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Associate Teaching Professor, Neuroscientist from low SES background, artist of sorts, & breaker of academic hierarchies @Rutgers_Camden researching pain & biology education (he/him). ORCID: 0000-0002-9322-8340
We’re hiring! The UNC-CH Sociology Department is looking for a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor (3–3 load) to join our faculty. Great students, great department. Application review begins 2/16.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312...
The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years.
But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.
This decision goes beyond just Hepatitis B, a completely preventable disease. It will have reverberations across ALL vaccines, scaring the country away from protecting their children and themselves.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...
Car screen warning of police ahead
Cars these days warn you about police so speeders can avoid getting caught!?
Our newly-launched Science Community Grants, made possible by a generous donation from The Julia Rausing Trust #JuliaRTrust, offer a three-year award to develop sustainable long-term partnerships between clusters of schools and colleges, and STEM professionals: https://bit.ly/4o2y901
🚀 We're hiring !
🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.
🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e
🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌
Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!
O'DONNELL: What does that mean -- 'send more than the National Guard?'
TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could
PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
Welp. Thanks to the Republican gov shutdown I have a bunch of hours back in my week due to a NIH study section not meeting.
These poor applicants. They will be waiting week by week for government to reopen and to find out what will happen to their grant application.
THIS.
I already missed a study section where I review grants two weeks ago due to the shutdown and the study section that was slated to review my grant that will decide if I get to keep my lab open or not ... was supposed to meet this week. Neither is happening and that is destructive to science.
Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc.
elifesciences.org/articles/996...
And then invite every available scientist at #NDiSTEM to come and formally evaluate their work.
We can't let these students & Scientists be on the hook for thousands of dollars. @sacnas.bsky.social
I'm serious about this. If we don't do something, hundreds of students are going to be on the hook for thousands of dollars!!! #SACNAS #NDiSTEM
Send an email to every student/scientist who submitted a rejected abstract & invite them to an hour session in the lobby to discuss their research.
In light of Ohio State banning travel reimbursement to @sacnas.bsky.social unless presenting research, #SACNAS #NDiSTEM should immediately open a simple "chalk talk" event where students are invited to speak about classroom or lab-based research they're doing!
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
UCSD’s Department of Mathematics has paused PhD admissions -- we will not be able to admit new PhD students in Fall 2026.
Another pause in graduate school admissions for 2026.
UCSD dept of math this time.
www.math.ucsd.edu/students/gra...
At $100,000 per H1B visa, Amazon alone will end up paying $1 Billion. Or, more likely, laying off most of their international staff.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
Hmmmm. So, 25% of the US doctors are foreign-trained, and most of them at some point of their career require H1B visa. I don't know how many doctors with active licenses require H1B visa currently, but this is really stupid 👇🏻
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history
BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but...
NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all.
To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW!
🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:
Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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New ArsTechnica story about the new steaming pile of Executive Order...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
New Story in The Atlantic about NIH
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Weird things I associated with rich people while growing up poor: water dispensers on a refrigerator.
And now, I'm finally gonna be a rich person.
For anyone as confused as I was about how this bill affects NIH funding, apparently it doesn’t. NIH funding will be determined by the FY2026 appropriations bill that is meant to be passed by Sep 30, 2025. That’s where they’ve requested a 40% reduction for NIH, but nothing has passed on that yet.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
Joined the Advisory Board of @standupforscience.bsky.social alongside Viktor Ambros, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & @katestarbird.bsky.social. Impressed with @cdelawalla.bsky.social and the entire Stand Up for Science team!
www.standupforscience.net/cadres.
