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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 5h

#psycgooddeedday2025 at Binghamton was an amazing success! Many good deeds were done, and the visitors to our table loved the stickers and snacks, as well as the kindness rock painting station.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning, #psycgooddeedday2025 !

Binghamton University is ready to go!!

Selfie on tshirt with rainbow colors and affirmational messages

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12d

The court’s three liberal justices – Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson – dissented from the decision and apparently are the only ones upholding the Constitution and protecting the power of Congress.

Congress would do well to recognize this.

CNN @cnn.com · 12d

The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress. https://cnn.it/42JxQ2o

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

www.propublica.org

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 20d

New position: Research assistant in the Manzano Lab at Binghamton... early life development, reward seeking and inhibition and single neuron imaging in behaving mice... please repost!

binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · Sep 5

a lot of our trainees are thinking about going abroad for GS (who can blame them) but they're seeing that Masters Degrees are required for PhD programs? Can folks weight in on this?

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Dr. Arnaldo Díaz @ajdiazphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Few much-needed reminders: 1️⃣Strive to give your best, recognizing that your best can change daily, and 2️⃣ don’t forget kindness to yourself. It isn’t selfish; it’s essential for success in every aspect of life. #Kindness

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 26

Amazing! Congrats!!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 23

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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August 22, 2025

Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal.

I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 23

But ideally end with a moment of grace in which you acknowledge that showing up, helping people to navigate past the thousands of hazards that threaten their progress and staying positive and on task is pretty damned awesome.

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 23

As the chair of a large or complex department, many days start with disappointment that you haven't yet gotten to doing the big, special things that you aspire(d) to...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please share with trainees in the San Diego area! The International Society for Developmental Psychology @isdp.org will have a limited number of waivers available for local trainees (undergraduate, graduate, postbacc, and others) to attend the 2025 annual meeting! 🌴 Apply via QR code/link on flyer:

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 19

a woman is standing next to a girl in a bedroom and says yeah cheers thanks a lot .

ALT: a woman is standing next to a girl in a bedroom and says yeah cheers thanks a lot .

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 19

First day of classes for my third year as Chair. Let's go!

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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · Aug 18

ACNP is now accepting applications for new Associate Member, Member, and promotion to Fellow! The deadline: September 25th. Apply today! #ACNP Click tinyurl.com/ypa4mund for more information.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 17

Let’s talk @storiesofwin.bsky.social. I’m flattered to be among their profiles (coming soon) & I want to elevate the team behind this terrific effort. /1

www.storiesofwin.org

Stories of WiN

www.storiesofwin.org

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · Aug 17

Faculty opening for candidates "working with human, non-human animal, or computational models to advance the understanding of brain and behavior relationships in the context of lifespan development"

Stony Brook Psychology is an exceptional dept with amazing colleagues

apply.interfolio.com/171691

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 16

URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees -evidence that P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour

Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

www.nature.com

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DrGlitterbear @drglitterbear.bsky.social · Aug 16

"..NIH remains dedicated to fostering open, competitive, and accountable science and supporting investigators as they pursue innovative, and sometimes controversial, questions grounded in rigorous methodology.".....unless you're study anything related to trans people....then you can just fuck off.

Advancing NIH’s Mission Through a Unified Strategy

NIH is moving toward a unified strategy that aligns our priorities and funding approaches to fulfill this commitment.

www.nih.gov

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Justin Matheson, PhD (he/they) @justinrmatheson.com · Aug 15

Thrilled to share a new systematic review where we examined sex differences in the acute cognitive effects of cannabis in humans

Overall, not much evidence of sex diffs (6/29 studies, 8/216 variables found sex diffs)

BUT...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sex differences in the acute effects of cannabis on human cognition: A systematic review

Acute cannabis exposure can transiently impair cognitive performance, increasing the risk of accidental injury and potentially disrupting activities o…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Aug 13

New: NSF has reinstated the suspended UCLA grants, following yesterday's court order. Here's the email to Chancellor Frenk.

(The ~490 NIH & 2 DOE grants remain suspended)

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)?

Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

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ALT: a bald man is sitting in a chair and pointing at the camera

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over.

www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

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