NPR story about multi-year funding, few NOFOs, and delays with me, Elizabeth Ginexi, and @docsirianni.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

Note I’ll be on the postdoc market this year (graduating Spring ’27)! Interested in continuing to work w/ nonspeaking autistic ppl and/or furthering training in psychophysiology. I bring experience w/ nonspeakers + HRV, & could help labs extend existing physio work to this group!

Note I’ll be on the postdoc market this year (graduating Spring ’27)! Interested in continuing to work w/ nonspeaking autistic ppl and/or furthering training in psychophysiology. I bring experience w/ nonspeakers + HRV, & could help labs extend existing physio work to this group!

Excited to be presenting some of my dissertation work next week at #INSAR2026! Friday 12:30 in Hall 4A! "Effects of Social Support & Speech on Task Performance in Minimally/Nonspeaking Autistic Teens & Adults." Come get a preview of my HRV findings as well!

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

For those applying to NIMH - how are you handling the data management plan factor 6 (with regard to the NIMH requirement for a “validation timeline”) if you’re not collecting large scale genomic data (but instead ihc, behavior, etc)? I can’t find an example on this anywhere!

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Good action from U VA faculty senate www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... 1/2

If you work for HHS and focus on autism, I would love to talk to you about how your job or research has been affected by RFK Jr. Message me on Signal at emgarcia.85.

I will be accepting a PhD student for Fall 2026 in our Curriculum and Instruction program. If you are interested in autistic sociality, caregiver influence on their autistic children's development, and neurodiversity in school contexts, please get in touch!

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals. In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed. Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph... 1/4

If you are an #Autism researcher who has had their federal research grant from NIH/HHS on autism canceled, I'd like to speak with you. My signal is Emgarcia.85 #AutismSky

10 years ago today, Steve Silberman's groundbreaking book NeuroTribes was published. It changed how the world discussed autism and inspired many autistic people to write their own books. Stay tuned for information on a 10th anniversary edition coming very soon.

5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling. thehill.com/regulation/c... I have no (printable) words...

Due to disruptions in funding, there will be no applications admitted for U Michigan's epidemiology PhD this fall. 🧪 www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

(please share widely!) With the start of August quickly approaching, I wanted to announce that the usual slack for fellow people on the Psych Academic Job Market for the coming cycle has been activated. If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form to join! forms.gle/2DBgs8S1fktS...

Legal advocates suggest any trans person who may need to obtain a passport with their accurate gender marker do so now, while the State Department is being forced to comply with a court order blocking Trump's anti-trans passport policies.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

They need 60 votes to override the parliamentarian, which means they need Dem votes. Call your Dem senators and make sure they don't fold.

Today’s SCOTUS decision allowing parents to opt their children out of books with gay characters is a step backward. Kids deserve to learn about the real world – and that includes #LGBTQIA+ people. Erasing our stories doesn’t protect children; it teaches them that some lives don’t matter.

Grants at Columbia unfrozen at 9:30 this morning... Refrozen at 2:30 this afternoon with instructions to undo all of the releases done earlier. It like the 7th graders in detention broke into the Principal's Office...

SCOTUS just gave states permission to ban gender-affirming medical care for adolescent gender dysphoria (against the advice of all major medical orgs) At least twenty studies have examined the mental health benefits of this care. You can evaluate them for yourself: open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The largest pediatric gender clinic in the country is closing, under threat from the Trump administration.

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

The research scientists in your life are not okay. We might be pretending to be ok, but I think it's fair to say we are all dealing with grief over the careers we can no longer have, because so many of the institutions and funding bodies that defined our profession are being wiped out.

are potentially falling by the wayside given the recent news that *all* programs are paused indefinitely. It's not just about the time spent on those applications - its about the stories BEHIND those applications. These are scientists hoping to improve the culture of academia and be changemakers 3/4

a beacon of an institution that could reshape the scientific landscape with its mission. The HHMI's mission was and is to fund "people, not projects" but right now it seems like its Politics - not People. Right now all of those applications - all those inspirational scientists - 2/4

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not that it matters, but my MOSAIC was scored a 14. Reviewed in study section w non-MOSAIC K99s. I'm to write another grant that may not be funded, that doesn't provide transition to faculty funds, instead of doing the work that was reviewed so highly? That's the best use of time & tax payer money?

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

One of my most brilliant Ph.D students just had his NIH Diversity Supplement cancelled. This supplement was funding his graduate research on perinatal mental health. I'm out of words -- just sad that trainees are bearing the brunt of the administration's attacks on science. We are eating our young.

The House passed the bill that bans gender-affirming care for all people (both adolescents and adults) on Medicaid. Call your Senator today before they vote on it.

The new version of the House reconciliation bill expands the medicaid and chip ban on coverage for gender affirming care to ALL AGES. This will decimated access to care for tens of thousands of trans people. amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/R...

We're in court today challenging the Trump administration's censorship of medical research that mentions the LGBTQ community. The government can't censor science that it doesn't like.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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I finally made it to the National Museum of Psychology in Akron, and it is so worth the trip! Beautifully put together and informative, and so many artifacts you're recognize. 🧵Here's Bandura's Bobo doll...

Please do. Having the best data we can helps on many fronts.

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My trainee just sent me this notification from the NIH about a pending F31 application. We knew it was likely to come, but it still hurt to read the words.