📢 We’re #hiring a Postdoc to join our lab at Pitt and Pittsburgh’s vibrant auditory research community to study the mechanisms of suprathreshold deficits in hearing loss. Work with me, @aravindhearing.bsky.social, @samhauser.bsky.social, and Lori Zitelli:
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Results from a large multisite study, led by @whiteford.bsky.social!
Thrilled to congratulate @snaplabgroup.bsky.social undergraduate researcher Shaina Wasileski on her outstanding poster at the 2025 Midwest Auditory Research Conference at NEOMED. Her results illuminate physiological contributors to individual variations in outcomes in sensorineural hearing loss.
@neuromatch.bsky.social is conducting a short survey to better understand how basic scientists view public engagement, what barriers they face, and what kinds of support would make it easier and more meaningful. Share your thoughts before June 8: airtable.com/appIOiMGYFhF...
#BasicScience #SciEngage
A collision of seasons this morning in #Pittsburgh. I've been hoping for years to capture snowglobe views that included the cherry blossoms on the North Shore, and this morning I finally got that opportunity. There was even an amazing sunrise afterwards, and I'll be sharing those images soon.
Excited to share my latest work just out in @pnas.org! This NIH MOSAIC K99-funded project identifies a top-down cortical circuit—from cingulate to auditory cortex—that supports auditory perceptual performance in challenging listening conditions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
JASA EXPRESS LETTERS
Learn how we can better assess canine ear health! This letter explores Wideband Acoustic Immittance (WAI) as a valuable tool for evaluating middle ear function in dogs.
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Now accepting applications for the summer 2025 cohort: STEMM opportunities for college students with Hearing loss to Engage in Auditory Research (STEMM-HEAR)
www.stemm-hear.bme.jhu.edu
🙏 Sincere thanks to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for both the research grants and training funding that made this work possible.
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Figure showing significant correlation between DPOAE and behavioral assessments of extended high-frequency hearing.
@samhauser.bsky.social's findings demonstrate that precision, individualized calibration approaches can mitigate the effects of standing waves, making DPOAEs viable in this crucial high-frequency region!
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Figure showing variance of sound level in the ear canal across individuals
Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) offer a non-invasive, passive (especially valuable for patients who may be too unwell for detailed behavioral testing) window, but standing waves from sounds bouncing around in the ear canal throw off measurements at these higher frequencies.👂
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Assays of inner-ear health in the extended high-frequency (>8 kHz) range are critical for early detection of hearing loss from ototoxic medications—like common chemotherapeutics for cancer and certain antibiotics needed for children with cystic fibrosis. 🏥
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Taking a moment to celebrate new science with a paper alert 🚨 🎉 Congratulations to @samhauser.bsky.social, and co-authors Alexandra Hustedt-Mai and Anna Wichlinski on the latest publication from our lab in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
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ATTENTION: TALENT AVAILABLE
It appears that termination of SROs from institute review branches at NIH is underway (or worse).
There are also program officers and SROs who have been terminated over the past month.
IF YOU HAVE POSITIONS FOR SKILLED SCIENTIST-ADMINISTRATORS, PLEASE POST INFO HERE
Rep. Summer Lee totally on fire for Science @summerlee.bsky.social
We invite you to join us at our 2025 Spring Online Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Workshop! This workshop will be on Wednesday, April 9th from 9 AM - 3 PM (ET). Find out more and sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/hnn-workshop....
Seats are limited! #compneuro
Outstanding, digestible snippets of tangible impacts of federally funded research on health and disease
hub.jhu.edu/research-sav...
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts.
www.publicsource.org/research-fun...
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants.
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This is a great infographic explaining where indirect costs go.
HT @haribharadwaj.bsky.social
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
Just want to say Thank You to all the NIH and NSF federal workers who have supported American science through the years. Hang in there!
New webpage on NSF’s implementation of executive orders new.nsf.gov/executive-or...
Looks like the open session of the NIDCD advisory council that was scheduled for today is off (for now) too. Hoping that the closed session/business items would proceed in some form now or soon.
I guess there's no better opportunity for a first Bluesky skeet (?) than to announce that I recently successfully defended my PhD thesis! Grateful for my incredible advisors (Michael Heinz and @haribharadwaj.bsky.social) and the fantastic labs and community that made this possible!
Excited to share our newest article , now in Scientific Reports @natureportfolio.bsky.social . Here we look at interactions between neural coding of temporal cues and pupil-indexed listening effort, and their combined effects on speech in noise intelligibility. - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
