So... I got more information about this plan.
The most important points follow on the next posts.
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"Support academic institutions under attack"
A short correspondence with @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social -- Defending academic life is not peripheral to the mission of science. It is part of it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this:
Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff.
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Athena Akrami
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
Excited to share the upcoming 6th Annual Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium @utah.edu! great lineup of graduate students presenting exciting neuroscience research.
Looking forward to a fun couple days of science and discussion with a fantastic group of early career scientists.
My lab is hiring two full-time research assistants! One position is for a project on spatial navigation across the lifespan, with a focus on midlife aging and menopause. The other is for functional imaging and spatial reference frames.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10136
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10137
Our new paper is out in Current Biology!
We learn many things in parallel, and brain circuits are constantly rewiring across brain areas. It is notoriously difficult to understand which rewiring events are responsible for which type of learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It was a blast to put this review together with @adriennekinman.bsky.social and Larissa! The subiculum is a gem of a brain region. Also - the manuscript process at @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social was a pleasure - thoughtful&involved feedback from reviewers&editor that really elevated our manuscript
🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
During learning, neural circuits reorganize to encode new information and adapt behavioral responses. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM…
Cool paper from Garret Stuber's lab and colleagues, led by Madelyn Hjort.
mPFC-VTA circuit for contingency degredation. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Fig. 3 & 4 used the Cousa objective: **2p imaging + 2p holographic optogenetic stim., deep in brain using microprisms** !
pacificoptica.com/cousa/
FN > 45
Whatever objective you use, Ventana imaging systems will get more field-of-view out of it, with full NA, and diffraction limited. The best ever for multiphoton / two-photon.
And fast! 16,000 - 24,000 lines/s across the full field of view.
pacificoptica.com/ventana/
jamelle
Jim Heys
mark cembrowski
Liz Chrastil
Takaki Komiyama
Dr Kathleen Millen
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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Pacific Optica
Pacific Optica
Science Magazine
'The subiculum: cell-type-specific composition, computation, and function'
by Adrienne Kinman @adriennekinman.bsky.social, Larissa Kraus & Mark Cembrowski @markcembrowski.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
