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Annmarie MacNamara

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Clinical neuroscientist at Texas A&M

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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The MAClab will be presenting at SPR 2026 in Halifax, NS! See details for each presentation! 🧠
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Texas A&M's Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences is hiring two tenure-track Asst/Assoc positions in Clinical Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/190512 (priority given to applications received by Oct. 1). Please share widely! #PsycSciSky #AcademicSky #neuroskyence
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Russell Vought, Director of the OMB, has issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal grant funding. However, we can each take action to prevent these from taking effect. Here's how, a 🧵 🧪 1/n www.science.org/content/arti...
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you are headed for psych grad school and want experience with EEG, fMRI, affective science and internalizing psychopathology research, apply to be my lab manager!
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Stop by the SPR Video Booth (In front of the Elevators, 8th Floor) to film a 60–90 second spotlight on your research. Open to all attendees! #2025SPR
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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The MAClab will be presenting at #2025SPR in Montreal this week! @therealspr.bsky.social Follow the thread below to see details for each presentation 🧐🧠 #2025SPR #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Have you seen the keynote speakers of #2025SPR? Join us in Montréal next month!
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
1/3 ✈️ Heading to Montréal for #2025SPR? Don’t forget to check Canada’s entry requirements! shorturl.at/fWidI
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Coming to #2025SPR? Don’t miss Psychophysiology’s “Meet the Editors” breakfast to get insights on journal scope & aims, publication strategies, and the peer-review process!
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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🎉 Welcome to the MAClab Nicole! 🎉 Nicole is a 1st year Doctoral student who will be joining us this fall - read her description to learn more about her! #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The #2025SPR Annual Meeting Online Registration Portal is now open! Early bird Registration Rates are available now through Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Register here: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/ #AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Trainees at #2025SPR — don’t miss our Speed Networking Breakfast! Get matched with faculty for rapid one-on-one conversations. Register when you sign up for the conference: spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/ #AcademicSky #MedSky #PsychSciSky #HigherEdSky #neuroskyence
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 Are you attending #2025SPR in Montrèal? Join us for a pre-conference workshop! 📍 Registration opens July 1, 2025: select your workshop when signing up for the annual meeting. Space is limited! for details see: sprweb.org/2025-annual-...
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This happened to a friend. Although their Fulbright application had done well at internal review in the US in December, they were surprised to hear in May that it was turned down. In this case, the host country, which knew the application should’ve been awarded, will fund the project anyways.
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Don't forget to submit your abstract for #2025SPR! spr.joynmeeting.com/v2/
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #academicsky
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just received word that our post-bacc RA position at the UPenn Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab should go live this week. Will post the link when it does but, for now, here' s a link with the description. Please repost + share with your team! tinyurl.com/ycyzmmdx
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Congrats Lauren!!
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My story: I’m a single father and cancer researcher whose wife died of a rare cancer. Science and biomedical research is personal to me. Here is my op-ed in my hometown newspaper. Pls fwd. www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
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DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15/03/2025
University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
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Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
THANK YOU to everyone who showed up to #standupforscience at Texas A&M!! 🥰✊🧪 #sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#AcademicSky
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Multimethod Affect and Cognition lab (MAClab) @maclab-brain.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join us this Friday at 12pm to ‼️STAND UP FOR SCIENCE‼️ at Texas A&M University Rally at Academic Plaza near the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Statue. Feel free to bring posters and spread the word. standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
With alt text added:
Jasmeet Hayes, Ph.D.
Scarlet & Gray Associate Professor...

I was just informed that my NIH research study section meeting that was to be held TOMORROW IS CANCELLED. This panel reviews grants on brain injury, neurovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and epilepsy—issues that affect all Americans, regardless of their background. The exact language of a very tersely worded email was that it "will be rescheduled to a later date, yet to be determined." Exactly when will there be another time 30+ scientists will be able to [set] aside two whole days to discuss close to 100 grants? This panel is planned a year in advance. The grants I spent so many hours reviewing, and the work that the principal investigators have dedicated their professional lives to, will not be reviewed. This is going to delay life-saving, innovative treatments. This is more widespread than just my panel; other NIH panels have similarly been cancelled. I am worried about the future of our country as the world's science superpower.
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thank you! There is a simple thing to do: You can call up your local newspaper and TV station and offer to talk about what is happening.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this: Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
It is natural to want to sink into nihilism. To say “well there’s nothing we can do” and put full trust in the courts, or just shrink into a small bubble and ignore the news and the outside world. Sometimes, that’s necessary. If you need to do it now, do it. But optimism is a choice you can make.
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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is one way NIH funding is still largely paused: www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
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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...
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
But there is also a lack of understanding in the general public of what Broader Impacts are/there is a story being told that grants were subverting funds to EDI related work
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Agree that none of these awards should be targeted!
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#AcademicSky #psychscisky
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award #2145723, “Vascularization in Cardiac Fibrosis Models”, which aims to develop tissue engineering approaches to repair of damaged cardiac tissue in the service of preventing heart disease.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award 2153690, “Secure and Robust Machine Learning in Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGA”, which aims to use machine learning to increase the security of cloud computing systems.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award # 2318546, “Real-Time Aerial Imaging with Edge AI”, which aims to develop an aerial imaging system capable of autonomous and remote-controlled navigation, imagery, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award # 2331502, “A Biological and Socio-Environmental Approach to Machine Learning for Equitable and Proactive Cancer and Health Screening”, which aims to test machine learning methods for early detection of cancer.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award # 2344191, “Autonomous System for DNA Sequencing Prep in Space and Austere Environments”, which aims to develop an automated, miniaturized system for DNA extraction and preparation for sequencing for both in space and austere environments (e.g., military operations for national defense).
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Award # 2200895, “An Evaluation of a Statewide Mathematics Corequisite Developmental Education Reform”, which aims to compare whether high school students do better in college math courses if required to take a prerequisite or a co-requisite.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Many of the grants identified by Senator Cruz have little to do with woke ideology (see examples below). Identifying grants according to single words that appear the abstract will lead to many mistakes.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For instance, one grant on Senator Cruz's list ("Field Trip Model for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipses") proposes to help middle school students view the solar eclipse.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Broader impacts have often consisted of educational or outreach initiatives, such as K-12 science activities or college student opportunities - typically for individuals that would otherwise have less access to these opportunities.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A partial answer is that since 1997, NSF has required researchers to describe the 'broader impacts' of their projects, in order to insure that research, in addition to advancing knowledge, also directly benefits society.
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Annmarie MacNamara @macannmarie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Senator Ted Cruz recently released a database of more than 3000 NSF grants that he says misappropriated taxpayer money by spending it on "woke DEI" research. So why do grants that seemingly have nothing to do with woke ideology contain words such as "underrepresented"?
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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
#NIH just slashed indirect costs caps on grants to 15%--this is a HUGE blow to the research community. While there is certainly inefficiency to the grants system, indirects help institutions support scientists & academic infrastructure. No one will want to do research anymore. #medsky #academicsky
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-068.html
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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