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Matt Hocking

@matthocking.bsky.social
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Pediatric Psychologist at CHOP Cancer Center. Associate Professor at UPENN School of Medicine. Tar Heel bred. Beginning 🪕player. He/him

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
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Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I signed this and urge others to consider: A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming. YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below. This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...
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Sarah Todd @sarah-todd.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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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.
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Colleen Stiles-Shields, Ph.D. @colleenss.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Riding the high of #SPPAC2025, making a starter pack—but am also at the airport and am missing so many! Please chime in for an add! #ThisIsPedsPsych
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Congratulations to Amanda Swartz on her first oral presentation at The Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference! #SPPAC2025 She presented her work on the sibling relationship quality of survivors of childhood cancer. Tremendous job representing the lab!
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Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁 @eisch.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Every day through our actions and words we teach our children about who we are, what we value, and what we stand for. 1/
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/02/2025
"How do you strategize around an unpredictable funding landscape?" #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4gPIkBz
A conceptual illustration of worried scientists at computers. Hedline reads: I'm an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The lab’s high point this week: Manali Zope gave her 1st talk at the 2025 Annual Conference for the International Neuropsychological Society! She presented on the role of neighborhood opportunity and cognitive function in the social function of kids with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Terrific talk!
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...
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Tell Congress to Stop NIH Cuts
Please take 2 minutes today to ask Congress to take steps to stop funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The administration's proposed cuts to federal research funding, particul...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In Pennsylvania- NIH FUNDING: $2.23 Billion JOBS SUPPORTED: 21,784 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $5.23 Billion
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ICYMI: Reposting this story we wrote that analyzes the playbook of how the Trump administration is weaponizing laws, looking to triple any penalties, and using the government to create an "enemies list" of universities and other organizations that have opposed him. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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Universities fear Trump is using lucrative research grants as leverage to dismantle their DEI programs
Trump's executive orders seem to be part of a plan to leverage NIH and other grants to force universities to end DEI programs
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is very troubling on many levels. Large scale, this will cause significant delays in scientific funding and advancement. Small scale, a grant that I worked on for 9 months was scheduled for review next week. Get your institutions advocating now! www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congrats to Manali Zope on her 1st first-author paper just published in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings! Here we highlight the importance of multi-informant reports of psychological function in survivors of #ChildhoodCancer. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Inter-rater Agreement in Multi-informant Reports of Psychosocial Functioning of Pediatric Brain and Solid Tumor Survivors - Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
Objectives: For pediatric cancer survivors in the post-treatment, school-reintegration period, integrating multi-informant reports and promoting a mutual clinician–family–school understanding of the c...
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Matt Hocking @matthocking.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Happy to share this internal write-up of a recent neuroimaging study in the lab. We found white matter connectivity was related to social function in children treated for a brain tumor. #ChildhoodCancer www.chop.edu/news/childre...
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers Find Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors Are At-Risk for Social Deficits, Fewer Friendships, and Poor Peer Relationships
In a recent study, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated that children treated for brain tumors face persistent social challenges, including limited friendships and re...
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