David Moorman
Neuroscientist; Associate Professor at UMass Amherst
moormanlab.org
- Reposted by David MoormanTake action TODAY. Provide public comment in writing by emailing ohsuboard@ohsu.edu by THIS FRIDAY, Feb. 6 at noon PT. Include “For public comment” in the subject line. The battles are local AND national. All NHP researchers in the USA are at risk next. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- The New World: The slow death of American science by Philip Ball NIH Jay Bhattahcrya bit.ly/4keFysW
- Reposted by David MoormanNIH and some outside interest groups are trying to force the closing of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, and it looks like they might win. This would be a huge blow for translational research. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by David MoormanStill time to apply and register! www.grc.org/the-neurosci...
- Reposted by David Moorman📢 GU Pharmacology & Physiology is hiring! Tenure-track / tenured faculty position at Georgetown University Medical Center. apply.interfolio.com/180562 Please share with your networks.
- Reposted by David MoormanToday, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...
- Reposted by David MoormanOur lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
- Reposted by David MoormanI am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...
- Reposted by David MoormanGettysburg College is hiring 2 VAPs. Applications are due Feb 20th! Reach out if you have any questions and please share! VAP Human Cog - gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/6092 VAP Health Psychology - gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/6086
- Reposted by David MoormanNeedless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
- Reposted by David MoormanNeuro friends: Any one ever try tract-tracing studies in the insula or cingulate (in rats or mice) and find a connection there? It keeps showing up in resting-state studies and outside of pIC to pACC inhibitory projections here (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37605272/), I can't find much else!
- Reposted by David MoormanWe are hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor in Neuroscience for the 26-27 school year at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, with an emphasis on teaching Neuroanatomy for our undergrad Neuroscience major. More info: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5034 Please share! #neuroscience #neurosky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by David MoormanThe Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer
- Reposted by David MoormanDepression treatment… at home? The FDA has approved the first at-home brain stimulation device for depression — something that used to be limited to clinics. 1/2
- Reposted by David MoormanThere is a lot of talk lately about multi-year funding (MYF) at NIH. This is mostly a paperwork issue, but it can have a dramatic impact on the number of grants that get funded. I was curious how this would impact grant numbers over time, so I did some simple modeling. 1/n
- Reposted by David MoormanNIH needs statutory protections against partisan politicized decision-making - especially around grant terminations. This bill is a solid start to achieving those aims. degette.house.gov/media-center...
- Reposted by David MoormanNIH will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions, citing advances in alternate methods. “It’s clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” says Lawrence Goldstein, a neuroscientist at UCSD. By @heidiledford.bsky.social and Edward Chen
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- Reposted by David MoormanI'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...
- Reposted by David MoormanHey ventral pallidum fans, see our new paper showing that #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting these cells with #DREADDs potentiates active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb. Congrats to Erica Ramirez & Marty Martinez! doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
- Reposted by David MoormanHey y’all! My institute started a new set of training programs for people interested in careers in the neurotech space. Spread the word!
- The Master of Science in Neural Technologies (MiNT) – jointly offered by CMU's Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Biomedical Engineering — places students at the edge of a fast-moving field where neuroscience meets engineering and AI. www.cmu.edu/ni/news-even...
- Reposted by David MoormanJust spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.
- Reposted by David MoormanThe new NIH multi-year funding policy is a scheme to undercut the NIH budget and fund less science. And it’s working (see below). The Senate approps bill has language to limit MYF use, but the House version does not. Call your reps (House and Senate) and insist it’s included in the final bill! 🧪
- Glad to see Congress doing some oversight of new NIH policies. www.congress.gov/crs-product/... Number of new awards is way down since Trump took office, despite NIH spending the same amount of money.
- Reposted by David MoormanNSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
- Reposted by David MoormanI called NC Senators Tillis and Budd--call your Senators!
- Pre-long weekend story: Multiyear funding for NIH grants has become a sticking point in negotiating HHS’s appropriations package for 2026 www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...
- Reposted by David MoormanPre-long weekend story: Multiyear funding for NIH grants has become a sticking point in negotiating HHS’s appropriations package for 2026 www.statnews.com/2026/01/16/n...
- Reposted by David MoormanFor those Android users who felt left behind, can happily say that the DKFM app is now updated for current release. Huzzah! play.google.com/store/apps/d...
- Reposted by David MoormanThis zombie claim about quail cocaine research has been shuffling along for so long that the formatting of the (very good) 2011 SciAm blog takedown of Sen. Tom Coburn's 'Wastebook', which Bump linked to in 2021, is nearly broken. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicuri...
- Not only has Rand Paul increased this cost by a factor of 10,000, there was actually useful science behind the research as I explained in 2021. wapo.st/4pKScAV
- Reposted by David MoormanA reminder as Congress finalizes NIH appropriations: the bill must limit multiyear funding (MYF), Vought's way of cutting the NIH budget without cutting the budget. MYF will devastate the research workforce. @safa-science.bsky.social wrote this in July. Still relevant: substack.com/@scienceandf...
- Reposted by David MoormanWow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
- Reposted by David MoormanIt's difficult to know how motivated a fly is, and how motivated behaviors change with experience. To do this, we've been developing new ways to measure operant learning in flies, as described in our new Open-LA paper below.
- Reposted by David Moormanif any addiction or mental health agency got a notice of these cuts, please email me maiasz@gmail.com off record is fine.
- Reposted by David Moorman🙏We need your help!🙏 Mass grant terminations are back, this time at SAMHSA. We're tracking terminations to support advocacy and possible litigation. Please report info on specific SAMHSA grant terminations here: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... We'll have a tracker online ASAP. Spread the word!
- We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
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- Reposted by David Moorman📣 Our lab is hiring a full-time RA/lab manager! Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara to study the neural bases of affect-cognition interactions using fMRI and brain stimulation. Great stepping stone to a PhD in cognitive/affective neuro 🧠🐬🏖️ Apply by Jan 22: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03048
- Reposted by David MoormanI'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏 postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
- Reposted by David MoormanMy department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social
- Reposted by David MoormanWe are hiring a research assistant in Edmonton to help with two MRI studies of brain development. It's a fabulous team, and involves lots of work with kids and families. Please spread the word! iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Reposted by David MoormanHelp! We want to understand multi-task neural representations, but all we have is 24/7 spiking data from human patients in hippocampus and cortex, along with video, audio, speech, heart rate, and so much more! If you can help, please apply to join the lab as a postdoc ☺️ jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoct...
- Reposted by David MoormanUMass Chan study highlights effect of Alzheimer’s, frontotemporal dementia on subcortical brain structures www.umassmed.edu/news/news-ar... by @umasschan.bsky.social #Alzheimers #FTD #dementia #science #neuroscience
- Reposted by David MoormanThe new Cajal Center is opening 8 CSIC permanent research positions (CT, IC & PF levels) via national competitive exams. We welcome candidates eager to shape an ambitious 🧠 research hub in Spain. 🔗 sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/con... 📣 #Neuroscience #CNC #CSIC #ScienceJobs 👇🏼
- Reposted by David MoormanWE ARE HIRING! The Smyth Lab at Monash University is looking for a postdoc to join our team! Come join us if you are excited about neuroimmunology and the meninges. 📍 Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 Apply now: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... #Neuroimmunology #Meninges #PostdocJobs
- Reposted by David MoormanLess than two weeks left to apply for the Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference! An exciting lineup of speakers and posters, and financial aid is available upon request. 🐙🦑 www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
- Reposted by David MoormanReminder that this job is open! If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Deadline is February 20th.
- Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
- Reposted by David MoormanPlease repost: we're hiring! Apply now! 👉 can-acn.org/professor-re...
- Reposted by David MoormanJoint junior faculty position in Computational Neuroscience, between Ctr for Computational Neuroscience at @flatironinstitute.org and the CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social . Application deadline: 16 Jan 2026! www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/car... cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
- Reposted by David MoormanPlease repost and share widely - winter break is a perfect time to assemble application materials 😅
- Consider applying for the Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research at the UC Davis MIND Institute! Join a vibrant community of colleagues studying neurodevelopment conditions like autism. UC Davis is an excellent place to work and live. Find more details here: lnkd.in/gZRyViNa
- Reposted by David MoormanNew tenured faculty position open here at University of California, Riverside School of medicine! Please share and feel free to reach out with questions! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207 #academicsky #PhDchat
- Reposted by David MoormanI don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
- Reposted by David MoormanRead it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
- Reposted by David MoormanYou've graduated with your bachelor's...now what 😳 Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals. 🔗 alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/
