READ: My Public Comment on Proposed OMB Rule: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/my-public-...

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.

Keep commenting, people! Tell them scientists should decide who gets scientific grants, not politicians! You can post anonymously. www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

Notes from the Emergency SUFS meeting today in case you missed it! Wow.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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

"What we are seeing now is not just a workforce issue or an internal challenge within CDC. It is a structural weakening of the systems that protect the health of the population."

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The initial review for the Postdoctoral Fellow position in my lab at the UPenn will close at the end of the day on Friday. I welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, with a focus on devsci, adversity, epigenetics, and sleep health. apply.interfolio.com/184510

Three papers published in Current Psychiatry Reports and Appetite by Christine Call, PhD, and colleagues in the Perinatal Health and Behaviors Lab, highlight advances in our understanding of eating disorders in pregnancy and the perinatal period. bit.ly/4mBmN4d

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

We are currently recruiting for a research study on Black mothers’ experiences of sleep and bodily awareness during pregnancy. If you are currently pregnant, identify as Black, and live in the Pittsburgh area, consider filling out our screener to see if you qualify!  redcap.link/PRISMStudy

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

13/ “The categories of people I am being asked to remove from grants share the same identities of people being forcibly removed, detained, and killed in our country...

10/ “I wish I could see censoring grants as saving science, but it’s a short term monetary solution with a long term goal of ultimately discriminating against who we most need to serve...

Are you a postbac (or soon-to-be-postbac) interested in interdisciplinary research on sexual and reproductive health? Come work with us! Application review starts March 13 and continues until the position is filled. employment.unl.edu/postings/99472

Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators. And that it was expected. A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

T32 Postdoc position in developmental psychopathology at UMN Institute of Child Development! There are many excellent primary mentors available, as well as an even better set of secondary mentors to choose from (including me). See link for details, due April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Happy match day eve to all who are celebrating 🤞 I've been thinking lately about how our field seems to have moved on to other conversations (AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI), and yet none of our existing problems (pre-degree fellowship, EPPP, licensure laws) have budged... 🆘

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Do individual differences in fetal physiology shape later sensitivity to early environments? Excited to share our new paper: interactions between fetal heart rate variability and postnatal parenting stress were associated with toddler externalizing behaviors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our Perspective now published in Nature Mental Heath: Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00575-4

74,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials were affected. You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue. That’s not how it works. I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence. 🧪 archive.today/ooHj6

Sad. Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds, "The new analysis found that the mortality risk from pregnancy (including up to one year postpartum) is 44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion" www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

When everything is bad, there is no thing that's the worst. But, this is bad. This is BAD. SAMHSA funding is critical for mental health, prevention of suicide and overdose deaths, and equitable access to treatment.

NEWS: NIH will pause new funding for grants that include "misaligned" terms like "health equity" and "structural racism." Agency staff are required to use a "computational text analysis tool" to identify grants that include the unsanctioned terms. www.notus.org/health-scien...

The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UNL is hiring a Research Assistant Professor! Work with my wonderful colleague Tim Nelson on NIH-funded developmental/health projects and grow your own line of research. The DCN Lab is an amazing team with lots of opportunities and support.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)? If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants. Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

This is a VERY important read about the status of NIH funding & how funding works. Labs all over the country are feeling the effects of this policy change. Last year, 10% of grants got funded. The number will be reduced this year & beyond. 🧵 🧪 scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/a-quiet-po...

The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.

Yes it's actually good that we have fMRI to know this, because men's parental bond has been understudied & essentialist narratives continue to insist that only women have "maternal instinct." Showing how the male brain responds to infant stimuli helps us appreciate human adaptations to fatherhood!

And just like that, a mere 7 years later, I officially earned my PhD and had the privilege of being hooded by my dad, the OG Dr. Laifer. I cannot thank my wonderful mentors, labmates, family, and friends enough for their guidance and never ending support ❤️

THIS IS VERY BAD. Trump just signed an EO giving political appointees the job of approving all federal grants. There is a lot to unpack in this, so sit tight. But it’s decidedly very bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking – The White House

American Psychological Foundation released a call for applications for crisis funding to support early career researchers who had grants terminated. Looks like a great opportunity! ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/

Our paper with guidance for mental health researchers, clinicians, and advocates in the current era of abortion restrictions is officially published online. This paper is for everyone, including folks who don’t actively study or treat reproductive mental health. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NZWIK...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

"It's a horror show. We're under attack in every way all the time," says Sarah Kobrin, who has worked at the National Cancer Institute for more than 21 years. "We're told we're worthless. We're told we're cheats.… They're breaking things that won't be repairable." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I’m thrilled to share this preprint with a brilliant co-author team. We describe several crises mental health science faces in the current sociopolitical context, as well as new and previously-overlooked opportunities to make non-incremental progress. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nz42x_v1

🙋‍♀️ 👋🚨 Two of my grad students had their NIH Diversity Supplements abruptly cancelled. We plan to appeal. We'd love to coordinate with other folks w/ cancelled grants. Does this already exist? If not, could we start a Slack, email or text thread, or shared Google Drive to share appeals & strategize?

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...