NIH funding rates for early-career researchers plunged in 2025, new data show www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n... via @statnews.com #HHS #NIH #DOGE #science #Alzheimers #dementia

The Precursors, the generation of fearless Black students who desegregated the University of Texas at Austin. Sweatt v. Painter 1950 UT Law 1956 UT undergraduate

My heart breaks for Brown. 💔 One of my brightest RAs survived a shooting in HS. This trauma impacted college (+COVID)—this bright star has paid the cost in dreams & opportunities. We cannot expect them to thrive in this context & we are failing our future. We cannot afford to do nothing again.

Deadline closing soon! Apply for AGE’s Early Career Scholar’s Program — designed to support underrepresented minorities in aging research. 📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025 🔗 age.memberclicks.net #AgingResearch #DiversityInScience #Geroscience #AGE2025 #CareerInScience

A delayed shout out to my lab members Abbey & Ashley. Abbey won a pre-dissertation award at GSA & has 2 new papers in press (one linked below). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41123414/ Ashley won 2 undergraduate research awards (future PhD applicant). liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/n... Go MUNA lab!

So proud of my lab and the senior center staff for serving 130 Thanksgiving meals — this is one of our favorite traditions and truly one of the best days of the year. Grateful for this team, for our seniors, and for another year of making such meaningful memories together.

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Since February, ADRCs (Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers) have been without federal funding. Since May 1st, the #NIH grants for another 13 of them have run out of funds.

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

📣 New paper out discussing brain age gap & neurostructural patterns across our psychosocial behavioral phenotypes in HABS-HD: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Brains are pretty cool (p<.05). Neuropsychology is seeking a paid consulting Associate Editor who enjoys the quantitative aspects of brain-behavior relationships. Come join our editorial team! Learn more and apply here: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

The authors of a Comment article in Nature “urge STEMM scientists in the United States to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead stand together and fight for both personal and academic freedom.” #Academicsky 🧪

Check out our new commentary--Speech language pathology, neuropsychology, & neurology representation in this piece. Thanks for your leadership Dr. @smgrasso.bsky.social & Dr. Santos-Santos. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40317662/

Does segregation impact cognition and everyday functioning among Black older adults? Research in A&D: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging shows higher segregation is associated with accelerated cognitive decline over time. #AlzResearch #BSEA alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢New research.The impact of tract- and county-level segregation on 10-year cognitive and everyday functioning outcomes: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This banner is showing up on NIH data repositories. If you use data from these archives you may want to consider what you need access to in the near and far term for your research

We’re hiring a Director of Clinical Services and Training in the Psych Department at UT. Please encourage any interested parties to apply & reach out with any questions: apply.interfolio.com/164324

📰 Congratulations to CAPS Faculty Affiliate Alexandra Clark for being selected as an APS Rising Star! Dr. Clark was selected as an outstanding APS Member in the earliest stages of her research career post-PhD. Read the announcement here: bit.ly/ClarkAPS