Suzanne Perkins, PhD

Myron Gaines debates students, spreads antisemitism, misogyny and racism Far-right men’s rights influencer Myron Gaines held a debate on the Diag Thursday afternoon.

“When I was like, ‘Wait, did you just do a Nazi salute? Like, how many other Nazis are there in the crowd?’ And then when, like three people (did the salute), and then all of a sudden, it’s like 10 people, and all of a sudden it’s like 20 people”

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Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

I’m sorry to hear about Rob Reiner and his wife. The science community may remember that he was very involved in Zero to Three the movement to fund early childhood programming. Something we all write at the end of our papers as a recommendation. What a good guy! What a tragic loss for humanity.

Icymi! @20thofmay.bsky.social

ICYMI: Michigan helped reignite the research career of cancer survivor Suzanne Perkins @20thofmay.bsky.social, who planned her career around the insight that education plays a key role in recovery for children who have been maltreated. #LifeChangingEducation feature story:
myumi.ch/9pWk3

[Story] A Research Career Reignited: Suzanne Perkins Crafting the Future of Learning for Abused and Neglected Children - Life-Changing Education Life-Changing Education is a University of Michigan initiative exploring how learning changes lives through programs, research, and collaboration.

A fantastic piece about me by our communications team and @tevahp.bsky.social

Thanks to @rcgd-isr.bsky.social for helping me get #NIHfunding to restart my career!

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
#DevPsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky #womeninstem
#HigherEd
#GoBlue

futureoflearning.umich.edu/stories-and-...

Michigan helped reignite the career of cancer survivor Suzanne Perkins @20thofmay.bsky.social, whose research stems from the insight that education plays a key role in recovery for children at risk. Now she's crafting the future of learning: myumi.ch/9pWk3 #LifeChangingEducation #LookToMichigan

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r... by @spichaksimon.bsky.social @beingpatient.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #NIH #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

At #ispcan2025 in Lithuania. Doing important work here!

Launching ISPCAN NEXT @ #ispcan2025 Network of Emerging eXpertise in child proTection A global network empowering early-career professionals in child protection. Connecting, learning, leading and making an impact. Learn more here: ispcan.org/working-grou...
#riseuptoendchildabuse

Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer COVID-19 booster shots effectively prevented hospitalizations among people with cancer, according to a retrospective study published in JAMA Oncology.

Booster Shots Help Prevent Severe COVID-19 in People With Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Just finished #flux2025 in Dublin and it it good to be back! What a great conference.

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article) Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

Excellent analysis of poor science that should not have made it through peer review. Probably should be retracted now by the journal.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ending the summer having submitted five first-author manuscripts and a response to a published paper.

This K01 and the protected time are the best!

Thank you #NIH #NICHD

Thank you @rcgd-isr.bsky.social #ISR #psychology @umich.edu

Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.

Peter and Bonnie McCausland Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience

Hey #neuroscience #neuroskyence we are hiring a Distinguished Chair of Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina (uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/190...)

We have a vibrant neuroscience community with extensive university support for research. I am extremely happy here. Come join us!

Our brain-immune system axis has recently has some fascinating new reports
Here is one summarized
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More here erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...

This looks really interesting

Finally received the notice of award for my K01!
Thanks #nih
#nichd
@rcgd-isr.bsky.social

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

Excited that my JAMA Pediatrics article with @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @bhrenton.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social and others is now published. It turns out that permissive firearm laws aren’t great if you want to reduce pediatric firearm deaths. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

As someone who studies child maltreatment it sickens me that this will be ignored. These are often homicides that we could prevent.

The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

N.I.H. Workers Denounce Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Health Policies

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

This is a big reason why the tech oligarch/DOGE world thinks they can blow up NSF and NIH.

We cannot overstate this:
It is so full of shit.

This is not real science or research, which is a creative endeavor. “AI scientists” would not have built CAR-T therapies and will not treat Alzheimer’s.

Glad to see this, but I have another idea...Hear me out here...

Why doesn't NIH just reinstate the effing awards since they are ongoing and already made it successfully through a competitive process?

Seems like this would actually be "efficient" (and also fair and just)...

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity | Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.

Astrocytes make up a large proportion of brain cells. They propagate electrical influences without spiking. Brain communication involves more than just spikes and synapses.
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#neuroscience

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

New story up in Nature from @maxkozlov.bsky.social

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

RFK Jr. plans to bar NIH scientists from top journals like NEJM & JAMA, replacing them with government-run outlets.

This would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research, warns Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...