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Psychology Professor - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Affective Neuroscientist | Lover of books, travel, hockey, and loud music in the car | she/her
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

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A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

#match2025 #APPIC For anyone who didn't match today, there are some WONDERFUL positions still available in Phase 2. Check us out!

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So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

New preprint with @nateurneuro.bsky.social and the AURORA study team. We find that residential segregation is associated with alterations in hippocampal microstructure and threat reactivity through increased exposure to PM2.5 and NO2. Public health 🤝 neuroscience. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 4 days ago • 454 comments

I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities! www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

that’s right.

submitted 13 days ago • 426 comments

I come from the right. It’s the cruelty. For the right, the cruelty is the point. The cruelty sells.

submitted 14 days ago • 1361 comments

Stay strong my friends. Rest. Recharge. Dig deep. We need each other and the country needs us. I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. Albert Camus, The Plague

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

The Musk coup is at five alarm fire. I just received this text from a friend: @hcrichardson.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @midastouchmedia.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @sethabramson.bsky.social #Musk # Coup

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

Among the ideas internally kicked around the Trump and Musk teams was the thought of planting younger informers or “spies” in different parts of the federal government to gain the trust of offices and teams suspected of anti-MAGA sentiments. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 18 days ago • 89 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 18 days ago • 923 comments

For all federal employees: Organized by @raskin.house.gov W/ reps from @democracyforward.bsky.social GAP AFGE

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The NIH REAP program (nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2018/12/... )appears to have been terminated.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

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I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

I am starting a thread of links to federal sites on the Wayback Machine, before the current vandalism. Please RT and add to this list! CDC: web.archive.org/web/20250129... NIH: web.archive.org/web/20250129... USAID: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments