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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD
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Psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Computational Neuroimaging Digital Mental Health House Music Co-Director of the CoNeCT Lab @ UIC
Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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I am about one more grant rejection away from signing up... onlygrants.net
OnlyGrants - Desperate Times Call for Desperate Researchers
The platform where scientists bare their research for the funding they deserve. Join the waitlist.
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For people who have been wondering why it feels like all the World Cup teams have majority Black players. A great piece from Monday Morning Economist on allocative efficiency. #TeachEcon www.mondayeconomist.com?r=26m0y&utm_...
Monday Morning Economist | Jadrian Wooten | Substack
A free, weekly newsletter that makes economics easier to understand with insights from current events and pop culture. Join thousands who start their week with smarter thinking. Click to read Monday M...
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Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. Spread the word. Stand up for science.
🧪Team provides valuable insights into the effects of the environment on brain development. In Science Magazine it found that across adolescents, neighborhood-level socioeconomics have the strongest brain-wide association: https://ow.ly/30Nx50ZcijN Nico Dosenbach Brenden Tervo-Clemmens Damien Fair
It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... via @statnews.com I wrote a thing (also hi, I’m alive!).
It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine
“Science itself is inherently resilient — that is, after all, why it’s science,” writes Jonathan Jackson.
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NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year
Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.
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Safety of Antidepressant Medications - Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
On Public Statements Regarding the Safety of Antidepressant Medications Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) advocates for the rights of persons living with a mood disorder to choose their ...
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Important new study out today highlighting unequal impact of NIH grant terminations. “If the NIH is to serve the health of all Americans, it requires urgent course correction to ensure all scientific careers are sustained without targeted discrimination.” www.thelancet.com/journals/TLR...
Targeted termination of scientific grants and minoritised researcher status in a national survey: a cross sectional analysis
Grant terminations targeting health research for BIPOC and SGM communities have disproportionately targeted the careers of BIPOC, SGM, and female researchers and researchers from disadvantaged backgro...
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The pick is in! So excited for @pshrink.bsky.social Special Guest Lecture at Pitt Psychiatry on network approaches to precision psychiatry this #NFLDraft week! 🏈🧠 #Pittsburgh
New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...
A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods
Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...
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What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions? www.statnews.com/2026/04/21/e... via @statnews.com
What happens when a chief executive loses executive functions?
When a CEO develops acquired executive dysfunction yet remains in their role, the challenges are significant.
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Abby Dernburg@adernburg.bsky.social · 5mo agoHave you served on an NIH study section (or thought about serving)? Did you know that that the small perk of being able to submit your own applications after the deadline has largely been revoked? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Yep. See grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Not a huge deal but definitely a slap in the face.
NOT-OD-26-064: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission NOT-OD-26-064. NIH
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫@zandrea.bsky.social · 5mo agoOne incentive for being a study section member for NIH is “continuous submission.” Or the ability to get extra time for submitting grants when you are a peer reviewer. NIH is terminating this in August.
I wrote a piece about my late friend and colleague Robert (Bob) Bilder, reflecting on the the impact that he had on my career. russpoldrack.substack.com/p/rememberin...
Remembering Robert Bilder
My friend and long-time collaborator Robert (Bob) Bilder died last August of cancer at the age of 69.
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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
If you can't make the UCLA Brain Health Summit in person, the meeting will be live-streamed on Youtube here: teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/ev... (click on the hyperlink in the top right corner of the program).
UCLA Health Brain Health Summit | Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
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Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
NIH Funds Still Not Getting to Researchers
Congress approved a budget more than a month ago, but awards are lagging
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Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Aging research, no longer a priority I guess! Good thing our population isn’t getting much older 🙏🙏🙏
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago12/25
A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology! Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
