2026. Please see the website to determine eligibility and submission dates. #sciencesky #medsky #funding

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PA-27-037: Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award (Parent F99/K00 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Aww, better than a hairball!

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Honored to add this plaque to my wall, but I feel like a hundred other names should be on here with mine! Congrats also to John Carey for receiving the Mentorship award and Kevin Motz for Clinical Excellence #jhotolaryngology

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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JAMA @jama.com · 08/06/2026

In 2025, the number of #NIH-funded investigators declined for the first time in a decade, with the steepest reductions among Black and Hispanic researchers and fellows. ja.ma/4ujDlzG

JAMA Research Letter: "Trends in National Institutes of Health Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status." Two line graphs show A) research project grant investigators (rising from ~40k to ~50k) and B) fellowships (fluctuating, peaking ~4.5k) from 2016-2025.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our STEMM-HEAR R25 students (undergrads and one grad) are forming bonds and practicing advocacy while discussing communication disorders research, research integrity, and professional development before going off to work in labs around the US 😊

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

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Lauer Lab @lauerlab.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Beautiful day for an Oto department picnic on the grounds of Evergreen! Absolutely love being part of this crew😊

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Right on the nose.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

For a clear description of what is in the new OMB grant-making regulations, see elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of... 1/2

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Each week, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Needed to write Year 2, Week 22 a day early. It is grim. - new NSF grant delays - gut-churning policy proposals on NDA, accreditation, peer review - academic freedom surveys & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 22

May 23-28, 2026 – by design

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