$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

New paper in Cognition: We know people find LLM (moral) arguments persuasive, but are people being persuaded in an epistemically responsible way? No. 🧵 With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social #philsky #psychology #AI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Study promotion for a great PhD student! If you and/or your romantic partner are experiencing depressive symptoms, consider participating in this online study. Your participation can help researchers better understand romantic partner support. Open to couples of any gender or sexual orientation 🌈

I reflect on a past class discussion that would have run afoul of a new University of Texas System policy prohibiting discussions on "controversies not germane to the course." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A “literally chef’s kiss” analogy, as my kid would say.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Big fan of @skypeascientist.bsky.social I always recommend them as a good place to start if you want to get more public engagement experience as a scientist. And right now they're funding in-person science communication projects. For Feeds: 🛟 😷 🧪 #academicsky #phdsky

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

The energy I’m bringing to my Friday.

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...

Consider signing up for this study.

New paper w/ @qmmmmliu.bsky.social Network analysis of LGBTQIA+ parents linking parenting, stigma, & mental health. Supportiveness, reinforcement, & transphobia were central. Child psychopathology & parent anxiety bridged domains. Patterns varied by identity doi.org/10.1037/fam0001459

“Accelerating Innovative Strategies for Greater Equity and Inclusion in Pain Care and Research,” a coordinated pair of special issues in Health Psychology (HEA) and @thejournalofpain.bsky.social. Check out the free-to-read HEA introduction: https://bit.ly/4rbT57f @apadivision38.bsky.social

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

There seems to be some confusion about the SAVE America Act. If it becomes law, you will NOT be able to vote with your drivers license alone. You’d need:

I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one Important paper ⬇️⬇️

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute (MMARI). This 5-day workshop funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is tailored for early-career education researchers with little to no prior meta-analysis experience. Apply by 3/15: www.meta-analysis-re...

Erin's filling in CHE's holes again and collecting adjunct pay info. Drop yours at the form.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w

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 !