Sam Houle

PhD candidate in @KokiColab at @ohiostate ⭕️-🙌🏼. Studying TBI and neuroimmunology, CNU alumni [email protected]

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

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[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@BrianStewartOH @rooster_ohio @SJPOSU @OhioState Brian, what happens during a hypothetical future administration when a liberal government decides to render non-citizens for attending Trump rallies or advocating for conservative policies? Are you still going to lick the boots of the executive or will that be a problem then?

[Michael Baym @baym]

Terminating unrelated biomedical research grants because of political accusations before any kind of investigation or due process is an obscene authoritarian move that in addition to being unamerican, will weaken America permanently

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

Ah yes because CS PhD are also famously the best guitarists to ever live

[Michael Baym @baym]

None of these people realize that by the end of 2026, AI will be composing guitar music at the average level of a PhD in computer science

[Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara]

List of 5 things I did at work last week (per El*n’s request):

1. Microadjusted a figure on Prism 20 times
2. Made 1X PBS
3. Fed a mouse
4. Threw out microscope slides from 3 years ago
5. Downloaded a PDF of a paper

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@evilduck92 @jdpereira No one thinks rare genetic diseases will apply to them or expect to receive a brain injury. So most people when presented with the option to contribute or keep the money for themselves will keep the money not understanding the altruistic or even self interest in funding

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@evilduck92 @jdpereira At this point though I don’t see how that is more efficient than the current system? Just a confusing bureaucracy with less funding and I think this would suffer from an optimism bias.

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@evilduck92 @jdpereira The a la cart system of government funding breaks down at scale. There would be too many grants for people to vote on and most civilians, even if they took time to read the breakdowns, would be unlikely to grasp the true scope of the work, how it fits with previous lit etc

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@jdpereira Certainly both can be true, no?
Scientific training? Yes
Critical thinking skills? Yes

Most job opportunities presented to PhD students during training being aimed at keeping them in academic research? - true

But

Over saturation of GRAs because we’re cheap labor? Also yes

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

You guys are making 60k?

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

There are too many bio PhD positions. Few of these graduates are able to obtain a PI position. Universities only train so many because they are cheap labor who will work 80 plus hours a week for 60 grand.

[Society for Neuroscience (SfN) @SfNtweets]

The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain and behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations, urge reversal of this policy and implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.

Read the full statement: https://t.co/8PnPiHrhFY

[Sam Houle @SamHoule9]

@DrPHO_ID @hubermanlab @SebastianCaliri @NIHDirector @NIH I’ve always wondered this and never understood why university endowments couldn’t be used to support these resources. Surely it would be a way for universities to “invest” in the research potential to bring in future dollars?

[Ubadah Sabbagh @neubadah]

Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists:

- watching flies fuck
- giving rats massages
- spending years digging into why jellyfish glow
- tracking penguin poop from space
- using horseshoe crab blood

[Jonathan Godbout @GodboutLab_OSU]

Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Goodman on his successful defense of his PhD exam! We are proud of you!!

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Which hero among you is gonna try submitting a paper that combines “no methods” with “no results”?

[Filip Piekniewski🌻 🐘:@[email protected] @filippie509]

Something to read for the weekend: https://t.co/WON24Rqaux

[Jonathan Godbout @GodboutLab_OSU]

OSU representing at NNS 2024! @Neurotrauma

[Morgan Taylor @MThTaylor]

Excited to be attending my first @Neurotrauma meeting this week! Stop by my poster in Session A this afternoon to hear about gene expression changes in microglia after TBI #NNS2024

[Gabriel Nah, PhD @gabedascientist]

I’m excited to be presenting more of my work at @Neurotrauma Please stop by my poster on Monday to hear more about memory performance of student-athletes! #NNS2024