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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Article spotlight!💡 This paper reviews brain connectome development, which the authors posit is due to "a shift from segregation to integration, facilitated by... growth of short-range connections [then] strengthening of long-range connections." 🧠👶🏻https://buff.ly/lPXr4jI

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I had so much fun at @cda-adolescence.bsky.social last week speaking about socio-emotional development and the transition to adulthood along side the incredible heartoforegon.org and americasucceeds.org organizations!

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

H/t @connormhaughey.bsky.social 1st pub from grad school! It was such an excellent group:)

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

First time at #ISDP2025! Great conference & great presentations by Circle Lab students!!

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

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Anna Kawennison Fetter, PhD @annakawennison.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable. It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function | PNAS

The human cortex undergoes immense change in the first years of life, doubling in thickness within the first year and evidencing the greatest chang...

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

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Call for papers - Brain and Environment | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Brain and Environment at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Jennifer Richeson @jaricheson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li! @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

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In defense of our institutional independence

This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two newly-minted doctors this week!!! @nicolasmurgueitio.bsky.social and Lucy Lurie🥳🎉👏🍾

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Super excited and proud to receive the Linda Speer award from @fluxsociety.bsky.social (fluxsociety.org/awards/linda...) See you all in Dublin!!! #Flux2025

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Linda Spear Mid-career - Flux Society

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

And WHILE I'M HERE @connormhaughey.bsky.social will be joining me as a graduate student next year and he got an NSFGRP!!! IN THIS CLIMATE!

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

honors thesis defense o' rama in the CIRCLE lab - so many INCREDIBLE honors theses this year!!!

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hard agree. Let’s get organized, fellow academics!

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Without NIH funding for research, "your mother's cancer will wait for a cure. Your child's genetic disorder will wait for a breakthrough. The research that could save lives may be delayed or never come." ~Melissa Byrn, UChicago @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

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Connor Haughey @connormhaughey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

So excited to announce that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill this Fall working under Dr. Margaret Sheridan @mabsher.bsky.social! Can’t wait to continue researching how adversity and experiences impact brain development across childhood and adolescence 🧠

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mabsher @mabsher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Fellow professors #UNC please come! Useful time for us to come together and figure out how to move forward.

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UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have compiled resources for defending our campuses and communities: www.defendingourcampuses.org

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Defending Our Campuses and Communities

The AFT and the AAUP are working with allies in higher education and the labor movement to defend and advance higher education that is accessible and affordable for all who want it, and to protect the...

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