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Academics, I know the ongoing damage to federal funding agencies is horrible. But I beg you, while you fight to keep your own house running, keep your eyes on the bigger picture, which has stakes far beyond science. There is an authoritarian takeover of the entire federal government happening now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Our ARM study section was just cancelled. It was supposed to meet tomorrow. Told it would be rescheduled later in the year, no further information.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

5200 people. They just received notices apparently.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Some of our members have submitted a letter to Meta protesting their revised policy on hateful conduct that now allows allegations of mental illness on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity You can read the letter and list of signatories here: www.hitop-system.org/letter-to-meta 1/2

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉 #AcademicSky #Psychology @drjuandeltoro.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ashleylwatts.bsky.social @minuekim.bsky.social @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @markthornton.bsky.social @gemmasharpe.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to @ashleylwatts.bsky.social (and others) for winning the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative contributions to psychology! Very well deserved. Ashley has influenced my thinking on nosology a lot. I mean she may reify the p factor but we all have flaws/s

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 1573 comments

They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

If you are on a study section that will not be reviewing diversity fellowships but will be reviewing "regular" fellowships, your next move is clear. Do not participate in the review unless all submissions can be reviewed together. Reclassify diversity grants as "regular" grants & review them all

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I removed the ID of the posters but at what point do we have a moral imperative here? I would not want to participate in a process that explicitly discriminated against minorities. If the applications aren’t reviewed they are basically rejected no? Pull out of the reviews.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

A new fun thing: p-factor researchers are now accusing ***ME*** of reifying the p-factor.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Testing addiction theories at home People with alcohol use disorder, but with no desire to stop drinking, report changes in subjective experience during drinking that refute the hedonic allostasis theory of addiction. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Not the biggest problem we're facing right now, but wow it's annoying that when this guy shares my work everyone tells him how brilliant he is and when I share it I get random dudes swinging by to tell me I can't do maths

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

submitted 22 days ago • 57 comments

Donald Trump has ordered schools and universities to be even more deferential to male students accused of sexual violence. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders...

submitted 21 days ago • 145 comments