Daniel P. Moriarity

Year 2 of my NIMH F31 was supposed to have started yesterday. An award that I was proud to have funded on the first submission (13th percentile), which supported my dissertation research on eating disorders in adolescents, and which funded my tuition, stipend, and health insurance for the past year.

You asked the internet for wisdom and I provided

I accept payment in whiskey sours and citations

I'm here for a good time, not a long time

This August, we’re turning concern into collective action and you’re invited.

Our founder & executive director @cdelawalla.bsky.social breaks it down here 👇

youtu.be/AaYs9Il9Hy0?...

We’ve got the tools, training, & community to make it easy. Links in thread to get involved!

Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal. Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.

The 900 grant reinstatements from @apha.org v NIH and Mass v Kennedy ruling are a huge win.

But it’s not a simple or complete fix.

Not surprisingly, turning research on, then off, then on again creates major complications, chaos and inefficiency. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...

You Can Use DuckDuckGo to Remove AI Images From Your Search Results DuckDuckGo has built a blocklist for AI images into its browser, allowing users to browse without seeing AI-generated results next to the real deal.

Another reason to use DuckDuckGo as your primary search engine:
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The VA has lost 751 doctors and 2129 nurses in the first 9 months of this fiscal year.

Front line medical staff are leaving the VA in large numbers, jeopardizing the healthcare of our veterans.

#medsky

www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

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Hatch Chile bagels sound great

Hatch Chile wine...

President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning. He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting false numbers to reflect poorly on this administration. This baseless, damaging claim undermines the valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month. This escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system. The President seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. The Commissioner does not determine what the numbers are but simply reports on what the data show. The process of obtaining the numbers is decentralized by design to avoid opportunities for interference. The BLS uses the same proven, transparent, reliable process to produce estimates every month. Every month, BLS revises the prior two months’ employment estimates to reflect slower-arriving, more-accurate information. This rationale for firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers. U.S. official statistics are the gold standard globally. When leaders of other nations have politicized economic data, it has destroyed public trust in all official statistics and in government science. We call on Congress to respond immediately, to investigate the factors that led to Commissioner McEntarfer’s removal, to strongly urge the Commissioner’s continued service, and ensure that the nonpartisan integrity of the position is retained. The statement from the President undermines these tenets and politicizes data which cannot and should not be used for political points.

"...escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence & integrity of the federal statistical system.

"The president seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news.

"...firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit & undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics..."

Woman on beach staring at giant wave (tsunami?)

Feeling this hard today. #AcademicSky

Characterizing anhedonia: A systematic review of neuroimaging across the subtypes of reward processing deficits in depression Anhedonia is a key symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD) and comprises behavioural deficits in three reward processing subtypes: reward liking, reward wanting, and reward learning. However, neuro...

Favorite part of writing broader papers is finding cool shit I never would have read otherwise

Very cool imaging review breaking anhedonia down into more precise features

@alessandraborsini.bsky.social Wallis Zunszain @carminepariante.bsky.social and Kempton

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I'm new here! And I'm going to kick it off with recruitment for a research study:

If you are a clinician with experience treating eating disorders, please participate in this research study!

Jay Bhattacharya once studied health disparities. As NIH director, he’s allowed such research to wither Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Incredibly well reported deep dive on NIH and health disparities research in STAT. 🧵

www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n...

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Starting to look into running a clinical trial

Any tips/tricks for reaching out + negotiating with pharma companies? Hopeful to find the right balance between getting support for an investigator-initiated trial without sacrificing right to data etc etc

#AcademicSky #ImmunoSky

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For the record, @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social could have never come up with something this witty

sorry, I can't take shit talk seriously coming from a literal Muppet

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My second email today to Bhattacharya regarding his interview.

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And now for something completely different!

In this new lab preprint led by Ceci Westbrook, we find a link between successful control of repetitive thought and increased activity in attention-related brain networks. By contrast, default mode activity was not associated with regulatory success.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

More good news:

"Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million *increase* to the budget of the NIH on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Getting an email with the SRP schedule when I can't go😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

new perspective in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social suggests “analysis blinding has the potential to prevent fruitless discussions and tension between original authors and replication teams in replication projects while preserving a healthy scientific debate”

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!!

Message from ACLU team below:

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A two-page letter on U.S. Senate letterhead dated July 30, 2025, addressed to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. The letter, signed by multiple Democratic Senators, expresses deep concern that over 140 EPA employees were placed on administrative leave after signing the “Declaration of Dissent.” It urges Zeldin to restore the employees to active service, citing their First Amendment rights and referencing the Supreme Court’s Pickering decision, which recognized the importance of public employees speaking out on matters of public concern.

A page showing the signatures of 14 U.S. Senators who signed the letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Signatures include Chris Van Hollen, Cory Booker, Edward Markey, Tina Smith, Jeff Merkley, Bernie Sanders, Tammy Duckworth, Martin Heinrich, Ron Wyden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mazie Hirono, Sheldon Whitehouse, Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Peter Welch, Jeanne Shaheen, and Angela Alsobrooks. Each signature is in blue ink with the senator’s printed name and title below.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!

Seventeen Senate Dems just urged Zeldin to reinstate #EPA workers placed on leave in retaliation for signing the #DeclarationofDissent.

The Declaration of Dissent condemns the admin’s politicization, science rollbacks, and climate of fear at EPA.

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I made one for stats papers

Came here thinking of this, figured someone else had already beat me to it (shakes first towards Berkeley)

The Multidimensional Emotion Questionnaire (MEQ): Rationale and Initial Psychometric Properties - Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Emotion research would benefit from a self-report measure that assesses both discrete emotions and broad dimensions, takes into account the time-course of emotional experience, and distinguishes emoti...

This emotion measure can be viewed as a mini-test of your question. It asks people to separately rate the intensity, frequency, and duration of specific emotions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The quantification of AMOUNT—severity, intensity, level—and how amount aligns with FREQUENCY and DURATION (how often and for how long). Especially in relation to self-report. What is a participant calculating when they report on severity? Is it decoupled from frequency and/or duration?