If you're asking what to do next, here you go!!! MAKE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT PRESSURE CONGRESS FUEL THE FIGHT!

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Just saw a posting looking for *volunteers* for a research position that requires a TWO YEAR 16hr/week commitment + lab meeting. All unpaid. Honey, that's not a 'stepping stone' to a PhD, that's predatory. #AcademicSky

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

(2) The plan is, indeed, to have an RFI to collect input. THIS IS A HUGE SHIFT IN NIH PRACTICES. FOLKS NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS AND PREPARE TO WEIGH IN. 3/3

thanks i hate it

10/10 communication, no notes.

lecture evals r always a whirwind (1 liked my jokes! 1 called me sweetheart! 1 said i taught them CogSci is their passion!) but many seemed to really like a feedback format @drcharlotte.bsky.social taught me (that i think @brendayang.bsky.social taught her?) that i wanna share: a personalized doc 🧵

fun chat w/Kensey & Claudia on the @manymindspod.bsky.social! got to think ab what evidence of rich representations *could* look like; the rare gifted dog work is a neat plot twist. tho I’m biased, to me it further underscores the amazingness of what nearly all human babies do, w/o “training”. 🐤🐤

Just avoided a major disaster with a backup file. So this is a little reminder for you back up your stuff. Yes, you with all that good stuff that you've been working hard on.

Dr. Fauci came to Stanford for Medicine grand rounds and shared a few reflections I thought were worth passing on: The first was about Operation Warp Speed and the current state of the NIH. As you’ll recall the first mRNA vax was developed at record speed. Fauci atttributes that success to 4 factors

I am one of countless children of immigrants whose American dream was predicated upon the policies being ripped to shreds by this…foolheaded doesn’t begin to describe this.

Surely you're not the first person to point this out, which means... your complaint that Elika's complaint that everything is old is itself old is also itself old?

doing the obnoxious thing where i haven't read your paper yet so just based on the post below...this is not a new hypothesis! decades of ling/langdev work have investigated this very idea...indeed you're citing some of the relevant stuff (e.g chomsky, mintz, newport!) Everything old is new again?

not to brag but i just took an abstract that was an alleged 576 words in google docs and when i was done it was *exactly* 500 words in Word and I didn't use the word count tool ONCE i just relied on my HARD-WON VERY NICHE EXPERTISE. #AcademicSky

You know that psych test where you have to come w/as many uses as possible for something? New toddler version just dropped: What do you if you have a boogie on your finger? * put it back in your nose * put it in your mouth * put it on mommy or daddy * put it on mommy or daddy's tissue [true story]

Boosting for an emergency accessibility need!

Hey tell me about a word you always pronounce wrong for fun or because of a piece of media that did it, like popato chisps or weclome back or hemborger

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Thanks i hate it

Bhattacharya: "I don't see a bottleneck now.... My job is to make sure every single dollar goes out, and it will go out by the end of the year on excellent science. A lot of the concerns, it just seems like political noise to me. It's not reality." Reality... 🧵1/6 www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Just did this, definitely recommend.

A society awash with guns: 1) man with recent conviction for shooting at police officers obtains an assault weapon, 2) goes to crowded street and randomly fires at cars, 3) is shot by other guy with gun. All in Cambridge, MA, which has low overall gun ownership. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/11/m...

Hey @levelsof.bsky.social can you or someone study the nearly infinite number of ways one can incorrectly apply applesauce, yogurt, and maple syrup to a young kid’s oatmeal? huge emotional signal that makes very clear if you've done it wrong even if you followed step by step instructions

New work from my lab! Young children find it easier to represent mutually-exclusive possible identities of an object than possible locations of an object - an early object-rep-architecture limitation on possibility reasoning! Work led by @esranur.bsky.social recently accepted in Open Mind ✨

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

This is lab policy at @epic-biodiversity.org - the abridged version of our policy on generative AI is "no". This is not a guideline or an aspirational document. It's part of our rules of behavior and good academic conduct. epic-biodiversity.org/generative-ai/

Another great piece from Liz Ginexi on how NIH has all but killed notices of funding opportunity. Including for congressionally mandated programs. This seems like a clear violation of Congress’s power of the purse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/release-th...

"It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas." - Paul Cezanne

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

helluva way to announce you're firing people, amirite?

i do not like chat GPT It just is not the tool for me I do not like it in my slides I do not like its gross insides I do not like its good friend Claude I do not like this useless sod I do care for Gemini I would rather stab my eye...

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

a thing that's irreplaceable ab humans is that tickle in your mind that says 'my memory is too feeble to remember how to solve this problem but not so feeble that i don't remember having this exact problem before' [see also: that time i stored my verizon password in a file called comcast.txt]

If u're hiring people I beg of you, plz don't me fill out ur bespoke boxes w/slightly differently worded ?s, whose answers I have no easy way of storing. I love bragging ab my amazing current/former lab members Rec Letter fatigue is real, esp since i refuse to GPT slop it for my trainee's sake.

New pothole just dropped @cambridgemass.bsky.social

so uh how often does the 'just to the editor' box for journal review say anything other than 'sorry this review is late' ? anecdotal evidence from a 'friend' says >80%

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

OMG *another* one. Could you not??? I think we need to talk with @uclalibrary.bsky.social about this. I can't share this shit with my students.

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Want to provide constructive and fair reviews, rather than unwittingly become the dreaded Reviewer 2? Join us to learn some principles for writing peer reviews that help make papers into the best versions of themselves that they can be. This is a free event on Zoom! Register below 👇🏼

spam's getting bold. honey i did respond. by reporting this as spam and moving on with my day.

The Institute of Child Development is still recruiting 2 NIMH-funded T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Developmental Psychopathology! icd.umn.edu/employment