A prospective biomarker-guided precision medicine trial of bupropion and sertraline for major depressive disorder: Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial in Depression (SMART-D) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

My reax to the big planned NIH shutdown firing news from @politico.com: The Project 2025 ppl didn’t do big (illegal) NIH firings because they know there would be public outcry. Keep speaking up!

fMRI Staff Scientist position at Ohio State - osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Not fun fact according to the American Federation of Teachers: As of 2020, 25% of adjunct professors were eligible for public assistance. I had colleagues who used food stamps. Poverty doesn’t always look like what you’d expect, and none of us are guaranteed a life without un- or under-employment.

PubMed Update (no pun intended) Publications with Pub Date 8/1//24 62209 9/1/24 64765 10/1/24 68211 8/1/25 61610 9/1/25 63719 10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25) 10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM) It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25 1/2

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors: You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship. Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that. [Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The University of Chicago won’t admit students in 19 of its doctoral programs in the 2026-27 academic year, in part due to “ongoing uncertainty in the federal landscape.”

The NSF posted an announcement on Sept 8th with “full solicitation coming” and no indication of the changes- consistent with a chaotic process occurring to make these decisions. At least they delayed the deadlines and have now provided reference letter deadline (earlier than application deadline).

Submit comments to protect international undergraduate education in the USA (and all of the scientific progress and economic prosperity tied to this). www.regulations.gov/commenton/IC...

GUESS WHAT: CHOPPING SCIENCE FUNDING IS A BAD ECONOMIC POLICY! Incredible work #SCIMaP team! @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social

It is really disheartening to see the men who are in charge of science and healthcare in the United States stand before us all and spew misinformation about autism. To claim that genetic background isn’t the overwhelming contributor to autism is egregious.

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Hearing rumor of a 2/3rds reduction in admissions to a graduate program. “The rest are made up by direct admits.” This is an inevitable response to financial pressures caused by unionized salary gains, NIH chaos and overall funding uncertainty.

"school shooting industry"

So I have a question... RFK, Jr. says he does not believe "modeling studies" to estimate the number of premature deaths prevented by COVID vaccines, He want to see real data. Question: What data does he have in mind? 1/2

Hi. Hello. Antidepressants don't cause suicide. These are LIFESAVING drugs. They PREVENT suicide. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Very few PhD students finish within 4 years. But international students will need to do that if US proposed visa rules change go through. Sound reasonable to you? Fed register is accepting comments for next month. Details at the link & comment button www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

With health agencies collapsing, it's never been more important for all of us to play active roles in protecting each other's health. A couple of easy things you can do: 1️⃣ Wear a well-fitting mask and distribute them to others 2️⃣ Spread word about updated vaccines and help others make appointments

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!

COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

WARNING WARNING WARNING #ResearchAdmini I am hearing reports of NIH Awards being issued with ~15% indirect cost rate without comment. I believe the hope is that they will be accepted with noticing this.

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

There were other essays in 2011. I won't spoil them, other than to say that the editors (which included @ajshackman.bsky.social) had a more hopeful interpretation about how the field had converged onto a temporal continuum around emotions versus moods, even if other details were still disputed.

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 13! WRITE UP WEDNESDAY! Our team on the hill learned that "Contact Me" forms on congress people's websites are very underutilized. WE WANT TO CHANGE THAT… 🔗 Instructions and scripts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #31Days

Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.

Yeah, I was in DC twice in July and first off, there isn't a more policed city in all of the country. Second, I didn't feel unsafe at all...and I was walking all over as a small-statured, single woman. Anyway, HI HELLO! THIS IS FASCISM! Hope that helps!

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Outrageous. The White House is sidestepping Congress and halting up to $15 billion in NIH research funding, which would have gone to study diabetes, cancer & more. The order was issued through a four-sentence email sent to NIH directors from Office of Management & Budget Director Russell Vought.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you attempt to get a COVID vaccine this fall and are denied, ask your doctor to write you a script so that the pharmacy has to give you one.

Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there

“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪

Remember, PubMed is going offline tomorrow night for “24+ hours”. Get that lit review done.

The universe is not obligated to make sense to you. But you are obligated to try.

💕 So many committed NIH employees, people who loved the place and loved public service were terminated today. It is terrible for them, and a loss for us all.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Indiana Jones and the Concur Travel Reimbursement System

f/t paid postbac RA position w/ my wonderful friends at Pitt - @jamielarsh.bsky.social - cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

Senate Republicans just voted to pass the largest slashes to your health care and kids' nutrition assistance in our nation's history. They're gambling with your lives to pay for tax cuts for their wealthiest friends. The fight isn't over: call your reps at (202) 224-3121.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!

The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of. Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business. NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation. GTFO

sound familiar? 1892! could be taken straight from the 1990's excitement over HGP and MRI. siggghhhh

This story will definitely make you cry. Sweet pup Gilbert was killed with his humans, and now is being honored and remembered next to them at the Minnesota state capital. The family’s request: go pet a dog, preferably a Golden, but any dog will do. Rest well, Gilbert. You were the best boy. 💙