New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

I signed this and urge others to consider: A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming. YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below. This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Riding the high of #SPPAC2025, making a starter pack—but am also at the airport and am missing so many! Please chime in for an add! #ThisIsPedsPsych

Congratulations to Amanda Swartz on her first oral presentation at The Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference! #SPPAC2025 She presented her work on the sibling relationship quality of survivors of childhood cancer. Tremendous job representing the lab!

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Every day through our actions and words we teach our children about who we are, what we value, and what we stand for. 1/

"How do you strategize around an unpredictable funding landscape?" #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4gPIkBz

The lab’s high point this week: Manali Zope gave her 1st talk at the 2025 Annual Conference for the International Neuropsychological Society! She presented on the role of neighborhood opportunity and cognitive function in the social function of kids with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Terrific talk!

Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In Pennsylvania- NIH FUNDING: $2.23 Billion JOBS SUPPORTED: 21,784 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $5.23 Billion

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

ICYMI: Reposting this story we wrote that analyzes the playbook of how the Trump administration is weaponizing laws, looking to triple any penalties, and using the government to create an "enemies list" of universities and other organizations that have opposed him. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

This is very troubling on many levels. Large scale, this will cause significant delays in scientific funding and advancement. Small scale, a grant that I worked on for 9 months was scheduled for review next week. Get your institutions advocating now! www.science.org/content/arti...

Congrats to Manali Zope on her 1st first-author paper just published in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings! Here we highlight the importance of multi-informant reports of psychological function in survivors of #ChildhoodCancer. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy to share this internal write-up of a recent neuroimaging study in the lab. We found white matter connectivity was related to social function in children treated for a brain tumor. #ChildhoodCancer www.chop.edu/news/childre...