Neuropsychology's current impact factor falls in the top 25% of all clinical psychology journals (41 of 185).

For those searching for info (like me), the reconciliation process used for the BBB cannot be used to address discretionary funding, like NIH & NSF. So those continue to operate under the continuing resolution until the next appropriations process, which will begin in July and end in September.

Neuropsychology's updated aims are now live. The new aims honor the journal's rich history and introduce fresh areas of emphasis, including culture/social factors, everyday functioning, transdiagnostic constructs, and open science. www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

Neuropsychology is particularly interested in articles that address everyday functioning, cultural factors, social determinants of health, brain health, and transdiagnostic constructs. Learn more & submit your manuscript to the journal: bit.ly/3ZfJeBt @stevenpaulwoods.bsky.social #neuroskyence

When the March budget passback doc proposed to eliminate the NIDILRR, the disability research community got to work and fought back. Last week's Presidential Budget Request showed the worst measures had been walked back. #PressureWorks 💪 @dramandar.bsky.social discusses this win in a new article

The Trump fascist slide is happening fast. You want to take action to help stop it. What can you do? Get people off of Twitter. It’s one of the most powerful things any of us can do. Ask friends and colleagues to close their accounts and move here. 🧪

How might AI change our brains? Neuropsychology's readers were very interested in this question, which was posed in this frequently downloaded 2024 paper from Leon-Dominguez. @apajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/neu0...

I’m one of almost 2000 signatories, all members of the National Academies Administration is weakening U.S. research cap | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Unpopular opinion: I’ve signed a few of these open letters, but frankly, that is not enough. Faculty need to organize AND unionize. I began my #ProfessorLife in a union shop (Wayne State) & I’m now in AAUP-AFT’s at large chapter. Best time to unionize was yesterday. Second best is today.

Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪

Want an insider’s perspective on science in clinical neuropsychology? @apadivision40.bsky.social and Dr. Scott Sperling bring an article from each issue of Neuropsychology to life in their "Meet the Authors" podcast. Check it out: tinyurl.com/MTA-PedCogRes @apajournals.bsky.social

What is something about graduate school or life in academia that you think undergraduate you would have benefited from knowing? I am putting together some content for a seminar class next week and would appreciate your suggestions! Also would appreciate a re-post! 😁🙏

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

Brava!!

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

We have an update for you, Science Jawns! The Philly Stand Up for Science rally will start at 11 AM at City Hall on March 7th! #standupforscience2025 #standupforscience #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Guardian story about Federal Register issue is up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Updated flyer for the Philly Friday March 7 @standupforscience.bsky.social science protest, now w/ alt text & a slightly earlier time. Pls mark those calendars, make those signs & share widely #ScienceIsForEveryone #RestThenResist #CallYourRepresentatives #GoBirds #FlyScienceFly

The people who would be most harmed by the closures of financially precarious colleges and universities are poor people, first generation students, people of color, and students with caretaking responsibilities That is who your small/no endowment schools disproportionately serve

I've spent the day working with Reporter data... differences in number of funded applications from 1/20/24-2/21/24 and 1/20/25-2/21/25 by state. This is the picture (happy to share code):

Very pumped to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social at Philly on March 7th at City Hall! Sign up here to be kept in the loop for details. www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This afternoon, my study section scheduled for Monday and Tuesday was canceled. It’s Higher Cognitive and Mental Functions, or something like that— HCMF. I wonder why they always wait until the last minute? It’s a pattern and I bet there’s a reason.

🧪 #publichealth Newly funded NIH grants = new job offers. Renewed grants = jobs retained. Musk has paralyzed NIH funding. NIA council recommends funding for grants, meets 3x/year. The January meeting was cancelled and has not been rescheduled. Red state people please call, email your reps/senators.

36 hours before we are scheduled to meet, #NIH NIA Aging Systems and Geriatrics (ASG) Study panel has been canceled. Devastating news for all of those working so hard on issues related to #aging #AlzheimersDisease #BrainHealth @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Neuropsychology's Feb 2025 issue coming in hot, including a really well-designed study on the comparability of home-based teleneuropsychology and in-person evaluations from Haebich et al. @apajournals.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Temple University @temple.edu in Philadelphia is recruiting for a Assistant or Associate Professor - Tenure Track Faculty to work on seeking Therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's Disease. Closing date: 9th March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...

Another crazed change from the Trump Administration: removing the NIH No-cost extension form

Heard from a friend that NIDCD stopped all NOAs - nothing after Feb 1.

I’m heading this committee. Please nominate!

Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives

Just finished serving on an NIA study section. Mostly business as usual. Some increased engagement and some words of encouragement and solidarity at the end, but otherwise nothing unique to report. Glad that NIH is able to at least continue with that essential function at the moment.

For all my scientist friends wondering if you are going to get a grant termination letter from NSF and what to do if you do it.

ALERT: CITI Training down! New trainee reported this message when completing her IMPORTANT and REQUIRED research ethics training "The content of this module is currently under review by CITI Program in light of the recent Executive Orders published in 2025."

🎙️New podcast episode! @lstoeckel.bsky.social and @dvsmith.bsky.social discuss NIH's #DataManagement and Sharing (DMS) Policy, covering the ins and outs of de-identifying, sharing, and managing data. 🧠📊 Listen to the episode where you get your podcasts or at srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/

Feeling like a bit of a rebel in these times Editing a new SI for Neurobiology of Aging - “Brain Resilience & DIVERSITY in Aging & Dementia” Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I’m proud to be affiliated with a department with a massive strength in Diversity Science, and am going to start placing words like diversity and equity in my emails/website to help produce some noise into the system that is trying to systematically erase them.

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

I had the pleasure of discussing neuropsychological test interpretation on the NavNeuro podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... Hope you’ll check it out! Here are the highlights: 1/n

The best thing that scientists can do right this moment is organize with each other. Form networks, do coordinated communications: comms to the public, comms to media outlets, comms to Congress. That's the most urgent need. #philsci #scicomm #neuroskyence #evodevo #publichealth

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Again, hit the University Parent groups! Let them know their kids aren’t getting internships this summer, let them know about NIH matching funds to Universities and how their tuition is about to skyrocket.

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

A lot of folks have followed me after I posted about NIH funding. Glad you're interested in the topic! You can help by contacting congress to voice your support for federally funded research and encourage them to increase, rather than cut NIH/NSF, funding in the 2025 fiscal year. Links below:

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