Casey L. Roark

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

"Supernerd"❤️ Shameful.
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
#neuroscience

Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow:
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Principal researchers inside and outside academia: do you know groups self-organizing to protect academic science in the US? How can we connect and mobilize? Could you share your thoughts? 🧬🔬🔭🧪🧠🤖

How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent.

Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent.

"How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance," by @adamsobel.bsky.social.

NIH Overhead Costs explainer

📣 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🔬

I made this short comic to explain what the #NIH cuts mean in practice because behind the abstract label of #overheadcosts are real people, doing important work!

#AcademicSky #resist #organize #scicomm

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
"This is a moment to unite."

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.

The United States built the largest and most fruitful scientific enterprise the world has ever seen, acquiring great prosperity and stability as a result.

And now fascists are tearing it all down. Censoring scientists, deleting data, purging institutions. A tremendous loss.

It makes me ill that the Committee on Human Rights of the US National Academy of Sciences had to put together a list of resources to support US researchers and scholars subjected to targeted attacks.
And it makes me ill that I have to post.
But here it is:

www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump’s actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can’t unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid. YOU: MOC must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT]

Call script:

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

This is legit - the organizers (including unions) are organizing. When I ask those in the know what we can do that will actually matter, the answer includes collective action of this type.

I'm joining @nancykanwisher.bsky.social and all the others for this Thurs 3p ET effort. I hope you do too!

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.

The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

News on the day I submitted my first NSF proposal as a new PI 🫠

Single and multiple systems in categorization and category learning - Nature Reviews Psychology Classifying the world into categories is fundamental to human cognition. In this Review, Minda et al. highlight the assumptions and operating characteristics of theories positing multiple versus singl...

Our January issue includes critical discussion of a Review we published last year, 'Single and multiple systems in categorization and category learning'

Critique 1: go.nature.com/4gZBJFB
Reply: go.nature.com/3BXsmHp

Critique 2: go.nature.com/4gV1max
Reply: go.nature.com/3WiOX88

Please add me :) thanks for putting this together!

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Single and multiple systems in categorization and category learning

Review by John Paul Minda, Casey L. Roark, Priya Kalra & Anthony Cruz

Web: go.nature.com/4d9ihnn
PDF: rdcu.be/dOAep

#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy

A reminder that review of applications for the PhD program at UNH Psychology will begin *January 15th*!

I'm looking for students who are interested in perception (audition, vision), learning, and language. See roarklab.com/join-the-lab for more info!

Please repost/share 🧠 #PsychSciSky #NeuroSky

It is indeed a great place to be!

path in woods surrounded by trees showing the beauty of UNH campus in the fall

Hi #PsychSciSky! I'm recruiting PhD students in my lab in Psychology at the University of New Hampshire to start Fall 2024!

Check out roarklab.com for more info and feel free to reach out if you are interested in applying! Come to beautiful NH to study perception, language, and learning!

#CogSci