Marianna Zhang
@mariannazhang.bsky.social
developmental cognitive scientist & (terminated) NSF postdoc fellow @ NYU | social categories, development, language, climbing, caving | 🗽🌬️🌉🗽 | she/她
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Marianna Zhang
@mariannazhang.bsky.social
· Apr 26
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
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Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
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Absolutely chilling story by @aniloza.bsky.social on censorship in grant titles at NIH and how researchers are complying and sometimes fighting back. "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word equity," said one program officer. "It's highly effective." www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Absolutely chilling story by @aniloza.bsky.social on censorship in grant titles at NIH and how researchers are complying and sometimes fighting back. "They are trying to make people afraid to use the word equity," said one program officer. "It's highly effective." www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
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Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...
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Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows
We encourage early career scholars to pursue a career in academia by supporting their postdoctoral work at Princeton
dof.princeton.edu
September 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Princeton is running its Presidential Postdoctoral Program again this year. If you are interested in applying to work with me, please reach out by October 10 so that I can consider all interested applicants and support a candidate for my lab this year.
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...
dof.princeton.edu/faculty-deve...
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New: A legal challenge to NSF's 1600+ grant terminations just hit a roadblock. Judge Cobb (appointed by Biden) ruled against the plaintiffs, largely on the basis that district courts no longer have jurisdiction for contract-based APA violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
New: A legal challenge to NSF's 1600+ grant terminations just hit a roadblock. Judge Cobb (appointed by Biden) ruled against the plaintiffs, largely on the basis that district courts no longer have jurisdiction for contract-based APA violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨
🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks
#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵
July 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵
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🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.
See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.
🧵 1/3
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We can’t depend on a filibuster to “solve” a bad budget for either the NIH or NSF. You need to follow this advocacy alert and make sure those budgets are better than the huge cuts proposed. www.ascb.org/society-news...
Protect NIH and NSF Funding – Your Voice Is Urgently Needed - ASCB
In the next six weeks, Congressional committees will decide how much funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will receive for Fiscal Year 2026. While ...
www.ascb.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We can’t depend on a filibuster to “solve” a bad budget for either the NIH or NSF. You need to follow this advocacy alert and make sure those budgets are better than the huge cuts proposed. www.ascb.org/society-news...
I reference this resource *so* frequently, super readable and helpful! highly recommend to anyone who does experiments!
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I reference this resource *so* frequently, super readable and helpful! highly recommend to anyone who does experiments!
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Per the NSF website, the agency is reinstating 114 awards as a result of a preliminary injunction that was issued last week.
Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
June 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Per the NSF website, the agency is reinstating 114 awards as a result of a preliminary injunction that was issued last week.
Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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The FY26 budget will devastate our innovation driven economy. A summary in 3 parts...
Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more).
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more).
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
June 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The FY26 budget will devastate our innovation driven economy. A summary in 3 parts...
Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more).
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
Part 1 - The White House vision for dismantling science, as described in one simple plot, means slashing budgets of NIH, NASA, NSF & going back 25 years (or more).
joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/the-white-...
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So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
prospect.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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Undergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
LPS Summer Development Program – August 11th to 15th, 2025
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March 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Undergrads interested in philosophy of science? Please share that applications are open for our summer development program! lpssdp.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025.
I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now.
A (sad) thread /1
I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now.
A (sad) thread /1
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025.
I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now.
A (sad) thread /1
I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now.
A (sad) thread /1
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"The mass cancellation of grants in response to political policy shifts has no precedent, former and current NIH officials told ProPublica. It threatens the stability of the institution and the scientific enterprise of the nation at large."
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
projects.propublica.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"The mass cancellation of grants in response to political policy shifts has no precedent, former and current NIH officials told ProPublica. It threatens the stability of the institution and the scientific enterprise of the nation at large."
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COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order www.cos.io/about/news/c...
COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order
The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally...
www.cos.io
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order www.cos.io/about/news/c...
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We provide free resources for scientists to understand their rights, including:
🔬 Free legal advice & representation to scientists
⚖️ Legal aid clinics at conferences
📚 Educational workshops & resources
Find out more, including how to contact us, at www.csldf.org/legal-servic...
🔬 Free legal advice & representation to scientists
⚖️ Legal aid clinics at conferences
📚 Educational workshops & resources
Find out more, including how to contact us, at www.csldf.org/legal-servic...
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All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
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 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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for those with NSF grant terminations: upcoming office hours (today and next week) + info on drawdown costs + appeal letter template, from @fabbs.org
NSF Grant Terminations – FABBS Office Hours
FABBS has arranged for Amanda Miller, www.seventhstreetstrategies.com, (speaker at recent FABBS webinar) to hold office hours to answer questions live. These sessions will be limited to 50 attende…
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May 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
for those with NSF grant terminations: upcoming office hours (today and next week) + info on drawdown costs + appeal letter template, from @fabbs.org
NSF claiming that research on misinformation infringes on free speech is laughable. if the administration is looking for censorship, maybe they should take a look in the mirror
Foreign adversaries are pumping disinformation into our social media networks, but we know very little about the consequences let alone how to ameliorate them.
For years, Republicans have harassed us for studying this. Now, NSF has canceled all funding. It’s a profound lapse in national security.
For years, Republicans have harassed us for studying this. Now, NSF has canceled all funding. It’s a profound lapse in national security.
Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NSF claiming that research on misinformation infringes on free speech is laughable. if the administration is looking for censorship, maybe they should take a look in the mirror
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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."