It can be hard to say no to service requests in academia. We sought advice on how to ensure researchers don’t get stuck doing unpaid labour go.nature.com/4bUX6WN

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.

Have to shoutout my bestie @drdebah for giving the best #GRC power hour I've ever attended. It was clear how deeply she had thought about how the audience could learn, participate, and go home with real actionable steps toward improving science for everyone. So so proud! 💗

Excited to share our recent work in @cellcellpress: Microglial-derived C1q integrates into neuronal ribonucleoprotein complexes and impacts protein homeostasis in the aging brain: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… @stevens1lab 1/n

Got together with @synaptokevin & @NeuroMikeRyan from the @SCAgingBrain to discuss #healthyaging. We take a multi-level approach to understand how brains age in the absence of disease. In this sense, aging can be an example of active remodeling rather than degeneration.

#microglia mediate the early and selective degeneration of corticostriatal synapses and the development of cognitive deficits in presymptomatic #Huntington’s disease via the #complement cascade nature.com/articles/s41591-0…