This article captures the scale at which academic freedom is being repressed at TX A&M, but also the chaotic way the new rules are being implemented. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBTQ Reproductive Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School 🌈🧬 Focus on rigorous epi methods + big data (longitudinal cohorts, EMR, claims) 📊 Ideal for epi/biostats folks who want rich cross-Harvard collaborations Details👇 Please boost + tag! 📣

I've seen reports via social media and my email about students using AI on their personal statements for grad programs. This is an opportunity to rethink the what and why of the writing we ask for in these situations. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Scenario: a friend or family member is having surgery with an overnight stay and you are going to be their hospital advocate. Here is your packing list: - a change of clothes for you both - all their meds in original bottles in case the hospital pharmacy can't source something they take

UPDATE re SAMHSA: While the Trump Admin signaled they'll undo the terminations, we don't yet have proof. On Jan 13, grantees received revised Notices of Award (NOAs) formally terminating their grants. Until they receive *another* new NOA w/ original terms, we assume grants remain terminated.

Good summary of the Goldwater Institute/Martin Center plan to further reduce professional autonomy from educators in order to politicize campus. They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

Figaro really is a gift!

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

Show the real-world impact of your research and participate in our #WhyPsychScience video competition #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Psychology Learn more & submit your entry by January 12 for a chance to win! Prizes include #APS26BCN registration www.psychologicalscience.org/2025-why-psy...

The new policy also shortens rejection feedback from a page to 3-5 sentences. This will particularly hurt early-career researchers who benefit from detailed guidance to improve proposals. We can't cultivate the next generation of researchers by eliminating the mentorship embedded in thorough review.

Unfavoriting my graded Canvas courses is the teaching equivalent of closing all the tabs and PDFs for a paper.

Now hiring: 2 Postdocs in my lab. Salary: $70,000. Start Jan-Aug of 2026. Work with me on multiple completed and ongoing pilot & NIH-funded mHealth studies. Details below. Please repost! @cpddorg.bsky.social @sbm.org @abctstudentsig.bsky.social @abctabsig.bsky.social @treatmentsrnt.bsky.social

It is interesting (derogatory) that productivity is operationalized as "uploading to preprint servers"

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

This is an important and information rich article. I wondered about the effects by Institute. The table below (which is snipped here but is in the article) has that info. Broken down by # of grants and $ amounts.

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

For everyone who replies to stuff like this with "obviously" - it's NOT LEGIBLE TO MANY INSTITUTIONS UNTIL IT'S MEASURED - WE NEED TO HAVE EVIDENCE FOR THE THINGS "we all know" - ACTUALLY SEEING THE MAGNITUDE AND NUANCES OF THESE KIND OF EFFECTS MATTERS AND IT MATTERS OVER TIME TOO

We are doing a pilot survey about how prospective PhD students in PSYCHOLOGY make decisions about applying to grad programs. If you are thinking of applying to a program in the future, and have 2-5 minutes to spare, could you take this survey? 🫶 northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

What are the effects of the shutdown on SNAP users? Propel provides an app to SNAP users to allow them to track their spending and so can offer real-time estimates of needs. About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts. www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...

A new permanent R&T position at Lecturer level was just advertised at my favourite department @rhulpsychology.bsky.social (yes, I am biased but for very good reasons). Consider applying if you are looking for an academic home. And please spread the word !

Defend Public Health is hiring an Organizing Director (full time), and Organizing and Operations managers (part time). www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social #jobs

The words a woman chooses to call her genitals reveals something about her sexual well-being. Using playful/childish terms in non-sexual contexts is linked to negative outcomes; using vulgar terms during sex is connected to positive sexual experiences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m picking up my preorder later!

Yong people are broke bc they buy Starbucks daily ($42) Became bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20) Became bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6) Will soon be You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating

Exclusive: Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain. https://scim.ag/3LAtvJ6

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Calling all 18-24 year-olds in Boston! 📢 Join our study on young adults’ media habits at @comatbu.bsky.social @bucomresearch.bsky.social. Your insights matter! See below to learn more & sign up. Please share with friends! #Boston #Research #MediaStudy

Help to memorialize our federal datasets with Dearly Departed Datasets from @essentialdata.us 🎃 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Timeline cleanse.

Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Register for Don't Use This Code's free Open Science Skills virtual training! Learn to: - Use tools like GitHub, Python & Zenodo - Make research accessible, transparent & reproducible - Understand concepts like FAIR & CARE - Draft Open Science & Data Management plans 🔗: www.opensciencetraining.org

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

I shared this with my students in my most writing intensive class today.

BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.

📢 CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS 📢 The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JSPR) and SAGE invite applications for three Associate Editor roles (three-year term, annual stipend, renewable) For more information, contact Sophie Donnelly ([email protected]

Applications for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research Grant will be accepted until 11/7 at 11:59pm Eastern!

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join the SPARC (Social Psychology of Activism, Resistance, & Change) Lab at @UVAPsyc in Fall 2026! You can find more info about my research on my website (ericshuman.com), and the program here (psychology.as.virginia.edu/social-psych...).

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

“It’s like cruelty is the point,” said a graduate student at Texas Tech who advocates for the transgender community. “It’s such an injustice to the students who came here to learn.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t... via @texastribune.org

Alter said that the Texas State University president's post was how he learned he was fired: “It was heart-wrenching. I mean, it was at my son’s soccer practice ... Besides watching them play soccer, I was preparing for class next day," he said.