jrpeters.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 12 hours ago • 83 comments

It feels especially poignant to highlight that all of the “lessons learned” shared in this paper came from our collective experiences conducting NIMH-funded suicide research - and the paper itself was inspired by our NIMH colleagues who are dedicated champions of suicide prevention in the US.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This article provides a helpful summary and @katiew.bsky.social is quoted!!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Good story up on funding lag from WESA, an NPR station in Pittsburgh. www.wesa.fm/health-scien... 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you don’t match to an #APPIC internship today and are wondering what next, join us Monday evening to get some tips about how to move forward with the process in Phase 2 and beyond. This is not the end! #clinicalpsychology

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 345 comments

Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

The state of Texas refused to study the health impact of the abortion ban. So ProPublica did and turns out sepsis rates for pregnant women jumped. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Quick story on this and some other things I've heard from inside NIH:

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Example here of NIH scientists being unready to deal with Trump and Musk. Aspects of the grants memo were blatantly illegal and the legal justification in it was stupid. They were given an hour? Someone at NIH should have noted the illegality and found a way to delay —then leaked it like crazy. 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1005 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1218 comments

The head of the Autism, ADHD, and Externalizing Disorders Interventions Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health was fired over the weekend, 21 days shy of the end of her one year probationary period. She posted about it on fb.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 3 days ago • 2652 comments

Canceling study sections will have real consequences for life-saving research, meaning it won’t be able to get to the people who need it most. Call your congress representatives, your governor, and tell your communities about the importance of science funding—and join us on March 7th. ☀️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NIH is remains functionally frozen, due to a technicality that prevents new grants (that we spend so much time and energy writing) from being reviewed/scored for potential funding. Until this is fixed, they are still killing science, even if the last grants that got through in time are being funded.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🚨This should be amplified!! Study sections and council meetings are still being cancelled despite the court order unblocking NIH freezes, effectively halting any new research grant from being funded: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 4 days ago • 239 comments

RFK Jr wants to take mentally ill people off of meds and put them in labor camps w/o connection to the outside. He also has explicitly said this needs to happen specifically for many Black children, in case it wasn't clear this is eugenics dressed up in wellness-speak about organic farming etc.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New guest post! Excluding "careless" responses is a routine practice in many contexts. But if careless responding itself is an outcome of the variables of interest, that may actually cause trouble.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

New paper - coefficients like alpha/omega are commonly reported to summarize reliability. A sneaky nuance is that reliability is actually different at each score in the data. Paper tries to quantify how representative alpha/omega are of a typical score. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Rhode Island #50501 protests today. Favorite sign which I did not snap a picture of - " Rejecting Kings Since 1776"

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 6 days ago • 819 comments

Again please share our study on the executive orders in academia iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We have been hard at work this weekend getting organized! 🚨IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE THE CHOPS TO LEAD A PROTEST SITE FILL OUT THE FORM🚨 Our goal is to solidify protest locations by FRIDAY 2/21! So, let’s get cracking, everyone! FOLLOW FOR UPDATES @standupforscience.bsky.social #scienceforall

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I have heard that the same is true for those fired at NIH. They dismissed some of the brightest stars with exceptional performance reviews, solely because their position was vulnerable. Imagine how you would feel being told that this was about your performance!?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Just wait until the women’s sports supporters who got caught up in the anti-trans propaganda of the Trump campaign realize that Title IX (the civil rights act that mandated equal support of — and therefore catalyzed the rise of — girl’s and women’s sports) is “DEI”.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans. By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/42Wifxr

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

My latest for @thenation.com.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 9 days ago • 105 comments

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 96 days ago • 457 comments

This is the administration that claimed, if elected, it would “protect women’s sports.” That was always a transparently thin lie.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general. The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional. Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

submitted 10 days ago • 212 comments