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New FREE contest for writers of Romance/Women's Fiction/Romantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest7 — Judged by Agent Christine Gross of FinePrint Literary, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
Top left: Schematic of extracellular single-unit recordings in the lemniscal (green) and non-lemniscal (purple) regions of the inferior colliculus in response to pure-tone auditory stimulation (red and blue). Top right: Diagram of experimental group generation. Pregnant rats received an intraperitoneal injection of saline (control) or 400 mg/kg VPA on gestational day 12. An additional control group consisted of untreated rats acquired prior to the experiment. The study examined the effects of sex, age, and prenatal VPA exposure by recording from female and male rats at prepubertal (P30–45) and adult (P65–120) stages. Bottom: Population-level comparisons of sex, age, and exposure effects within the lemniscal (left) and non-lemniscal (right) divisions of the inferior colliculus.
Factors like sex & age can affect sensory processing in #AutismSpectrumDisorder. This study shows that prenatal valproic acid in rats (an autism model) alters predictive auditory processing, revealing sex- & age-specific differences akin to those in autistic traits @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4fjpjZ8
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NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n... via @statnews.com
Shanie Landen, BSc, PhD, will receive the 2025 BoSD-OSSD Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in muscle protein expression and DNA methylation in response to exercise training” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
Ece Bayram, MD, PhD, will present in BoSD Hot Topics Symposium for research on “Sex differences for clinical correlates of substantia nigra neuron loss in people with Lewy body pathology” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
Alex R. DeCasien, PhD will receive the BoSD-OSSD 2024 Early Career Award for research in “Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality” at #OSSD2025 @OSSDtweets!
A vaccine that generates antibodies that bind to cocaine and prevent it entering the brain has shown promise in an initial trial in ten addicts 🧪 #ASGCT2025
www.newscientist.com/article/2480...
À pile of micro flyers printed out, with “go UMass” and “proud of you grads!” written on them, and a heart around the phrase “call your reps”
Ok science and academic sky— we’re microflyering graduation. www.standupforscience.net/microflyering 🧪🦠
Thank you, @neurosexdiff.bsky.social , for lending your voice to this @nature.com story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could this be the biggest climate story of the year?
For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand
Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta:
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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This is a HUGE scandal.
Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud.
Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%.
Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.
The NIH called my health equity research ‘antithetical to scientific inquiry’ www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/n... via @statnews.com
Trump has blown a massive hole in global health funding—and no one can fill it | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪
Dear Colleagues, The status quo is forcing—not fixing—the public’s growing disengagement with science. Yes, we have watched helplessly as programs, grant panels, and the basic functioning of the US research apparatus have been upended in a matter of days. Yet these events are, in large part, a catastrophic symptom of a much more pervasive problem – a profound lack of public understanding about how federal research dollars improve, enrich, and save American lives. This disconnect far predates the current mass layoffs and disassembly of US scientific institutions, and represents a glaring failure of our current ability to mobilize the knowledge we generate to engage, inform, and influence our fellow Americans.
Dear Colleagues: Now is the time to scale up public engagement with science
I address this letter to scientists, but it is an invitation for fans & defenders of science everywhere to unite & take action!
Let's focus a lot more on K-12 ed 🧪 #SciComm #EduSky
👉 civicsciencemedia.org/dear-colleag...
Now is exactly THE WRONG TIME, NYT, to run the "Well, actually, maybe colleges were too woke" op-ed. What the hell is wrong with you?🤦♂️🤦♂️
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to defend free speech -- anything else is Quisling capitulation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Early voting today in Wisconsin
For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration
See national impact of federal health research cuts scienceimpacts.org
Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.
Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !
Concerned mentors wishing we could speak with our senators about attacks on science and students @sarahross1.bsky.social & Michael Gold 🤔
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds
First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia...
Gender and DEI predominate
Publish your sex differences research in Biology of Sex Differences! Win awards! bsd.biomedcentral.com #OSSD #BoSD
