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Ryan M Sullivan
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Clinical Psych PhD; Substance Use, Neuroimaging, Affect, Neuropsych; UCSD; he/him 🏳️‍🌈
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89 of my journal articles were used to train Meta’s AI. You can alert the lawyers handling the class action suit if your intellectual works were used as well at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com.
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Commenting in my code that I plan to upload on OSF/Github: "#i know there are likely more efficient ways to do this, please don't judge me"
August 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Extremely grateful to receive the Clinical Post-doc Enoch Gordis Award at @rsaofficial.bsky.social this year! Presented on utility of virtual reality in alcohol cue-reactivity and associations with measures of heart rate! #RSA_ISBRA2025
June 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Trump's proposed budget would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
www.motherjones.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This may be old news, but I came across this Atlantic post, which indicates that a few of my manuscripts (and likely yours too) were included in a dataset that Meta supposedly used to train their Llama AI: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬

🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:

• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more

NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
April 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
March 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

bit.ly/3X8ngz8
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 11:23 PM
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BREAKING

On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders

On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Our Perspective article on the neuroscience of addiction remission will appear in the February 2025 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Kudos to first author Michel Engeln who did all the heavy lifting!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say

“The DEA’s proposal […] would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs.”

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April 30, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM