James Finley
Associate Prof. and Director of the Locomotor Control Lab at USC. Father x3, slow runner and cyclist, hip hop enthusiast.
- Join us on Monday for the first, joint ReproRehab and @daprdata.bsky.social Statistically Speaking seminar, What is Statistical Power on Monday at 12 pm Pacific.
- Reposted by James FinleyToday I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.
- Reposted by James FinleyBehind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by James FinleyI am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
- Exciting start to this year's ASNR meeting! Looking forward to kicking off the first oral session in t-minus 30 min
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- With every new announcement, it feels like we've somehow entered a race to the bottom in education, science, and health.
- NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by James FinleyNSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Three years ago to the day. Still one of the best ever experiences in my life as a cycling fan.
- Reposted by James FinleyWe are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
- Wow. I just had a discussion about this very issue last week. One of the underappreciated goals of all the recent anti-DEI propaganda is to make you feel as if those who support DEI efforts are on the fringe. Don't believe the hype.
- Oof. My arch nemesis. Relative changes in the absence of baseline values. The key thing we'd like to know is how these values compare to what would be considered hazardous.
- Reposted by James FinleyUpon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
- This is incredibly upsetting. While the effects of these cancellations are clear to academics, we need to ensure that the wider public is not only aware of what's happening, but also understands how much damage this will cause to health and medical infrastructure, tech innovation, and higher ed.
- Jumps into the line of fire
- Setting aside my beliefs about the current administration's long-term goals, is there a potential world in which a reduction in NIH indirect rates could result in more biomedical research? If (big if) the overall NIH budget remains constant, more funding could be allocated toward direct costs.
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- Thanks for the shout-out @asnrehab.bsky.social! If you're reading this in the US, please reach out to your representatives to encourage them to support science and defend the federal workers who are critical contributors to the scientific enterprise.
- Reposted by James FinleyI hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.
- "Now you're under control. And now you do what they told ya."
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- Reposted by James FinleyReflective piece by Eve Marder – "What happened to the pursuit of truth" rupress.org/jgp/article/...
- Everyone needs at least one colleague to routinely remind them that sometimes less is more. Do fewer things better. You don't need to solve every interesting problem or answer every interesting question you encounter.
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- Status update for those wondering what things are like in the LA area right now. There are ~4 major fires burning in the region, last I checked, and they've all started in the dry hills and mountains in the area.
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- I love this idea. A couple of years ago, I did a personal inventory to estimate how much time I was spending annually on service-related endeavors and it was very eye-opening. Had to step away from some ongoing commitments to try and do better in the areas of my job that I felt were most important.
- Reposted by James FinleyAgreed that these can be extremely useful! And I'm often surprised how many colleagues aren't always aware of their own uni's agreements. Here's OSU's: library.osu.edu/transforming...
- Are my fellow members of #academicsky aware that many universities have agreements with select publishers to allow authors to publish open access articles at no cost (to the authors)? Here's an example of USC's agreement. libguides.usc.edu/openaccess/t...
- Are my fellow members of #academicsky aware that many universities have agreements with select publishers to allow authors to publish open access articles at no cost (to the authors)? Here's an example of USC's agreement. libguides.usc.edu/openaccess/t...
- Dear journal publishers, why, in the year 2025, are we still reviewing manuscripts with line numbers that aren't aligned with the text?
- Reposted by James FinleyFind out more about JEB's new article type, Theory & Modelling, allowing scientists to publish research leveraging modelling and theory to address new biological questions, in Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry & Sanjay Sane's Editorial journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
- Perfect way to close out academicsky for the year. I'll be saving the term reply-allmageddon for future use.
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- Reposted by James Finley🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Where do people stand on the use of active vs passive voice in scientific writing? I've worked with people who exclusively use active voice, and I subscribed to this approach in the past, but I actually prefer something like an 80-20 balance to reduce the monotony.
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- Dear Netflix, we need the Snyder Cut of Arcane.
- Reposted by James FinleyThe strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
