Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ANNOUNCES GEORGE CONWAY, JD AS A SPEAKER AT THE WASHINGTON D.C. NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY ON MARCH 7th!

Stand Up For Science announces George Conway, JD (@gtconway.bsky.social) as a speaker at the Washington D.C. National Day of Action rally on Saturday, March 7th!


Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find local rally!

#standupforscience
#March7DC

Precision Medicine in Neuroscience: Tools, Translation, and Implementation: A Workshop Workshop Details Day 1 - March 4, 2026, 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET Day 2 - March 5, 2026, 9:00am - 4:00pm ET Workshop Objectives A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

Join me today & tomorrow for Precision Medicine in Neuroscience: Tools, Translation, and Implementation Workshop
Wednesday, March 4, 2:00 – 5:00p & Thursday, March 5, 9:00a – 4:00p [ET]

I’m co-chairing session 2 w Brian Fiske @ 3:55pm today! 🧠 🧪 #NASEM

www.nationalacademies.org/projects/CHP...

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share!

3x Job Details below:

(fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

NATIONAL DAY of ACTION Take back our science, health, and democracy! MARCH 7TH, 2026 ATLANTA, GA AND NATIONWIDE! standupforscience.net/march7

ATLANTA! Join your local March 7th rally to take back our science! Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#rally
#March7
#ImpeachRFKJr
#science
#standupforscience

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org

📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴
🗓️ Between July 6-24

Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org
In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:

jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/po...

Lab website: wessellab.org

🙏 thanks for saying that, I want to help out & feel a bit weird saying no to all review requests, but I really can’t justify this unpaid labor that won’t lead to paid labor. I already feel weird working/grant writing full-time unpaid, but there’s no way around it as I’m following my life’s passion 👩🏻‍🔬

That’s so cool! Never heard of it, will have a look 👏

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

This #InternationalDayofWomenAndGirlsInScience, join us in celebrating the brilliant research led by women across the sciences 👩‍🔬 🧬 Check out these insightful articles published in FEBS Open Bio:

📘https://buff.ly/FXIAohO
📕https://buff.ly/MzzccJO
📗https://buff.ly/GqaSzjG

#WomeninSTEM #PhDchat #ECR

Bailey Zimmerman with Luke Combs - Backup Plan (Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bailey Zimmerman

Anyone in my lovely network have example #Humboldt fellowship applications to share? #psych #cogsci 🧠 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Channelling my current anthem "Backup Plan" and gettin' back up after yesterday's disappointment of getting an excellent/previously fundable #MSCA score w/o funding

youtu.be/Yyd5kmngrOU?...

... go on and prove it
Don't let nobody clip your wings
Keep your head down, keep on the blinders
Tune out the doubters and all the closed minders
If it's in your blood, fallin' down ain't enough
To change who you were born to be

Gettin' back up, that's the only backup plan you need"
🤘💪😉🤓

"And you're hearin' all the talk about
'Maybe you should think about
What you're gonna do if it don't work out'
As far as I can see, there ain't no way to be
Somebody if you're just 'gon quit

So, if you got a fire, don't lose it
If you got a do-or-die dream, do it
If you got somethin' to prove, ...

This will be the SIXTH grant I'll write since learning of the devastating US #science funding cuts that cost me my job 1 year ago.

I'm proud of myself for persevering, grateful for the help & encouragement I get from ya'll 🫶 & for these kickass lyrics by Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs...

Bailey Zimmerman with Luke Combs - Backup Plan (Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bailey Zimmerman

Anyone in my lovely network have example #Humboldt fellowship applications to share? #psych #cogsci 🧠 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Channelling my current anthem "Backup Plan" and gettin' back up after yesterday's disappointment of getting an excellent/previously fundable #MSCA score w/o funding

youtu.be/Yyd5kmngrOU?...

Thanks @hoptmanm.bsky.social ! At least it seems I’m in good company 😉🫠

I’m supporting @samwang.bsky.social (even though I don’t live New Jersey) - because he’s the type of scientist-as policy-maker that we so desperately need. Join me in helping him succeed!

Why I'm running for Congress Congress today is deeply polarized, ignores the priorities of voters, and fails to check the other two branches of government. But neither party, Democrats nor Republicans, is meeting our moment of ne...

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models Popular models of decision-making characterize choice dynamics as a tug-of-war process, where evidence for competing options accumulates until a threshold is reached. While these models capture severa...

Excited to share our chapter "Breaking the Tug-of-War: What Neuroeconomics Can Gain by Moving Past Competition-Only Models" with Yi-Hsin Su, Romy Frömer, and @ashenhav.bsky.social, now out in the new volume, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions"!
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02925-6_10

Across seven incentivized experiments and a large reanalysis, we systematically manipulated the presence and type of post-choice feedback in repeated risky decisions to test whether feedback shapes behavior through learning mechanisms or through anticipatory changes in preferences.

Across seven incentivized experiments and a large reanalysis, we systematically manipulated the presence and type of post-choice feedback in repeated risky decisions to test whether feedback shapes behavior through learning mechanisms or through anticipatory changes in preferences.

Looking for Australian (UTC+10) individuals who would be willing to serve as mentors for the #DisabledInSTEM program as we have two individuals currently without mentors!

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here:
forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

Top of the photo has the "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" logo. Below that in bold white text reads: "NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION". Below that in white text reads: "Take back our science, health, and democracy!". Below that in white text reads: "MARCH 7TH, 2026 WASHINGTON, DC AND NATIONWIDE!" Below that in black text reads: "NEW YORK - LOS ANGELES - BOSTON - CHICAGO - HOUSTON - BUFFALO - DURHAM - SAN FRANCISCO - DENVER - SEATTLE - RICHMOND - MADISON - PITTSBURG - FLAGSTAFF - SAN DIEGO - PHILADELPHIA - & MORE!". To the left of that is a graphic of the statue of liberty in red. Below that in the bottom left hand corner is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" logo. To the right of that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/march7"

Big news, dorks: We're going NATIONAL! Join us for our National Day of Action on March 7th in Washington DC, or at one of our satellite rallies across the US. We're taking back our science, health, and democracy!

Find or host your local rally! standupforscience.net/march7
(Link in bio!)

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Computational Psychiatry Conference New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)

📣🔥Submit your symposium (30 Jan) and poster (12 Feb) abstracts to the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference www.cpconf.org

Excited to announce new keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Eyiyemisi Damisah @adredish.bsky.social Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner. See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026