Sarah C Boyle, PhD
@sarysavvy.bsky.social
Social Psychologist and Senior Research Scientist at LMU. I study digital media, perceptions of norms, substance use, & LGBTQ+ health.
It appears our R01 grant got reinstated via our appeal!
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It appears our R01 grant got reinstated via our appeal!
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Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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The Trump admin can appeal this, but for now, this seems like good news. Not many details in this article...waiting for more information about how many of these illegally canceled grants will be restored. www.axios.com/local/boston...
Judge orders Trump admin. to restore hundreds of terminated NIH grants
"I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," the judge said.
www.axios.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Trump admin can appeal this, but for now, this seems like good news. Not many details in this article...waiting for more information about how many of these illegally canceled grants will be restored. www.axios.com/local/boston...
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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist.
That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.
How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔
www.notus.org/health-scien...
That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.
How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist.
That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.
How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔
www.notus.org/health-scien...
That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.
How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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for the record, this is a nightmare.
You and me, we gonna live forever… as avatars, at least.
New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife.
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New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife.
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You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least
New ‘grief tech’ apps allow grieving families to communicate with dead relatives via an AI afterlife
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May 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
for the record, this is a nightmare.
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Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.
April 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.
“People fuck around but then I have to find out” - my wife
April 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“People fuck around but then I have to find out” - my wife
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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Yet another horrible, wasteful decision…
Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yet another horrible, wasteful decision…
*round of applause* 👏
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
1/
April 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
*round of applause* 👏
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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...
@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
🚨🚨 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...
@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...
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The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)
Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*."
Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
Here's the internal e-mail that outlines all this.
March 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)
Perfect soundtrack for getting your grant cancelled guys
Bloom
Maribou State, Gaidaa · Bloom · Song · 2024
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March 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Perfect soundtrack for getting your grant cancelled guys
My first R01 as a PI was just cancelled 😩. Will add it to the Google spreadsheet as soon as I can muster the energy
March 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My first R01 as a PI was just cancelled 😩. Will add it to the Google spreadsheet as soon as I can muster the energy
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"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
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New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
undark.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
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Coming up on @ktla.com: The American Psychological Assn is warning about potentially fatal consequences from people interacting with chatbots posing as mental health professionals. The app offering make-believe therapy says it's just entertainment
February 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Coming up on @ktla.com: The American Psychological Assn is warning about potentially fatal consequences from people interacting with chatbots posing as mental health professionals. The app offering make-believe therapy says it's just entertainment
Claude 3.7 has made my Monday. Thanks Anthropic!
February 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Claude 3.7 has made my Monday. Thanks Anthropic!
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Remaking this commercial? In this economy? And with these egg prices?
February 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Remaking this commercial? In this economy? And with these egg prices?
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Put tariffs on the podcast mics. Enough.
February 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Put tariffs on the podcast mics. Enough.
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To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years
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February 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
goodscience.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...