hi again, cis folks!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.
context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.
13 days left, as of this post. please comment.
EPA Solidarity walks are happening TOMORROW, May 25th in cities across the United States! ☀️🌎💧
Check out the link below to learn more, join a walk, or find more information about how to advocate for the EPA. Clean water and air are human rights.
linktr.ee/EPAsolidarity
#scienceforall
I am hiring a PhD student in my lab in beautiful Edinburgh to keep investigating the neural mechanisms underlying flexible decision-making and individual variability.
Email or DM me with any questions, or let's chat at the CoSyNe Main Meeting next week!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/2cxr6nbg
Columbia political science professor & scholar of post-soviet policy Tim Frye speaking out today as the rain fell at Columbia AAUP’s press conference in response to Columbia’s shocking surrender to the Trump administration’s threats to defund.
#defendhighered #academicsky
Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez writes in Nature that higher-education establishments in the US must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion. “Higher education must not back down. But to win this fight, universities need a plan.” #Academicsky 🧪
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers. #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
With so many doc students relying on tenuous/stopped grant support, it needs to be all faculty hands on deck to help them find other opportunities for moving them expeditiously to degree. This collective mentoring model offers ideas on how faculty can help. #AcademicSky
prof2prof.com/resource/col...
Spent this Valentine’s Day with @vincip.bsky.social standing up for science! I’m very grateful that she puts up with my shenanigans - today this included designing stickers with a QR code to contact reps about the current attacks on scientific research.
On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.
"Like China forcing Google to delete all searchable references to Tiananmen Square, it displays the immediate, authoritarian power to censor — but it is not a move made out of confidence in one’s position. ...it is a move made out of fear of what knowledge can do (and) how it might spread..."
Trans rights are human rights. #standupfightback #transrights #visibility #nyc #stonewall
Tree diagram from Origin of Species showing many branches diverging from one another from a common ancestor
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, who wrote one of the most poetic lines ever dropped in scientific writing:
"There is grandeur in this view of life - that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
🧠By tracking the activity of thousands of neurons over days & weeks during learning, Janelia researchers led by the Spruston Lab have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain’s hippocampus – a region responsible for learning and memory. 🗺️
🔗 hhmi.news/4hXIp7r
"These cuts should be a rallying cry for higher education to come together... Conflicts should be set aside to focus attention on this ruthless takedown of academia. All disciplines will be affected by these cuts, not just science. This is a moment to unite."
💯 agree with @holdenthorp.bsky.social!
For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
If you live in:
● Alaska
● Alabama
● Arkansas
● Florida
● Georgia
● Indiana
● Iowa
● Kansas
● Louisiana
● Missouri
● Montana
● Nebraska
● South Carolina
● South Dakota
● Texas
● Utah
● West Virginia
You should be SCREAMING at your state's Attorney General to drop the case.
dredf.org/protect-504/
Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.
In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field.
www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight...
#WomenInScience #February11
"Somehow we must keep hope alive – a hope that we can find a way to educate all, alleviate poverty, assuage anger, and live in harmony with the environment, with animals, and with each other." ~ Dr. Jane Goodall
Keep hope alive.
(image via @cheriarmstrong.bsky.social) #quote #Alzheimers #dementia
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."
No, this is what happened - men took programming jobs over when they became well paid and high status.
This is a pattern that has occurred in many industries, from teaching to veterinary science.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...
DM’d you!
ATTENTION
If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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As I start to go through #DisabledInSTEM applications, I often put out requests for more applications
This year, I'm looking for more mentees and mentors in the following time-zones: GMT, Mountain, AEST, BRT, and UTC+1
I want pods to have more interactions and these time-zones have few people!
I also wrote a short news story for @cenmag.bsky.social about a study that found that #DisabledinSTEM researchers get paid significantly less than their non-disabled peers:
cen.acs.org/careers/sala...
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Since it's International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I wanted to share a handful of disability-related stories I've written.
First, for @cenmag.bsky.social, I recently wrote about how a lot of labs are still inaccessible to disabled scientists: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
#DisabledinSTEM 🧪
Wanting to share my first ever publication about the #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program!
Hoping this inspires some more people to join the 2025 program!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
