Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

In 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky

Call For Papers: Special Issue of Clinical Psychological Science! Shaping the Future of Clinical Science Training: A Manifesto for Change #ClinicalScience #ClinicalPsychology Abstract Submission Deadline: April 21

If you are a federal worker who has been let go, please consider sharing your story. By sending an email to [email protected]. YOU are the front lines ✊🏼 www.nbcnews.com/tips/

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

Make no mistake. Empathy is not “woke”. It just means you give a damn about other people. @janefonda.com 🙌🏼 🙌🏽 🙌🏿

March 7, 2025. #standupforscience2025

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

I did my dissertation on empathy. This response not only lacks empathy. It aggressively rejects it.

We’re hiring! The Sleep and Anxiety Center of Houston (www.uh.edu/SACH) is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to assist with a 5-year NIMH-funded study to examine how sleep patterns during the pre-adolescent years impact positive emotions. Apply here: lnkd.in/ghT58_eV

Friends and Colleagues I hope you will join me (in person or remotely) for the 2025 Carole L Marcus Pediatric Sleep Symposium on February 7th, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA. Register Here (for in-person or remote): redcap.link/CLM2025

Vacation (a la) mode.