Ben Samuels
@bensamuels.bsky.social
Dad. Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers. Yankees fan.
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Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Update on funding curves and late non-competitive renewals.
First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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First, funding curves for new and competitive renewals.
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Northwestern is deficit spending ~$10M/week to keep their research going while NIH invoices and new awards are not being paid. Admirable for NU, but not sustainable.
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Northwestern is deficit spending ~$10M/week to keep their research going while NIH invoices and new awards are not being paid. Admirable for NU, but not sustainable.
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Our latest manuscript, authored by a recent graduate of the lab, Dr. Thomas Degroat, continuing our exploration of chronic stress and the adBNST transcriptome and CRF neuronal excitability.
<em>Journal of Neuroendocrinology</em> | BSN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Chronic stress is a physiological state marked by dysregulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and high circulating levels of stress hormones, such as corticosterone in mice or cortisol i...
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May 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Our latest manuscript, authored by a recent graduate of the lab, Dr. Thomas Degroat, continuing our exploration of chronic stress and the adBNST transcriptome and CRF neuronal excitability.
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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
I barely have words.
Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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the word alert is in a purple circle
ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle
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April 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM
Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Implementation of Schedule F
This is what a lot of us have been worried about.
This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.
BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...
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Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍
The notice and COMMENT PERIOD OPENED TODAY AND CLOSES MAY 23.
Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Anyone who would like to register an objection or comment should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
www.federalregister.gov
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍
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🚨This seems to suggest that no institution with any programs to enable diversity, equity, or inclusion towards any group can accept NIH grants. Anyone have insight into how broadly this is being interpreted?
April 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🚨This seems to suggest that no institution with any programs to enable diversity, equity, or inclusion towards any group can accept NIH grants. Anyone have insight into how broadly this is being interpreted?
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Northwestern has not received any demands from the federal government related to the funding freeze. There is no negotiation. What are we waiting for? Who benefits?
April 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Northwestern has not received any demands from the federal government related to the funding freeze. There is no negotiation. What are we waiting for? Who benefits?
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Really helpful, practical article on 5 tips if your federal grant is terminated.
Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees.
Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!
Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees.
Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!
Five things to know if your federal grant is terminated
If you want to appeal the decision, know the rules that govern terminations, as well as the specific rationale given in your notice, science policy experts say.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Really helpful, practical article on 5 tips if your federal grant is terminated.
Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees.
Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!
Summarizes from a AAAS webinar that had 2,000+ attendees.
Appreciate that it has lots of links for specific agencies too!
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I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
You want to know the best way to show thanks for chairing a study section? Early the next morning sent them a termination notice for their PREP training grant.
Just completed day 2 of chairing a NIH study section. Brain is tired after intently listening and leading discussions of ~40 apps. So fulfilling to hear the passion people have for others' science, and heartwarming to see so many people who care about the training and environment of others 🫶 (299!)
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.
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The NIH study section I'm serving on for student/postdoc fellowships has been rescheduled for late April (good). But the diversity fellowship apps have been eliminated from the review list (very bad). Extremely frustrating that they couldn't even be reclassified as standard fellowship apps.
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The NIH study section I'm serving on for student/postdoc fellowships has been rescheduled for late April (good). But the diversity fellowship apps have been eliminated from the review list (very bad). Extremely frustrating that they couldn't even be reclassified as standard fellowship apps.
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The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy.
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As a follow-up to the Big Brother insanity, I have heard from several sources that some institutes are encouraging their program officers (PO) to have conversations with applicants and grantees in their cars (presumably to avoid conversation monitoring).
a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head with the words brain overload above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head with the words brain overload above him
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March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As a follow-up to the Big Brother insanity, I have heard from several sources that some institutes are encouraging their program officers (PO) to have conversations with applicants and grantees in their cars (presumably to avoid conversation monitoring).
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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...
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Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
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My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
March 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
My lab is hiring 2 postdocs on an NIH-funded grant characterizing molecular & cellular changes in the human brain across menopausal transition. Other neuroepigenomics projects are also available. We plan to hire a wet lab scientist and a bioinformatician. Please RT!
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
kundakoviclab.com
More info 👇
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Rutgers is next on the list.
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Rutgers is next on the list.
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People have overheated imaginations about what is happening at Columbia!
Someone asked me today after synagogue whether people on campus knock off my yarmulke. I told him that what has happened instead is that my yarmulke has blown off & 5 people rush to give it back to me.
Someone asked me today after synagogue whether people on campus knock off my yarmulke. I told him that what has happened instead is that my yarmulke has blown off & 5 people rush to give it back to me.
The notion that this administration was stripping Columbia of its medical research grants in order to combat antisemitism would be more credible if 1) there were any tangible & ethical requested steps & 2) they were not attempting to decimate research on several other fronts
March 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
People have overheated imaginations about what is happening at Columbia!
Someone asked me today after synagogue whether people on campus knock off my yarmulke. I told him that what has happened instead is that my yarmulke has blown off & 5 people rush to give it back to me.
Someone asked me today after synagogue whether people on campus knock off my yarmulke. I told him that what has happened instead is that my yarmulke has blown off & 5 people rush to give it back to me.
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Signs from #standupforscience in New Jersey (photos by K. Goodrich). Plus a bonus image of me being a loud little lady. 😝
March 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Signs from #standupforscience in New Jersey (photos by K. Goodrich). Plus a bonus image of me being a loud little lady. 😝
There was a great turnout and amazing speakers at #StandUpForScience in Trenton today! Thanks to @annikabarber.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social and everyone who helped organize!
March 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There was a great turnout and amazing speakers at #StandUpForScience in Trenton today! Thanks to @annikabarber.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social and everyone who helped organize!
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Only one week left to apply for the TT Assist Prof position in cell & mol neurosci at GSU.
Join our dynamic, collaborative dept, at an R1 in beautiful. Apply below 👇
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/36831/as...
Join our dynamic, collaborative dept, at an R1 in beautiful. Apply below 👇
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/36831/as...
October 27, 2023 at 11:15 AM
Only one week left to apply for the TT Assist Prof position in cell & mol neurosci at GSU.
Join our dynamic, collaborative dept, at an R1 in beautiful. Apply below 👇
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/36831/as...
Join our dynamic, collaborative dept, at an R1 in beautiful. Apply below 👇
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/36831/as...
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The Department of Neuroscience at brown is looking to hire tenure track assistant professors in any field of neuroscience! Come join our inclusive community of scholars and educators! For details check out:
apply.interfolio.com/132440
apply.interfolio.com/132440
October 25, 2023 at 8:04 PM
The Department of Neuroscience at brown is looking to hire tenure track assistant professors in any field of neuroscience! Come join our inclusive community of scholars and educators! For details check out:
apply.interfolio.com/132440
apply.interfolio.com/132440
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For Behavioral Neuro folks on the faculty job market, here's an open rank position at Northeastern t.co/5rw1tLZUJ7
Open Rank: Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor - Animal Models of Mental Health and Ad...
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Science at Northeastern University invites applications for positions at all ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor),...
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October 12, 2023 at 12:25 PM
For Behavioral Neuro folks on the faculty job market, here's an open rank position at Northeastern t.co/5rw1tLZUJ7
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Very excited about a new Assistant Professor search @ Harvard at the intersection of Computational #Neuroscience::AI::ML. Joint search by Center for Brain Science and Kempner Institute; appointment can be in one of several science departments in the Cambridge campus! Oct 15th deadline. Pls repost! 🧪
Tenure-track faculty member
The Center for Brain Science (CBS) and Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University seek a tenure-track faculty member to lead an innovative research pr...
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September 6, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Very excited about a new Assistant Professor search @ Harvard at the intersection of Computational #Neuroscience::AI::ML. Joint search by Center for Brain Science and Kempner Institute; appointment can be in one of several science departments in the Cambridge campus! Oct 15th deadline. Pls repost! 🧪