Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Good morning, #psycgooddeedday2025 ! Binghamton University is ready to go!!

The court’s three liberal justices – Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson – dissented from the decision and apparently are the only ones upholding the Constitution and protecting the power of Congress. Congress would do well to recognize this.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

New position: Research assistant in the Manzano Lab at Binghamton... early life development, reward seeking and inhibition and single neuron imaging in behaving mice... please repost! binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

a lot of our trainees are thinking about going abroad for GS (who can blame them) but they're seeing that Masters Degrees are required for PhD programs? Can folks weight in on this?

Few much-needed reminders: 1️⃣Strive to give your best, recognizing that your best can change daily, and 2️⃣ don’t forget kindness to yourself. It isn’t selfish; it’s essential for success in every aspect of life. #Kindness

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14

As the chair of a large or complex department, many days start with disappointment that you haven't yet gotten to doing the big, special things that you aspire(d) to...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Please share with trainees in the San Diego area! The International Society for Developmental Psychology @isdp.org will have a limited number of waivers available for local trainees (undergraduate, graduate, postbacc, and others) to attend the 2025 annual meeting! 🌴 Apply via QR code/link on flyer:

First day of classes for my third year as Chair. Let's go!

ACNP is now accepting applications for new Associate Member, Member, and promotion to Fellow! The deadline: September 25th. Apply today! #ACNP Click tinyurl.com/ypa4mund#ACNPfor more information.

Let’s talk @storiesofwin.bsky.social. I’m flattered to be among their profiles (coming soon) & I want to elevate the team behind this terrific effort. /1 www.storiesofwin.org

Faculty opening for candidates "working with human, non-human animal, or computational models to advance the understanding of brain and behavior relationships in the context of lifespan development" Stony Brook Psychology is an exceptional dept with amazing colleagues apply.interfolio.com/171691

URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees -evidence that P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"..NIH remains dedicated to fostering open, competitive, and accountable science and supporting investigators as they pursue innovative, and sometimes controversial, questions grounded in rigorous methodology.".....unless you're study anything related to trans people....then you can just fuck off.

Thrilled to share a new systematic review where we examined sex differences in the acute cognitive effects of cannabis in humans Overall, not much evidence of sex diffs (6/29 studies, 8/216 variables found sex diffs) BUT... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New: NSF has reinstated the suspended UCLA grants, following yesterday's court order. Here's the email to Chancellor Frenk. (The ~490 NIH & 2 DOE grants remain suspended)

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

The University of California system is publicly mobilizing against federal attacks. That’s historic. It's time for ALL of us in US #highered to act. Join our movement at standtogetherhighered.org. #academicsky #highered #standtogether 🔗 universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

@katherinejwu.com got me on the record. My terminated colleagues are scientists and were committed service members. The #NIH lost so much talent.

Donald Trump doesn't want voters to hold him accountable in 2026 for his corruption. So he's trying to rig Texas maps and dilute the votes of communities of colors and working families. We can't let his scheme succeed in Texas — or it'll spread to the entire country. youtu.be/fZyqD9KL4TU

The more I see of Jay Bhattacharya in action, the more I settle on this conclusion: He is an opportunist. He is a mediocre scientist who could never get the NIH Directorship or an equivalent job by merit. Which is exactly why the Trump admin installed him. They use this to control him.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Four-month delayed notice of award last week... email reminder of upcoming RPPR for said grant this week.

LOLSOB I was in grad school in the biomedical sciences in the 90s: the misogyny was off the charts AND we had so little language to describe it.

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵 www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n... 1/31

Join us Saturday, 8/23 at 3 PM for our first Teach-in event! Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/teach...

The National Institutes of Health’s budget, and structure, would be preserved under a Senate bill for the 2026 fiscal year.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!! Message from ACLU team below: 1/n

"I began to believe that speaking about my scars might help, that it could foster understanding, and perhaps even awaken empathy in others." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/46WRtqI

Trump’s Texas gerrymander would give Republicans nearly 80% of seats in state where he got 56% of vote This is direct result of John Roberts & conservative SCOTUS majority gutting Voting Rights Act & refusing to stop blatant partisan gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Calling out to #neuroskyence: Pomona College is hiring! This is a position for a tenure-track assistant professor in systems-level neuroscience. We are eager to hear from candidates with a commitment to teaching and research excellence with undergraduates academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30265

The #BethesdaDeclaration signers killed it today during the roundtable with Jay. Some of my favorite highlights shared from my colleagues: 🧵 1/5

There is a rally on MONDAY at 4:30 PM to stand up for NIH. Please join. Many NIH employees signed the Bethesda Declaration, objecting to the destruction of NIH. The Trump NIH Director asked the signers to meet. The rally follows that meeting, in support. actionnetwork.org/ev...

This related to some idle thoughts I had when writing about thoughtcrime bans on NIH advisory panel participation. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...

Mourning the loss of those who were RIF’d back in April. Our colleagues at NIH and across HHS are getting their official separation notices. These are friends and family members who were vital to the HHS mission being kicked to the curb. Please keep them in your thoughts.

Public comments have been opened back up! Research with animals is critical for providing evidence-based knowledge in the pursuit of human health. Broadly reducing research projects with animals threatens public health and will greatly stall the development of new therapeutics for diseases!

Congratulations to E. Kale Edmiston, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋

Very grateful to have had the chance to attend the Science Fair of Cancelled Grants today. As a program officer overseeing health equity research, I’ve heard far too many stories of lost science, lost careers, and lost jobs.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Does anyone have insight on the extreme slowdown in #NIAAA funding? After issuing 111 NOAs in May, NIAAA has issued just 5 since June 1. Meanwhile, #NIDA has issued 299 since June 1, including many new awards. No NIAAA T32s have received NOAs, while a large number of NIDA T32s have.