Years from now when your loved ones are dying or bankrupted by the results of this…remember who did it and who enabled it

The "woke" research grants RFK Jr. cut at NIH? Millions of dollars to research maternal health, vaccines, Alzheimer's, and cancer. How is researching cancer woke? No one voted for this.

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

In spirit of open conversation, a few current* and recent NIHers prepared some Qs for Bhattacharya during his #NASEM fireside chat. We will submit these on the NASEM Slido this afternoon. Let's see if they get asked! *in personal capacity 🧵1/7

Jay Bhattacharya, who effectively fired many early career scientists: we should be "elevating the ideas of early career scientists." 🙄🙄

UPDATE: No audience questions were taken for Jay's talk.

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

In just TWO DAYS... BHATTACHARYA GETS A "FIRESIDE CHAT" on FRIDAY at the NATIONAL ACADEMIES so we can hear him talk about RESEARCH INTEGRITY. The SAME WEEK he stops 🛑 CDC from publishing research. I cannot WAIT to discover if there will be any chance for the audience to ask him about this.

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

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AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation. She represents us and the rage we feel.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Friends! Support brilliant scholar-activist @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social. Dr. Jalalzai, a feminist Islamic Studies scholar & public intellectual. Provost at Trinity University denied her tenure despite unanimous faculty support at every level. Please contribute and/or share! shorturl.at/CIiCC A 🧵

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

Multiyear funding is an intentional scheme by Russ Vought to follow the letter of the appropriations law while still absolutely devastating American scientific leadership

"Time commitment and compensation are among the details that have not yet been worked out. However, the strategic initiative giveth and the strategic initiative taketh away, and we’d wager a guess that it giveth minimal compensation and taketh away loads of time."

Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines "As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."

What is striking to me about these is that the Justices candidly admit they are imposing their will without understanding the merits of the case.

What has changed in mama bear brain (well, actually mice) to make her risk her life to attack a potential threat and protect her young? Oxytocin is the key! Happy to share our new study led by two awesome postdocs: Takashi Yamaguchi and Rongzhen Yan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

I’m delighted to share that I’ll be attending the @uofdenver.bsky.social Clinical Psychology PhD program this fall, mentored by @drzoersmith.bsky.social and @truedrdoom.bsky.social! Looking forward to continuing my work with maternal and children’s health🤰🏽🧠

$165,626,742,154.29 That's the cost of the Trump administration's mismanagement, as estimated by a new tool from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social: federalharmstracker.org/cost-to-our-... $1.26B lost from terminated NIH grants as of Feb 2026. $1,028.74 for each person in the country.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

Disconcerting to see the NYT write an article like this on the heels of overhearing an undergrad student in passing the other day say “yeah tbh I don’t think my female professor should be allowed to vote”

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

Wow, this is frightening: 95,000 scientists and researchers, gone. Brilliant minds no longer working to protect, help, and save people and the planet. Don't take this sitting down.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I AM ONCE AGAIN SOUNDING THE ALARM THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING TO PRIVATIZE OUR SCIENTIFIC ECOSYSTEM.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Project 2025 wants women out of public life, this is one way to do it.

Is there a single AI company that isn't engaged in massive amount of theft?

Excellent new article by @apdeprince.bsky.social theconversation.com/psychologica...

Survivors don’t owe anyone their stories. Yet, when women do share, delayed disclosures can be met w/ questions/doubt. Research on #betrayaltrauma + #institutionacourage can help people understand silence + action. @jjfreyd.bsky.social theconversation.com/psychologica...

"US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report."

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: https://propub.li/4rBUJOV

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — Tupac said it years ago… and here we are. The Pentagon is now asking for an additional $200 BILLION for this war. We always find the money for war. But when it comes to housing, healthcare, or feeding people? Suddenly it’s crickets.

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

As my mentors have always said, every talk is a job talk

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

The NIH’s budget is less than $50b

This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse. Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science. But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds. www.science.org/content/arti...

Democrats brought funding for TSA agents who just missed their first full paycheck after 28 days of the DHS shutdown. Bills for CISA cyber defense, the Coast Guard, FEMA disaster relief, and more. Republicans blocked every one. more here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

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