Being a woman is the second strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. The CARE program (Cutting Alzheimer's Risk through Endocrinology), led by Dr. Lisa Mosconi, is a new $50 million initiative aimed at halving the lifetime risk in women by 2050. They are currently calling for proposals (more details here: wellcomeleap.org/care/).

Please boost for reach.

#neuroscience #WomensHealth #BrainHealth #Alzheimers #academia #science

I have an exam tomorrow. I cannot really study a lot lately, but I am pretty confident it is going to be fine. If it isn't, I can still take the second exam approximately two months later.

I am just afraid that during the exam time slot tomorrow my #ADHD will prevent me from focusing on the words in front of me and that I will fail just due to that.

#academia #personal #anxiety

I agree that retaining autonomy for the postdoc applicant is a good thing, both in funding and in research directions. Because otherwise, when a postdoc joins a grant-funded position, there are deliverables in that grant to meet. If aligned with the applicants interest, great, but otherwise, indeed it's a mismatch.

And an important mismatch: one that questions the whole structure of academic funding via grants to established labs. I hold the view that grants should fund technicians only, towards fulfilling grant deliverables. Postdocs all should be independent from the start, receiving advice and support from existing labs, but free of any hierarchical relationship.

#academia

Bittersweet moment: a postdoc applicant got awarded a major postdoc fellowship. But took so long that the applicant accepted a position elsewhere in the meanwhile.

PhD students can't wait for many months, even over a year in this case, for funding to materialise: they also have bills to pay, and a life to live.

In an ideal world, funding would either resolve within 4 weeks of application, or be directly allocated to labs – the labs would apply, like a regular grant, rather than the applicants. Labs can absorb the delay, and anticipate the need, whereas applicants cannot. Then labs would assign the postdoc fellowships to whoever they thought could best deliver on the project, followed 2 years later by a rigorous review *of the lab*, which would increase/decrease the lab's ability to apply in the future. If this sounds bad, consider the alternative, which is the present system of independent postdoc fellowships with untenably long timelines to resolution.

#academia #AcademicEvaluation

PLoS ONE is hiring two associate editors (remote positions):

1. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/pl…

2. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/pl…

There are another 19 positions open at PLoS:
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/pl…

#academia #PhDJobs #PLoSONE

The "guy" is a Nobel awardee with strong opinions who masterminded the fusion of the UK research councils into a newly created agency, UKRI, in the name of efficiency. Have yet to hear anyone praising the new model. It is said that the average employee lasts 9 months at UKRI, making it hard for any science administrator elsewhere to develop any sort of professional relationship – and UKRI itself employs 3,000 people.

The same person who commissioned The Crick (his "cathedral") and aimed at attracting brilliant young talent, but for a pittance compared to industry salaries in the city yet made no provisions for subsidised housing nearby, condemning them all to hour-long commutes daily in each direction.

"Nurse had hoped to buy a block of flats for postdocs and graduate students, but he could not find the money."

nature.com/articles/522406a

#academia #UK

Europe’s superlab: Sir Paul’s cathedral - Nature

When the Francis Crick Institute opens in London this year, it will be Europe’s largest biomedical research centre. Can director Paul Nurse make this gamble pay off for UK science?

^Nature

how accurate is this guide on academic feedback interpretation for UK and US? kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/…

@academicchatter

#academia #AcademicChatter

I'm glad they're realizing that twitter is dead but yeah, I wish they (and many others journals / websites) stopped forgetting #Mastodon all the time. We exist! We are having fun! No, we (probably) don't have an advertising department that asks everybody to write articles about us but it doesn't mean we should be forgotten!

Thanks for sharing the poll, I've answered it saying that I'm not using either Bluesky or X but am using Masto and I wish they had included it.

#Academia #Research #SocialMedia