Thoroughly enjoyed this afternoons Perinatal Research Symposium organized by the MD/PhD program. Great talks from all, especially enjoyed meeting with and hearing about Dr. Gurs research on perinatal stress #cardiosky @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social @kepalm02.bsky.social @cardiocarll.bsky.social

I have a pretty good idea of who needs to hear this but finish your CBLs

www.sciencenews.org/article/nih-... 🧪

Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

Social Buffering of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Longitudinal Effects and Neural Mediators - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

All of this on a weekday we’re in complete awe of you. You always rise to every call to action. You’re amazing, and words can’t express how much we love and appreciate you all.

I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

Lots of detail from inside NIH on all the damage from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's the video; thanks to folks who sent it to me. Pls watch to the end; it heats up about 2/3 of the way through, but of course, the true impact is in how comprehensive the damage to public health is - watching it all will give you a fuller sense of the s* we're in. youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...

A truly remarkable resignation letter from a physician who was the chief medical officer in an institute within NIH, published in a medical journal. Containing also some proposals for what science culture and organization should do now. www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...

Excellent social media panel yesterday with @leahmay.bsky.social @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social and Lana Grasser for #SOBP2025. We collectively mourned the loss of science community we had on Twitter. Can we bring it back here ? What is the future of connecting with our colleagues?

How meta 💙

Bittersweet to be rotating off SOBP council and as Social Media editor- will miss these shining faces but look forward to contributing as part of the editorial board

Hellllllloooooooo Toronto! Here for #SOBP2025 and hoping muscle memory kicks in so I can get in conference mode

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

Thankful to @flagel-lab.bsky.social for a GREAT visit to ❌ichigan!

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

Before sunrise, Trump and DOGE fired thousands of federal workers across HHS, including many of my constituents. Let’s fire DOGE and get these devoted and critical public servants back on the job. My full statement: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...

Who funds your basic neuroscience research? Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social compile a list of funding sources. Fill out this anonymous 1-question survey. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/who-...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Breaking News: A top Senate Republican teamed up with Democrats to accuse President Trump of illegally refusing to spend $2.9 billion in approved funds.

Unsurprisingly, funding has now also been terminated at University of Pittsburgh. Work from my outstanding colleagues in Psychiatry & Psychology, Erika Forbes and Jennifer Silk, investigating suicide in LGBQT young adults, terminated midstream😩 PA folks, add this to your daily calls to congress ☎️

Such a beautiful tribute to Larry and his contribution to social neurosci in Japan, China, & Taiwan. It’s amazing how many careers he influenced. Thank you to Sonoko Ogawa and Zuoxin Wang for organizing, the Univ of Tsukuba for hosting, & to all who attended. It means a lot to our family. ❤️❤️

Was delighted and honored to give the annual Women in Science Empowerment Grand Rounds @columbiaup.bsky.social Department of Psychiatry and follow in the footsteps of my mentors Dr Neill Epperson and Dr Lisa Monteggia! Deep thanks to the organizers 🫶 and audience

Exactly what Tamar said: an honor to participate in the National Academies workshop on stress and resilience for the last two days, and re-inspired and committed to this work!

A teeny bit of information officially from NIH... nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2025/03/...

Incredible experience participating in this Resilience workshop @nationalacademies.org. Inspired and committed to this important research

I am so grateful for every opportunity to make noise and try to get across what is happening. I am worried about my job, but I'm even more worried about my country. sandiegomagazine.com/everything-s...

I was asked to write a reflection on the 5-year anniversary of the covid-19 pandemic. This is what I had to say. I am struggling to find moments of hope. But I know they are necessary for our collective survival. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/21/o...

Honored and delighted to be heading to the @nationalacademies.org to present our work on prenatal stress and the microbiome as part of a workshop on fostering resilience across the lifespan! Register here: bit.ly/3P2pbB9

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Someone told me these look like bacteria 🦠 and I can’t unsee it 🫢

ATTENTION: Do you or someone you know get fired or have a job offer rescinded because of uncertainty due to the NIH funding freeze? Please DM me! THANK YOU!

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Basically the last and only remaining thing I can do to protect my research program is to protect the people who do the actual work. And to protect them, we have to stop doing experiments. When NIH $ stops, so does science

All labs use a mix of internal (institutional) and external (eg NIH) funds to pay ppl and do science. Internal is frozen bc of attacks. $ spent on supplies now only comes from grants, w/ new grants held up + ⬇️ hope. My priority is to protect ppl; takes years of training to do our science

Did you know that science labs work like small business entrepreneurs? Faculty hired on strength of ideas, get some startup $ to last 3-4 yrs. After that is grants- grants pay all our + our trainees’ salaries + scientific work. Funding in this country is frozen. That means scientific work stops

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

📌I can't tell you how much heart I am taking from these Jewish protestors who have marched on Trump Tower today to oppose the administration's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, saying forcefully and rightfully, "Opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition." RIGHT ON ✊🏼

With uncertainties around federal funding for higher education, some schools are cutting back. Experts say that could hurt not only students and faculty, but ultimately make the U.S. less competitive.

Science is under attack by this administration. @choo.bsky.social and I explore the extent of these attacks, but are left with one question: why? www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Standing up for Science in Columbus Ohio!

Grateful to @10tv.com.web.brid.gy for highlighting our research and the Soter Women’s Health Research program. Enjoyed giving my kiddos a shout out too 🥰 www.10tv.com/article/news...

New story summarizing the "highlights" of the NIH under the first 6 weeks of this "administration"... (No Paywall) wapo.st/4h8aiZx