🧠‼️ Socioeconomic variables show the strongest associations with the brain out of 649 measures—surpassing cognition and mental health. Grateful for the chance to write a perspective with @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social about @smarek0502.bsky.social and team's important findings! tinyurl.com/bdhk6bc8

And a collective moral failure, too. (Too many of us, across party lines, have been willing to treat billions as a proxy for brilliance and benevolence, and to treat such presumed brilliance and benevolence as a warrant for the unchecked accumulation of wealth and power).

“Preteens who'd grown up in neighborhoods with lower incomes and limited social support had brain differences associated with less sleep and more stress.” Detectable differences in MRI This is why having a biopsychosocial understanding of health is important. Social factors impact brain biology!

To do list: 1. Stop Vought's proposed rule that will kill science (and every other public good). 2. Stop Vought, because we know he will keep trying this 💩 until he's impeached and removed. www.impeachvought.com/stop-voughts...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Standing up for our colleagues who take bold actions is key! Science in America is at stake. Kudos to these leaders who refused to accept the efforts of the ADA to silence dissent and resigned rather than being complicit 🧪

The Trump administration reportedly plans to deport people this week to the Central African Republic, a country none of them have ties to. The country is so dangerous that the U.S. even suggests anyone visiting it should make a will before going there. The administration’s cruelty must end.

Interested in cytokine-brain associations? Take a look at our new review paper revealing differential associations of specific cytokines with brain outcomes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Worth a read.

The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level

Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

Right. The deeper issue is that the regulation increases PRESIDENTIAL control of science. And *that* is the major break from the decades of NIH success, where Congress via legislation set NIH priorities and the president mostly stayed out of it. But: /1 🧵

Executive order making higher level federal employees "at will" (some that can be fired for without cause) referred to as Schedule F. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n... 1/7

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

It’s essential that everyone submit comments on this OMB proposal. It will place decisions on federal grant funding in the hands of partisan political hacks. This is the path of autocrats and failed governments. Learn as much as you can and act soon. We can only stop this if we all pitch in. 🧪

Oh this is interesting. Limited by the fact that manuscripts were not randomly assigned to paid/unpaid review conditions and editors knew if their reviewers were paid, but promising results nonetheless.

This afternoon, we are seeing the first wave of federal scientists whose positions are being politicized & stripped of their employment protections. This is “schedule P/C” (previously “schedule F”) and I’ll link other posts about different agencies in this thread (1/x)

Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Keep commenting, people! Tell them scientists should decide who gets scientific grants, not politicians! You can post anonymously. www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

If you think of them less as judges and more of a Republican Party protection cartel their decisions become a lot more predictable.

If you're asking what to do next, here you go!!! MAKE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT PRESSURE CONGRESS FUEL THE FIGHT!

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

Today @sbm.org sent an email highlighting OMB/Vought's proposed grant-making rule. Credit for raising awareness & committing to comment. But I was incredibly disappointed they included the admin's threat of unlawful retaliation clearly designed to scare off commenters. Do NOT let them scare you. 🧵

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

From @standupforscience.net Director of Policy and Advocacy @colesci.bsky.social: "It means that all grants, not just science grants, are now subject to the rules that are defined by the White House, rather than by a technical agency.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

A judge has temporarily blocked the National Science Foundation from dismantling a globally significant weather and climate research center in Colorado.

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

It would do scientists well to learn more about policy. This is a shockingly naive way to understand the current political and policy changes occurring in science

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Quick takes: 1. Share this widely. 2. Not sharing scores REDUCES transparency. 3. Whatever the merits of a plan (on paper), it is imperative to recognize who is making the decisions. This is not a good-faith negotiation w/good-faith actors. We need more transparency & expert input, not less.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Proposed NDA language goes well beyond draft regs. NDA unconstitutionally tries to bind federal employees from disclosing any info post-employment. This goes against existing & well-settled case law. No one should sign. And we will sue to protect 1st Amendment rights.

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

this side effect of the war is not even part of the US conversation

📣 My team's Lancet Public Health meta on the prevalence of #ACEs was a huge international and collaborative effort: Read about it in this #UCalgary story: ucalgary.ca/news/prevale...

“The drug that kept me alive for my children was built on a foundation of public investment. Taxpayers funded the research and the clinical trials. This country made a long bet on science, and I’m alive because it paid off.” www.ms.now/opinion/canc...

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

You cannot gut global health systems, attack scientific institutions, withdraw international cooperation, and then act shocked when disease response worsens. Public health depends on collaboration and expertise – things this admin continues to undermine. Gift Article: zurl.co/GottB

Powerful essay, please read. "Children will die from this. Not metaphorically. Not eventually." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Regardless of one's views on her conviction and sentencing, in no way was the federal government involved. This is just Trump handing taxpayer dollars to criminals he likes.

Jay Bhattacharya’s legacy 😢

“Congress must act immediately to reassert the power of the purse,” @raskin.house.gov continued, "and stop this brazen looting of taxpayer funds before this ‘pilot program’ for corruption becomes the permanent operating system of our government.”

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.