Daniel Dorman, PhD
@danieldorman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience @ Hope College | Computational Neuroscience, Basal Ganglia, & Decision Making | Passionate about teaching & mentoring undergrads | Advocate for justice & antiracism in STEM & society | he/him | JHU IRACDA Alum
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#Intro #introduction thread: Hi! I'm a new assistant professor of neuroscience at Hope College, where I enjoy teaching undergrads neuro and conducting research with them. My PhD (at George Mason University) in neuroscience focused on computational modeling of neurons of the striatum. 1/n
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Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care — by Melissa L. Perreault, Rudi Taylor-Bragge, Hervé Chneiweiss, Andre D. McLachlan, T. Ryan Gregory, Roksana Khalid, Katherine Bassil, Anna Lydia Svalastog, Minerva R. Velarde & Judy Illes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Despite a global push to recognize Indigenous knowledge systems in research, neuroscience remains embedded in Euro-Western ways of means and methods. Authentic capacity-building will bring Indigenous ...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Indigenous representation in neuroscience scholarship, teaching and care — by Melissa L. Perreault, Rudi Taylor-Bragge, Hervé Chneiweiss, Andre D. McLachlan, T. Ryan Gregory, Roksana Khalid, Katherine Bassil, Anna Lydia Svalastog, Minerva R. Velarde & Judy Illes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ugghh 🤬
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Ugghh 🤬
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Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...
April 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...
Looking forward to this book! His previous book, Race on the Brain, was a phenomenal and important read at the intersection of neuroscience and critical race theory.
May 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looking forward to this book! His previous book, Race on the Brain, was a phenomenal and important read at the intersection of neuroscience and critical race theory.
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Join us this Friday for our next #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries with @brielleryan.bsky.social ! 🧠✨
Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience!
📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET
Don't miss it! 🔥
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience!
📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET
Don't miss it! 🔥
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Join us this Friday for our next #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries with @brielleryan.bsky.social ! 🧠✨
Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience!
📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET
Don't miss it! 🔥
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Assistant Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social & BIN Co-Founder! She’s sharing her neuroscience!
📅 May 2 | 🕛 12PM ET
Don't miss it! 🔥
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
April 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.
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Estrogen “the female hormone” literally affects our entire being. Especially our “sense” of being. This is a well-written piece. 🧪🔬🧠🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases?
A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Estrogen “the female hormone” literally affects our entire being. Especially our “sense” of being. This is a well-written piece. 🧪🔬🧠🧬
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...
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DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!
SfN reversed their decision, THE WORKSHOP IS ON, it will center around communicating neuroscience to non-English speaking communities, see you at SfN 2025!!!!
Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
DM if you'd like to be part of our panel! Looking for a few more, if you have experience in communicating science in Spanish or other languages for your community, and believe you have lessons learned that you'd like to share to the audience, let me know!
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This feels existential for US science:
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...
www.fiercebiotech.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This feels existential for US science:
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
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“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥
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On it.
Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.
All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.
All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
April 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
On it.
Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.
All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions.
All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.
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chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com
In our first “Postdoc perspectives” essay, @fleabrained.bsky.social and @maribel-patino.bsky.social explain how grassroots organizations led by trainees are stepping up to provide career and mentorship guidance for neuroscience students from marginalized backgrounds.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4csFx0B
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4csFx0B
As federal funders desert mentorship programs for marginalized students, trainee-led initiatives fill the gap
Grassroots organizations, led by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, are stepping up to provide neuroscience career training and guidance for students from marginalized backgrounds—and…
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April 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
chatted with other grassroots orgs doing the work of diversyfying STEM at a time when federal funds are dissapearing ! @bummpatucsd.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com
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Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hi everyone, we are petitioning them to reconsider, if you are willing to co-sign our rebuttal because you or your trainees are personally interested in attending such a workshop, please add your name and professional affiliation to the end of the following document! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.
April 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.
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So, it happened: my funding through the NIGMS K12 IRACDA@TAMU program has been terminated.
This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.
This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.
April 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
So, it happened: my funding through the NIGMS K12 IRACDA@TAMU program has been terminated.
This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.
This program was designed to create collaborations between TAMU Postdocs & STEM faculty/undergraduate students at Prairie View University, an R2 institution & the 3rd largest HBCU in the United States.
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Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Damn, this is devastating and cruel. My IRACDA postdoctoral experience was amazing and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 😡😢
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.
April 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Damn, this is devastating and cruel. My IRACDA postdoctoral experience was amazing and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it 😡😢
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This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.
They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.
We all need to respond.
#GeneralStrike
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Excellent resource here, including a slide deck, for teaching students about science funding! Any similar additional resources out there? I would love to add some graphics quantifying the consequences of the current attacks on science.
So many students are curious about science funding and not at all in the know. This is the perfect moment to fill them in.
www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...
www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Excellent resource here, including a slide deck, for teaching students about science funding! Any similar additional resources out there? I would love to add some graphics quantifying the consequences of the current attacks on science.
This is devastating! I was privileged to do an NSF REU as an undergraduate and it was a transformative experience for my career trajectory.
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
www.reddit.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is devastating! I was privileged to do an NSF REU as an undergraduate and it was a transformative experience for my career trajectory.
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This is news to me and so disappointing. I’m sorry for the loss to our students and our scientific community 🧪
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
www.reddit.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is news to me and so disappointing. I’m sorry for the loss to our students and our scientific community 🧪
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🚨 LOOKING FOR A STATE LEAD FOR MICHIGAN! 🧪🌎☀️
We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team!
Interested? Email us!
We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team!
Interested? Email us!
February 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🚨 LOOKING FOR A STATE LEAD FOR MICHIGAN! 🧪🌎☀️
We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team!
Interested? Email us!
We’ve got volunteers in Michigan that are looking for a state lead to coordinate efforts. Major tasks are choosing a site, coordinating for safety, inviting speakers, and spreading the word, all with the help of your team!
Interested? Email us!
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In my systems neuroscience class the week after next, we're going to discuss receptive fields and neural coding. Does anyone know of a basic (and ideally math-light) overview on rate codes, time codes, etc?
February 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
In my systems neuroscience class the week after next, we're going to discuss receptive fields and neural coding. Does anyone know of a basic (and ideally math-light) overview on rate codes, time codes, etc?