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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Bhattacharya has implemented an NIH-wide grant screening process that systematically excludes ideas that he and the people that put him in power don't like. www.science.org/content/arti... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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rpizzie.bsky.social @rpizzie.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Applications are officially open for our upcoming 2026 NSF REU ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE Summer Internship Program! At Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Research Center, undergraduates will join us on campus, May 18th - July 10th, 2026: gu.live/REUCENTRE

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REU CENTRE @ Gallaudet

The ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE will host a new cohort of students during Summer 2026: May 18 - July 10, 2026. Applications are open. Application deadline: February 11th, 2026.

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REU CENTRE @ Gallaudet

The ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE will host a new cohort of students during Summer 2026: May 18 - July 10, 2026. Applications are open. Application deadline: February 11th, 2026.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

NSF reorganization is, frankly, a bit odd, and we haven't run a story on it partly because it's hard to know what to make of it. The impetus for reorg, as I understood it, was to limit the siloing that occurs because NSF has so many (35ish) divisions. Now there will be 50+ sections.

NSF reorganization chart shows how directorates will be divided up.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026 Please share!!

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Educational Neuroscience PhD: Application Information

Fully-Funded Ph.D. Positions in Educational Neuroscience At Gallaudet University in Washington, DC The Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) Program at Gallaudet University invites prospective st...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6

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Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale

Abstract. We describe here the initial creation and validation of a tool designed to quantify certain unique life experiences of deaf individuals. The Deaf

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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh). Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025 2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...

Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
September 12-14 2025
Gallaudet University
Abstract submission through April 29
neurolang.org

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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Right when we are seeing the pipeline really taking off with multiple graduates contributing back to it, it is being destroyed,” says Wyatte Hall... Hall was the first graduate of the RPP, and he currently serves as co-director of the Future Deaf Scientists program.. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Crucial training pipeline for Deaf scientists dismantled by NIH funding cuts

The one-of-a-kind initiative offered support from high school to postdoctoral levels

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Canceling targeted grants to train deaf scientists...there are no words. Well, here are some words: this is crazy, stupid, shameful, and shortsighted. DOGE, Trump, and everyone who voted for them should be disgusted with themselves. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

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Deaf students had a path to science careers -- until their federal grants ended

For years, the U.S. government tried to encourage deaf people to study science. But the programs were just ended by the Trump Administration, leaving deaf students unsure about their future.

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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🚨🚨🚨Please repost to help me spread the word! I hoped my experience launching my lab would never be relevant for others, but I am available to share, listen, and support our colleagues who are about to start or have recently launched faculty careers during yet another unprecedented time.

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So proud of everyone who came out today or supported those who did. #handsoff DC rise up!

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This could mean a lot of things, but none of them make me feel very good.

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab! Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful. Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is a great article capturing many of the most recent findings in language development for deaf kids. Worth a read. How do we provide deaf kids with all the opportunities available to them? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language

Some researchers worry about risks of devaluing sign language, overreliance on imperfect devices

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What admin is doing to universities is laid out here: www.aei.org/op-eds/a-com... "The most interesting actions, though, wouldn’t require Congress. To scare universities straight, McMahon should start by taking a prize scalp. She should simply destroy Columbia University."

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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Nature @nature.com · 24/02/2025

The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. go.nature.com/43ao2zq

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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

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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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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.

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Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If your state isn’t represented among the plaintiffs, call your state’s AG office *right now*. Here’s an example script, filled in with info for OK: Hi there, my name is ___, I live at ___. I work as a ___ at ___. 🧵

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office

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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They want to remove support for disabled students—learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delays, speech therapy, accommodations for ADHD, deaf/HoH people, blind and low vision people. Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian. What are you doing this week to resist?

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“Educational leaders must not put on a demure face and stay silent while civil society is undermined by the diktat of executive orders. We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance.” Wesleyan’s President in @slate.bsky.social

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Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out

Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The AAUP (American Association of University Professors) + others have filed suit arguing Trump's EOs targeting "DEI" in higher ed are illegal and unconstitutional. Donate to the AAUP: bit.ly/3EqWFH9 Donate to democracyforward.org, legal group filing the suit: bit.ly/3Q5YQTa #academicsky #edusky

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Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders

The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

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Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A new NIH directive indicates that all current NIH grants (starting Feb. 10) and any new grants will have their indirect cost rate cut to 15%. THIS IS INSANE and of course illegal. 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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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It appears this is how scientific research will be radically transformed (decimated?) in the US. Universities will lose the ability to pay for buildings, staff, utilities—the functions that keep the lights on. Itll hurt the research intensive places the most, but it may devastate every campus.

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