Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

This manuscript is now In Press in Cortex. Good job, Amy Lebkuecher!

@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/

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I’ll be there. Join us.

‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.

Research Saves Lives At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

@laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social @annakrason.bsky.social #cognition #neuroscience #psychology

Excited to welcome Andrew Persichetti as a close colleague!

(1) Curious about research in the NIH-funded Cognition and Action Lab, directed by @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social? Visit the lab’s website to learn about the lab's focus areas, browse key publications, and more: research.jefferson.edu/labs/researc...

Looking forward to my talk tomorrow!

Make sure to catch Dr. Amy Lebkuecher & Dr. @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social at the #APS2025 Annual Convention on May 23 (12:30–1:30 PM ET) presenting a poster on EEG evidence of action semantics in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Parkinson’s Disease. The poster is included in Poster Session III. 🧠📈 🧠🔄 👩‍🔬

Going to the #APS2025 Annual Convention? If so, don't miss @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social's invited symposium presentation on the cognitive and neuroanatomic substrates of everyday actions on Saturday May 24, 2025 (1:30 PM - 2:50 PM ET).

Solène Kalénine, a recent visiting Fulbright Scholar, shared research on the impact of gestures on word (re)learning in people w/ #stroke at the Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects in Italy. The work was a collaboration w/ @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social Buxbaum, Erica Middleton, & Shauna Zodrow.

Former postdoc Dr. Erica Barhorst-Cates, @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @aaronlwong.bsky.social published a new paper examining determinants of navigation ability after #stroke. Their results emphasize the importance of using real-world contexts to assess navigation🧠🔄 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40244856/

Hmmm, could be very attractive.

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

Alex De Angelis and Shauna Zodrow discussing our work on cognitive influences on arm non-use at #asnr2025

(1) A new study, led by our postdoc @sthibault.bsky.social and Institute Faculty @aaronlwong.bsky.social & @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, examined how conflicting hand and tool motions affect individuals with limb apraxia.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Hear, hear!

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪 This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants. "DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature" What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

Always a great meeting!

Make sure to visit poster 1 at #ASNR2025 next Wednesday! @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, Dr. Emily Grattan, and Dr. Grace Edwards, share their work validating the immersive Virtual Reality Lateralized Attention Test—a quick, reliable tool for assessing post-stroke spatial neglect. @asnrehab.bsky.social

Heading to #ASNR2025? Don’t miss poster 141 next Thursday! Shauna Zodrow, Alex De Angelis, Dr. Rachana Gangwani, @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, and colleagues explore how task demands and rewards influence arm nonuse in individuals with chronic stroke. @asnrehab.bsky.social 🧠🔄 🧠📈

We can’t let up.

Looking forward to lots of great speakers and sessions at #APS25DC

Since President Donald Trump took office on 20 January, the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health ha…

Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

How do you make a cup of coffee? Everyday action is difficult to study in the lab, but a large battery of predictor tasks and a well-validated naturalistic action test helped us shed light on this question.

NIH employees should NOT be complying with these data calls. This data call raises serious first amendment concerns, and no NIH employee should obey it until a serious outside Constitutional attorney and/or court has weighed in. Don’t break the law, NIH workers! Even if the GC tells you to.

It seems clear that Musk and Trump are aiming to push out program staff. That would make it easier for them to control grant awards, from the top.

Hearing that there’s lots of chaos on NIH campus today- doge people roaming around checking offices and demanding to see badges, and rumors of new high level firings. Bhattacharya’s first day at NIH! Hold on everyone, we will get through this.

We are hearing that a lot of extramural grant people - program officers, grants management people - are the ones who were hit this way. DOGE plans to steal your grants, scientists. They are gutting the program officers to do this. The time to speak up is now.

Major update over the weekend to our spreadsheet tracking terminated NIH grants. 👇 Improvements include: - more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers - data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information - better data integrity and reproducibility 1/

🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees! AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations. NIH and NSF will be case examples. Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Long COVID is real and affects many Americans. Closing the office is a betrayal of HHS’s mission.

Frightening.

Congrats to my friend and respected colleague @culhamari-lab.bsky.social ! Well-deserved, Jody!

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

More than two thousand turned out in Philly to protest Trump/DOGE’s chilling effects on science that impact all walks of American life.

The CDC meeting to select next year’s flu vaccine strains has been cancelled.

"The cuts hit hard in NIH’s [research campuses, primarily in Maryland right outside DC], which make up about 11% of the agency’s $47.4 billion. With 1200 principal investigators, the intramural program is the world’s largest biomedical research institution..." www.science.org/cont...