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Elana M. Gloger, PhD
@elanagloger.bsky.social
👩🏼‍🔬T32 Postdoc — Dept. of Epidemiology @ University of Pittsburgh
🔍PNI, stress, midlife aging, biostats
🎓UKY & OhioU alum, former Penn State postdoc

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SO excited to announce that I've accepted a T32 postdoc fellowship in the 'Population Neuroscience of Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease' program at the University of Pittsburgh!

Thrilled to have this opportunity after an already *incredible* year at Penn State.

www.ebrain.pitt.edu/training/#tr...
T32 Training Grant - eBrain - Epidemiology of Brain Resilience to Aging
www.ebrain.pitt.edu
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Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:

Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3

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November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️

🗓️ June 22–25, 2026
📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸

✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy!

📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The October issue of BSAM covers topics spanning discrimination, neighborhood opportunities, fear learning processes, with implications for cardiovascular reactivity, biological aging, among others.

Read more: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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#PNIRS2025 Calling all postdocs through pre-tenured faculty to join us on Wednesday at 18:00 for the Early Career Researchers Social! A great way to give early career investigators a chance to chat about the interview process, transition to faculty position, and experiences starting up your own lab!
June 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“The funding rate of grant proposals is expected to drop from 26 percent to just 7 percent, meaning the vast majority of grants submitted to the NSF will be a waste of time.”
June 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wouldn't have gone to college without the support of Pell grants. I wouldn't have ended up in grad school or with a PhD or anything I'm currently doing in my life.

Pell grants are so so so important for students who qualify for them.
Pell grant cuts threaten state college access goals

In my latest, I explain how the multipronged cuts to federal financial aid would shift costs to states, who in turn will likely have to shift costs to students to take on more debt or forego college

www.brookings.edu/articles/pel...
Pell grant cuts threaten state college access goals
Katharine Meyer explains how federal aid cuts to Pell and work-study programs shift costs to states and threaten college access.
www.brookings.edu
June 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions.

Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor.

This will hurt women everywhere.
Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals
The Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy requiring hospitals to perform emergency abortions regardless of state abortion laws.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Really important and visually compelling story here, featuring the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers.

We need overwhelming public support to save American research. Please contact your electeds.
June 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Excited to present this symposium at #PNIRS2025 with two amazing PNI scientists! ✨

Bringing our work together, we will explore whether different inflammatory processes carry not only mechanistic differences, but also distinct and nuanced clinical implications for mood & reward-related dysfunctions.
🚨 Get EXCITED — We are just *ONE WEEK* away from #PNIRS2025!!! 👏🏼🤩

Are you ready to bookmark our final #highlights?

📌 Member-Sponsored Symposia 5 & 6
🗓️ Thu, Jun 12 8:30–10 AM

For Details >> 🧵

Spread 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 word 👏🏼

#PNIRS #PNI #Psychoneuroimmunology #Science #France #Bordeaux 🇫🇷
June 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Big update to scienceimpacts.org: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities.

This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.
May 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Another week, another call to U.S. Congress! Contact your Representative and Senators & urge them to support investments in #NSF and #NIH. #APS25DC
Here's a script to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now
Act Now: Share your Concerns with Your Representative and Senators
It does not matter whether your Representative or Senators agree with you. They must hear from you to understand how federal policy changes are influencing the people they were elected to represent.
www.psychologicalscience.org
May 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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✨Calling all early-career & senior researchers‼️

We are planning next year's series of talks and would like to hear your suggestions @pnirs.bsky.social

Are you interested in presenting your own research or have a researcher you would love to hear from? Let us know here: bit.ly/pixie2026
May 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg
#academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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American Adults are on the same page on these, and the top two most opposed Trump policies are:
1) 77% oppose Reducing federal funding for medical research
2) 70% oppose Increasing the federal government's role in how private universities operate

Pass it on!

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
April 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight...

www.publicsource.org/national-day...

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Pitt scholars urge resistance to Trump attacks on higher ed
As the Trump administration makes demands of Harvard and other universities, local scholars and their allies asked Pitt to ‘stand up.’
www.publicsource.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ah yes, my favorite paradox...(worth the read!)
Thoughtful paper showing that true within-person effects don't always translate to between-person differences and discussion of why that might be.

By Neubauer, Koval, Zyphur, & Hamaker

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
April 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In a recent BSAM paper, Riley O'Neill & colleagues examined how experimentally manipulated stress varying in vigilance demand may elicit differing biobehavioral responses and if responses varied by the type of stress.

Free to read for the week so share widely! journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Examining Impacts of Situational Stress on Cardiovascular... : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
nd whether persistent vigilance demand was matched by sustained physiological activation. Methods: A final sample of 135 undergraduate young adults (49% male, 51% female; Mage=19 y, SDage=4 y) was ...
journals.lww.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!
April 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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With only generic measures of stress, we miss out on important context around how aspects of one's identity affect links between stress & health. #psychscisky

Dr. Giscombé reflected on this issue & how she began to develop the concept of Superwoman Schema in the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle:
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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🚨🚨 Here we go! 🚨🚨

@protectdemocracy.org, @cspi.bsky.social, and @aclu.org have sued RFK and his cronies at HHS to halt illegal grant terminations.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835...
April 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
storage.courtlistener.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM