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Philip Bender

@scienceetc.bsky.social
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Neuroscience PhD. Auditory neuro Postdoc. Electrophysiologist. Cat friend. Bassist. Aspiring cryptid. He/Him.

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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just to drive home the point, Paris is pretty damp.
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Already that time of year where I wake up and head to work while it is still dark But at least it's also still warm and humid 😐
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Weird ask for my community here; so I know anyone with contacts in logistics, supply chain management, industrial/organizational engineering, sales&marketing analysis&engineering, etc in Germany? Have a talented masters level friend looking for a job in the field, preferably in Munich
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Note unrelated to anything but it's been a year since I moved to France!
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Could really use a few days where I don't spend all day feeling sweaty and damp Nobody warned me Paris would be so... moist
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Troubleshooting ephys hardware issues is my personal hell
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
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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Michael Kasten @madscientistphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's been a year in the making but I am happy to announce our UNC Neurophysiology core facility is online. What do we do? Patch clamp (from almost anything), calcium imaging, ABR, EEG, and more! Ready to help labs, research institutes, and companies anywhere! Details: www.med.unc.edu/neurophyscore/
Calcium signals from spontaneously firing neurons expressing GCaMP in a sliceComparison of action potential shapes from different neuronal subtypes
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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 09/07/2026
Hey you! 🧠🧪 Are you an early career neuroscientist? Do you want to learn more about publishing, share your perspectives, and strengthen the global neuroscience community? Come join the JNeuro ECR Board! Applications due July 17: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...
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Call for Applications: ECR Advisory Board | Journal of Neuroscience
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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Any old school molbio people have a copy of the 1987 paper from BMBiochemica on using Bailey’s as a blocking agent for colony hybridization?
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's already been 2 years since I defended my dissertation How the time flies!
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Weather forecast in Paris has me missing USA air conditioning
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thank you everyone who reached out about Lucy. She is seriously missed, except by Roxy who never liked her anyway
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Can't sleep. I miss my Lucy cat. She loved a good bedtime cuddle
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Some of you have been with me since the Twitter days My sweet cat Lucy passed away today. She was young and it was unexpected Please hug your pets extra for me
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 02/06/2026
MAHA: Vitamins and supplements are the key to health and longevity. Also MAHA: No, no, not the evidence based prevent your infant from bleeding in their brain one.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Jackson: "The Court begins with NSF’s failure to articulate any rationale for divesting UCAR of stewardship over the NWSC and transferring its operations and maintenance responsibilities to another entity. This failure is dispositive."
Some internal NSF and OMB communications suggest that the transfer
decision may have been motivated, at least in part, by concerns regarding UCAR’s
promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) initiatives and the use of its
Case No. 1:26-cv-01061-RBJ Document 47 filed 06/01/26 USDC Colorado pg 26
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research in support of climate-change policies. See ECF No. 32-12; ECF No. 32-14
at 4–5. However, these rationales are not properly before the Court because NSF
has never invoked them as the basis for its action. Regents, 591 U.S. at 65. Even if
the Court were to consider them, the current record does not demonstrate “a rational
connection between the facts found and the choice made,” especially because NSF
intends to leave UCAR’s research and development functions intact while
transferring only operations and maintenance responsibilities for the NWSC. State
Farm, 463 U.S. at 43. Nor is it apparent how transferring stewardship of the NWSC
meaningfully addresses NSF’s concern with UCAR’s purported DEI initiatives. In
short, the agencies’ passing references to these rationales in internal communications
are not a basis on which the action can be upheld.
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priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
No one who understands the value of expertise should ever have imposter syndrome again
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Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
One federal grant was just terminated ($1.3 million from DHS) and one was awarded but not funded ($46,748 from NOAA) due to the new federal administration priorities and executive orders. PIs, how are you addressing these situations on your CVs? 💸
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Indiana told the public it gave less than $1 million in data center subsidies in 2025. The real number? $655 million. And $561 million of that went to a single company: Amazon. While Hoosiers pay sales tax on groceries, Amazon paid nothing. This isn’t economic development. It’s a heist.
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13 Investigates: You pay sales tax. Some Indiana data centers didn’t. Here’s what we found
New records show some Indiana data centers have reported hundreds of millions in state sales and use tax exemptions.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“agencies may consider an applicant’s history of questionable practices based on publicly available and verifiable information.” Potential perma bans for any University which ever supported any type of DEI activity.
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It's very warm in Paris ... but there are worse places to experience heat!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.
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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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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Earlier this week I posted an example of a fake western blot provided by ThermoFisher to demonstrate the validity of a p53 antibody. I considered it an amusing curiosity. In fact Thermo Fisher Scientific has systematically manipulated antibody validation data!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
the technician position in my lab is now posted! Please pass this along: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...
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Laboratory Research Technician
The Research Technician will assist with lab management operations and assist the Principal Investigator and members of the laboratory with experiments involving molecular biology, behavior, biochemis...
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Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@sholtodavid.bsky.social Have you seen this WB from ThermoFisher? Still anti-p53 antibody, but another clone (MA-12648 instead MA5-12557). It also looks like that the band in lane 3 was rotated and reused in lane 4. Moreover, it seems that same band was used for the 2 different clones.
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Tristan Shuman @tristanshuman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Apply for our Paris Miniscope Workshop this summer: July 1-3, 2026. Come learn to record and analyze calcium imaging data with open source Miniscopes! Applications due this Friday May 22. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop Application
We're excited to invite applications for the 2026 Paris Miniscope Workshop, hosted at ESPCI Paris and organized by Daniel Aharoni (UCLA), Denise Cai and Tristan Shuman (Icahn School of Medicine Mount ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/05/2026
tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF) it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support #nzpol
New transition fund provides continuity while backing bold ideas
Published: 14 May 2026

A streamlined Transition Research Fund has been announced for 2027, aligning science funding with national priorities and supporting a focus on outcomes that benefit New Zealand.

The fund was developed on advice from the newly established science funding decision-maker, Research Funding New Zealand. This new fund brings investigator-led research into a single fund with three funding mechanisms:

Talent Development supports future research leaders to build capability, test ideas and establish independent careers.
Projects enable bold, innovative research with strong potential to deliver meaningful benefits for New Zealand.
Programmes support ambitious, collaborative research tackling complex challenges and delivering transformational outcomes over a longer term.
It supports research from early discovery through to larger scale programmes with a focus on delivering impact for New Zealand, in line with national priorities for science, innovation and technology.

The Prime Minister's Science, Innovation and Technology Advisory Council recommended the following four priority areas for public investment:

Primary industries and the bioeconomy.
Technology for prosperity.
Environmental sustainability and resilience.
Healthy people and a thriving society.
Priorities will be confirmed in the Science, Investment Plan expected to be released mid-2026. 

The Transition Research Fund brings contestable funding which would have otherwise been delivered through future rounds of the Marsden and Endeavour funds into a single investigator-led research fund.

It will open for applications later this year.

The total first year investment in the Transition Research Fund in 2027 will be up to $84.4 million. The Transition Research Fund will invest up to $300 million over five years in total. 

Final funding decisions will be made by Research Funding New Zealand, with all funded projects showing clea…
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I am VERY disappointed to learn that the Gordon Research Conferences have capitulated to the fascists and ended their long standing "Power Hour" programs where we could speak together as a community about challenges and approaches to address the experiences of all
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.
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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The auditory system differs from other senses in the complexity of its subcortical pathways. King and colleagues examine how subcortical structures transform sound representations and integrate sensor...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I was interviewed by @snehakhedkar.bsky.social for The Scientist about our work using super-resolution microscopy to map the neuronal architecture, and make nice pictures along the way! Check the article here: www.the-scientist.com/super-resolu...
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Super-Resolution Microscopy Helps Map Hidden Neuronal Architecture | The Scientist
Christophe Leterrier uses advanced microscopy to uncover neurons’ intricate nanostructure and dynamics while creating striking images that bring brain science to life.
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Ariel Levine @ariellevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Posting for Vibhu Sahni: Due to unforeseen circumstances the Burke Neurological Institute will have to terminate its research operations 5/22. There are international postdocs on visas who are looking for new homes. Please reach out to Vibhu if you can help
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hantavirus is *well known* to spread by the airborne route. Mainly, airborne rodent poop and pee. Congratulations to all the mainstream media outlets that have already managed to flat out lie about hantavirus transmission.
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Just a shameless networking plug that I would LOVE to connect with you all on LinkedIn, where I barely ever post anyway You can find me here: www.linkedin.com/in/philip-bender-ph-d-2a4b1691
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Update: Paris? Pretty nice Paris when the sun actually comes out? Just a little nicer
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
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Lady of the Tomb @sakhmet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Today is my and @scienceetc.bsky.social's birthday. In lieu of birthday wishes, I would like all yall to tell me just how much you detest Apartheid Isr*el and everyone who enabled them to continue destroying my motherland. Ty 🫶🏽
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Philip Bender @scienceetc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I've had my phd for almost 2 years now and I've not been asked to review a paper at all
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