Jonathan D. Jackson, PhD
@jondoesscience.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist celebrating 20 years of working to cure Alzheimer's disease. One truth above all:
If it ain't equitable, it ain't science.
If it ain't equitable, it ain't science.
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At least one journal has received a letter from the U.S. attorney for D.C. about alleged bias
“The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social
If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
“The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social
If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias
“Why would the interim US attorney be qualified to judge scientific viewpoints on the treatment of advanced lung disease and critical illness?"
www.statnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
At least one journal has received a letter from the U.S. attorney for D.C. about alleged bias
“The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social
If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
“The only plausible goal is to intimidate academic journals." - @sbagen.bsky.social
If your journal is affected by this, i'd like to hear from you (signal = aniloza.16) 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t...
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Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.
April 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.
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“If we just sit back and allow ourselves to shrink back in the face of darkness and denialism, then we don’t deserve the jobs that we have." @jondoesscience.bsky.social on the need for researchers to speaking out. w/ @hollylynchez.bsky.social + Melissa Simon. Story: www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science
At the STAT Summit on Thursday, researchers called for a "full-throated defense" of university research again the attacks by the Trump administration.
www.statnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“If we just sit back and allow ourselves to shrink back in the face of darkness and denialism, then we don’t deserve the jobs that we have." @jondoesscience.bsky.social on the need for researchers to speaking out. w/ @hollylynchez.bsky.social + Melissa Simon. Story: www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
That’s the job.
"This is not an administration that's known for being terribly forgiving. Are you putting your jobs at risk by speaking out?"
"Hell, yes."
Neuroscientist Jonathan Jackson on the need for scientists to speak out despite personal risks at #STATBreakthrough:
"Hell, yes."
Neuroscientist Jonathan Jackson on the need for scientists to speak out despite personal risks at #STATBreakthrough:
March 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
That’s the job.
Reposted by Jonathan D. Jackson, PhD
“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪
Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’
But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪
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“Instead of doing the science, we’re in meetings about ‘Can I say diversity here, can I say trans-disciplinary, or is it going to be caught up in a word search?,’” she said. “We’re living in the Twilight Zone.”
www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science
At the STAT Summit on Thursday, researchers called for a "full-throated defense" of university research again the attacks by the Trump administration.
www.statnews.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“Instead of doing the science, we’re in meetings about ‘Can I say diversity here, can I say trans-disciplinary, or is it going to be caught up in a word search?,’” she said. “We’re living in the Twilight Zone.”
www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...
Hopping back into the saddle after a long time away from social media. I suppose if now isn't the perfect time to impotently shout into the void, when is?
March 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hopping back into the saddle after a long time away from social media. I suppose if now isn't the perfect time to impotently shout into the void, when is?