Angie Voyles Askham
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senior reporter @_TheTransmitter / neuroscience PhD / mother of three / Email: [email protected] Signal: avaskham.54
Joined August 2010
RT @_TheTransmitter: “This neural configuration before amputation remains after the amputation. And it’s not ‘use it or lose it,’” says @bl….
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The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.
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RT @CoryMillerMarmo: Here is my new OpED piece about the importance of primate neuroscience research for the future of AI : .
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Neuroscience research on primates will help us learn how to build an efficient thinking machine.
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RT @neuromatch: 📣 Calling all early career neuroscientists!.@_TheTransmitter & Neuromatch are teaming up to better understand how to suppor….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: More than a year after garnering pushback on social media for its methods, a study claiming prenatal COVID-19 vaccine….
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The editor-in-chief cited “inconsistencies in the number of subjects” as the reason for the retraction.
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RT @_TheTransmitter: Brain recordings in freely moving mice reveal that sensory cortices can multitask beyond their known roles, according….
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The new study challenges a long-held view that the barrel cortex exclusively encodes sensory signals from the whiskers.
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RT @labonnelab: Senate Appropriations has a modest *INCREASE* in NIH funding but it will need to be recconciled with the house cut. If you….
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United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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RT @maxdkozlov: The NIH budget would INCREASE by $400m — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — in a proposal by Senate appropriators, say….
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RT @storiesofwin: Calling all early-career researchers!! @_TheTransmitter & @neuromatch want to know: what kinds of resources do early-care….
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Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.
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RT @JasonSynaptic: FYI @SenatorCollins @PattyMurray. NIH is not giving out funds to Alzheimer's disease research. despite your recent senat….
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RT @GordFishell: Here is a chat with Bosilijka Tasic and myself about the enhancer-mediated AAVs that we were both centrally involved in pu….
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RT @cpiller: More than two dozen papers by neural tube researcher come under scrutiny - findings by @MicrobiomDigest via @claulopezneuro h….
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One of the studies received an editorial expression of concern in May, after the journal learned of an institutional review of the alleged problems.
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RT @martajhill: my first story for The Transmitter came out today! I'm spending the summer diving into all things neuroscience and couldn't….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: A statistical error known as pseudoreplication appears in more than half of recent mouse studies on neurological disor….
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Most studies of neurological disorders in mice erroneously treat multiple samples from a single animal as independent replicates, according to a new analysis. But scientists and journals can take…
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RT @_TheTransmitter: A paper investigating the effects of psychedelics on brain-derived neurotrophic factor was retracted last month follow….
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While working on a similar analysis last year, an independent researcher spotted inconsistencies in the now-retracted paper.
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RT @meredithwadman: 📷.An @NewsfromScience probe found doctors on @CDCgov 's now-fired ACIP made less from industry than their specialist pe….
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A Science investigation finds no sign that members of a key CDC vaccine committee are compromised
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RT @JasonSynaptic: Senator Schatz asked a critical Q: if you’re an ECR scientist who just had your funding canceled, why should you stay in….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: Multiple studies by a prominent neural tube researcher at the University of Maryland show potential image manipulation….
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One of the studies received an editorial expression of concern in May, after the journal learned of an institutional review of the alleged problems.
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RT @NewsfromScience: Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depol….
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In test of NIH director’s support of dissent, NIH staff sign Bethesda Declaration urging reversal of grant cuts and freezes
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RT @_TheTransmitter: The NIH announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects investigating autism’s causes, but the initiat….
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects intended to investigate the condition’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and other…
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RT @CoryMillerMarmo: Here is my OpEd about the impacts of restructuring the NIH
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Merging smaller institutes into larger ones would increase bureaucracy, not reduce it.
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