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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 24d

Have you seen the keynote speakers of #2025SPR? Join us in Montréal next month!

Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jan 24

SPR is thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for #2025SPR in Montréal! Submit your abstract here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 20d

1/3 ✈️ Heading to Montréal for #2025SPR? Don’t forget to check Canada’s entry requirements! shorturl.at/fWidI

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 18d

Coming to #2025SPR? Don’t miss Psychophysiology’s “Meet the Editors” breakfast to get insights on journal scope & aims, publication strategies, and the peer-review process!

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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎉 Welcome to the MAClab Nicole! 🎉
Nicole is a 1st year Doctoral student who will be joining us this fall - read her description to learn more about her!

#PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jul 6

The #2025SPR Annual Meeting Online Registration Portal is now open! Early bird Registration Rates are available now through Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Register here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
#AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jul 6

Trainees at #2025SPR — don’t miss our Speed Networking Breakfast!
Get matched with faculty for rapid one-on-one conversations.
Register when you sign up for the conference: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
#AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 Are you attending #2025SPR in Montrèal? Join us for a pre-conference workshop!

📍 Registration opens July 1, 2025: select your workshop when signing up for the annual meeting. Space is limited!

for details see: sprweb.org/2025-annual-...

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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · May 30

This happened to a friend. Although their Fulbright application had done well at internal review in the US in December, they were surprised to hear in May that it was turned down. In this case, the host country, which knew the application should’ve been awarded, will fund the project anyways.

Vero @verognzlz.bsky.social · May 30

Fulbright applicants were rejected this year for including terms like race, gender, climate change, and “critical theory” in their proposals. Not because they lacked merit—because they challenged power.

#AcademicSky #Fulbright #AcademicFreedom

www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.

www.insidehighered.com

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Apr 24

Don't forget to submit your abstract for #2025SPR! spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/

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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · Apr 25

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #academicsky

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Mar 31

Just received word that our post-bacc RA position at the UPenn Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab should go live this week. Will post the link when it does but, for now, here' s a link with the description. Please repost + share with your team!
tinyurl.com/ycyzmmdx

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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congrats Lauren!!

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Mar 24

(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!

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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · Mar 17

My story: I’m a single father and cancer researcher whose wife died of a rare cancer. Science and biomedical research is personal to me. Here is my op-ed in my hometown newspaper. Pls fwd.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research

Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...

www.vindy.com

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Mar 15

University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.

Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

www.nytimes.com

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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · Mar 7

THANK YOU to everyone who showed up to #standupforscience at Texas A&M!! 🥰✊🧪

#sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · Mar 6

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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · Mar 5

Join us this Friday at 12pm to ‼️STAND UP FOR SCIENCE‼️ at Texas A&M University

Rally at Academic Plaza near the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Statue. Feel free to bring posters and spread the word.

standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Feb 20

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.

Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.

All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

www.nature.com

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Grave Boneyard @dconrad.bsky.social · Feb 21

With alt text added:

Jasmeet Hayes, Ph.D.
Scarlet & Gray Associate Professor...

I was just informed that my NIH research study section meeting that was to be held TOMORROW IS CANCELLED. This panel reviews grants on brain injury, neurovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and epilepsy—issues that affect all Americans, regardless of their background. The exact language of a very tersely worded email was that it "will be rescheduled to a later date, yet to be determined." Exactly when will there be another time 30+ scientists will be able to [set] aside two whole days to discuss close to 100 grants? This panel is planned a year in advance. The grants I spent so many hours reviewing, and the work that the principal investigators have dedicated their professional lives to, will not be reviewed. This is going to delay life-saving, innovative treatments. This is more widespread than just my panel; other NIH panels have similarly been cancelled. I am worried about the future of our country as the world's science superpower.

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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com

Science Homecoming

sciencehomecoming.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thank you! There is a simple thing to do:
You can call up your local newspaper and TV station and offer to talk about what is happening.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 14

It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:

Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Feb 13

NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.

This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 15

It is natural to want to sink into nihilism. To say “well there’s nothing we can do” and put full trust in the courts, or just shrink into a small bubble and ignore the news and the outside world.

Sometimes, that’s necessary. If you need to do it now, do it. But optimism is a choice you can make.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · Feb 19

This is one way NIH funding is still largely paused:
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze

www.thetransmitter.org

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