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H/t @connormhaughey.bsky.social 1st pub from grad school! It was such an excellent group:)

Way to persevere!!

First time at #ISDP2025! Great conference & great presentations by Circle Lab students!!

So exhausting..

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.

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...

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....

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

Great work, NIH

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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/...

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.

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/...

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.

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):

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...

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

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...

Amen sister

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

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.

🧪 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...

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.

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.😡🤬

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

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...

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:)

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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...

Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

In defense of our institutional independence This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...