📗 Part II of our new open textbook: Conceptualizing Social-Spatial Determinants of Health With contributions from @maryniakolak.bsky.social & @averyeverhart.bsky.social, these chapters address health inequities through place, space, and power. 👉 Read the full volume: go.illinois.edu/PlaceSSDOH

PSC experts @pamherd.bsky.social and Luke Shaefer @umfordschool.bsky.social help us understand the consequences of blocking SNAP benefits, which mostly go to children or disabled elderly adults. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be... fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ef...

Just published! ✨ Across 15+ timepoints, we found that unpredictability in economic hardship – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. Understanding these dynamics can help us design supports that promote stability and adaptive development. 👉 bit.ly/4oIZO75

🚨 New Paper Alert🚨 focused on #representation and #generaliability in #neuroscience. A real labor of love. Was rejected from [… checks list 🤔] SIX journals and originally presented in 2020 at FLUX to find a home at AMPPS #persistence

YES!!! IT IS A FEATURE OF BOTH SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY!!!! Particularly a representative democracy…where we ELECT EXPERTS TO REPRESENT OUR BEST INTERESTS!!! This man has to go. #impeachthequack

Barbara Sobel@barbarasobel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

I am reviewing applications for the Neuroscience (NACS), and Developmental programs this year at @umdscience.bsky.social . I will also review Clinical applications, but priority is to grow the Dev and NACS areas. Email me for info! arigard[at]umd[dot]edu & check out our website gardlab.umd.edu

🚨New publication alert!🚨The first paper from primary data collection in my lab 😀, led by grad student Joelle Fuchs. "Facilitators and Barriers to Neighborhood Social Integration" leverages qual interviews with teens, caregivers, and comm leaders in DC ... (1/8) doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of ...

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Coming back from maternity leave is i-n-t-e-n-s-e ... but no surprise, the lab killed it over the summer while I was gone, and we are back baby! 🚨Stay tuned for some threads on new publications🚨

U.S. Census Bureau's decades long with falling public participation in surveys and trust in government is now compounded by DOGE's handling of data. Distrust in how government uses data is higher among people of color, which can lead to selection bias and skewed data. myumi.ch/jJVMG

How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics

DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.

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This academic cycle was really challenging for those students that applied for PhD programs. Please help me share this special episode discussing what to do if you didn't get accepted into a PhD program. open.spotify.com/episode/5tsj...

Didn't get into grad school, what now?

Stories of Women in Neuroscience · Episode

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Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science

It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

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Took me 5 min to draft and submit a comment. FLOOD THE ZONE 🧬🧫🧬🔬⚗️🔭🥼🧪

Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

"Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026." "Americans making less than $15,000 — the poorest of the poor — will pay 53% more in taxes than they do now www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan

Earlier this week the White House published evidence that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” hikes taxes on the poor to cut taxes for the rich.

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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.

“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Michigan Advance@michiganadvance.com · last yr.

The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.” michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)

Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

last friday my nsf career award to study when and why different forms of racial discrimination are likely to occur was terminated. I’m incredibly crushed and sad and stressed out and also angry. what I don’t feel is any sense of resignation. we’ll find ways to get the research done.

Task-free functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging data from 33,250 individuals at 32 weeks of postmenstrual age to 80 years from 132 global sites 🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience

Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...

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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

French politician Raphaël Glucksmann suggested that the Statue of Liberty be returned, saying “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her.” Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”

Naomi Osaka Demands Reparations for Haiti From France

Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, is of Haitian descent.

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The University of Puerto Rico has built a strong neuroscience community via federally funded programs. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar explains how funding cuts threaten minority-serving institutions’ progress toward becoming premier research institutions. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/the-...

The future of neuroscience research at U.S. minority-serving institutions is in danger

Cuts to federally funded programs present an existential crisis for the University of Puerto Rico’s rich neuroscience community and for research at minority-serving institutions everywhere.

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Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

👋 DC resident here. I’ve paid my taxes for (checks watch) 15 years, & my democratically elected council approved a budget to spend my taxes on schools, bike lanes, libraries, etc. Show me a population more devoted to the national Democratic Party than DC. 92% of us are registered democrats. 🧵 1/n