@mayalrosen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Smith College Opinions are my own She/her
Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!
Has a take action toolkit with:
1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points
Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.
www.savensf.com
In the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters
25.04.2025 02:32 — 👍 101 🔁 34 💬 0 📌 0Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!
09.04.2025 00:35 — 👍 89 🔁 58 💬 7 📌 2
Early childhood is incredibly important for child development, and Head Start is incredibly important for supporting a very large number of young children and their families.
01.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Scientists & faculty of the Columbia Irving Medical Center spoke out today on Trump’s ongoing assault on Columbia & all higher learning in America & how cuts in vital scientific research will harm the health of ALL Americans.
Listen to Dr. Delivette Castor, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology.
This article mentions protests today at 4 pm in Harvard Square and 6 pm at Somerville City Hall
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/t...
Let’s be clear:
If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free.
That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
27.03.2025 02:51 — 👍 5491 🔁 2363 💬 64 📌 73
I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Photo of the job description, also found in the link in the post
✨ Join our research team at Vanderbilt! ✨
The Stress and Early Adversity (SEA) Lab at Vanderbilt University is hiring a full-time Research Assistant to join our team studying brain development, caregiving, and family interventions.
Apply here: shorturl.at/HsyAk
#Neuroscience #DevelopmentalScience
I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
I'm writing today with a big request during a difficult time for all of us. Together, we've grown Children Helping Science into a cornerstone for online developmental research. Researchers from roughly 150 institutions have conducted remote studies with over 15,000 families since 2020, with many of those families returning to participate in multiple studies across labs. The CHS team and infrastructure is currently supported almost entirely by the United States government (NSF and NIH). Like many US researchers, we're facing substantial uncertainty about what this means for our financial stability over the coming months and years, and we are hard at work pursuing every angle to keep this platform available to the community. This includes exploring new funding strategies we have previously not considered, like possibly allowing some carefully vetted companies to display ads to families. Researchers will continue to be able to use the CHS platform for free, but your support right now is critical. At the same time, we know that many of you, especially those of you in the United States, are facing the same instability to present and future funding as we are. Today, we are asking for three FREE actions from all of you to support our immediate fundraising efforts:
**Send us your citations.** If you have publications that collected data or advertised studies through CHS or Lookit, please share those references. These citations are essential for demonstrating CHS’s impact to funders. A list of all the citations we're aware of is linked here, in case you're not sure whether we have your recent articles. **Send us publicly shareable materials and press coverage.** If you have cute study designs, engaging visuals, or images of adorable kids (with the necessary permissions) we’d love to use them in presentations to potential funders. Similarly, if your research has been covered in any public media (university publications, podcasts, news articles), please send these to us. **Share your funding applications and ideas.** If you are preparing a grant proposal (to any funding source), please reach out to discuss how you can include a budget line to support CHS. If you have ideas for joint projects, or even of funders you think we should reach out to - we're all ears! And if you have ever received funding to conduct studies using CHS/Lookit, please also make sure we know about it.
You can do all of these things right now at this link (https://forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZizMK8). Please also feel free to email us (best address: mekline@mit.edu) with any other questions or ideas. We are committed to keeping CHS running and serving this community, and we will do everything in our power to keep the lights on. Thank you for helping to make CHS such a wonderful community resource and for helping us in whatever ways you can! With appreciation, Melissa Kline Struhl Executive Director Laura Schulz Scientific Director
The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers.
Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...
My annual psych internship rant, now with even more 🔥. The pre-PhD internship is an outdated model that devalues the expertise psych students bring. Now, we may be requiring students to move to unsafe cities and unstable positions, during a stage when healthcare and reproductive rights are critical.
11.03.2025 22:15 — 👍 98 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 7Last 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.
11.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 1012 🔁 374 💬 84 📌 17
In the midst of … everything, I’m increasingly convinced of the importance of care. It was a pleasure to think through what this means, why it matters — ideas now out in a special issue edited by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @mlevi.bsky.social, and Zack Ugolnik 🧵
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
12.02.2025 12:44 — 👍 8085 🔁 2942 💬 150 📌 80
POSTDOC POSITION at @kingsioppn.bsky.social
The postdoc will work on an @ukri.org funded project on disadvantage, the pace of neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral...
Please share and repost 🙏
I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.
11.02.2025 20:08 — 👍 10658 🔁 3010 💬 172 📌 105🧠🧠🧠 Abstracts due this Friday for this incredible, *FREE* conference! Registration and abstract submission is open to *EVERYONE* 🧠🧠🧠 #womeninSTEM #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
11.02.2025 21:08 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes and call the CFPB “woke and weaponized.”
The CFPB fights overdraft and junk fees, goes after lenders that target servicemembers with predatory loans, and has returned $20 billion to Americans.
This is a giveaway to scammers & crooks.
Absolutely. Also, if your state is on this list, call your AG office and thank them, and tell them how proud you were to see your state's office on the list.
TL;DR call your AG either way
If you are a NIH funded researcher and your state is not on this list, you need to be calling your AG office
10.02.2025 19:22 — 👍 201 🔁 99 💬 5 📌 15Does anyone know if there are any class action lawsuits about diversity F and K grants being pulled? We would like to join.
09.02.2025 17:11 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0We can’t wait to have you!!! (Apologies for the delayed bluesky congratulations. Been offline for while but I’m back). Can’t wait for you to get here!
08.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
