Emily Baltz, PhD
@ebaltz.bsky.social
UCSD neuro PhD from Gremel Lab, figuring out what's next.
Indy -> UIUC -> UCSD
Indy -> UIUC -> UCSD
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NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%.
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.
Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.
MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.
Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.
MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
www.nsf.gov
May 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%.
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.
Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.
MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction.
Changes like this can wreak havoc on research.
MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
#NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF
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The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
May 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
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Google wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. Page and Brin started Google based on NSF-funded research they did at Stanford, which has made Stanford, Google, and lots of other people a lot of money. It’s made the rest of us stupid but that’s another topic.
May 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Google wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. Page and Brin started Google based on NSF-funded research they did at Stanford, which has made Stanford, Google, and lots of other people a lot of money. It’s made the rest of us stupid but that’s another topic.
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The president is recommending a 40% cut to next year’s NIH budget. This would be disastrous for our nation’s health and economy. Please contact your representatives, especially if they are Republicans, and tell them why this cannot happen. An easy option: 5calls.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The president is recommending a 40% cut to next year’s NIH budget. This would be disastrous for our nation’s health and economy. Please contact your representatives, especially if they are Republicans, and tell them why this cannot happen. An easy option: 5calls.org
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS
If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78
THANK YOU
If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78
THANK YOU
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February 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS
If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78
THANK YOU
If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78
THANK YOU
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As a licensed psychologist I am saying with my whole chest: Gender-affirming care for young people is health care. Medically necessary, age-appropriate, science-backed, life-saving health care, supported by EVERY major medical association.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
January 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
As a licensed psychologist I am saying with my whole chest: Gender-affirming care for young people is health care. Medically necessary, age-appropriate, science-backed, life-saving health care, supported by EVERY major medical association.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
It is our duty to protect trans youth at all costs.
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Have you called your reps to oppose the nomination of RFK Jr yet today? Have you called your reps to tell them the impact the current EOs will have on your research today? Have you called to say how these EOs will affect your neighbors, friends, family?
Are you involved in political organizing?
Are you involved in political organizing?
January 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Have you called your reps to oppose the nomination of RFK Jr yet today? Have you called your reps to tell them the impact the current EOs will have on your research today? Have you called to say how these EOs will affect your neighbors, friends, family?
Are you involved in political organizing?
Are you involved in political organizing?
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.
January 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.
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My boys wanted me to share their strong opinion that anyone interfering with funding initiatives intended to diversify the scientific workforce can, in their words, "suck it".
January 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My boys wanted me to share their strong opinion that anyone interfering with funding initiatives intended to diversify the scientific workforce can, in their words, "suck it".
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Thank you to the UC San Diego Mentoring for All initiative for the Mentorship Program Award!
January 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Thank you to the UC San Diego Mentoring for All initiative for the Mentorship Program Award!
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I keep meaning to listen to be burnout episode but I’m too tired and working all the time and haven’t found time to…oh no.
Ergopathology (BURNOUT): who gets burned out, what professions see more burnout, why a tropical vacation won't fix it, who's immune, how to identify it in yourself/others, ADHD & autistic burnout + the myth that being a dick to yourself will make you safer.
ENJOY: www.alieward.com/ologies/ergo...
ENJOY: www.alieward.com/ologies/ergo...
Ergopathology (BURNOUT) with Kandi Wiens — alie ward
Exhaustion! Numbness! Anger! You’re stressed out. I get it. Let’s fix it. I cornered one of the world’s experts on Ergopathology, scholar and author Dr. Kandi Wiens, to ask about the causes of burnout...
www.alieward.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I keep meaning to listen to be burnout episode but I’m too tired and working all the time and haven’t found time to…oh no.
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If you are at ABRCMS, drop by poster B-354 this afternoon (4:15-5:30) to see my undergrad Andrea Melendez present the work she did this summer through UCSD’s Colors of the Brain program. She is interested in neuroscience 🧠 post bac programs!
November 14, 2024 at 6:41 PM
If you are at ABRCMS, drop by poster B-354 this afternoon (4:15-5:30) to see my undergrad Andrea Melendez present the work she did this summer through UCSD’s Colors of the Brain program. She is interested in neuroscience 🧠 post bac programs!
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New job alert - UC San Diego Psych is looking to hire an Assistant Prof using computational approaches to understand behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Apps due Nov 7:
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
Assistant Professor - Computational Basis of Behavior (Department of Psychology)
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu
September 27, 2023 at 5:47 PM
New job alert - UC San Diego Psych is looking to hire an Assistant Prof using computational approaches to understand behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Apps due Nov 7:
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684