Please consider joining us for the ticketed Menstrual Cycle / PMDD workshop at ABCT 2025!!!

An excellent commentary from @clearlab.bsky.social as usual! www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Check out my new paper! Toward Precision Reproductive Psychiatry: A Call for Targeted, Transdiagnostic Approaches to Premenstrual Disorders | American Journal of Psychiatry doi.org/10.1176/appi...

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

Reliability of a difference score vs. reliability of an interaction term.

‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9

NIH is appealing the indirect cost injunction as anticipated... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The people are awake. The people are angry. And the people are organized. 📍 Chicago, Illinois #HANDSOFF

I’d guess most taxpayers are unaware how much they’ve already invested in creating the scientific workforce, which is now being thrown away. Maybe $500,000 per scientist? Talk about waste.

My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

I feel a good cry coming on, who’s with me

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Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

This one absolutely breaks my heart. The NIH post baccalaureate IRTA program lets our youngest and most creative minds come together to understand the potential impact of a career dedicated to scientific discovery. It sets trainees on a future not only of science but of *service*.

One of the many, many “pauses” and cancellations devastating our next generation of researchers. “The NIH Intramural Program has paused the recruitment of IRTAs, CRTAs, and Visiting Fellows in all training programs pending guidance from Health and Human Services. Check back daily for updates.”

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

No human with knowledge of proper citations wrote this. They didn't even strip out the search-engine-generated #:~:text= fragment that tells Chrome what to highlight on the page-- "What is your indirect cost, think tanks, and government entities". If a student turned this in, it's C- territory.

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

Looking to @aamctoday.bsky.social for leadership around the announcement of the 15% indirect rate www.aamc.org/about-us/aam...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

The best thing that scientists can do right this moment is organize with each other. Form networks, do coordinated communications: comms to the public, comms to media outlets, comms to Congress. That's the most urgent need. #philsci #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Mentoring is so hard right now. I can’t reassure my grad students that our research grants will be secure or that their student visas will keep them safe or that they’ll have all the same civil rights when they graduate as they did when they started.

Canada did this in 2017 with their Canada 150 Chairs. The U.S. lost some phenomenal scientists to that recruitment effort. www.canada150.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/home-accueil...

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪 new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...

Not the biggest problem we're facing right now, but wow it's annoying that when this guy shares my work everyone tells him how brilliant he is and when I share it I get random dudes swinging by to tell me I can't do maths

Erwin the goat says be true to yourself and stay strong in the storm.

With my R01 NOA delayed indefinitely, I am prepared to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.

I know that it is the point, but the whiplash about federal funding has been an exhausting emotional roller coaster over the last 48 hours. It is extremely distressing to not know if you are going to have a job tomorrow.

Caroline Kennedy's letter opposing RFK Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS is one of the more scathing things I've ever read.

My NIH-funded research shows the menstrual cycle worsens suicidality—and targeted hormone treatments can help many patients. With more NIH funding, I can identify who benefits and ensure these treatments are safe long-term. Fund the NIH—because breakthroughs like this can save lives. 💙 #FundNIH

My ongoing NIH funded research examines the impact of the menstrual cycle on symptoms in people with a broad range of psych disorders. Still collecting data, but we already have compelling evidence that it has a major, clinically important impact for many and in ways that vary across individuals.

Waking up to this made me want to just crawl back in bed. How is this lawful? This is our and our trainees livelihood not just the work we do on a day-to-day basis. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

Want to see the numbers for how NIH funding impacts your state? Remind your Representatives, Senators, and fellow citizens how federally-funded biomedical research advances health, created jobs, and fosters innovation and economic growth. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Created an Ambulatory Assessment starter pack! The add people function was being a bit funky so definitely missing many of you! Reach out if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/NMJ1yCV

Nice review of progestogen effects on mental health— highlights the need for more well-designed experimental studies! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I won’t be able to make #abct2024 because ACNP is right after—too much travel, but don’t miss my work wife @jrpeters.bsky.social and two of my current/former trainees (Katja Schmalenberger, Jaclyn Ross) share basic evidence and our emerging approaches to assessment/tx of premenstrual disorders!

At #ABCT2024 this weekend in Philly? Come see our group presenting on perinatal mental health! Excited to learn from these amazing researchers led by our discussant @laurasockol.bsky.social!

Ok, so Trump has now announced that he will nominate RFK Jr. to oversee HHS (this includes NIH). If he gets confirmed, what do we expect in terms of changes at NIH?

Getting excited for #ABCT2024! Come to our mini workshop (Fri at 12:30) on Integrating the Menstrual Cycle in Assessment and Treatment: A Practical Overview. Jackie Ross, @katjaschmalen.bsky.social, and I will give a primer on an issue that affects over *half* of AFABs w mood disorders and the like.

Trying this again!

(reposted 🧵 from the Bad Place) My and @clearlab.bsky.social's Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC) framework was published in Mol Psychiatry! We aim to reshape how we study and treat #PMDD, #PME, and other forms of hormone sensitivity. rdcu.be/dQYfU

I made a new wiki about my lab! Www.clearlabresearch.com