Bates Lab end of the year shindig. Congrats to all the graduates (they have cords on)!

Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater.
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The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:

We’re recruiting a postdoc interested in developing translational rat models of psychiatric disorders/treatments, esp impacts of adolescent THC & early-life adversity. #behavior, #addiction, #depression, #circuits, #glia, #omics, #psychedelics. Thriving, collaborative community. Let’s talk!