So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

Great reporting @npr.org! Cuts to NIH Indirects Costs could disrupt cancer Clinical Trials. Includes a patient 1st perspective. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

Analysis of 666,623 respondents over 17 years (2007–2023) finds the "American = White" effect is getting weaker Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

Looks like ‘Broadening Participation’ has been removed from the ‘Focus Areas’ drop-down menu on the NSF homepage now. The pages & info for the initiative are still available after navigating through links or just doing a quick search on the site. Something to continue to watch…

If you are feeling motivated to speak up, this app makes it really easy to call your senators and congressional representatives.

"All review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis." NSF statement on the impact of Trump administration executive orders. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause. Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.

This is only the beginning.

This looks like part of a massive multi-faceted attack on scientists and universities from the Trump admin. They have cancelled funded federal grants, frozen NIH panels, promoted anti-scientific figures and conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in positions of oversight. This is just beginning…

And now it is online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We know a lot about STEM attrition, but tons of students change career plans WITHIN STEM. Who are these students and what motivates their career plan changes? I'm happy to share a new publication at Journal of Educational Psychology, which examines this topic. (1/5)

Assistant Professor position at San Diego State University – Imperial Valley Campus in Social and/or Developmental Psychology. careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/54... Please apply or share with anyone who might be interested. Thanks! #socpsy #socialpsych #socialpsychology

You're right! Here is the pattern from an N > 1000 sample in terms of mechanistic dehumanization: East Asians > South and Southeast Asians >... Project led by the amazing Sharon Li and Rick Yang (@zrickyang.bsky.social). We're still trying hard to find an outlet that appreciates the findings...

Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal osf.io/preprints/ps... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky

UC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hailed as a national model for faculty inclusivity - www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucs-pos...

Now more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

🚨To all @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Div C members on the tenure-track!🚨 @drmuenks.bsky.social and I are running the New Faculty Mentoring Program this year. Please consider applying if you are a Div C member who recently started their tenure-track position. Please share! forms.gle/RGx4xWueRagg...

A few relevant papers on this: 1. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The 2nd article is a scoping review by a great team (incl yours truly and @chrisrozek.bsky.social) on links between college #belonging & academic outcomes and the need to explore institutional & individual factors: doi.org/10.1007/s106... Special thanks to guest editor @drkellyallen.bsky.social! 🙏

The latest issue of #EducationalPsychologist is so timely & important. It’s on “Policy-Oriented Research: Enhancing the Relevancy of Educational Psychology to Policy.” Kudos to Sharon Nichols for editing such terrific work! www.tandfonline.com/toc/hedp20/5... #edusky #academicsky #PsychSciSky