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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 9d

The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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$A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.$

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 9d

SO excited to present the beautifully validated new deprivation & threat questionnaire- final answer to the question “but how do you measure this?” Lead author Angelina Tsai, grad student extraordinaire! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure - Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Peter F. Halpin, Lucy Lurie, Meredith Gruhn, Maya Rosen, Donald H. Baucom, Michael B. Sarabosing, S...

Research on the developmental consequences of early adversity has grown rapidly, yet measures of childhood adversity have not kept pace with evolving theoretica...

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Sep 7

😍

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Sep 7

Fair, @danibeck.bsky.social . Thanks for saying something

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Jun 13

Great work, NIH

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Some NIH employees have previously come forward in televised protests to air grievances, and many walked out of Bhattacharya’s town hall with staff. The declaration is the first cohesive effort to register agency-wide dismay with the NIH’s direction. "

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#BethesdaDeclartion

NIH scientists go public to denounce Trump’s deep cuts in health research

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers sign letter criticizing agency policies: ‘We dissent’

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · Jun 6

You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable.

It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Jun 5

Nah. But it sure does seem like change in structure of the prefrontal cortex over the first year of life matters for your long term outcomes, supporting the importance of early experience and plasticity.

mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Jun 5

Is everything we thought we knew about the importance of the loooonnnggg trajectory of prefrontal cortex development wrong?

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Jun 5

Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function | PNAS

The human cortex undergoes immense change in the first years of life, doubling in thickness within the first year and evidencing the greatest chang...

www.pnas.org

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · May 23

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 8

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · May 9

#BRAEN The new Brain and Environment has a special issue coming up edited by @evatelzer.bsky.social 😍 consider submitting: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

Call for papers - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · May 9

GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

Call for papers - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · May 9

Amen sister

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 9

Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears.

They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.

They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.

They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.

We will not lay down and take this.

Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Jennifer Richeson @jaricheson.bsky.social · May 9

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 5

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Apr 29

I know everyone is in this, but I’ll just say, this continued pulling the rug out with no warning is just hard to deal with.

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Apr 29

Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Apr 29

New special issue on social media & the brain from #BRAEN www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · Apr 28

Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social

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

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · Apr 29

Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)

Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · Apr 28

I wrote a piece for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader on the importance of supporting federally funded research for the health and economic well-being of South Dakotans! Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration & resources! #sciencehomecoming

Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · Apr 28

“Wagner is a community where caring for others comes as second nature,” writes Professor Jenalee Doom. Those same values launched her path into science, and she calls for protecting research that strengthens communities like her hometown in South Dakota. 🦅
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www.argusleader.com/story/opinio...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

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