Olivier George (@brainaddiction) 's Twitter Profile
Olivier George

@brainaddiction

Professor @UCSD on a quest to understand why some, but not all, become addicted to drugs. Proud papa of 9🐶 3🐢10🐓3🐹 dz🐠& 2🚶‍♂️. Rants are my own.

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Very sad to hear of Dr. Étienne-Émile Baulieu’s passing. He was a neuroendocrinology titan whose work on the abortion pill, neurosteroids, and more reshaped medicine and society. He was one of my science hero, the very first citation in my very first paper (Baulieu 1981). his

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This 👇 too often cells are used as independent samples for statistical purpose because it’s easier and cheaper than replicating data in many individuals. It leads to nowhere, actually worst, it leads to a beautiful fantasy world with no link to reality. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Ugh, being the pawn in the 4D chess game of politics was NOT on my Friday to-do list. Biomedical research is threatened left and right. Our lab already got 2 grants cancelled with no scientific justifications. Researchers and trainees are leaving academia en-masse. This is

Dr. Kim E. Barrett (@drkimebarrett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The proportion of cancelled grants that are for training continues to grow. The future of the US biomedical enterprise, the envy of the world, is in dire peril. aamc.org/about-us/missi…

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Max Kozlov 🇺🇦 (@maxdkozlov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can." My story for nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

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JUST IN: Judge of the moment Brian Murphy of US District Court in Boston blocks Defense Department from capping universities' indirect cost reimbursement (essentially overhead) at 15% on federal contracts with DoD. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…