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Suzanne Perkins, PhD
@20thofmay.bsky.social
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Educational neuroscientist. Faculty U of M. Child maltreatment research. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. Proud Hampshire College grad and recipient of NIH DEI funding through the re-entry program. Views are my own.
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20thofmay.bsky.social
A fantastic piece about me by our communications team and @tevahp.bsky.social

Thanks to @rcgd-isr.bsky.social for helping me get #NIHfunding to restart my career!

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky #womeninstem
#HigherEd
#GoBlue

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[Story] A Research Career Reignited: Suzanne Perkins Crafting the Future of Learning for Abused and Neglected Children - Life-Changing Education
Life-Changing Education is a University of Michigan initiative exploring how learning changes lives through programs, research, and collaboration.
futureoflearning.umich.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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rcgd-isr.bsky.social
Michigan helped reignite the career of cancer survivor Suzanne Perkins @20thofmay.bsky.social, whose research stems from the insight that education plays a key role in recovery for children at risk. Now she's crafting the future of learning: myumi.ch/9pWk3 #LifeChangingEducation #LookToMichigan
Suzanne Perkins, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics: “The promise of neuroscience is that you could target interventions that could really support what you feel is going wrong. If you know what the data shows is going wrong in the brain, you can start to improve that function and help them to thrive in school.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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leadcoalition.bsky.social
NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r... by @spichaksimon.bsky.social @beingpatient.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects
Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.
beingpatient.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
At #ispcan2025 in Lithuania. Doing important work here!
ispcan.bsky.social ISPCAN @ispcan.bsky.social · Oct 5
Launching ISPCAN NEXT @ #ispcan2025 Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection A global network empowering early-career professionals in child protection. Connecting, learning, leading and making an impact. Learn more here: ispcan.org/working-grou...
#riseuptoendchildabuse
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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ispcan.bsky.social
Launching ISPCAN NEXT @ #ispcan2025 Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection A global network empowering early-career professionals in child protection. Connecting, learning, leading and making an impact. Learn more here: ispcan.org/working-grou...
#riseuptoendchildabuse
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer
COVID-19 booster shots effectively prevented hospitalizations among people with cancer, according to a retrospective study published in JAMA Oncology.
jamanetwork.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
20thofmay.bsky.social
Just finished #flux2025 in Dublin and it it good to be back! What a great conference.
September 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
Excellent analysis of poor science that should not have made it through peer review. Probably should be retracted now by the journal.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
Ending the summer having submitted five first-author manuscripts and a response to a published paper.

This K01 and the protected time are the best!

Thank you #NIH #NICHD

Thank you @rcgd-isr.bsky.social #ISR #psychology @umich.edu
Hamilton the musical with the caption "I'm not throwing away my shot."
August 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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fluxsociety.bsky.social
Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.
August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kalinskilab.bsky.social
Hey #neuroscience #neuroskyence we are hiring a Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina (uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190...)

We have a vibrant neuroscience community with extensive university support for research. I am extremely happy here. Come join us!
Peter and Bonnie McCausland Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
uscjobs.sc.edu
August 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports
Here is one summarized
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
This looks really interesting
natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 3
Unique biological, exposomal, economic and sociocultural factors shape resilience and brain health across the globe. A Review in Nature Medicine discusses underlying mechanisms of resilience. go.nature.com/4l76HNh #medsky 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows a resilience model and factors.
August 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
Finally received the notice of award for my K01!
Thanks #nih
#nichd
@rcgd-isr.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US
This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).
jamanetwork.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
As someone who studies child maltreatment it sickens me that this will be ignored. These are often homicides that we could prevent.
June 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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luckytran.com
The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.
June 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
20thofmay.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
20thofmay.bsky.social
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
This is a big reason why the tech oligarch/DOGE world thinks they can blow up NSF and NIH.

We cannot overstate this:
It is so full of shit.

This is not real science or research, which is a creative endeavor. “AI scientists” would not have built CAR-T therapies and will not treat Alzheimer’s.
June 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...

Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?

Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...
May 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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earlkmiller.bsky.social
Astrocytes make up a large proportion of brain cells. They propagate electrical influences without spiking. Brain communication involves more than just spikes and synapses.
bcs.mit.edu/news/overloo...
#neuroscience
Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.
bcs.mit.edu
May 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities. Effective immediately, the following are terminated: NSF AWARD ID: 2120496 NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal. Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date. Sincerely, Jamie H. French, Division Director Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA) Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)
May 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
RFK Jr. plans to bar NIH scientists from top journals like NEJM & JAMA, replacing them with government-run outlets.

This would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research, warns Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM