We're experiencing loneliness epidemic. Could AI chatbots help solve that problem? If you would have asked me up until recently I would say "probably!". But we don't know for sure. To answer this question, researchers in France recently ran a very cool experiment...

While this is a HUGE WIN, there's more work to do. It's time to DOUBLE DOWN in pressuring Congress. They need to revoke the OMB Proposal. Members of Congress who fail to stop the Proposal will be out of a job January 3rd, 2027, we will make sure of it. 🧵

The pattern of softening deaths due to public policy decisions with "underlying health issues" is so toxic. How many people over 50 do not have an underlying health issue? I'm pretty healthy but probably have at least two or three of those.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Honored to officially receive notification of my promotion to Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure at the @psychillinois.bsky.social! So grateful to the NIH Director’s DP5 Early Independence Award, mentors, collaborators, students, colleagues, and the families who make this work possible!

This is an outstanding result, but we’re not done yet! The NSF update is still open for comment and not directly impacted. Keep the pressure up! fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

politico.com

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Can we outlaw these betting markets already? (I refuse to whitewash their harm by calling them prediction markets.) They are introducting the opportunity for corruption and bias at every turn in the most important facets of society.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Researchers, doctors and patients said that these prediction markets threaten to undermine the drug development process…. “Turning loose a betting market in an ongoing randomized clinical trial really is a breach of scientific conduct,” Dr. Robert Califf [a former F.D.A. commissioner] said.”

solid sub-head - meaning, good lord:”failed to block funding” so contriving an alternate evil to inflict harm on poor children

Excited to share the lab's latest on leveraging what we're learning from developmental neuroscience about the role of parents in children's anxiety to optimize treatments for youth! Led by Elizabeth Kitt and now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Excited to share this new Pediatrics Perspective co-authored with Dr. Stephanie Reich and Dr. Tiffany Munzer. Practitioners can use this guidance to help caregivers build their capacity to parent effectively in a digitally saturated world. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...

Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap

It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.

politico.com

It takes seven forms, three approvals and finally a mistake to happen for me to get a reimbursement for cheese eaten during a business dinner. Meanwhile:

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7d ago

An Army National Guard officer has admitted to using his government travel card to fund a secret second marriage

Excited to share this paper led by two undergrads in the lab, out now in Neurobiology of Stress! Temporal reorganization of maternal care during early life stress in mice doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

$229 billion = annual amount spent in USA on alcohol $166 billion = annual sports gambling handle in USA (excluding pred markets) $300 billion = annual total gambling handle in the USA (casinos + sports) $600 million = NIAAA annual budget $0 = annual federal research funding for gambling

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · last wk.

#AcademicSky We talk a lot on here about AI-relevant concerns. But we should be talking more about gambling. Wow, that's a TON of money spent on risky activity. What could go wrong? fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

“For nearly half a century, the federal government encouraged international students and scholars to study in the U.S. by allowing them to stay for the duration of their training — regardless of how many years it took. The Trump administration now plans to tear up that long-standing policy”

Visa time limits on foreign Ph.D. students and postdocs will harm U.S. science, experts warn

A Trump administration plan to limit visas for graduate student and postdocs to four years is fueling concerns that the U.S. could lose out on foreign scientists

statnews.com

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy

Applying for an NIH grant is an extremely involved process that requires months of work per application. This is all so stupid but it's also pointlessly cruel to the people trying to have a career in science.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

NIH is testing their ability to terminate “unaligned” grants, with at least one new termination documented. Disgustingly, they awarded this grant simply so they could add a termination clause. Then they terminated it. From @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Yale Psychology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology! Review of applications will begin on September 2, 2026. Link: apply.interfolio.com/188806 Please share widely & apply!

The claim ”Santa does not exist” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that he might just be really good at covering his tracks.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2w ago

I saw this posted elsewhere, and hoped it was just an AI spoof, but sadly, it's a real CDC Webpage, and the information it contains is deeply dangerous and untrue.

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

Berg Curves in the wild! These funding curves--first created by @jeremymberg.bsky.social last year--continue to be one of the more impactful pages on Grant Witness' webpage. Hard to argue that NIH is healthy when the facts are so stark and staring at you in the face.

Britt Lundgren@brittlundgren.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a photo.

Please support the APA Div. 37, Section on Child Maltreatment fundraiser! Our goal is to raise $1k for Community of Hope in Washington, DC, an agency dedicated to improving health, ending homelessness, and creating a more equitable future for children and families. Thank you! gofund.me/501c93bec

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A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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Study in 30,000 kids shows that unpredictable early-life experience is a potent Adverse Childhood Event www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Just dropped in Nature MH, with an amazing team. 🧪🧠 And unpredictability is actionable! would love your thoughts. @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @drkoraly.bsky.social

Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems - Nature Mental Health

In this population-based cohort study, Glynn et al. tested the contribution of childhood unpredictability to mental health outcomes in ~30,000 participants, examining the relative and additive roles o...

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‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...