We’re not distracted and it’s not going away.

Swimming around Manhattan. @njohnstonphotography; @newyorkopenwater

Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports Here is one summarized www.nature.com/articles/s41... More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...

Why call? Why sign letters? Why protest? What does it do?? It. Adds. Up. And PRESSURE WORKS! Keep it up, Dorks! #StandUpForScience www.politico.com/news/2025/07... 14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds - POLITICO

New paper by PhD student, Arushi Malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess w/ wonderful team @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @shuoz.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, @dmessinger.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev....

Automated, digital data collection -- daylong child-specific audio recordings-- is yielding important insights for research in language development and hearing loss. Our new report uses stakeholder interviews to discuss the ethical issues involved pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out our new work in JSLHR where we consider ethical issues in collection of daylong audio recordings in children with language delays and disabilities. This work was part of a bioethics supplement from NIDCD. @dmessinger.bsky.social

APA leads a coalition of 76 organizations fighting for science and health! Check it out!!! unitedsciencealliance.org/united-call-...

Join our @DevelopmentalScience Team as an Editor! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Once again sharing this info. Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

From a piece of tissue 1*1*1 millimeter: the largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 cells, four kilometers of axons (the branches that reach out to other cells) and 523 million synapses (the connection points between cells).

There's a protein craze. How much protein should you eat? In Outlive, Peter Attia's recommendation of 1 g/pound/day is without evidence and may be harmful "Dr. Attia declined multiple requests for comment" @nytimes.com by @alicecallahan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/w...

Longitudinal effects of green, blue, and gray spaces on early adolescent mental health in the United States - #OpenAcess by Shannon Shaughnessy, @dmessinger.bsky.social, & Spencer Evans doi.org/10.1111/camh...

Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

Rumeysa Ozturk, aTufts human development PhD student, was kidnapped by ICE in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville today, presumably because of pro-Palestinian activism. No info has been shared with her attorney about her whereabouts or alleged charges. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

“Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus… “Even the top people can’t keep track because they’re hiring and firing so much. Direct supervisors of those who were terminated didn’t even know that it was happening.”

The Hungarians are telling us something.

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

From the other site... (from EVP at Columbia to a training grant director)

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

It's Baaaaack... All NIH (and other HHS employees) received another request for their 5 accomplishments for the past week on Friday and were told by HHS to comply. It is early in the day, so that NIHers are likely to get jerked around again several times before midnight...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards. But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Nature Story "Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order" (with non-paywalled link) archive.ph/7h6Im

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

I would not have a PhD in special education without the IES. The hundreds of teachers I’ve helped prepare benefited from the evidence-based practices I taught them that were funded by the IES. The work of IES is a MODEL of efficiency in research excellence. Your educator friends are not okay.

From the Council of Graduate Schools

IES review panel cancelled. Just got the Stop Work Notice for the upcoming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics panel.

“Currently, indirect costs [at Yale] support the infrastructure that enable more than 38,000 patients to participate in over 2,000 research trials. Among these clinical trials, 280 are focused on cancer therapy, 80 involve mental health and behavioral care, and 50 are related to heart disease.”

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

"Everybody's nervous...Head Start serves the lowest-income families. What else is there?" Tucker said. "Parents need to drop their kids off to go to work. If there's nowhere...to go, they can't go to work or pay their bills. It's just a snowball effect." www.union-bulletin.com/news/nationa...

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

It's not "Breaking News" now, since it was announced by NIH yesterday. But it is breaking....... washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NEW from inside NIH: I am hearing that a “young” DOGE staffer now has access to eRA, the software system used to track/administer all NIH grants.

🚨Important notification from NSF nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/TRO-NY... Institutions can drawdown funds from NSF today new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

I think this is the future (of AI development): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please 1) look below to see if your state is critical, if so reach out to your senator AND local media *today* to talk abt NIH, importance of science, & dangers of RFK at #NIH 2) share *today* with colleagues in each state. In several states the republican is holding on to a very slim margin. 2 🧵

If you're a researcher impacted by the NIH/CDC/FDA travel and communication pause and are open to chatting about your experience, big or small, please reach out to me at [email protected] or DM for Signal

Life expectancy in the US —by educational attainment, by county www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social —the growing inequalities abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social

During my maternity “leave” last sem, I helped write 3 trainee fellowship applications to NIH & NSF. Probably ~50 hrs of my time, certainly hundreds of theirs. All have reviews occurring in ~month. In some cases it affects their ability to stay in my lab. This grant review shutdown is devastating.

What happened at NIH today www.science.org/content/arti...

@repdingell.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov I hope that the damage this is doing to health and science is being shared with your colleagues . This impacts everyone www.science.org/content/arti...

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...