Patrick Randall
@parandall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, neuroscientist, husband, father, amateur home improvement expert, level 10 slinky disentangler
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As a both a PI that received a Diversity Supplement to support a student on my R01, and a PO that reviewed them, they were never about "handing out money at the end of the year based on race" and always about the training potential and commitment.
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As a both a PI that received a Diversity Supplement to support a student on my R01, and a PO that reviewed them, they were never about "handing out money at the end of the year based on race" and always about the training potential and commitment.
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Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Microglial MyD88-dependent signaling influences extracellular matrix development and interneuron maturation in the hippocampus
Parvalbumin interneurons (PVIs) are disrupted across diverse neurodevelopmental disorders, highlighting their vulnerability to developmental perturbations. Inflammation can perturb PVI development and...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Really excited to have this come out. I was super fortunate to work on this with some amazing folks. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The need to incorporate polysubstance use in neuropsychopharmacology research: biological lessons and new opportunities
Critical evaluation and refinement of animal models is essential for neuroscientists to understand complex physiological and pathological processes re…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Really excited to have this come out. I was super fortunate to work on this with some amazing folks. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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"Prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship & advising a foreign graduate student or postdoc. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
Dictators despise science.
Dictators despise science.
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship & advising a foreign graduate student or postdoc. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
Dictators despise science.
Dictators despise science.
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I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment
Moving to the present, the choice by Krauss, Coyne, and this coterie of aggrieved essayists to focus exclusively on threats to science from 'The Left' is a choice, one that shows a marked lack of curiosity from a supposedly intellectually curious group.
July 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I will be more blunt: many of these essayists are “aggrieved” because they were, in some ways, held accountable for their racist and/or misogynistic views or behavior and incorrectly blame “science” and not progress. It’s not a lack of curiosity that fuels this book, it’s resentment
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After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37914733...
Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with The University of Utah | 37914733
The University of Utah seeks a Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
After 10 years, I am stepping down as chair of our department and we have an active search going on! Utah is a phenomenal place to live and work and it's been the honor of a lifetime chairing the department founded by Lou Goodman. #MedSky #Neuroskyence Repost!
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This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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7yo: Dad! He’s got a 6-7 brain rot with a taco on top!
Me:
Me:
a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass of beer
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass of beer
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
7yo: Dad! He’s got a 6-7 brain rot with a taco on top!
Me:
Me:
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Just disgusting.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just disgusting.
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Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Adding up the NIH R01s lost to Multi-Year Funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/a...
Adding up the NIH R01s lost to Multi-Year Funding
From Berg’s bluesky post Jeremy Berg recently noted that he’s estimating about 2,400 grants that cannot be funded due to multi-year funding of other grants. His focus was on total fundi…
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September 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Adding up the NIH R01s lost to Multi-Year Funding drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/a...
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A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.
September 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.
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Sea Level
https://xkcd.com/3135/
They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3135
https://xkcd.com/3135/
They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3135
August 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Sea Level
https://xkcd.com/3135/
They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3135
https://xkcd.com/3135/
They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.
Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3135
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I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows.
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows.
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
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No really. Tell me more about literally anything about Kamala Harris that makes this the better option.
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US.
Using the US Military against the American public.
Using the US Military against the American public.
August 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
No really. Tell me more about literally anything about Kamala Harris that makes this the better option.
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Just got attacked by some sparrows. How’s your morning going?
August 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Just got attacked by some sparrows. How’s your morning going?
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Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr.
CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.
www.msnbc.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
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Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
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not sure how many different ways these guys can demonstrate their utter contempt and disrespect to artists
You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason
August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
not sure how many different ways these guys can demonstrate their utter contempt and disrespect to artists
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To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.
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Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
![@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.
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[Young man and old man in ICE gear]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibrddxw227e4ldwrtdrf4nfz4riyb3yfyluczrelklrnnnp7e7l6m@jpeg)
![Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944
[Young man and old man sharing a rifle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibsutqtdx2tbxfm64xbjp4nspzgvdg6xvxewm244dbplmeuoznnvy@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.