Just accepted at Nature Mental Health: Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3 1/9

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️ 🗓️ June 22–25, 2026 📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸 ✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy! 📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

The October issue of BSAM covers topics spanning discrimination, neighborhood opportunities, fear learning processes, with implications for cardiovascular reactivity, biological aging, among others. Read more: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

#PNIRS2025 Calling all postdocs through pre-tenured faculty to join us on Wednesday at 18:00 for the Early Career Researchers Social! A great way to give early career investigators a chance to chat about the interview process, transition to faculty position, and experiences starting up your own lab!

“The funding rate of grant proposals is expected to drop from 26 percent to just 7 percent, meaning the vast majority of grants submitted to the NSF will be a waste of time.”

I wouldn't have gone to college without the support of Pell grants. I wouldn't have ended up in grad school or with a PhD or anything I'm currently doing in my life. Pell grants are so so so important for students who qualify for them.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor. This will hurt women everywhere.

Really important and visually compelling story here, featuring the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. We need overwhelming public support to save American research. Please contact your electeds.

Excited to present this symposium at #PNIRS2025 with two amazing PNI scientists! ✨ Bringing our work together, we will explore whether different inflammatory processes carry not only mechanistic differences, but also distinct and nuanced clinical implications for mood & reward-related dysfunctions.

Big update to scienceimpacts.org: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities. This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.

Another week, another call to U.S. Congress! Contact your Representative and Senators & urge them to support investments in #NSF and #NIH. #APS25DC Here's a script to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

✨Calling all early-career & senior researchers‼️ We are planning next year's series of talks and would like to hear your suggestions @pnirs.bsky.social Are you interested in presenting your own research or have a researcher you would love to hear from? Let us know here: bit.ly/pixie2026

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

American Adults are on the same page on these, and the top two most opposed Trump policies are: 1) 77% oppose Reducing federal funding for medical research 2) 70% oppose Increasing the federal government's role in how private universities operate Pass it on! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight... www.publicsource.org/national-day... 1/2

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Ah yes, my favorite paradox...(worth the read!)

In a recent BSAM paper, Riley O'Neill & colleagues examined how experimentally manipulated stress varying in vigilance demand may elicit differing biobehavioral responses and if responses varied by the type of stress. Free to read for the week so share widely! journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

With only generic measures of stress, we miss out on important context around how aspects of one's identity affect links between stress & health. #psychscisky Dr. Giscombé reflected on this issue & how she began to develop the concept of Superwoman Schema in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle:

🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨 @protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...

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.

The US health agencies gutted aren't household names—because they worked. That's the paradox: effective public health is invisible. Losing federal support shifts pressure to states, counties, cities. It isn't overnight—measles is quick, lead poisoning less so—but the impact is coming

"If America has not broken your heart, you do not love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov at the top of hour 19 of his filibuster speech today.

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Harvard doesn't represent us. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." -3000+ Jewish higher ed workers & students docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

CDC Epilepsy Program eliminated & all team members RIF’d effective immediately. ~500k children & >1m older adults have epilepsy. It has serious, long-term effects on physical, psychological, & cognitive heath. The promotion of suffering & the destruction of scientific capacity continues. #HHS

NEW: The CDC has been gutted. Thousands of CDC employees working on HIV prevention and lead poisoning received RIF notices early this morning. w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

If you are a graduate student planning on preparing an NIH individual graduate (F31) or postdoctoral (F32) research fellowship proposal this summer, check out my FREE webinar on Succeeding at NIH Fellowship Grant Applications: smart-workshops.com/fellowships-...

Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

They should hang this in the MOMA.

U.S. scientists: Have you contacted Congress this week?https://www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

🧩 My conversation with Dr. Cheryl Woods Giscombé is out now! We discussed Dr. Giscombé's work on Superwoman Schema, nuances that stress science has missed among Black women, and her perspective on promising interventions. #scicomm #socialpsych #psychscisky Listen now: tinyurl.com/superwomansc...

Congratulations to Cameron Wiley for publishing his dissertation work! This very helpful systematic review and meta-analysis included nearly 1 million people and highlights racial differences in circulating inflammatory markers (e.g., CRP, IL-6, and Fibrinogen). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY: If you're a science writing trainee looking for financial assistance to support your internship experience this coming summer apply for our NASW Summer Diversity Fellowship. $3,000 in funding to supplement your pay. Due Tuesday April 1: www.nasw.org/2025Div... 🧪📰

We're grateful to BSAM Early Career Editorial Board scholars for their service to the journal and the field. Stay tuned to learn more about our current ECEB members! If you're interested in joining the ECEB, there are openings with applications due April 15, 2025: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

Grant cancelled? 👇

And now a new handle as well! Be sure to tag us using our new handle (@bsamjournal.bsky.social) to highlight any research, funding opportunities, or anything else. We're excited to grow and engage with our scientific community on this platform as Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine 🦋🫶🏼

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...