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hey dumb grant Q: one of the NIH deadlines is supposed to be more high-risk research right? or is it not the 3 usual cycles, and it's the Transformational Research path? such a dumdum about this stuff, sorry?

have ppl found any funders that support toolmaking? I want to keep making tools for people, but there is a seemingly irresistible force pushing us towards hypothesis-driven research. so far, funders don't want to hear about tech dev. insights for neuro & climate would be great tx

Another epic announcement from the Homeworld team! Come look at Problem Statements, make a plan, and solve the world's most serious problem: greenhouse gas-driven warming and climate change. The grant process is easy, and creativity is encouraged! Spread the word!

does anyone have any ideas how we're going to survive this? $ from state, companies, foundations? What can we do to support each other during this shit time? how can we fight back? it all feels so hopeless right now, I'm srsly looking into alternative careers.

“unis will freeze all non personnel spending at 5pm today, place orders inASAP." "Note that some university policies require orders to be delivered by the deadline to be covered, in which case a bulk order this afternoon might not do any good unless shipping is remarkably fast."

does anyone have a gut feeling on when NIH/NSF grant reviews will resume? do ppl think they will? what are ppl doing - focusing on foundations and international opps right now? going into cost-saving mode? dos anyone have any advice for navigating this brave new world?

Science funding landscape is not good & gets worse longer it goes. Censorship is real & also playing a role. See the NIH grant payout info:

OH MY FUCKING GOD. YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS RUNS ON MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF UNPAID LABOUR YOU HYPOCRITICAL SHITGIBBONS.

hey, what are ppl hearing about NIH/NSF grants with international collaborators? A colleague has their NIH grant withheld bc it had intl collabs. are other ppl hearing this? any place to find info on this? thanks!

We started with iGABASnFR, created by Jonny Marvin and LoogerLab at HHMI | Janelia and made >4,000 variants of the sensor, hoping to improve its sensitivity, kinetics, and expression.

Congratulations to Janelia GENIE, LoogerLab and everyone involved! Huge thank you to all the collaborators that made this possible! 📰 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our two-photon GABA imaging from mouse retina has been published! Akihiro Matsumoto in my lab spearheaded this project. I want to thank LoogerLab for molecular clustering and Janelia GENIE for the amazing iGABASnFR2 sensor! nature.com/articles/s4159…

GABA imaging classifies amacrine cell types in mouse retina! Aki and Keisuke Yonehara are amazing! future goals include Gly imaging, 2-color Glu/GABA, more complete scRNA-seq/MERFISH mapped onto functional classes. Super-fun collaboration! Ilya Kolb Janelia GENIE

ok rumors were true all along: nature.com/articles/d4158… steady slide into fascism. what are ppl hearing about US-based researchers with foreign citizenship? I am hearing rumors that they are being targeted now. Sounds laughable but all too real in this hellhole

Our latest work is out today in Neuron . Using voltage imaging, we clarified how serotonergic neurons compute action effectiveness during learning behavior. With Ravid Haruvi, Ziqiang Wei and Misha Ahrens sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

so proud of this team!!! They're revolutionizing the way grants are designed, written, reviewed, and funded! such important work getting funded! And they were gracious enough to give us some $ to study methane monooxygenase (pMMO) for methane remediation, with Michael Konopka

what do ppl think is going to happen to this 6 NIH grant app maximum? will it stick? how are people interpreting the whole co-PI vs MPI thing?

My absolute privilege to be interviewed by Daniel Goodwin at Homeworld Collective : linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…. we talk methane, brains, tools, Alabama, you know - all the things. this is a fun and insightful podcast series. and HW is really getting it done in the granting/research space!