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Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 12h

Proud to be a part of this one - redundancy makes teams resilient!

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky

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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is correct. The report is infuriating. An abuse of the history of science, and a nonsensical "vision," where superhuman AI will direct science and the only human talent needed is heartland tinkering to build the mechanics dictated by AI. It is bad science fiction and worse science policy.

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 22/07/2026

DEI keyword search led to billions in cancelled California university grants The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to UC professors. Their legal team says it has proof that was unconstitutional.

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DEI keyword search led to billions in cancelled California university grants

The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to UC professors. Their legal team says it has proof that was unconstitutional.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

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The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students!

Paragliders hover between the cliffs and sea in Torrey Pines Gliderport, La Jolla, CA, USA. Photo credit Micah Fluhart for Unsplash.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yeah, fuck this. Our public money is essentially being diverted from science to supporting the stock prices of ruling party donors.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The OMB proposed rule will impact more than just science...we are talking $1.5 TRILLION in federal funding including: Veterans benefits (e.g., VA, housing) WIC SNAP TSA Air traffic control Pell Grants Headstart Vocational training, to name a few. GO YELL: fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New @nberpubs: "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science" www.nber.org/papers/w3533... "The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points" 😔

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/06/2026

"The [grant] success rate should not fall below 30%..." Korn et al. Science, 2002. AAMC, AAU, and FASEB team. The biggest pressure pre-Trump on NIH that got scientists angry and drove the Abundist critique was this. Success rates are now ~5%. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The NIH Budget in the

Five years ago, the U.S. Congress agreed to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health, setting a goal to increase the agency's budget to $27.3 billion by 2003. This was an extraordinary c...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Oh I *LOVE* the @planetarysociety.bsky.social's dashboard of OMB proposed rule changes. The clarity of their thematic clusters is great, but the insertion/deletion tracked changes is outstanding. I hope everyone prepping comments makes great use of it. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change...

Screenshot of dashboard summarizing OMB's proposed changes to 2 CFR.

Thematic cluster 1: Political control of grantmaking is described as,
"New rules let political appointees deny and rescind grants based on research topic, institution, or a recipient's activities."
They cite three sections, each of which you can click to see tracked changes.
§200.204
Grant competitions exempt from public notice
Agencies must normally post every funding opportunity on Grants.gov. This adds an exception letting an agency head keep a competition off the public site whenever they decide it serves the “national interest.”

§200.205
Political-appointee review of grants
A senior political appointee must personally review and sign off on every discretionary grant before it is awarded. They can reject any applicant and need not defer to the scientists who peer-reviewed the proposal.

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Grant termination without cause
Lets an agency cancel a grant mid-project simply because it decides the award no longer fits “agency priorities or the national interest.” No finding of fraud or noncompliance is required.

Screenshot of track-changes view for 2 CFR Section 200.205
Note at top says that 17 paragraphs are changed. 22 additions are highlighted in green text and 5 deletions highlighted in red text.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊

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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change

International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

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How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title

Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 A deep dive in tonight’s special and urgent issue on the OMB’s gambit to achieve by rule-making what the administration fails to win in court. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 23

May 29-Jun 5, 2026 – power moves

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

RE: OMB-2026-0034 Comments Vought was unprepared for the revolt on his hands and they are struggling and/or obstructing to get comments up in real time. They have weeks to actually post things after a review, so the numbers and specific individual comments may take time showing up. 1/3

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/05/2026

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

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Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Each week, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪 Needed to write Year 2, Week 22 a day early. It is grim. - new NSF grant delays - gut-churning policy proposals on NDA, accreditation, peer review - academic freedom surveys & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Year 2, Week 22

May 23-28, 2026 – by design

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The news about Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund has left me absolutely ENRAGED! So I made some art about it. Here are some ideas for other places where we could put that money to much better use. Click the link to read the whole comic! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/trumps-18-...

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Michela Tincani @michelatincani.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My paper on peer effects has been accepted at the Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social. In it, I formulate and empirically test a theory of why students influence each other's learning in school: by competing with each other. I thank the editor, referees, and data editor.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There will be more to say - and this is far from over - but this is one giant step toward justice for our grantees at the National Endowment for the Humanities. #NEH staff have awaited this day for more than a year - for you, and for us. 🙏✊

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

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NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

YouTube video by National Academy of Sciences

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today. Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

happy #CDS2026 to those who celebrate!

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Chantal Valdivia-Moreno @talvaldivia.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Also excited to present some of my "affec-dev-cognition" work with @natvelali.bsky.social! Come chat with me about how children consider their collaborators' emotions when dividing labor. ✨

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

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Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Uri Hertz @urihertz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New preprint!! Culture sets us apart: Cultural evolution as a solution to the challenges of social relationships osf.io/preprints/so... Where I discuss how chatbots, washing machines, festivals and other cultural innovations offset costs, reduce friction and substitute social relationships.

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OSF

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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Lauren DiNicola @laurendinicola.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! ** We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy! Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

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Research Associate in Psychology

The Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate position to work in the DiNicola Lab. The DiNicola lab uses a precision neuroscien...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In the running for greatest human accomplishment.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

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Daeyeol Lee @ungteoriz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

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Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences

Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...

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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested 😊

a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall

the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees

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M. S. AtKisson @igrrrl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Things I currently think you should be considering in your proposals. Although this thread will be NIH-centric, my guess is that some of this applies to NSF, etc. Much is synthesized from public information. Much of this is what we've advised all along, just with, um, more emphasis. Here we go:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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Early Career Rescue Fellowship

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

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U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report

House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies

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