Assistant prof neuroscientist studying TBI in headbutters 🐏🐂🐐🪶 at U of Alabama CVN lab.
Science correspondent for DTNS.
I'll happily ID the random bone you found in the woods!
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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes:
🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting
🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Reese Richardson
I saw a collared lizard today.
Hell yeah
I just got back from camping at Chaco Canyon and I saw a bunch of dessert wildflowers
I just got back from camping at Chaco Canyon and I saw a bunch of dessert wildflowers
Mosquitoes can use associative learning to link DEET to a tasty meal (you) instead of a repellant!
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Happy pride month. In 2024, NASA created a pride flag made of various space imagery. For weeks, it was the most-liked image on Bluesky.
Under the Trump administration, NASA was forced to delete it.
www.southernfriedscience.com/the-story-of...
Thanks SfN. If you are a non-scientist who follows me, this OMB rules change is incredibly far-reaching and will go well beyond putting a nail in the coffin of scientific research - turns big parts of the fed budget into a slush fund for political appointees. Anyone can post a thoughtful comment!
Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel …
Someone who doesn't know much about oceanography asked me if the dismantling of ocean monitoring capabilities was stupid and/or evil.
It is stupid AND evil.
The War on Science continues.
As more people see it and push back, maybe the tide can be turned.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts
Boosting this again because this blog has the sections that people should refer to when making a comment about the proposed changes to government grants. The qs has the link to make the comments.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
Highlighted Article:Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are able to associate DEET, the gold standard of repellents, with food, and once this association is learnt, become attracted instead of repelled.
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Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those.
Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
The proposed rule raises significant concerns about the introduction of broad political and ideological considerations into federal funding decisions.
Read SfN’s full statement on proposed OMB rule: vist.ly/56rqw
#neurosky #scisky #medsky #neuroskyence
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
