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I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful paper led by the very talented @mkobas.bsky.social and my fav collaborator @tilbegoksun.bsky.social. I am generally a big fan of beautiful descriptive statistics and Mert did an amazing job in this paper! Enjoy!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper: "Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

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Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

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“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

submitted 43 days ago • 18 comments

Another wonderful collaboration with the best team! Congrats Ibrahim for leading this effort.

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JUST dropped! Neuron review with Matt Birnie on the evolving neurobiology of early-life stress. Where is our field? what are our challenges? where and how do we move forward? www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... would love your thoughts🧠🧪 @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

New publication alert from our former post-doc Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira & Tilbe Göksun! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. scientists: Have you contacted Congress this week? #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Science Here’s a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting child characteristics with parental input types. Final version by Tilbe Göksun & al. @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12524 Paper: tinyurl.com/4kut2n9s

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group is looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here: delauro.house.gov/constituent-... delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Very handy visual aids for contacting representatives or media - Cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs! Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/ RSVP (optional) www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful example of science communication 💜https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/02/13/indirect-costs-collaboration-nih-cancer-research-thrive-medicine-doge/78474634007/

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

submitted 69 days ago • 46 comments

Another great approach for scientist opeds, writing for your hometown paper about the importance of science funding. (Ungated copy in the original thread)

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪 More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

What is your university doing to protect, support, or at least community with faculty right now?

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The court has granted our request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal government from unlawfully sharing personal financial data with DOGE. This must now stop, pending a full hearing, and any downloaded data must be deleted.

submitted 79 days ago • 65 comments

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

UW-Madison on proposed NIH indirect cost cap: “This proposed change to NIH funding–UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support–will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more.” 1/x

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The United States by virtue of a bipartisan commitment to biomedical research created one of the most vibrant, productive research ecosytems in the world. People came from all over to study here, do research here. It was a monumental accomplishment by both parties. 1/

submitted 78 days ago • 33 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 79 days ago • 73 comments

These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars

submitted 79 days ago • 47 comments

This indeed effects science globally. Cost-cutting logic does not work. NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 invested.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing" @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

submitted 79 days ago • 37 comments

Looking forward to this!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Shame on this administration! A global disaster, voluntarily caused, is under way, we cannot stay silent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I think this drawing of Laura Bell is the sweetest thing I have seen in a while 🧠❤️, and the ideal graphical abstract for the paper we published about #EEG and #fNIRS last October www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #brain

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.

submitted 84 days ago • 172 comments

So Elon Musk, a foreign-born individual who has not been elected, vetted by Congress, or passed a security clearance, can access gov’t computer systems including private payment records & personnel files? Imagine if a Dem prez gave George Soros the same power. Dem electeds need to yell about this!

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

Remember when Hillary got pilloried for using a private email server because it compromised gov't info? Musk's team is allegedly moving sensitive data onto their own servers. We need Dem Congress people on TV shouting about this and we need rallies & protests all over this country!

submitted 84 days ago • 11 comments

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

submitted 85 days ago • 964 comments

Now updated with the breaking news that Elon Musk's team has been granted full access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.

submitted 85 days ago • 90 comments

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 89 days ago • 67 comments

Breaking news: A judge temporarily blocked President Trump from imposing a sweeping pause on federal spending, after the new White House policy disrupted programs that fund schools, provide housing and ensure low-income Americans have access to healthcare.

submitted 89 days ago • 56 comments

University of Chicago is asking researchers to halt purchases, starting new experiments, and travel in light of the federal pause on grants

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Dear fellow scientists, Go talk to the press about what is going on. Talk to local news about how it will impact jobs. Be specific, but don't pity yourself. Instead focus on how your own situation affects local jobs, the national economy, beating the growing scientific race with China. Suggestions:

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments