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Laurel Buxbaum

@laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social
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Action, concepts, response selection and other related things. Director of Cognition and Action Lab, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Thomas Jefferson University.

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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Now published in Cortex! Drs. Laurel Buxbaum & postdoc Amy Lebkuecher provide overview of structure, organization, and neural substrates of action semantics in neuropsychological populations and discuss methodological approaches for future research 🧠📈 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41411702
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This manuscript is now In Press in Cortex. Good job, Amy Lebkuecher!
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 29/07/2025
🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨 Our genes/jeans are GREEN tomorrow To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work on WEDNESDAY (tomorrow) to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health. Spread the word! #courageiscontagious #spreadthecolor #wearthecolor
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a man in a green lantern costume is standing in a hanger with a helicopter in the background .
Alt: Ryan Reynolds suiting up as Green Lantern. While better known for his role as Deadpool, Ryan will always be Green Lantern to us. Sorry not sorry, Ryan. This will haunt you forever.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Consider adding your name to the public support letter
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’ll be there. Join us.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
‼️ This is absolutely absurd. Trump is actively manufacturing a crisis. The Pentagon just announced that he’s federalizing another 2,000 California National Guard troops bringing the total to 4,000, plus 700 active-duty Marines heading into LA. This is a military occupation, not public safety.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Research Saves Lives At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc. Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social @annakrason.bsky.social #cognition #neuroscience #psychology
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Excited to welcome Andrew Persichetti as a close colleague!
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
(1) Curious about research in the NIH-funded Cognition and Action Lab, directed by @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social? Visit the lab’s website to learn about the lab's focus areas, browse key publications, and more: research.jefferson.edu/labs/researc...
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Looking forward to my talk tomorrow!
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Make sure to catch Dr. Amy Lebkuecher & Dr. @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social at the #APS2025 Annual Convention on May 23 (12:30–1:30 PM ET) presenting a poster on EEG evidence of action semantics in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Parkinson’s Disease. The poster is included in Poster Session III. 🧠📈 🧠🔄 👩‍🔬
The logo for the Association for Psychological Science (APS) is pictured in the top left. To the right, the APS 2025 Annual Convention logo is displayed. The convention will be May 22-25 in Washington DC. Below to the left, there is a photo of Dr. Amy Lebkuecher. On the right, the text reads, "Poster Session III - Research Proposal Posters, Using EEG to Examine Action Semantics in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Parkinson's Disease, Amy Lebkuecher, PhD, Friday May 23, 2025 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ET, Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute".
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Going to the #APS2025 Annual Convention? If so, don't miss @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social's invited symposium presentation on the cognitive and neuroanatomic substrates of everyday actions on Saturday May 24, 2025 (1:30 PM - 2:50 PM ET).
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Solène Kalénine, a recent visiting Fulbright Scholar, shared research on the impact of gestures on word (re)learning in people w/ #stroke at the Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects in Italy. The work was a collaboration w/ @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social Buxbaum, Erica Middleton, & Shauna Zodrow.
Dr. Kalénine is standing at her poster and speaking with a workshop attendee about the research.
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Former postdoc Dr. Erica Barhorst-Cates, @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @aaronlwong.bsky.social published a new paper examining determinants of navigation ability after #stroke. Their results emphasize the importance of using real-world contexts to assess navigation🧠🔄 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40244856/
Research Article Title Page with Authors and Affiliations
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Hmmm, could be very attractive.
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As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists (Gift Article)
The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
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TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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bibliophile696.bsky.social @bibliophile696.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Alex De Angelis and Shauna Zodrow discussing our work on cognitive influences on arm non-use at #asnr2025
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
(1) A new study, led by our postdoc @sthibault.bsky.social and Institute Faculty @aaronlwong.bsky.social & @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, examined how conflicting hand and tool motions affect individuals with limb apraxia.
Figure from the paper illustrating different experimental conditions
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them
Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hear, hear!
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪 This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants. "DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature" What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?
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Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Always a great meeting!
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Make sure to visit poster 1 at #ASNR2025 next Wednesday! @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, Dr. Emily Grattan, and Dr. Grace Edwards, share their work validating the immersive Virtual Reality Lateralized Attention Test—a quick, reliable tool for assessing post-stroke spatial neglect. @asnrehab.bsky.social
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Heading to #ASNR2025? Don’t miss poster 141 next Thursday! Shauna Zodrow, Alex De Angelis, Dr. Rachana Gangwani, @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social, and colleagues explore how task demands and rewards influence arm nonuse in individuals with chronic stroke. @asnrehab.bsky.social 🧠🔄 🧠📈
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We can’t let up.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Looking forward to lots of great speakers and sessions at #APS25DC
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Since President Donald Trump took office on 20 January, the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health ha…
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
How do you make a cup of coffee? Everyday action is difficult to study in the lab, but a large battery of predictor tasks and a well-validated naturalistic action test helped us shed light on this question.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NIH employees should NOT be complying with these data calls. This data call raises serious first amendment concerns, and no NIH employee should obey it until a serious outside Constitutional attorney and/or court has weighed in. Don’t break the law, NIH workers! Even if the GC tells you to.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It seems clear that Musk and Trump are aiming to push out program staff. That would make it easier for them to control grant awards, from the top.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hearing that there’s lots of chaos on NIH campus today- doge people roaming around checking offices and demanding to see badges, and rumors of new high level firings. Bhattacharya’s first day at NIH! Hold on everyone, we will get through this.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are hearing that a lot of extramural grant people - program officers, grants management people - are the ones who were hit this way. DOGE plans to steal your grants, scientists. They are gutting the program officers to do this. The time to speak up is now.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Major update over the weekend to our spreadsheet tracking terminated NIH grants. 👇 Improvements include: - more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers - data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information - better data integrity and reproducibility 1/
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Rescinded NIH Grants
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees! AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations. NIH and NSF will be case examples. Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar: Responding to Federal Research Grant Terminations

Join AAAS on Friday, March 28 at 12 PM ET

The AAAS Center for Scientific Responsibility and Justice and AAAS SEA Change will host a roundtable discussion on the laws and regulations that govern federal grant terminations, including procedures for appeals. Speakers will include a legal expert, former officials at scientific funding agencies, and a grant recipient who will share their personal experience. NIH and NSF will serve as case examples.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/03/2025
Long COVID is real and affects many Americans. Closing the office is a betrayal of HHS’s mission.
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Bellamy Dryden 🌿 @bellamydryden.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Frightening.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Congrats to my friend and respected colleague @culhamari-lab.bsky.social ! Well-deserved, Jody!
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
More than two thousand turned out in Philly to protest Trump/DOGE’s chilling effects on science that impact all walks of American life.
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Laurel Buxbaum @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The CDC meeting to select next year’s flu vaccine strains has been cancelled.
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