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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‼️Mentorship program APPLICATIONS OPEN‼️ Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) •5-year mentorship program 👥 •for neuroscience grad students, postdocs & assistant profs 👩🏾‍🏫 •in-person sessions 3x/year ✈️ •professional development, mentoring, & research enhancement 🔬 •peer support network 💞

A cream flyer with yellow callout bubbles. The flyer header reads Developing a Community of Neuroscientists (DCNS) A Longitudinal Mentorship Program to Maximize Scientific Impact. There is a group photo of a diverse cohort 1 underneath the header. The left yellow bubble reads What is DCNS? Developing a Community of Neuroscientists is a five year longitudinal mentorship program designed to retain early-career researchers in the field. We aim to provide sustained mentoring and professional development for the next generation of neuroscience leaders. We seek to support people who have faced barriers along their journeys in pursuing academic research careers.

Who is eligible?
• Mid-to-late stage graduate students (who have advanced to PhD candidacy)
• Postdoctoral fellows (intending to apply for faculty positions)
• Assistant professors (with less than 2 years of experience)
DCNS is hosted by the University of Minnesota and supported by an NINDS R25 grant, but open to applicants nationwide.

The right yellow bubble reads Program Benefits:
• Annual $2000 stipend
• All travel & expenses to attend three in-person cohort meetings each year
• A supportive community as you navigate career transitions
• Expanding your mentoring network
• Unique professional development opportunities to grow your personal and career skills

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Then the bottom on the page has a timeline: August applications open, October 30 applications due, December interviews, and January program start. Questions? Please email DCNS@umn.edu

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Neurofrontiers @neuro-frontiers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So happy to hear that you liked it! I really enjoyed writing about your paper! For anyone interested in a more detailed presentation of the paper, check out the authors’ thread here: bsky.app/profile/viss...

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ohmygoodness! @neuro-frontiers.bsky.social wrote a nice discussion essay about our paper! Thank you! Here's more info about the same paper: bsky.app/profile/viss...

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are stronger when we show up for one another. I'm proud to be part of Indivisible’s massive voter protection initiative alongside thousands of volunteers. Every conversation is a step toward communities staying united. Join us at Indivisible.org. 🗳️✊✨

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Indivisible is a nationwide movement of millions of people working to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and to demand a real democracy. We believe that politics is too important t...

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am excited to do a little explainer about the latest publication by Pinar Demirayak ( www.linkedin.com/in/p%C4%B1na... ) in our lab – it suggests that when a brain region is used for attention-demanding tasks, its connection patterns become more idiosyncratic.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...

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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.” — Freeman Dyson

A portrait of Freeman Dyson standing in front of a large chalkboard filled with handwritten mathematical and scientific notes. He is wearing a blue and white striped button-down shirt and light-colored trousers. Stacks of books are on the floor to his left.

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#JNeurosci: Demirayak et al. found that regions of the visual cortex used more frequently develop increasingly individualized patterns of communication, highlighting the brain's remarkable ability to adapt to changes in visual experience. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2178-25.2…

Infographic showing visual perception in MD, retinal assessments, and brain maps.

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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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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great story about the Neuroscience for all program! Love this picture of Ava Piper with her favorite Brain Snack demo!

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Public comments about a proposal that would make science funding decisions open to political influence are removed from the record, but not by the submitters. A number mentioned that OMB Director Russell Vought's family has benefited from federally funded research. www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...

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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Jason Lee Guthrie @jasonleeguthrie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That same relationship is how the good Dr’s son Jad, best known as the host of Radiolab, came to create the excellent podcast series Dolly Parton’s America: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 17/08/2026

Planning to submit a late-breaking abstract for #SfN26? Here are 2 things to keep in mind. 👇 #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 17/08/2026

1. Late-breaking abstracts will be accepted Tuesday, September 8–Tuesday, September 15, or until the 2,500 submission cap is reached, whichever comes first. #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

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UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Applications are open for the 2027 Scholar and Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards from the McKnight Foundation. Recent UAB awardees include Dr. Lillian Brady (2026 Scholar) and Dr. Jeremy Day (2022 NBDA awardee). Apply here: www.mcknight.org/programs/the...

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New work from CNC faculty member @andrewhardaway.bsky.social provides insight into the mechanisms by which GLP-1 drugs work in the brain. www.uab.edu/medicine/new...

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Hardaway study sheds light on how the brain responds to GLP-1 drugs | Heersink School of Medicine News

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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you're still reminiscing about OHBM in Bordeaux, check out Andrew Jahn's OHBM 2026 recap video www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyF.... Andrew Jahn is a committed educator in neuroimaging and we highly recommend checking out his videos and Andy's Brain Book (andysbrainbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

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OHBM 2026 Recap

YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube

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UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us for Brain Chats this Saturday! Dr. Clay will present, "An Introduction to the UAB Alzheimer's Disease Research Center: The Importance of Brain Aging Research." Come learn why brain aging research matters and how you can help advance Alzheimer's research! Free & open to all! 🧠📚

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turrigiano.bsky.social @turrigiano.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Some good news! Not a done deal, but important step. If you wondered if submitting your comments on the OMB rules change mattered, the answer is a resounding YES

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026

Admirable clarity @science.org

The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story

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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📣 BIDS seeks a volunteer Communications Maintainer to keep our community informed, connected, and engaged. Learn more: bids.neuroimaging.io/blog/2026/07... #BIDS #OpenScience #Neuroimaging

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📣 BIDS is looking for a volunteer Communications Maintainer - The Brain Imaging Data Structure

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Great visual illusion, accompanied by a lovely variation on Shepard Tones if you have the sound on Posted on Reddit by bigjobbyx, who is a bit of an artist genius

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A special highlight of our work on precision fMRI of the prefrontal cortex

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 23/07/2026

The public comment period for the proposed OMB rule closed Monday, July 13. Thank you to everyone who took the time to engage in this important process and submit their public comments. View SfN’s submitted comments here: vist.ly/5c9q4 #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky

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Jenny G. Rankin, PhD @jennygrankin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🧠BRAIN FACT: Your sense of time is not kept by one tiny clock. Time perception involves distributed networks including frontal areas, basal ganglia, cerebellum, and parietal regions. #Science4Policy #learning #Polarization

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM

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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Did an interview about Neuroscience for All today with Viewpoint Alabama www.iheart.com/podcast/742-... More info: www.uab.edu/news/health-... and www.brainawarenessuab.com Here's material for setting up your own Neuroscience for All and discussing your experiences: github.com/Neuroscience...

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Neuroscience for All and Cyclospora in Alabama - Viewpoint Alabama | iHeart

UAB’s Dr. Kristina Visscher talks about the Neuroscience for all program that seeks to educate the public about our brains.  Then Dr. Tyler Evans updates us on the outbreak of Cyclospora in...

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Great interview of @emilyjacobs.bsky.social & @laurapritschet.bsky.social. Masterclass of science communication. Instead of a clean story of cognitive+hormone relationships (to highlight their own work) they push a narrative & share their excitement about how much we don't know & could still learn.

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This is Your Brain on Hormones

We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Brian Kim and John D. Medaglia: Frontoparietal control-default mode connectivity predicts TMS effects on cognitive control doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The OMB rule drew 331 comments (out of the 53k currently posted) that referenced the historical cautionary tale of Lysenkoism. because some folks do indeed learn from history. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 15/07/2026

What's your favourite technique for trying to understand big numbers? I like turning them into time! In my newsletter this week I look at ways to wrap our heads around large values. What did I miss? www.not-ship.com/large-numbers/

This is a table showing how large numbers convert to time. 1 million seconds is 11.6 days, about as long as a vacation. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. About the length of a career. 1 trillion seconds is 31,700 years, which is longer than human civilization.

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Interesting. I submitted one comment on the OMB rule on June 29, 2026. Realizing I had left much out of my first, 3-page comment, I left a second substantive comment on July 10th. When I search the list of comments here www.regulations.gov/document/OMB..., I don't see my second comment.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Posted my comments opposing OMBs proposed rule. It was so easy, using this great letter writing tool of @faseborg.bsky.social www.faseb.org/science-poli... Did you submit yours yet? The deadline is soon - July 13. This is essential to save science and research in the US.

I write in my personal capacity as a research-active faculty member, not on behalf of my institution. I am a distinguished professor at a leading state R1 university. I am also a Senior Principal Investigator whose research laboratory is NIH. I submit these comments in strong opposition to OMB's proposed rule revising 2 C.F.R. Part 200 (Docket OMB-2026-0034). I am requesting that OMB withdraw this rule entirely because of the devasting consequences it will have on biomedical research, human health, the economy, and the nation.

The proposed pre-issuance review requirement (§ 200.205) eliminates that independence by giving political appointees – who may have no experience or training in the biomedical research field - veto power over peer-reviewed funding decisions. As a Senior PI / Lab director whose research is supported by NIH, I am deeply concerned that the best science will not be funded, instead politicians will decide not based on merit and research quality, but rather ideology. Peer-review is critical for gold-standard science.

This proposed discretionary termination provision (§ 200.340) jeopardizes the future and well-being of the researchers in my laboratory, my department, my university, my state, and the United States. My research program has been continuously funded by the NIH for over two decades. My laboratory is like a small business – with NIH funding, I employ eight full-time personnel. These scientists are at all stages of their careers – newly minted bachelors who are working as research technicians or graduate students; postdoctoral researchers who are completing additional training in order to go onto careers in academia, biotech, industry, governments; senior scientists who have devoted their entire careers to biomedical research and training the next generation of scientists, physicians, dentists, teachers, etc.

The proposed international collaboration restrictions (§§ 200.202(e), 200.220) will isolate US scientists and lead to the demise…

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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hi all. We have 3 days left to leave as many comments as we can on the federal register for OMB-2026-0034. The next Ozempic won't happen with this rule in place: www.al.com/news/birming...

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Federal rule could disrupt Alabama research grants and economic impact: op-ed

For the NIH, every dollar invested in research generates $2.50 in economic impact across Alabama.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@cdelawalla.bsky.social may be in Paris this week, but we should all join her ONLINE on Monday 7/13/2026 for the #SUFS rally in opposition to the nefarious proposed OMB rule that would destroy science funding the in the US. Go here & sign up: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

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OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spectacular call to action written by the incomparable @andrewhardaway.bsky.social ! www.al.com/news/birming... -- YOU can make a difference by submitting your comments: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

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Federal rule could disrupt Alabama research grants and economic impact: op-ed

For the NIH, every dollar invested in research generates $2.50 in economic impact across Alabama.

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Have y'all heard about the OMB proposed rule? Basically, it's 400+ pages of very bad proposed legislation by Project 2025 folks and Russel Vought-- it would, among other things, make any grant able to be terminated at any time for political reasons. Comment here: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

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Defend Research

We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve been begging folks across the political spectrum to internalize this. Up to and including even Title I and IDEA: Everything we think know and can rely on with federal K12 funding is changing. The latest👇

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WashU Medicine Neurology @washuneurology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New research from Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD, and colleagues published in @science.org found that socioeconomic status is one of the biggest factors impacting the development of kids' brains — more than even IQ, parenting style or health history. Read more: bit.ly/4eelc1K

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Kristi Hannam, PhD @byrdgyrl1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Ok my fellow New York State #scientists #biologists #ecologists & science supporters, this is your time. I made a donation today to Skype a Scientist and you can too! Fill the map with purple and support #science #ScienceEd science education and #scicomm science communication in NY and our region!

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