Emily Perkins, PhD
@emilyrperkins.bsky.social
UPenn postdoc studying externalizing & its mitigation; FSU clinical psych PhD 🐰 she/her
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go…
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
August 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go…
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.
Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.
Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Government officials described how they found the names of pro-Palestinian student and faculty activists and gave insights into the confidential memos that led to their arrests. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #edusky
AAUP v. Rubio Reveals Details of Deportation Efforts
Government officials described how they found the names of pro-Palestinian student and faculty activists and gave insights into the confidential memos that led to their arrests.
www.insidehighered.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Government officials described how they found the names of pro-Palestinian student and faculty activists and gave insights into the confidential memos that led to their arrests. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #edusky
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What a win! Congratulations, @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!
July 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What a win! Congratulations, @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!
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Fund SEPTA!
Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus.
It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap.
Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!
Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus.
It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap.
Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!
🚗 Waymo has arrived in Philly.
But you can’t catch a ride in one of their driverless cars just yet.
🔗 inquirer.com/transportati...
But you can’t catch a ride in one of their driverless cars just yet.
🔗 inquirer.com/transportati...
Waymo driverless taxis will hit Philly streets this summer
Expect to see the autonomous cars downtown and on highways, as they "get to know the city."
inquirer.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fund SEPTA!
Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus.
It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap.
Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!
Philly doesn’t want your shady Uber bus.
It doesn’t want your Waymo death trap.
Fund the good old public transit! Literally for goodness sakes!
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Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
June 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
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I mask so I don’t get sick because being sick sucks! But more than that, it’s a way to protect and show solidarity with vulnerable/disabled people who have been forcibly displaced from society writ large by COVID (and continue to be). If we don’t value those people, we are truly lost.
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I mask so I don’t get sick because being sick sucks! But more than that, it’s a way to protect and show solidarity with vulnerable/disabled people who have been forcibly displaced from society writ large by COVID (and continue to be). If we don’t value those people, we are truly lost.
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New pre-print! Just submitted the R&R for this collab with @keananjoyner.bsky.social + @emilyrperkins.bsky.social on using techniques to test biology as predictors of multiple levels of psychopathology (e.g., syndrome + symptom) as a path forward for precision psychiatry
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New pre-print! Just submitted the R&R for this collab with @keananjoyner.bsky.social + @emilyrperkins.bsky.social on using techniques to test biology as predictors of multiple levels of psychopathology (e.g., syndrome + symptom) as a path forward for precision psychiatry
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: For the second time in as many months, the NIH withdrew applications to a grant program for doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky
NIH Again Tosses Grant Applications for Program That Funds Minority Researchers
The agency, for the second time this year, has withdrawn applications for the F31 diversity fellowship, which is designed to “promote diversity in health-related research.”
www.chronicle.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: For the second time in as many months, the NIH withdrew applications to a grant program for doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
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Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
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March 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
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Lindsay Fernandez is a cancer researcher. She’s afraid the cuts that the Trump Administration is making won’t just hurt us now, but will discourage researchers for years to come.
We need to listen to our researchers. It’s time to invest in science - not cut it. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
We need to listen to our researchers. It’s time to invest in science - not cut it. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Lindsay Fernandez is a cancer researcher. She’s afraid the cuts that the Trump Administration is making won’t just hurt us now, but will discourage researchers for years to come.
We need to listen to our researchers. It’s time to invest in science - not cut it. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
We need to listen to our researchers. It’s time to invest in science - not cut it. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
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I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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New episode out! 🧪
The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on.
On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...
The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on.
On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...
The War on Science
open.spotify.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
New episode out! 🧪
The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on.
On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...
The Trump administration has thrown the science world into chaos. We talk to @maxkozlov.bsky.social at @nature.com and Jocelyn Kaiser at @science.org about what's going on.
On Spotify or wherever you listen 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/56Co...
This whole thread is worth a read to understand better what’s happening to science. I got an email today saying that the study section for my K23, which was *scheduled for today,* is now indefinitely delayed. Countless jobs are at risk, in addition to those already lost (I see you, NIH friends).
The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today.
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This whole thread is worth a read to understand better what’s happening to science. I got an email today saying that the study section for my K23, which was *scheduled for today,* is now indefinitely delayed. Countless jobs are at risk, in addition to those already lost (I see you, NIH friends).
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The press has a big role to play in shining light of what is going on...
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The press has a big role to play in shining light of what is going on...
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I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
February 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...