Out today in @jama.com: "On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist: The Importance of Pilot Clinical Trials. I was honored to co-author this with Drs. Fesintein, @dramyhuebschmann.bsky.social & @russgl.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social

On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist

This Viewpoint discusses the recent National Institutes of Health announcement that its Career Development (K) awards cannot be used to conduct clinical trials, feasibility studies, or ancillary studi...

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We are hiring a research coordinator who will assist with this multi-site project (Pitt & UNC) involving the co-design, development, and validation of a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set. We will also test if neural responses to the stimuli uniquely predict depression, anxiety, and STBs.

Cope Feurer@copefeurer.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’m thrilled to share that our R21 has been funded! Over the next two years, Kiera James and I will be co-leading this grant to co-design, develop, and validate a new developmentally-tailored and ecologically-valid adolescent emotional faces stimulus set.

Not The Onion.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.bsky.social · 3w ago

HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

READ: My Public Comment on Proposed OMB Rule: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/my-public-...

My Public Comment on Proposed OMB Rule: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

Submitted by: Elizabeth Ginexi, PhD, Former NIH Scientific Program Official (2003–2025)

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THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title

Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.

The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

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Keep commenting, people! Tell them scientists should decide who gets scientific grants, not politicians! You can post anonymously. www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RE: OMB-2026-0034 Comments Vought was unprepared for the revolt on his hands and they are struggling and/or obstructing to get comments up in real time. They have weeks to actually post things after a review, so the numbers and specific individual comments may take time showing up. 1/3

Notes from the Emergency SUFS meeting today in case you missed it! Wow.

Mark Simmons@toysdream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Big civic engagement day! I voted in our local primary elections, and watched a video webinar organized by @standupforscience.net about fighting back against the administration's full-scale attack on US scientific research.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Science Magazine@science.org · 4mo ago

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

Huh Kermit

ALT: Huh Kermit

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"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single diagnostic label. I wrote for the @nytimes.com on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong

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Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

"What we are seeing now is not just a workforce issue or an internal challenge within CDC. It is a structural weakening of the systems that protect the health of the population."

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I just added yet another Federal scientist resignation letter to the list — the 9th. This one from Katie Schenk at CDC. open.substack.com/pub/phworkfo... For each of these letters, many more of left quietly. You can read them all here: tr.ee/7IpKJ_GBId

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.

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The initial review for the Postdoctoral Fellow position in my lab at the UPenn will close at the end of the day on Friday. I welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, with a focus on devsci, adversity, epigenetics, and sleep health. apply.interfolio.com/184510

Three papers published in Current Psychiatry Reports and Appetite by Christine Call, PhD, and colleagues in the Perinatal Health and Behaviors Lab, highlight advances in our understanding of eating disorders in pregnancy and the perinatal period. bit.ly/4mBmN4d

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

We are currently recruiting for a research study on Black mothers’ experiences of sleep and bodily awareness during pregnancy. If you are currently pregnant, identify as Black, and live in the Pittsburgh area, consider filling out our screener to see if you qualify!  redcap.link/PRISMStudy

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

How Congress can restore the independence of US science

Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

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13/ “The categories of people I am being asked to remove from grants share the same identities of people being forcibly removed, detained, and killed in our country...

10/ “I wish I could see censoring grants as saving science, but it’s a short term monetary solution with a long term goal of ultimately discriminating against who we most need to serve...

Are you a postbac (or soon-to-be-postbac) interested in interdisciplinary research on sexual and reproductive health? Come work with us! Application review starts March 13 and continues until the position is filled. employment.unl.edu/postings/99472

Check this out straight from the NIH website, acknowledging that multiyear funding was likely responsible for a 20% decrease in early stage investigators. And that it was expected. A strange approach for someone so committed to the next generation of scientists. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

T32 Postdoc position in developmental psychopathology at UMN Institute of Child Development! There are many excellent primary mentors available, as well as an even better set of secondary mentors to choose from (including me). See link for details, due April 1. drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Happy match day eve to all who are celebrating 🤞 I've been thinking lately about how our field seems to have moved on to other conversations (AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI), and yet none of our existing problems (pre-degree fellowship, EPPP, licensure laws) have budged... 🆘

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Do individual differences in fetal physiology shape later sensitivity to early environments? Excited to share our new paper: interactions between fetal heart rate variability and postnatal parenting stress were associated with toddler externalizing behaviors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk

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Check out our Perspective now published in Nature Mental Heath: Confronting Crisis and Reclaiming Purpose in Psychological Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00575-4