Anna Parenteau

We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Anna turning to look at the camera wearing UC Davis doctoral regalia and sunglasses

Exciting news to share: As of June 12th, I have completed my PhD in Psychology at UC Davis! I am so grateful to my advisor @camhostinar.bsky.social, lab @seslab.bsky.social, and department @ucdavispsych.bsky.social for supporting me over the past 6 years! Here's to the next step – postdoc!

Alert!!!!

“An Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

👉 thread below 🧵

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Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.

Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

We are excited to attend #SRCD25! Here are presentations from members of the Social Environment and Stress Lab. We look forward to sharing our work and seeing what everyone else has been working on!

SRCD week! Looking forward to the conference and being back “home”.
Our symposium, “Bio-behavioral synchrony across contexts: Within-dyad analysis and methodological considerations”, is on Thurs, May 1st from 10 to 11:30am in 209AB. 🧑‍🧒
Hope to see you there!
#SRCD25

ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A fenced area with grazing sheep on the grass in front of Wellman Hall at UC Davis

A flock of sheep grazing on a grassy area of Wellman Hall lawn

Walked out of lecture to find the Sheepmowers! Sheepmowers.org
@ucdavis.bsky.social 🐑🩵

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

A systematic review of air pollution exposure and brain structure and function during development Air pollutants are known neurotoxicants. In this updated systematic review, we evaluate new evidence since our 2019 systematic review on the effect of…

New review from Jess Morrel & the @hertinglab.bsky.social exploring links between air pollution and the developing brain.

tl;dr: this literature is growing, but there are still gaps in time (sensitive exposure windows, timing of exposure -> brain changes) and space (most data from US/Europe)

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect.

Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

Students walking and biking by on campus with light pink spring blooms in the foreground.

Welcome back to campus, Aggies! We hope you have a great first day of spring quarter 🌷

#OurUCDavis

Image description: Students walking and biking by on campus with light pink spring blooms in the foreground.

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.

First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)

bsky.app/profile/rebe...

a cat is playing with an apple laptop with the words research time written below it ALT: a cat is playing with an apple laptop with the words research time written below it

Spring conference season is kicking off… holding a poster workshop next month for undergraduate researchers. What poster tips or tricks do you have to share?

Call for Speakers Call for Speakers ISDP DEI Committee Symposium The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is seeking early-career (undergraduate – assistant p...

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information!
@isdp.org
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#NIH PIs, check the federal register tomorrow. Nothing is final until you receive your NoA. Nothing is confirmed until it's in the FR. If you have a pending application, check eRA. Thanks, @jeremymberg.bsky.social.

Call for Speakers Call for Speakers ISDP DEI Committee Symposium The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is seeking early-career (undergraduate – assistant p...

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information!
@isdp.org
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This feels like scientific hell for us, but I can only imagine how it feels for our POs. They must be gutted inside. One day we will learn of their heroics to try to save one of the greatest science funding agencies in the world. For now, we are all stuck and suffering.

Attendees of the stand up for science event on the front lawn of the California State Capitol. A large crowd holds signs while listening to the speakers

The California State Capitol building with a large crowd in front, holding signs

Larger view of the crowd at #standupforscience2025 Sacramento

Stand up for Science in Sacramento
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

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.

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...

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨

✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more!

z.umn.edu/minds
Please share ✨

list of banned keywords

🚨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.

A shrub with yellow foliage with a distinct, large smiley face carved into the middle

A smile on this Monday morning 😊

Keep sharing your JOY ✨

Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things.

Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.