pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go… For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep! QUACK-O-GRAMS! act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Yep!

Obsessed

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Government officials described how they found the names of pro-Palestinian student and faculty activists and gave insights into the confidential memos that led to their arrests. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #edusky

🚨WE WON OUR UNION 🚨

What a win! Congratulations, @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!

Fund SEPTA! Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus. It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap. Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

🚨 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

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

I mask so I don’t get sick because being sick sucks! But more than that, it’s a way to protect and show solidarity with vulnerable/disabled people who have been forcibly displaced from society writ large by COVID (and continue to be). If we don’t value those people, we are truly lost.

New pre-print! Just submitted the R&R for this collab with @keananjoyner.bsky.social + @emilyrperkins.bsky.social on using techniques to test biology as predictors of multiple levels of psychopathology (e.g., syndrome + symptom) as a path forward for precision psychiatry osf.io/preprints/ps...

If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: For the second time in as many months, the NIH withdrew applications to a grant program for doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say. Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January. 1/

Lindsay Fernandez is a cancer researcher. She’s afraid the cuts that the Trump Administration is making won’t just hurt us now, but will discourage researchers for years to come. We need to listen to our researchers. It’s time to invest in science - not cut it. @higheredlabor.bsky.social

I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

New episode out! 🧪 The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on. On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...

This whole thread is worth a read to understand better what’s happening to science. I got an email today saying that the study section for my K23, which was *scheduled for today,* is now indefinitely delayed. Countless jobs are at risk, in addition to those already lost (I see you, NIH friends).

The press has a big role to play in shining light of what is going on...

I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer! The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join #psychjobs #neurojobs

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

In 60 days, Democrats have an opportunity to take back the House. 60 days. Support: Blake Gendebien NY21 blakegendebienforcongress.com Gay Valimont FL1 gayforcongress.com Josh Weil FL. www.joshweil.us #TakeBackTheHouse2025

🚨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.

That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪 new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...

My heart is broken for Cecile’s family - and for all of us. I wrote something over at the newsletter, but I don’t know that words can capture what a loss this is.

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

James was a PhD student in neuroscience at FSU, and his recent death was devastating for those who knew and loved him. He was extremely bright, motivated, and a strong advocate for marginalized people in STEM. This fundraiser is for his mom, who must be in so much pain right now. #neuroskyence

See a junco, post a junco #birds

Team Harris: We need a Philly ad. What's gonna make this authentic Philly consultant: Your ad must have the F word in it

Fabulous new review from Sam, Joey and friends. Worth your time. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

But, like, not MORE than you desire

So excited to share our new commentary on why it’s so hard to meaningfully link units of analysis (e.g. self-report + neuroimaging) in clinical psych research and how we can move forward! @keananjoyner.bsky.social

Let's talk about the time that Napoleon was defeated by an army of bunnies. Really. July 1807, celebrating a peace treaty with Russia, Napoleon proposed a rabbit hunt for his senior staff. Chief of Staff, Alexandre Berthier, rather than rounding up wild hares...