Liz McCullagh
@neuroliz.bsky.social
Assistant prof Oklahoma State, STEMinist, neuroscientist, #auditory, mom, athlete
I’m hiring a postdoc! Would love someone with in vitro experience but it’s not necessary, jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
Campus
OSU-Stillwater
Contact Name & Email
Elizabeth McCullagh, elizabeth.mccullagh@okstate.edu
Work Schedule
TBD
Appointment Length
12 months or less
Hiring Range
$50,400.00 - $50,400.00
Salary
P...
jobs.okstate.edu
August 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m hiring a postdoc! Would love someone with in vitro experience but it’s not necessary, jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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🔥 “Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump administration…” from @bethmariem.bsky.social at @arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin
The letter is modeled after the NIH director’s controversial “Great Barrington Declaration.”…
arstechnica.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🔥 “Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump administration…” from @bethmariem.bsky.social at @arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
Hi everyone! I know I have been very vocal about what has been going on in my lab regarding funding etc. If you want an update on what we accomplished this year, check out my blog post: elizabethmccullagh.com/2025/05/22/2...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hi everyone! I know I have been very vocal about what has been going on in my lab regarding funding etc. If you want an update on what we accomplished this year, check out my blog post: elizabethmccullagh.com/2025/05/22/2...
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Finally online! A cool study and the most awesome collaboration with @neuroliz.bsky.social to unravel the role of mitochondrial membrane integrity and sex in sound-processing neurons! 🔬🔬🔬
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Sex-specific loss of mitochondrial membrane integrity in the auditory brainstem of a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome | Open Biology
Sound sensitivity is a common sensory complaint for people with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD). How and why sounds are perceived as overwhelming by affected people is unknown.
To process sound informa...
royalsocietypublishing.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Finally online! A cool study and the most awesome collaboration with @neuroliz.bsky.social to unravel the role of mitochondrial membrane integrity and sex in sound-processing neurons! 🔬🔬🔬
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Very interesting. I also imagine with the current cancelations that women are more greatly impacted since they are more likely to be involved in DEI etc. scared to see what the data looks like in 2025.
A new Datahound data stroll
Examination of gaps in NIH funding including as a function of PI gender.
I have been working on this for a while and want to share it even in the midst of all the other insanity today.
Examination of gaps in NIH funding including as a function of PI gender.
I have been working on this for a while and want to share it even in the midst of all the other insanity today.
a white dog wearing a black collar is running on the ground
ALT: a white dog wearing a black collar is running on the ground
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April 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Very interesting. I also imagine with the current cancelations that women are more greatly impacted since they are more likely to be involved in DEI etc. scared to see what the data looks like in 2025.
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
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Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.
After 25 years, NIH funding ends for child educator at Duquesne University
‘It’s bigger than the science.’
www.post-gazette.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.
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You know who did read the grants that are being terminated? At least three experts in the field from around the country read them really carefully, and they and a whole panel of dozens of scientists rated them among the top 10% of applications.
Apparently we're funding based on word searches now.
Apparently we're funding based on word searches now.
One thing that must be stressed here: Nobody who terminated these grants actually read them. This is boilerplate language. We KNOW that from nature's reporting on the subject:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This language instead is legitimizing a 4Chan-derived whining with the force of law.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This language instead is legitimizing a 4Chan-derived whining with the force of law.
March 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
You know who did read the grants that are being terminated? At least three experts in the field from around the country read them really carefully, and they and a whole panel of dozens of scientists rated them among the top 10% of applications.
Apparently we're funding based on word searches now.
Apparently we're funding based on word searches now.
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Not that anybody would be looking for opportunities outside the states these days, but I'm recruiting a PhD student in auditory stuff (Developmental and/or Cognitive / citizen science etc) here in Auckland, NZ
www.themusiclab.org/about#join
www.themusiclab.org/about#join
The Music Lab
We do citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music.
www.themusiclab.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Not that anybody would be looking for opportunities outside the states these days, but I'm recruiting a PhD student in auditory stuff (Developmental and/or Cognitive / citizen science etc) here in Auckland, NZ
www.themusiclab.org/about#join
www.themusiclab.org/about#join
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Feeling a bit AHHHHHHH because of all the tyranny? Check out our Action Lab for options to channel that energy #resist
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Feeling a bit AHHHHHHH because of all the tyranny? Check out our Action Lab for options to channel that energy #resist
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REMEMBER TO MARCH! for science … and for all you cherish in 🇺🇸 on MARCH 7th (NEXT FRIDAY)! Find you local events at @marchforsciencemn.bsky.social
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @500queerscientists.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @500queerscientists.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
REMEMBER TO MARCH! for science … and for all you cherish in 🇺🇸 on MARCH 7th (NEXT FRIDAY)! Find you local events at @marchforsciencemn.bsky.social
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @500queerscientists.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @500queerscientists.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social
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Last weekend I wrote a letter to the editor to my hometown newspaper as part of the Sciencehomecoming.com movement.
I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me.
🧪 #microsky
I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me.
🧪 #microsky
Science Homecoming
Sciencehomecoming.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Last weekend I wrote a letter to the editor to my hometown newspaper as part of the Sciencehomecoming.com movement.
I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me.
🧪 #microsky
I will share my letter in this thread, and share my approach to lower the activation energy for y'all to join me.
🧪 #microsky
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"the concept of a teach-in — wherein a panel of college professors or experts on a subject hold a discussion around a relevant social or political issue — originated in the University in 1965 to protest the war in Vietnam."
February 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"the concept of a teach-in — wherein a panel of college professors or experts on a subject hold a discussion around a relevant social or political issue — originated in the University in 1965 to protest the war in Vietnam."
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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
By @avaskham.bsky.social
bit.ly/3X8ngz8
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DOGE is slashing federal science jobs—harming public lands, research, & safety. See this thread for agency budgets & workforce details, then download state-specific info cards linked below. Call Congress & fight for science! #FundScience #SaveOurAgencies
February 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
DOGE is slashing federal science jobs—harming public lands, research, & safety. See this thread for agency budgets & workforce details, then download state-specific info cards linked below. Call Congress & fight for science! #FundScience #SaveOurAgencies
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
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Great piece: Firsthand testimonies of how the flux in diversity-based funding is impacting trainees.
Gratitude to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for amplifying these voices.
Gratitude to all the trainees who bravely spoke up with these diverse perspectives so we can all better understand.
Gratitude to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for amplifying these voices.
Gratitude to all the trainees who bravely spoke up with these diverse perspectives so we can all better understand.
Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans.
By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social
bit.ly/42Wifxr
By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social
bit.ly/42Wifxr
‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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February 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Great piece: Firsthand testimonies of how the flux in diversity-based funding is impacting trainees.
Gratitude to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for amplifying these voices.
Gratitude to all the trainees who bravely spoke up with these diverse perspectives so we can all better understand.
Gratitude to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for amplifying these voices.
Gratitude to all the trainees who bravely spoke up with these diverse perspectives so we can all better understand.
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"It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist @joshdubnau.bsky.social, after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hYt3zv
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hYt3zv
About-faces in U.S. federal science funding put neuroscientists on edge
“It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist Josh Dubnau after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days…
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February 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist @joshdubnau.bsky.social, after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hYt3zv
By @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hYt3zv
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!