@NicoleCRust @doristsao @UCBerkeley My suggestion is first seeing if behavior is sufficiently considered in neuroscience & evolution sufficiently exploited. When I say we need more data (eg, developmental or longitudinal), I’m looked at like a fish from another tank & scolded, “We have the data, just need models!”

@OmicsOmicsBlog I think cutting those costs from the NIH budget would be problematic at least for awards already made, because they are Congressional appropriations. The NIH announcement is consistent with this. This is the final section of the announcement; the last sentence is a zinger.

RT @AdrianoAguzzi: CellTiterGlo is the universe's 3rd-worst+priciest reagent, so my postdocs invented a CNN-based software to count adheren…

Since we’re talking about NIH reforms, can anyone point to discussion on whether the original intent of the INTRAmural program continues to be justified? Or is it now considered more of an elite national institution like the Blue Devils or "Frecce Tricolori" are for air shows.

@katclone It’s not clear to me how significant and stable funding could be achieved. Some pharma sponsor academic institutions for first right of refusal of discovery. Also, states, fed, & industry fund ‘research incubators’ to stimulate creation of new businesses.

RT @eLife: An imaging system with an ultra-wide field of view allows scientists to track millions of cells at once in large 3D tissues and…

RT @eLife: Driver lines for studying associative learning in #Drosophila.

@hubermanlab @NIH This seems misleading by suggesting the arguably poor progress would be mitigated by favoring translational research. I think the opposite is true, that the past several decades served to make translational research get a bigger & bigger share of the research pie over basic.

@cremieuxrecueil Maybe but in fact it can be sincere mistake. ☺️ My favorite scientist to work with used to say ‘in fact’ about once a minute. I eventually pointed it out, and she never did it again. 😇 Funny how awkward it is to mention distracting habits. 😰

@animewife4life @cremieuxrecueil That’s enough about me, how do you like my new haircut? (Maybe from SNL??) 😆

Coming on the heels of the tariff crises & being untenable for all intents & purposes, the NIH indirects crisis would appear to be an opening negotiating position. Should we biomed researchers just argue it’s untenable & malicious, or is there a better way to appeal to voters?

Where is the expert legal discussion of the NIH indirects crisis? Does the intent and letter of the 2017/2024 laws block the 15% cap or is it a reasonable or possible ‘loophole’ to the courts?

@unreal_dave @AdrianoAguzzi Yes, but managers are ultimately responsible. They cannot risk failure or being responsible in that worst case. Thus they set up conditions for assigning responsibility to the 20% responsible for 80% of productivity. The meeting is a ritual to appear like reasoned deliberations.

@GRCinemaTicket Jacques Tati’s marvelous Playtime is among the best depictions of the office being like a research colony of mice.

@StephenORahilly I’ve been thinking there’s great potential for hum molecular epidemiology of insulin sensitivity in GLP-1 Rx obesity: starting with longitudinal metabolomics, & genetics. What correlates w insulin sensitivity in individual humans becoming, being, & reversing type 2 diabetes? No?

RT @srikosuri: It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendr…

But constructive criticism & philosophy are not enough. There needs to be critical evaluation of results and possible solutions must be discussed and the best of them undertaken. Here are some of my 5 cents on whether neuroscience is on the right track. 5/END