mabsher
@mabsher.bsky.social
Psychologist at UNC-CH studying adversity, brain development, psychopathology. Just here for the science.
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Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.
Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
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Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
1/3
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
SO excited to present the beautifully validated new deprivation & threat questionnaire- final answer to the question “but how do you measure this?” Lead author Angelina Tsai, grad student extraordinaire! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure - Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Peter F. Halpin, Lucy Lurie, Meredith Gruhn, Maya Rosen, Donald H. Baucom, Michael B. Sarabosing, S...
Research on the developmental consequences of early adversity has grown rapidly, yet measures of childhood adversity have not kept pace with evolving theoretica...
journals.sagepub.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
SO excited to present the beautifully validated new deprivation & threat questionnaire- final answer to the question “but how do you measure this?” Lead author Angelina Tsai, grad student extraordinaire! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Great work, NIH
"Some NIH employees have previously come forward in televised protests to air grievances, and many walked out of Bhattacharya’s town hall with staff. The declaration is the first cohesive effort to register agency-wide dismay with the NIH’s direction. "
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#BethesdaDeclartion
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#BethesdaDeclartion
NIH scientists go public to denounce Trump’s deep cuts in health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers sign letter criticizing agency policies: ‘We dissent’
zurl.co
June 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Great work, NIH
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You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable.
It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.
It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.
June 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable.
It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.
It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function | PNAS
The human cortex undergoes immense change in the first years of life, doubling in
thickness within the first year and evidencing the greatest chang...
www.pnas.org
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
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BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
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May 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
@financialtimes.com
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#BRAEN The new Brain and Environment has a special issue coming up edited by @evatelzer.bsky.social 😍 consider submitting: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...
Call for papers - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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May 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#BRAEN The new Brain and Environment has a special issue coming up edited by @evatelzer.bsky.social 😍 consider submitting: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...
GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...
Call for papers - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...
Amen sister
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets.
They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data.
They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light.
We will not lay down and take this.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
May 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Amen sister
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Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.
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🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬
April 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬
New special issue on social media & the brain from #BRAEN www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New special issue on social media & the brain from #BRAEN www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
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@kingsioppn.bsky.social
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April 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li!
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)
I wrote a piece for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader on the importance of supporting federally funded research for the health and economic well-being of South Dakotans! Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration & resources! #sciencehomecoming
“Wagner is a community where caring for others comes as second nature,” writes Professor Jenalee Doom. Those same values launched her path into science, and she calls for protecting research that strengthens communities like her hometown in South Dakota. 🦅
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www.argusleader.com/story/opinio...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
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April 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
In defense of our institutional independence
This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.
www.michigandaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Two newly-minted doctors this week!!! @nicolasmurgueitio.bsky.social and Lucy Lurie🥳🎉👏🍾
April 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Two newly-minted doctors this week!!! @nicolasmurgueitio.bsky.social and Lucy Lurie🥳🎉👏🍾
Super excited and proud to receive the Linda Speer award from @fluxsociety.bsky.social (fluxsociety.org/awards/linda...) See you all in Dublin!!! #Flux2025
Linda Spear Mid-career - Flux Society
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April 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Super excited and proud to receive the Linda Speer award from @fluxsociety.bsky.social (fluxsociety.org/awards/linda...) See you all in Dublin!!! #Flux2025
And WHILE I'M HERE @connormhaughey.bsky.social will be joining me as a graduate student next year and he got an NSFGRP!!! IN THIS CLIMATE!
April 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
And WHILE I'M HERE @connormhaughey.bsky.social will be joining me as a graduate student next year and he got an NSFGRP!!! IN THIS CLIMATE!