Red states and blue states alike Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy

This proposed budget, which zeroes out many key programs that protect the US, would be catastrophic for American health. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

For those who don't know a K01 is a training grant for early career researchers. Typically 4-5years to help them launch their research careers. It protects up to 75% time for research. Rescinding awarded K level grants is throwing a grenade into an already tenuous research pipeline.

It's entirely reasonable to both think university indirect rates are too high and a 15% ceiling is too low We want universities to be transparent and efficient But if they have to subsidize the research enterprise, it won't happen at most institutions www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/n...

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

What is worst advice you have ever received from an academic?

#Thread Why Autistic-led autism research matters. I get Google Scholar alerts about newly published research. It’s striking how little of this has any tangible benefits for Autistic people. On the contrary, much of it is potentially harmful. There’s an alarming sub-text. We’re subjects, not people.

Does anyone have an assignment they enjoy grading for developmental psych that has students engage with a (or multiple) scientific article(s)? I have tried many iterations of different assignments and want one I look forward to grading. Right now... not enjoying grading AI-written policy letters.

"even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors...RateMyProfessors’s overall quality ratings have a greater influence on course enrollment than official evaluations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Overworked faculty: there's just too much on my plate, and no time left for the really important stuff AI techbros: so hear me out--what if we automated your entire teaching process and then you can go to more meetings

One of my barometers for men colleagues is if they know and push back against the course evaluation comments their women colleagues receive. Every woman I know gets horrendous comments and they are all deeply misogynistic and unrelated to the course content.

This is presuming the "result" is a good grade in the assessment, whereas the result should be the learning and understanding itself. How we re-centre that is the big question.

saying "you only live once" - cliche - thanks for the existential dread - offensive to cats saying "leroy jenkins" - has some flare - here for a good time not a long time - leeeeeeeeeeeeroy jeeeenkkiinns - inoffensive to cats

My student just unlocked a researcher core memory: she was trying to replicate an analysis for a class project but the values she were getting didn’t make any realistic sense. Turns out the PUBLISHED paper reported incorrect variable coding. After some troubleshooting, we figured out what they did.

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Time for a reminder that "disability" can mean a wide variety of visible and invisible disabilities, and it doesn't mean lower productivity. 🧵1/9 #disability

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

Mid-career academics - do you have a formal 'mentor' outside of your line management? Have you sought them out? Are they at a more senior career stage, or at roughly your career stage?

It's always interesting to hear educational entrepreneurs sell their programs to teachers. The formula seems to be a vague definition of a well-known problem + multiple buzzwords of the moment integrated into a narrative + a healthy dose of neurobabble.

Fascinating and depressing. Virtually identical trend as we are seeing in the US.

I had zero luck with grants. People really didn’t get why what I did was important and never figured out how to explain it to them.

I think you'll find the shark only killed and ate a very small number of the people who were present in the water, and as you can see everyone else is having a wonderful time

This Thanksgiving weekend, I'm thankful for marta running regular service! That said, it's now December, and according to information reviewed by @thexylom.com, marta still hasn't run full service over two consecutive weekends. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My students and I spoke about this the other day. The largest impacts on society I will have are through my interactions with them and our community engagement. But that’s also fine with me!

"After coming into contact with pepper spray" Expert deployment of the exonerative tense by the Athletic. www.nytimes.com/athletic/595...

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

Hi, Kamalla! Can you help me diversify and reach more autistic folks . Im also autistic and advocating to amplify our voices! Check out the below skeet! :) @kamalladreams.bsky.social More info: bit.ly/Aut2ask

Every academic right now

Asking autistics, have you ever been seen by others as clumsy?

Love this view for academics with 1 caveat. This path will lead to doing innovative work, BUT our academic systems are not designed to accommodate these types of people because we train and hire people in specific fields. Bridging the gap to be hired takes a lot of explaining and LUCK.

Intolerance of intolerance is the only way to effect tolerance.

There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

The biggest barriers we run into also including grant reviewers challenging the inclusion of lived experience perspectives of autistic adults on assessments and supports for autistic children. They tend to only want to fund inclusion of caregivers of those children.

🧵Autistic Representation in Autism Research Historically, autism research has been conducted ON autistic people rather than with autistic people. In recent years, there has been an increase in research conducted by autistics for autistics. #autres #autsky #autism #research #academia #phd #phdsky

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Autism affects my whole body, not just my brain.

This starter pack is intended for researchers in all areas of gait and posture - just let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/UaoaLRZ

Vaccines do not cause autism.

Welcome Autism Researchers. Couple of starter packs to get you going: Autism Research (@lauramaycrane.bsky.social‬) go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA Language in Autism (@elenatenenbaum.bsky.social) go.bsky.app/UtaHx7P

I put this together because autistics need to be heard from, not about. That is our ethos at Aut2Ask. I can add you or, please let me know who I should add! Also: find us on IG- @aut2ask. And to learn more: bit.ly/Aut2ask

These guys are going to be horrified by the sheer number of meetings they have to attend and also the fact that I personally can FOIA their emails and daily schedules

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This totally passed me by at the time. Sharing this link because the times link doesn't work for me. So glad they could get in contact. It's horrible when online, or even long distance friends suddely disappear, cos if something has happened to them, you may never know.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #973,581!

Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine.bsky.social's approach applied to data collected by @kirsten-adam.bsky.social, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/

Kennesaw State University is hiring for several faculty positions (3 assistant professor, 1 associate professor, and 3 lecturer positions) in psychology. If interested, please feel free to message me.

Hi all! We have TWO tenure track open positions in psychology available at the University of Melbourne (equivalent to assistant and associate professor). Come join us and please share widely. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/mob/en/job/9...