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Rebecca Schacht

@rschacht.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Psychology studying treatment for PTSD and substance use disorders. Clinical psychologist. University of Washington -> Baltimore VA -> Johns Hopkins Medicine -> University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.

Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

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Neha J. Goel, PhD@nehajgoel28.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hi folks! My collaborators at UNC and I are recruiting for a new research study focused on improving an eating disorders prevention program for South Asian women living in the United States! Please see the flyer for more details and share widely with anyone who may qualify!

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Rebecca Schacht@rschacht.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Summer of ‘89! This song and the album that followed - Fear of a Black Planet. On the turntable at home, cassette tape in the car. I started noticing a lot of things that I hadn’t noticed before. It changed who I am and how I see the country I grew up in

Elisse🔹on Maui 🌺@tempermintpatti.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A lille taste of beginnings. Maybe remembered from Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing Flavor Flav been an icon for decades. Happy listening!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Let's learn about some medical research that just left Earth on Artemis II, bound for the silver sphere in the sky. It's AVATAR, but it doesn't involve blue aliens. It stands for "A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response" & it looks like this USB drive-sized device.

A human hand holds a plastic object that is a sort of prism or rectangular plastic object the size of a USB thumb drive. It has blue and red lines that meet in the middle, but sort of cross at each end, producing an extended "X". CREDIT: EMULATE
Rebecca Schacht@rschacht.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Insightful piece by @lehersingh.bsky.social, who we are so fortunate to have as our chair #psychsky

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“What is required instead is an intentional reorientation of departmental culture—one that moves beyond aspirational commitments to equity and toward practices that actively align ideals, policies, and norms,” says @lehersingh.bsky.social, professor and chair of #psychology at UMBC. #AcademicSky

Kate Nautiyal@katenautiyal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.

Rebecca Schacht@rschacht.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reupping Sadly, the match imbalance, which we thought had peaked in 2009-10 and in recent years had almost disappeared due to APPIC et al.’s hard work, seems to be returning 😞

Rebecca Schacht@rschacht.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy Match Day! Congrats to all future clinical psychologists! The process is unpredictable, with happy & less happy surprises Didn’t match or land where you hoped? Many awesome candidates don’t and go on to thrive on internship & beyond. Fear not. Keep rockin’ #AcademicSky #PsychSky

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.