Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year. dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...

New: A legal challenge to NSF's 1600+ grant terminations just hit a roadblock. Judge Cobb (appointed by Biden) ruled against the plaintiffs, largely on the basis that district courts no longer have jurisdiction for contract-based APA violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

We can’t depend on a filibuster to “solve” a bad budget for either the NIH or NSF. You need to follow this advocacy alert and make sure those budgets are better than the huge cuts proposed. www.ascb.org/society-news...

I reference this resource *so* frequently, super readable and helpful! highly recommend to anyone who does experiments!

Per the NSF website, the agency is reinstating 114 awards as a result of a preliminary injunction that was issued last week. Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

The FY26 budget will devastate our innovation driven economy. A summary in 3 parts... Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more). joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Undergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025. I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now. A (sad) thread /1

"The mass cancellation of grants in response to political policy shifts has no precedent, former and current NIH officials told ProPublica. It threatens the stability of the institution and the scientific enterprise of the nation at large."

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order www.cos.io/about/news/c...

We provide free resources for scientists to understand their rights, including: ‍🔬 Free legal advice & representation to scientists ⚖️ Legal aid clinics at conferences 📚 Educational workshops & resources Find out more, including how to contact us, at www.csldf.org/legal-servic...

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

for those with NSF grant terminations: upcoming office hours (today and next week) + info on drawdown costs + appeal letter template, from @fabbs.org

NSF claiming that research on misinformation infringes on free speech is laughable. if the administration is looking for censorship, maybe they should take a look in the mirror

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

we find that 5-7yo children expect adults to hold gender stereotypes (and approve of that!), in a dream collab led by my grad school friend @mika-asaba.bsky.social (🧵 👇)

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re seeing a shift in conference locations shaped by structural forces—travel restrictions, policies, and commitments to equity and inclusion. These factors are redefining where academic communities can gather ethically and safely. Vancouver is lovely 😉🇨🇦 #AcademicSky www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

“I’ve asked a colleague to share some of the images from NoRI with The Times. Maybe if people see them, they will understand why I want to get back to work. Until now, no one outside our lab has seen these images…that we hope will provide greater understanding of how organs age and diseases develop”

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

RWJF announces grants for health equity junior scholars whose work was disrupted by federal funding cuts: www.evidenceforaction.org/funding/rapi...

it's true, can't say if my research meets NSF "priorites" or not

For folks with NSF terminations, especially early career: Did yall see this from Spencer? www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm lucky that despite my award termination I can continue doing science (for a few months while waiting out appeals, court cases). Today I'm prepping my talks for a conference at which Rümeysa Öztürk was also to present. Instead, an empty poster stand. What a loss for science and for our country.

A lawless government wants us to believe we live in a lawless country. If we buy that lie, we start to think it can do whatever it wants—just because it says so. The rule of law is on life support, but it’s not dead yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

I'll be in Minneapolis this week for the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), talking about children's beliefs about adults' gender stereotypes ⬇️ & what kids learn from common messages about race (Sat 8:30 200A)! each dream collabs w friends, @mika-asaba.bsky.social & Nicky Sullivan

Grateful to @historians.org for offering an opportunity for information exchange about the NEH appeal process TOMORROW, April 30, at 11AM Eastern. More info at the link.

absolutely heartbroken for Benny. if you're looking for a developmental psychologist who manages to combine theoretical rigor + astute consideration of social context, look no further for your next postdoc ⬇️

yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

🧪 Whoa this @aaup.bsky.social guide for navigating NSF grant terminations looks amazing!! 👀 And quite timely: there's another EO deadline this Friday (3/28) to "terminate or modify...grants...to advance the policies of my administration." PDF: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...