Brad Colquitt
@bradcolquitt.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz, molecular mechanisms of birdsong neural circuit development, piano player, weird licorice eater.
https://colquitt-lab.com/
https://colquitt-lab.com/
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Brad Colquitt
@bradcolquitt.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello everyone! Migrating here finally after a long break from twitter. I'm a newish assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz. My lab studies the development and evolution of complex behaviors using birdsong as a model system. Glad to see there's a thriving science community here!
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Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
facultypositions.stanford.edu
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
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The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
Sosa Lab
www.sosaneurolab.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The Sosa Lab website is now live!
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
www.sosaneurolab.com
We will be seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the growing team! If you are a rodent neuroscientist and interested in doing systems neuro work in the mountains 🏔️, please check out the "Join" page.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology.
Our department is amazing - come join us...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
Our department is amazing - come join us...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
Assistant Professor-Neurobiology
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology.
Our department is amazing - come join us...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
Our department is amazing - come join us...
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...
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Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
Evolution of Cajal-Retzius Cells in Vertebrates from an Ancient Class of Tp73+ Neurons
In the developing cerebral cortex, Cajal Retzius (CR) cells are early-born neurons that orchestrate the development of mammalian-specific cortical features. However, this cell type has not been conclu...
www.biorxiv.org
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Excited to share our latest work on brain evolution, where we dive into the evolution of Cajal-Retzius cells! If you are interested in cell type evolution and cerebral cortex evo-devo, please read on… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/7
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We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩🏫
August 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩🏫
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The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.
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🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
June 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
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“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
Another casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careers
At least 24 UC and Cal State campuses lost science research training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of $12,000 or more.
calmatters.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“You work so hard to put yourself in a position where you don’t have to worry, and then that’s taken away from you,” said Camila Valderrama-Martínez...She can get a job, but that “takes away time from my research and my time in lab and focusing on my studies and my thesis.” 🧪
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"Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda.
The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent."
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda.
The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent."
🧪🔬
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The administration is attacking research, health & the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent."
🧪🔬
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC:
lookout.co/trumps-escal...
lookout.co/trumps-escal...
Trump’s escalating attacks on research and education are hurting UC Santa Cruz – the public needs to act now
The Trump administration’s attack on scientific research will deeply affect UC Santa Cruz, write three eminent UCSC professors, including one who won a Nobel Prize for her work. Since Donald Trump too...
lookout.co
April 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC:
lookout.co/trumps-escal...
lookout.co/trumps-escal...
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
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As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy
April 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Looking at grant funding time for all years from 2015-2025
Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_
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Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_
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April 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Looking at grant funding time for all years from 2015-2025
Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_
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Here is the graph for new and competitive renewal grants (dollar amounts normalized by the overall NIH grant budget for each year_
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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
March 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
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That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying
March 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
That specifically right there is the sound of science in the US dying
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We have a pro- fraud regime
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say www.icij.org/inside-icij/... via @ICIJorg
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say - ICIJ
The upheaval undermines the agency’s quest to tackle high-end tax cheating.
www.icij.org
March 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We have a pro- fraud regime
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“How are you going to reform how politics works in this country if you won’t reform how it works inside your own party?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
Opinion | There Is a Way for Democrats to Stop Trump and Save America (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“How are you going to reform how politics works in this country if you won’t reform how it works inside your own party?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday.
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
NIH_since_1_20_25
jeremymberg.github.io
March 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday.
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing.
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
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Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning - Nature
Dopamine release in the basal ganglia of the zebra finch is driven by neurons associated with reinforcement learning and by cholinergic signalling, and tracks performance quality during long-term lear...
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
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This gets to the heart of RIFs and impoundment. RIFs are supposed to eliminate unnecessary roles or functions. But who decides? For small cuts, defer to the executive. But when you are gutting the statutory purpose of agencies and its ability to spend money, surely Congressional intent matters.
NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...
At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control
As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.
www.statnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This gets to the heart of RIFs and impoundment. RIFs are supposed to eliminate unnecessary roles or functions. But who decides? For small cuts, defer to the executive. But when you are gutting the statutory purpose of agencies and its ability to spend money, surely Congressional intent matters.
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I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.
This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...