Just accepted at Nature Mental Health: Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3 1/9

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D.@laurenshallion.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Psychological science is in crisis. We are losing funding, fighting uphill against censorship, and watching as our students, colleagues, neighbors, and friends are attacked because of their nationality, gender expression, or skin color. Such is life under fascism. 2/9

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️ 🗓️ June 22–25, 2026 📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸 ✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy! 📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

The October issue of BSAM covers topics spanning discrimination, neighborhood opportunities, fear learning processes, with implications for cardiovascular reactivity, biological aging, among others. Read more: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

#PNIRS2025 Calling all postdocs through pre-tenured faculty to join us on Wednesday at 18:00 for the Early Career Researchers Social! A great way to give early career investigators a chance to chat about the interview process, transition to faculty position, and experiences starting up your own lab!

“The funding rate of grant proposals is expected to drop from 26 percent to just 7 percent, meaning the vast majority of grants submitted to the NSF will be a waste of time.”

Colm Atkins, PhD@atkinscolm.bsky.social · last yr.

I wouldn't have gone to college without the support of Pell grants. I wouldn't have ended up in grad school or with a PhD or anything I'm currently doing in my life. Pell grants are so so so important for students who qualify for them.

Katharine Meyer@katharinemeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Pell grant cuts threaten state college access goals In my latest, I explain how the multipronged cuts to federal financial aid would shift costs to states, who in turn will likely have to shift costs to students to take on more debt or forego college www.brookings.edu/articles/pel...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor. This will hurt women everywhere.

Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals

The Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy requiring hospitals to perform emergency abortions regardless of state abortion laws.

washingtonpost.com

Really important and visually compelling story here, featuring the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. We need overwhelming public support to save American research. Please contact your electeds.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excited to present this symposium at #PNIRS2025 with two amazing PNI scientists! ✨ Bringing our work together, we will explore whether different inflammatory processes carry not only mechanistic differences, but also distinct and nuanced clinical implications for mood & reward-related dysfunctions.

PNIRS@pnirs.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Get EXCITED — We are just *ONE WEEK* away from #PNIRS2025!!! 👏🏼🤩 Are you ready to bookmark our final #highlights? 📌 Member-Sponsored Symposia 5 & 6 🗓️ Thu, Jun 12 8:30–10 AM For Details >> 🧵 Spread 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 word 👏🏼 #PNIRS #PNI #Psychoneuroimmunology #Science #France #Bordeaux 🇫🇷

Big update to scienceimpacts.org: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities. This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

scienceimpacts.org

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

Another week, another call to U.S. Congress! Contact your Representative and Senators & urge them to support investments in #NSF and #NIH. #APS25DC Here's a script to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

✨Calling all early-career & senior researchers‼️ We are planning next year's series of talks and would like to hear your suggestions @pnirs.bsky.social Are you interested in presenting your own research or have a researcher you would love to hear from? Let us know here: bit.ly/pixie2026

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

American Adults are on the same page on these, and the top two most opposed Trump policies are: 1) 77% oppose Reducing federal funding for medical research 2) 70% oppose Increasing the federal government's role in how private universities operate Pass it on! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight... www.publicsource.org/national-day... 1/2

Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed

As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’

publicsource.org

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

washingtonpost.com

Ah yes, my favorite paradox...(worth the read!)

Daniel P. Moriarity@dpmoriarity.bsky.social · last yr.

Thoughtful paper showing that true within-person effects don't always translate to between-person differences and discussion of why that might be. By Neubauer, Koval, Zyphur, & Hamaker #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

In a recent BSAM paper, Riley O'Neill & colleagues examined how experimentally manipulated stress varying in vigilance demand may elicit differing biobehavioral responses and if responses varied by the type of stress. Free to read for the week so share widely! journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Examining Impacts of Situational Stress on Cardiovascular... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

nd whether persistent vigilance demand was matched by sustained physiological activation. Methods: A final sample of 135 undergraduate young adults (49% male, 51% female; Mage=19 y, SDage=4 y) was ...

journals.lww.com

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

With only generic measures of stress, we miss out on important context around how aspects of one's identity affect links between stress & health. #psychscisky Dr. Giscombé reflected on this issue & how she began to develop the concept of Superwoman Schema in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle:

Ryan L. Brown@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧩 My conversation with Dr. Cheryl Woods Giscombé is out now! We discussed Dr. Giscombé's work on Superwoman Schema, nuances that stress science has missed among Black women, and her perspective on promising interventions. #scicomm #socialpsych #psychscisky Listen now: tinyurl.com/superwomansc...

🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨 @protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

The US health agencies gutted aren't household names—because they worked. That's the paradox: effective public health is invisible. Losing federal support shifts pressure to states, counties, cities. It isn't overnight—measles is quick, lead poisoning less so—but the impact is coming

"If America has not broken your heart, you do not love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov at the top of hour 19 of his filibuster speech today.

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say

Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.

nytimes.com

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Harvard doesn't represent us. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." -3000+ Jewish higher ed workers & students docs.google.com/document/d/e...