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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD

@amyjimenez.bsky.social
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Clinical neuroscientist Social functioning, outcomes, and mechanisms | SMI | Homelessness | Neuroscience Science, sports, politics - not always in that order. *Views my own, obviously.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thank you @acnporg.bsky.social and the incredibly impressive panel for the excellent, important session on sex and gender in neuropsychopharmacology research. #acnp2026
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Happening now: Fascinating updates on the growing field of social psychopharmacology by my superstar friend, UCLA Asst Prof Anya Bershad and colleagues! @acnporg.bsky.social @uclagreenlab.bsky.social #ACNP2026
Woman, Dr. Bershad, at podium next to screen with talk title slide.
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Woke up to this incredible view this morning! Feeling grateful to @acnporg.bsky.social for the lovely location and the opportunity to attend. Very ready to soak up the science. #ACNP2026
Ocean view with palm trees and pools, at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Ocean view with palm trees in foreground, at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”
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RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol
Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hear! effing Hear! [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The horror continues…
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...
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NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years
But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So exhausting..
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‘Maybe we need the same level of turmoil and concern when innocent kids are killed in school. Everyone’s talking about Charlie Kirk. Maybe we should be taking about all the kids who’ve been shot’ - my 16yo’s comment
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
So very sad, so very wrong. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...
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Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours
More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's amazing that ICE can use the color of your skin to profile for your arrest, but universities can't use it to understand the background that you grew up in.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too The misogyny was always a core point
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/09/2025
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. And guess what, taxpayers are going to pay for it.
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US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill
A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ... Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?"
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.)

Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April.

But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.”

According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A voice of sanity within this absolutely insane ruling. The SCOTUS has officially corrupted itself. The fascist, police state is here.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
It's really not rocket science.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There needs to be a political push for a right to an offline life. Like require the existence a paper form and a way to unsubscribe by post
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June. Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
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When Will Greenland’s Ice Disappear? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This may turn out to be really bad. By removing all members of USPSTF, he can place whoever he wants without congressional oversight and they can take away health insurance coverage for preventive screenings, HIV testing, etc. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A Democratic commissioner on the F.C.C. said in a statement that the F.C.C. is now imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s Merger With Paramount
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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/07/2025
PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Earlier today we said everyone should oppose the current rescission package, even though it does not include #NIH provisions. We said this bill will embolden Trump and Vought to enact massive NIH budget cuts via another rescission. Now Vought confirms. 1/
Vought's comments set off Hill furor as shutdown threat
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#ResistOfficial @resistofficial.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is an important read. The #NIH is shifting away from animal research towards a preference for 3D in-vitro organoid models. The field of 3D organoid models is growing & are they being refined, but still need be validated against animal based models. 🧪 www.genengnews.com/topics/trans...
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Why We Still Need Animal Research in a World of AI and Organoids
The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Killing the most vulnerable members of the American public by way of ending access to medical care to give tax cuts to corporations is EVIL, SINISTER SHIT. Everyone who votes yes to this has blood on their hands and should be fired during primaries.
The big ugly bill Medicaid cuts are the same amount as corporate tax breaks.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers. Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this. Where is the censure and condemnation?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚨There is still time to yell at your Senators!!!!!🚨
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Also scientists: This radical Supreme Court is likely to both allow illegal grant terminations, and prevent you from winning new grants — when they allow wholesale NIH firings in the RIF case. Total Court reform is needed.
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Amy M. Jimenez, PhD @amyjimenez.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My god. What the fuck are we doing.
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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Mass deportation IS family separation. With colleagues @jordancfoster.bsky.social and @profdfhesq.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Trump’s cruel immigration machine is still tearing families apart
In its first five months, this administration has taken approximately 500 migrant children living in the U.S. from their homes and into government custody.
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missnonyc.bsky.social @missnonyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A lawsuit in California with a request for a TRO on NIH terminations to the University of California. Ruling expected early in the upcoming week. #RippleEffect www.courthousenews.com/uc-researche...
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UC researchers ask judge to halt Trump termination of federal grants
While not issuing a decision from the bench on the researchers' bid for a temporary restraining order, the judge expressed profound concern about the administration's wholesale cancelation of research...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/06/2025
If only we had warned folks before the election that the real plan wasn’t border security…it was mass deportation in the interior, federalizing the National Guard, ripping people out of homes, families, jobs, and schools. Oh wait…we did. This segment with the author of 2025 aired one year ago.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Of all the types of response I’ve seen to this round of Trump, it might be the self-identified “moderates” saying “no, I don’t like the optics of swinging chainsaws around, but at least they’re paying attention to government waste” that I’m least interested in hearing from on any subject ever again
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
That the second Trump admin would see unprecedented transfer of public assets to private hands was as predictable as the sun coming up in the east.
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