Micah Hirsch, Ph.D.

Thank you to @policyhound.bsky.social for covering this EO and our open letter. We have over 5k signatures now!

You can sign here: www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Hope to see you there. If not, I’ll be around the conference today. Please feel free to say hi!

If you are at #ASAICA25, consider coming to my talk “Exploring Dysarthric Speech Perception Through Listening Effort” in Salon H at 9:30am! It is one of the presentations part of the topic “Speech Perception Beyond Intelligibility”!

Your writing process in a GIF

No, I am working on it on my own. So I don’t have to worry about that too much. I was more/less struggling with how to format everything. But I think I figured it out, sort of 😂

Definitely! I’m attempting to create my first R package, but also being ambitious and trying to make a shiny app from it too 😬 my confidence peaks and dips during this process 😂

Got questions about #DataSharing? We have answers! Join us for our first Open Data 101 workshop and learn about the nuts and bolts of data sharing with @‌jamescborders.bsky.social & @‌micahehirsch.bsky.social .

🗓 June 3
⏰ 4-5pm EST
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/open-data-...
#SLP #AuD #OpenData

We’ve got some exciting news: OpenCSD and CSDisseminate are joining forces and becoming 1 working group! Our mission is still the same: to spread the word about #OpenScience in communication sciences and disorders. But now we’re doing it together.
www.csdisseminate.com/Announcement...
#SLP #AuD #CSD

I’m so sad to hear about the shooting at FSU. Thankful that my friends there are safe. Thankful that I wasn’t there. I used to spend a lot of time in that Union. But I’m so sad to hear about the people who are injured and lost their lives.

This is preventable. It shouldn’t have happened

I was on campus today, ran to a locked lab when I got the alert, was locked down for hours.

My 3y old was also locked down at FSU childcare.

I am still very much in shock, and scared. This is so preventable. Thank you for being the only politician I’ve seen so far for saying something, Sen Booker

It's time for BU Giving Day 2025! ♥️ If you're interested in supporting the Stepp Lab this year, the link to donate is in our bio. We greatly appreciate any and all contributions, and we are immensely grateful for all of the support you all give us and our work year-round! ✨

Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!

Please consider donating to the Stepp Lab for Boston University’s Giving Day! Each donation will help support our ability to continue to do our research on speech motor control and voice!

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This is horrifying. Masked men abduct a woman in broad daylight. “We’re the police” cannot justify this. Her “crime” was writing words in a student newspaper.

The NIH is canceling already-funded research on inequality, telling scholars that their studies "are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand or knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not advance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness"

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

FedFreeze.org Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.

Unfortunately, there was another round of FUNDED grants cancelled yesterday. These illegal cuts stop projects that have been in progress for years, interrupt lifesaving research, and destroy the public good of science in the US.

If you were impacted, please share you story with us: fedfreeze.org

Week 7 Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

This week, I wrote about what stripping $400 million in research grants & contracts “as a first round of action” against Columbia means for every other university.

Plus warm thanks to #StandUpForScience, more on NIH funding & a list of (good!) lawsuit updates

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Two protesters holding signs. One says "mad scientist" with a mouse in trans colors wearing a lab coat. The other says "the mice are studying cancer & asthma to help people like me live"

Two protesters holding signs. One says "transgenic mice does not equal transgender mice" with a mouse holding a trans flag. The other says "the mice are studying cancer & asthma to help people like me live"

A crowd of protesters at the stand up for Science rally with signs. The sign in the center says "Trans Scientists Belong"

A crowd of protesters at the stand up for Science rally with signs. One says "science for all done by all" and the other says "Trans rights are just good science"

I felt like I really had to go to #standupforscience because I assumed I'd be the only person with a sign about trans rights

I can't tell you how happy I am that I was wrong

The reaction to my sign was overwhelmingly warm and my soul feels recharged. We do have allies out there

Puffer coats and fleece aplenty as #standupforscience kicks off in Seattle — med student Anders Ledell recycled a Godzilla Halloween costume to advocate for basic research

Infectious disease Student from Northwestern university last speaker. “Our research is inherently political because it affects society at large. A bad boss is the best organizer.” @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscifr.bsky.social

If you want a great nation, you don't eliminate research - medical, agricultural, across the board. Research looks into the future and gives us hope. We need to stand together! ~US Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

Crowd at Stand Up for Science SF

Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi at Stand Up for Science SF

Amazing turnout for #standupforscience2025 and we even got inspirational words from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi!

More signs!

And you gotta love the chants!

Science needs DEI!

Sharing a few clips and some of my favorite signs at the Boston #standupforscience2025 rally. A 🧵

A handwritten poster sign that reads reviewer 2 accepts scientific freedom without revision.

My sign is ready #StandUpForScience2025

Let's go Boston! America runs on science!

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

This is devastating 😞

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

Congratulations!!!