Annmarie MacNamara
@macannmarie.bsky.social
Clinical neuroscientist at Texas A&M
Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...
White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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If you are headed for psych grad school and want experience with EEG, fMRI, affective science and internalizing psychopathology research, apply to be my lab manager!
Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab)@maclab-brain.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe’re hiring!🔬The MAClab at Texas A&M is looking for a lab manager to join our team in College Station. If you’re organized, passionate about research, and interested in emotion and the brain, we want to hear from you! 🔗Apply at the link in our bio! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
Stop by the SPR Video Booth (In front of the Elevators, 8th Floor) to film a 60–90 second spotlight on your research. Open to all attendees! #2025SPR
The MAClab will be presenting at #2025SPR in Montreal this week! @therealspr.bsky.social Follow the thread below to see details for each presentation 🧐🧠 #2025SPR #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
1/3 ✈️ Heading to Montréal for #2025SPR? Don’t forget to check Canada’s entry requirements! shorturl.at/fWidI
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!
🎉 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
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
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
🚨 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-...
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 · last yr.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/...
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
(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!
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 ...
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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.
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THANK YOU to everyone who showed up to #standupforscience at Texas A&M!! 🥰✊🧪 #sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
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
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.
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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
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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.
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 · last yr.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.
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.
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
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Senator Ted Cruz recently released a database of more than 3000 NSF grants that he says misappropriated taxpayer money by spending it on "woke DEI" research. So why do grants that seemingly have nothing to do with woke ideology contain words such as "underrepresented"?
Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
#NIH just slashed indirect costs caps on grants to 15%--this is a HUGE blow to the research community. While there is certainly inefficiency to the grants system, indirects help institutions support scientists & academic infrastructure. No one will want to do research anymore. #medsky #academicsky
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pu3f6wynsdrkml4sq3eddiic/bafkreidfod6jews3yzqwkj2af33k7sokpqdvh757ona3zb44n3w7wwgxnu)