Natalie Tronson
@natalie-t.bsky.social
A person | neuroscientist | memory wrangler | sex & gender | immigrant 🦘 | slow at marathons and triathlons 🏊♀️🚴🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️| previously @tronsonlab on Twitter/X
Photo credit: Jeff Wilson.
Photo credit: Jeff Wilson.
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing Presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a community of scientists across fields (including basic and clinical work, and in public policy) that focus on sex differences!
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing Presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a community of scientists across fields (including basic and clinical work, and in public policy) that focus on sex differences!
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a scientific community that focuses on sex differences across fields of study, and in basic and clinical research and public policy!
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Inspired by Catherine Woolley’s amazing presidential lecture on sex differences at #SFN25? Check out @ossdcomm.bsky.social for a scientific community that focuses on sex differences across fields of study, and in basic and clinical research and public policy!
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October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is sick.
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
www.wsj.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This is sick.
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
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NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).
July 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
NIH and FDA hosted a workshop on July 7 on efforts to reduce the use of animal models in research, NIH has formally announced a policy change. The agencies have invited comments through the workshop’s webpage. PLEASE COMMENT. The portal will be open until 5pm ET on Monday, July 14 (TODAY).
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Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.
Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
grad.uwo.ca
July 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Western’s Neuroscience program is among best in the world. A great opportunity for talented US students. And London ON is a pretty good place to live.
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.
Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact."
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
June 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.
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Hey Bluesky! Let's sell a painting! #sciart #bsnm www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Originals, not prints, one of each
June 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hey Bluesky! Let's sell a painting! #sciart #bsnm www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... Originals, not prints, one of each
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The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website:
bit.ly/4k6tvwQ
bit.ly/4jYmu18
bit.ly/4k6tvwQ
bit.ly/4jYmu18
2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee: Daniella Ludmir – FABBS
Hormonal contraceptives prevent stress enhancement of fear memory via blunted stress responsivity Daniella Ludmir, the University of Michigan Abstract: Hormonal
bit.ly
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The 2025 Undergraduate Research Excellence Awardee is Daniella Ludmir, and the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Awardee is Ivy Hoang. Congratulations! Check out their research on the FABBS website:
bit.ly/4k6tvwQ
bit.ly/4jYmu18
bit.ly/4k6tvwQ
bit.ly/4jYmu18
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution.
This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
My wife (who is an American) often wonders why my solution to most problems is to have a cup of tea and then think about a solution.
This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
This is something statisticians have been aware of since the 1920s.
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“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
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Signal-gate and the Social Security scandal show how tyranny works: the regime can do no wrong, and the people have no rights.
They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Signal-gate and the Social Security scandal show how tyranny works: the regime can do no wrong, and the people have no rights.
They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
They claim it wasn't classified info in the chat, but Goldberg can be prosecuted. DOGE doesn't want to disclose their workers names, but wants your social security info.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“It’s really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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🚨 Now on Bluesky! 🚨
We’re Signal in the Storm, a project dedicated to tracking federal policy changes and news re: academia - follow us here and at signalinthestorm.org/index.html
We’re Signal in the Storm, a project dedicated to tracking federal policy changes and news re: academia - follow us here and at signalinthestorm.org/index.html
Signal in the Storm
signalinthestorm.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
🚨 Now on Bluesky! 🚨
We’re Signal in the Storm, a project dedicated to tracking federal policy changes and news re: academia - follow us here and at signalinthestorm.org/index.html
We’re Signal in the Storm, a project dedicated to tracking federal policy changes and news re: academia - follow us here and at signalinthestorm.org/index.html