When the NIH abruptly terminated thousands of research grants last year, the fallout wasn’t distributed equitably. A new analysis suggests the cuts disproportionately hit women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ investigators. My latest for @nature.com

NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists

A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.

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BU’s Giving Day is less than a week away! If you have the means, consider donating to the Stepp Lab to help fund our research on speech and voice in people with Parkinson’s disease, voice disorders, and the gender diverse community! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...

For BU’s Giving Day, please consider donating to the Stepp Lab. We are doing important work investigating speech and voice in people with Parkinson’s disease, vocal hyperfunction, and in the transmasc+ population. Support our important research! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...

Thank you to @policyhound.bsky.social for covering this EO and our open letter. We have over 5k signatures now! You can sign here: www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Open Letter in Support of Science — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

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Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last yr.

Gold standard or fools' gold? www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are at #ASAICA25, consider coming to my talk “Exploring Dysarthric Speech Perception Through Listening Effort” in Salon H at 9:30am! It is one of the presentations part of the topic “Speech Perception Beyond Intelligibility”!

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Maura Philippone (she/her), M.A., CCC-SLP@mauraeileen13.bsky.social · last yr.

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Got questions about #DataSharing? We have answers! Join us for our first Open Data 101 workshop and learn about the nuts and bolts of data sharing with @‌jamescborders.bsky.social & @‌micahehirsch.bsky.social . 🗓 June 3 ⏰ 4-5pm EST 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/open-data-... #SLP #AuD #OpenData

We’ve got some exciting news: OpenCSD and CSDisseminate are joining forces and becoming 1 working group! Our mission is still the same: to spread the word about #OpenScience in communication sciences and disorders. But now we’re doing it together. www.csdisseminate.com/Announcement... #SLP #AuD #CSD

I’m so sad to hear about the shooting at FSU. Thankful that my friends there are safe. Thankful that I wasn’t there. I used to spend a lot of time in that Union. But I’m so sad to hear about the people who are injured and lost their lives. This is preventable. It shouldn’t have happened

I was on campus today, ran to a locked lab when I got the alert, was locked down for hours. My 3y old was also locked down at FSU childcare. I am still very much in shock, and scared. This is so preventable. Thank you for being the only politician I’ve seen so far for saying something, Sen Booker

Sen. Cory Booker@booker.senate.gov · last yr.

My heart is with the FSU community, and the victims as they recover. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens and there have been over 300 incidents of gunfire on college campuses since 2013–not including mass shootings.

It's time for BU Giving Day 2025! ♥️ If you're interested in supporting the Stepp Lab this year, the link to donate is in our bio. We greatly appreciate any and all contributions, and we are immensely grateful for all of the support you all give us and our work year-round! ✨

Please consider donating to the Stepp Lab for Boston University’s Giving Day! Each donation will help support our ability to continue to do our research on speech motor control and voice! give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...

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Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!

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This is horrifying. Masked men abduct a woman in broad daylight. “We’re the police” cannot justify this. Her “crime” was writing words in a student newspaper.

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈@timlongman.bsky.social · last yr.

Apparently ICE is detaining a Turkish Fulbright PhD scholar from my local university Tufts and terminating her immigration authorization BECAUSE SHE WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE STUDENT PAPER THAT THE TRUMP REGIME DOESN'T LIKE. We're deporting people now for writing editorials. Welcome to the police state!

The NIH is canceling already-funded research on inequality, telling scholars that their studies "are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand or knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not advance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness"

Claire Kamp Dush@clairekampdush.bsky.social · 2y ago

My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US. If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org

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Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.

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This week, I wrote about what stripping $400 million in research grants & contracts “as a first round of action” against Columbia means for every other university. Plus warm thanks to #StandUpForScience, more on NIH funding & a list of (good!) lawsuit updates buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1/7)

Week 7

Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

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I felt like I really had to go to #standupforscience because I assumed I'd be the only person with a sign about trans rights I can't tell you how happy I am that I was wrong The reaction to my sign was overwhelmingly warm and my soul feels recharged. We do have allies out there

Puffer coats and fleece aplenty as #standupforscience kicks off in Seattle — med student Anders Ledell recycled a Godzilla Halloween costume to advocate for basic research

Infectious disease Student from Northwestern university last speaker. “Our research is inherently political because it affects society at large. A bad boss is the best organizer.” @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social

If you want a great nation, you don't eliminate research - medical, agricultural, across the board. Research looks into the future and gives us hope. We need to stand together! ~US Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

Amazing turnout for #standupforscience2025 and we even got inspirational words from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi!

Sharing a few clips and some of my favorite signs at the Boston #standupforscience2025 rally. A 🧵

My sign is ready #StandUpForScience2025

Let's go Boston! America runs on science!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2y ago

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

This is devastating 😞 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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New Preprint Alert! I submitted my first manuscript from my dissertation and made the preprint available! In this study, I looked at listening effort during dysarthric speech perception. The preprint is available below: doi.org/10.31219/osf... A thread of the main takeaways 🧵 1/9

Not every analysis of multiple (<whatever>) requires multiplicity adjustments (correcting p-values for multiple testing): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inconsistent multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses

During multiple testing, researchers often adjust their alpha level to control the familywise error rate for a statistical inference about a joint uni…

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I’m so happy this work is finally out! Check out the article either on the #JSLHR site (linked in the quoted post below), or read the preprint version doi.org/10.31219/osf...

ASHA Journals@ashajournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

New research in #JSLHR on how older adults adapt to dysarthric speech: @kaity_lansford et al. explore how cognitive-linguistic & hearing factors influence speech perception & adaptation in aging listeners. on.asha.org/42oZX7Z @sigperspectives.bsky.social @micahehirsch.bsky.social

A photo dump of my time at #ASHA2024! This was such a fun conference! I enjoyed getting to catch up with everyone. Can’t wait until the next one!