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Wyoming transplant | Assistant Prof at North Dakota State University | PI of the Social Psychology and Affective Neuroscience in Health (SPANH) Lab | Emotions, loneliness, well-being, EEG, psychophysiology
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What happened when they instituted post-tenure review at Florida? The best professors left.

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Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Testifying tomorrow at a Senate hearing showcasing damage done to HHS by (personnel) terminations 3:00-4:30 convened by Senators Welch and Baldwin. With former leaders from CDC, SAMSHA< AHRQ, ACL (Admin. for Community Living) www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

PI: "this draft is so great, why didn't we write it this way in the first place??" PhD student: "I did, and then you told me to change it"

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

New (and first solo) publication on belonging in school, which I'm presenting at AERA today (April 24 @ 5:25 in Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C). Here's the open-access link, and a very quick summary: What do researchers vs. students really mean when we say “belonging”? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

Told you I was bad at guessing crowds. Local news is estimating 2000. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/t...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

I have learned that the directors of ALL: PREP, IMSD, and IRACDA programs across the country have received similar cancelation notices. This follows previous cancellations of MARC and URISE programs. This further dismantles the mechanisms that enable scientific training opportunities for SO MANY.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

submitted 52 days ago • 132 comments

Head Start, which serves over 800K children and their families all over the country, was hit hard today by the HHS layoffs. <1% of HS’s annual funding is spent on federal staff. nhsa.org/press_releas...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have frozen funding for federal programs that provide support and sustenance to dozens of millions of older adults and people with disabilities, including Meals on Wheels.

submitted 55 days ago • 72 comments

NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 56 days ago • 121 comments

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

submitted 58 days ago • 155 comments

💡(1/4) SPR is pleased to announce the topics for the 2025 Big Idea symposia! Individual abstract submissions can be submitted based on one of two “Big Ideas” & accepted abstracts will be grouped together in symposia organized around the Big Ideas.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Finally some coverage of NIH grant cancelations that asks lawyers, on the record, "isn't this illegal?" (the answer is "yes") www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Roundtable this Wed at the US Senate, on how Trump and Musk are killing research like cancer and Alzheimer’s research. 2:30pm Eastern. There is a livestream. This would be better in primetime and produced for TV, like the Jan 6 Committee did. But it’s a good start from @baldwin.senate.gov.

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here. First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide) bsky.app/profile/rebe...

submitted 63 days ago • 20 comments