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Annmarie MacNamara
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Clinical neuroscientist at Texas A&M
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therealspr.bsky.social
Stop by the SPR Video Booth (In front of the Elevators, 8th Floor) to film a 60–90 second spotlight on your research. Open to all attendees! #2025SPR
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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maclab-brain.bsky.social
The MAClab will be presenting at #2025SPR in Montreal this week! @therealspr.bsky.social

Follow the thread below to see details for each presentation 🧐🧠

#2025SPR #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
Have you seen the keynote speakers of #2025SPR? Join us in Montréal next month!
therealspr.bsky.social Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jan 24
SPR is thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for #2025SPR in Montréal! Submit your abstract here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
September 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
1/3 ✈️ Heading to Montréal for #2025SPR? Don’t forget to check Canada’s entry requirements! shorturl.at/fWidI
September 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
Coming to #2025SPR? Don’t miss Psychophysiology’s “Meet the Editors” breakfast to get insights on journal scope & aims, publication strategies, and the peer-review process!
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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maclab-brain.bsky.social
🎉 Welcome to the MAClab Nicole! 🎉
Nicole is a 1st year Doctoral student who will be joining us this fall - read her description to learn more about her!

#PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
August 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
The #2025SPR Annual Meeting Online Registration Portal is now open! Early bird Registration Rates are available now through Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Register here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
#AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence
July 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
Trainees at #2025SPR — don’t miss our Speed Networking Breakfast!
Get matched with faculty for rapid one-on-one conversations.
Register when you sign up for the conference: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
#AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence
July 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
🚨 Are you attending #2025SPR in Montrèal? Join us for a pre-conference workshop!

📍 Registration opens July 1, 2025: select your workshop when signing up for the annual meeting. Space is limited!

for details see: sprweb.org/2025-annual-...
June 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
macannmarie.bsky.social
This happened to a friend. Although their Fulbright application had done well at internal review in the US in December, they were surprised to hear in May that it was turned down. In this case, the host country, which knew the application should’ve been awarded, will fund the project anyways.
May 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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therealspr.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit your abstract for #2025SPR! spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
April 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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dpmoriarity.bsky.social
Just received word that our post-bacc RA position at the UPenn Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab should go live this week. Will post the link when it does but, for now, here' s a link with the description. Please repost + share with your team!
tinyurl.com/ycyzmmdx
March 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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therealspr.bsky.social
(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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vvsmider.bsky.social
My story: I’m a single father and cancer researcher whose wife died of a rare cancer. Science and biomedical research is personal to me. Here is my op-ed in my hometown newspaper. Pls fwd.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
www.vindy.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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nytopinion.nytimes.com
University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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maclab-brain.bsky.social
THANK YOU to everyone who showed up to #standupforscience at Texas A&M!! 🥰✊🧪

#sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
March 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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maclab-brain.bsky.social
Join us this Friday at 12pm to ‼️STAND UP FOR SCIENCE‼️ at Texas A&M University

Rally at Academic Plaza near the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Statue. Feel free to bring posters and spread the word.

standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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maxkozlov.bsky.social
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.

Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.

All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
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 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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dconrad.bsky.social
With alt text added:
Jasmeet Hayes, Ph.D. Scarlet & Gray Associate Professor... I was just informed that my NIH research study section meeting that was to be held TOMORROW IS CANCELLED. This panel reviews grants on brain injury, neurovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and epilepsy—issues that affect all Americans, regardless of their background. The exact language of a very tersely worded email was that it "will be rescheduled to a later date, yet to be determined." Exactly when will there be another time 30+ scientists will be able to [set] aside two whole days to discuss close to 100 grants? This panel is planned a year in advance. The grants I spent so many hours reviewing, and the work that the principal investigators have dedicated their professional lives to, will not be reviewed. This is going to delay life-saving, innovative treatments. This is more widespread than just my panel; other NIH panels have similarly been cancelled. I am worried about the future of our country as the world's science superpower.
February 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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cantlonlab.bsky.social
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
Science Homecoming
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February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
Thank you! There is a simple thing to do:
You can call up your local newspaper and TV station and offer to talk about what is happening.
February 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:

Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Feb 13
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.

This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
It is natural to want to sink into nihilism. To say “well there’s nothing we can do” and put full trust in the courts, or just shrink into a small bubble and ignore the news and the outside world.

Sometimes, that’s necessary. If you need to do it now, do it. But optimism is a choice you can make.
February 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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immigrantsareus.bsky.social
This is one way NIH funding is still largely paused:
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 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
macannmarie.bsky.social
Senator Ted Cruz recently released a database of more than 3000 NSF grants that he says misappropriated taxpayer money by spending it on "woke DEI" research.

So why do grants that seemingly have nothing to do with woke ideology contain words such as "underrepresented"?
Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
www.commerce.senate.gov
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM